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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

entrepreneurs view problems as opportunities. In this talk, I focus on entrepreneurs trying to deliver better health and education outcomes at lower cost and in less time. I also discuss the role of ventures in addressing climate change.... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2022
  • Op-Ed

Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services

In professional services, successful firms tend to be either small or super-sized. There’s very little middle ground. Take health care, for example. Shouldice is a small, 89-bed hernia hospital in Canada that, over the past several decades, has provided excellent... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
  • 01 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

What lessons could the humid shores of the Caribbean, the freezing heights of the Himalayas, or the farthest reaches of Earth's atmosphere hold for your company or organization? Although those places couldn't be more different, all were the scenes of disastrous View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • January–February 2014
  • Article

Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy

By: Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill and Robert J. Thomas
When most of the world's financial services giants were stumbling and retrenching in the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the asset management firm BlackRock was busy charting a course for growth. Its revenues, profits, and stock price all performed consistently... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Success; Business Strategy; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry
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  • 12 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

business and its potential to a candidate during the final closing stages. More than 100 employees. Let go! If a company lacks clear guidelines at this point, which manifests as bad culture or heavy voluntary or involuntary attrition,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 09 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 9, 2016

that covers 1992–2008 and many states. We describe differences in the types of businesses initially formed by immigrants and their medium-term growth patterns. We also consider the relationship of these outcomes to the immigrants’ age at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 22, 2016

found (or potentially found) in practice and whose hypotheses connect independent variables within the control of practitioners to outcomes they care about using logic they view as feasible. I provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2017
  • Chapter

Innovation Policies

By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation, but has not examined how this affects which projects principals will start. We demonstrate that failure tolerance has an equilibrium price – in terms of an investor’s... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Investing; Abandonment Option; Failure Tolerance; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Attitudes; Investment; Failure
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Innovation Policies

By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation, but has not examined how this affects which projects principals will start. We demonstrate that failure tolerance has an equilibrium price ― in terms of an investor's... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Investing; Abandonment Option; Failure Tolerance; Venture Capital; Attitudes; Investment; Failure; Innovation and Invention
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  • 29 Jan 2018
  • Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

We offer the rescue as an extraordinary example of extreme teaming, to illustrate the enormous potential of diverse experts coming together to innovate to overcome a nearly impossible challenge. The case illustrates the centrality of... View Details
Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 19, 2016

forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Does 'Liking' Lead to Loving? The Impact of Joining a Brand’s Social Network on Marketing Outcomes By: John, Leslie K., Oliver Emrich, Sunil Gupta, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Does “liking” a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 23

the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more advanced to start with, the potential transition to clean technology can be difficult both because clean research must climb... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

patients. “The extremely high profit margins in medical devices offers a setting in which the risks are often overwhelmed by the potential rewards to innovate, especially when competitors face their own product failures,” according to the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Auto; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 28 Nov 2023
  • Book

Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

about the potential dangers of unlimited states, and with deep knowledge of how power is practiced in whatever regime they are in. “I suggest students think in terms of political empathy—asking how different constituencies that matter to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Fast Answer

Suggested Resources: Israel - Hamas War

(CSIS) CSIS in a bipartisan think tank where leading experts across the organization provide comprehensive analysis on the conflict in Israel and potential outcomes in the... View Details
  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

for conducting future team research. Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process Authors:A. C. Edmondson, J. R. Dillon, and Kate Roloff Periodical:Academy of Management Annals (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: January 5

become the hubs of the network. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-043.pdf Private Equity and Industry Performance Authors:Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract The growth of the private equity industry has spurred... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

company to a larger one. In contrast, startups funded by a VC syndicate with less familiar co-investors are most likely to exit through a potentially splashy IPO that could let founders retain more control, says Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 09 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations

for the business, family, and owners. In many cases, family members have multiple roles in the system, like father-owner-manager, daughter-employee, or aunt-owner. These multiple roles and ties can create more shared objectives and as a consequence, more View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

response services by connecting customers’ distributed energy resource assets (DERs) to every wholesale electricity market in North America. The Product Partnerships team is responsible for conducting market research for partnership opportunities, coordinating with... View Details