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- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
conventional wisdom isn’t enough to produce significant innovation; we must go further. Our thinking can too easily get confined by silos and structures that limit us to what is familiar, what we see every day, what the people around us... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
become an iconic example of an organization with virtually no hierarchy. A 400-person organization, Valve's unique organizational form (described in detail in the case and accompanying employee handbook) includes 100% self-allocated time, no managers (and therefore no... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
all. Everyone would act as a free agent in a winner-take-all contest. Opportunism and selfish political behavior would be rampant. A great deal of frantic effort would be expended—but little of it would be the kind of coordinated effort... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
primarily around rewards and punishments. Tight supervision, a controlling type of leadership style characterized by a great deal of social distance between leaders and led." That's what you want to do, to get people to broaden the... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees
GS’s investing arms. I started as part of a structured equity investing team within the firm’s Special Situations Group, before transitioning to a role as an investor within the consumer and healthcare verticals of Goldman’s Growth Equity... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
and risk. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1999484 Liability Structure in Small-Scale Finance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Authors: Fenella Carpena, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
http://books.simonandschuster.co.uk/Art-of-Negotiation/Michael-Wheeler/9781451690446 August 2013 Current Directions in Psychological Science Prosocial Spending and Happiness: Using Money to Benefit Others Pays Off By: Dunn, Elizabeth W., Lara B. Aknin, and Michael I.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni
broader issues at hand: when and how should corporate leaders respond to societal crises? How can they best prepare their organizations to deal with urgent and often unpredictable calls for action from employees, customers, or other... View Details
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
government. This is a great deal for Magna, but terrible for Chevrolet. GM's best small cars are engineered (and some are manufactured) by Opel in Europe. But it's not just about design and engineering. The supply chains and factory... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
with a stepping stone toward a more theoretically consistent and empirically grounded explanation for how large-scale institutional change sometimes occurs. The goal of this paper is to describe the structural characteristics and... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
than a white. Somebody who's Latinx is three times more likely to die. So this has unmasked these huge structural elements of racism that existed in this country for a long time. And we need to step up to those View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
TV, cable programming—but is still trying to figure out the best strategy for integrating them. Despite repeated structural changes, employees still operate in silos. In short, the National Geographic case is fertile learning ground for... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
Trichakis Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper deals with a basic issue: How does one approach the problem of designing the "right" objective for a given resource allocation problem? The notion of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
consulting business say, ‘Yeah, we should try it.’ Explorers always have to deal with tension or else they wouldn't be explorers. "Scaling begins at ideation. Unless you're thinking about that from the beginning, you're not going to make... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
styles would be regarded as leader-like and other styles would not being regarded as leader-like. Leadership is also complex from an economic perspective because the consequences of leadership can't always be measured by financial measures. Some people we most honor as... View Details
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
attributes and skills required 6-7 hrs Module 2 Private Debt, Distress Investing, and Secondaries Compare and contrast private equity and debt and identify the skills needed for successful distress investing. Highlights From Equity to Debt View Details
- November 2007
- Article
If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business
By: Robert C. Pozen
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. As the dust settles on the recent frenzy of private equity deals (including... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Capital Structure; Private Equity; Investment Return; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry
Pozen, Robert C. "If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 11 (November 2007).
- 13 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
workers. Specifically, M&A deals can help women and people of color who are stuck in lower-level positions move up the ladder, according to research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang. In analyzing more than... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
the researchers, is intensive mentoring and monitoring of staff. “Because many young companies face both technological and market risks, founders may prioritize dealing with these challenges rather than the more mundane aspects of human... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
that justice will be served if something goes wrong, but we have enough faith in the system to make deals with relative strangers. It’s not coincidental that trust ultimately found its way into the official US motto, “In God We Trust.”... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz