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Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach
This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
capabilities that can be studied via the algorithmic and computational properties of the problems they are meant to solve and the efficiency and reliability by which they search a solution space. It points to several new components of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
operational processes is an important driver of performance in hospitals. In particular, processes that reliably deliver both evidence-based and patient-centered care, which we call conformance and experiential quality respectively, have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
governance when firm and industry deviations are high. Our findings suggest that misvaluation may modulate the fundamental governance relationship between shareholders and CEOs. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43386 Admitting Mistakes: Home... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
PublicationsMediators in Position Auctions Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Dov Monderer, and Moshe Tennenholtz Publication:Games and Economic Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract A mediator is a reliable entity, which can play on behalf of agents in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
stakeholders across national boundaries. It allows students to consider the practical steps that a firm can take to protect itself and its stakeholders in states where the law is not always a reliable safeguard. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
customer and employee satisfaction). Kaplan and Norton's voluminous body of work on the Balanced Scorecard provides compelling arguments and evidence for how better measurement leads to better management decisions. When information is reported externally, the standards... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
threat responses and their implications for research on identity dynamics within organizations. Working PapersThe Impact of Supplier Reliability Tracking on Customer Demand: Model and Estimation Methodology Authors:Nathan Craig, Nicole... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
Summing Up Can Managers Afford to Ignore Predictions in Planning? There is a healthy skepticism when it comes to the reliability of predictions as a basis for planning. Donald Kortalon, commenting on this month's column, cites a number of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
forecasters to use caution with one large body of data: past demographic voting trends. Analyzing census figures and US presidential and Congressional election results since 1952, researchers find that demographic factors considered View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
governance violations were effectively cut off from the global capital markets and lost their future access to outside finance. A more reliable system for disclosure could allow far more firms from emerging economies to tap into the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
alter significantly how people think about the company, its products, and the brand. US consumers have not had a high-quality perception of GM brands over the past few decades. Although driven in part by the company's missteps, the primary reason was significant... View Details
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
policing themselves. We investigate whether self-reporting can reliably indicate effective self-policing efforts that might provide opportunities for enforcement efficiencies. We find that regulators used self-reports of legal violations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
largely limited to those who can pay. Right now, it's simply too hard for would-be parents to get accurate and reliable information. Q: What about the market for babies who have already been born? In your book you bring up Guatemala and... View Details
- 11 Mar 2009
- HBS Case
The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine
neighboring countries had had similar problems with Ukraine, the shutoff was a PR disaster for Gazprom, which had enjoyed a long-standing reputation as a reliable supplier of natural gas, through pipelines in Ukraine, to Europe. Abdelal's... View Details
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
presents us with cause and effect, with action and result, and through the characters' stories we can learn about the dangers, or rewards, of acting in certain ways. “Firms should be looking for some kind of reliable method for leaders to... View Details
- 09 Feb 2012
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing
Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business? In a new study, Assistant Professor Michael Luca shows just how much restaurant reviews on Yelp affect companies' bottom lines. The more difficult question: Are these ratings reliable... View Details
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
Gerdeman: Can you touch on the implications user innovation has on competition? Lakhani: In many ways, what the research is showing is that companies can reliably work with external sources of innovation—users, communities, even... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
company with a strong commitment to the goals of improving the safety of its products and the reliability of its supply chain, the authors of this article suggest that companies have the ability and the means to change their investor base... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
valuation estimates to examine whether analysts reliably assess the risk surrounding a firm's fundamental value. We find that the spread in analysts' state-side contingent valuations captures the riskiness of operations and predicts the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne