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- Book
Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success
By: Thomas J. DeLong
Confronted by omnipresent threats of job loss and change, even the brightest among us are anxious. In response, we're hunkering down, blocking ourselves from new challenges. This response hurts us and our organizations, but we fear making ourselves even more vulnerable... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Personal Development and Career; Problems and Challenges; Attitudes; Behavior
DeLong, Thomas J. Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2011.
- May 2004
- Article
Survival Beyond Succession? The Contingent Impact of Founder Succession on Organizational Failure
By: Heather Haveman and Mukti Khaire
Haveman, Heather, and Mukti Khaire. "Survival Beyond Succession? The Contingent Impact of Founder Succession on Organizational Failure." Special Issue on the Proceedings of the Conference on Evolutionary Approaches to Entrepreneurship in Honor of Howard Aldrich, University of Maryland, October 3, 2002. Journal of Business Venturing 19 (May 2004): 437–463.
- Jun 2005 - 2005
- Conference Presentation
The Power of Stars: Creative Talent and the Success of Entertainment Products
By: Anita Elberse
- 27 Jul 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship
Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Ulrike Malmendier
- 1994
- Article
Do Cultural Differences Make a Business Difference? Contextual Factors Affecting Cross-cultural Relationship Success
By: R. M. Kanter and R. I. Corn
Kanter, R. M., and R. I. Corn. "Do Cultural Differences Make a Business Difference? Contextual Factors Affecting Cross-cultural Relationship Success." Journal of Management Development 13, no. 2 (1994): 5–23. (Reprintings include: Organizational Development and Organizational Learning for Global Business, edited by J.B. Keys and R.M. Fulmer. Binghamton, N.Y.: International Business Press, 1998; Executive Development and Organizational Learning for the Global Economy, edited by J.B. Keys and R.M. Fulmer. Haworth Press, 1995; Managerial Insights from Literature, edited by S. Puffer. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1996.)
- October 12, 2023
- Article
How to Build a Life: Why the Most Successful Marriages Are Start-Ups, Not Mergers
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: Why the Most Successful Marriages Are Start-Ups, Not Mergers." The Atlantic (October 12, 2023).
- 2005
- Working Paper
The Power of Stars: Do Star Actors Drive the Success of Movies?
By: Anita Elberse
Elberse, Anita. "The Power of Stars: Do Star Actors Drive the Success of Movies?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-002, July 2005. (Revised July 2006, 2nd revision January 2007.)
- 1996
- Book
Fad-Free Management: The Six Principles That Drive Successful Companies and Their Leaders
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes
Hamermesh, Richard G. Fad-Free Management: The Six Principles That Drive Successful Companies and Their Leaders. Santa Monica, CA: Knowledge Exchange, 1996.
- July 2013
- Article
Voice Pitch and the Labor Market Success of Male Chief Executive Officers
By: Christopher Parsons, W. Mayew and M. Venkatachalam
A deep voice is evolutionarily advantageous for males, but does it confer benefit in competition for leadership positions? We study ecologically valid speech from 792 male public-company Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and find that CEOs with deeper voices manage... View Details
Parsons, Christopher, W. Mayew, and M. Venkatachalam. "Voice Pitch and the Labor Market Success of Male Chief Executive Officers." Evolution and Human Behavior 34, no. 4 (July 2013): 243–248.
- Article
When Bureaucrats Meet Entrepreneurs: The Design of Successful 'Public Venture Capital' Programs
By: Josh Lerner
Lerner, Josh. "When Bureaucrats Meet Entrepreneurs: The Design of Successful 'Public Venture Capital' Programs." Economic Journal 112, no. 477 (February 2002): F73–F84. (Symposium on Funding Gaps.)
- 2020
- Case
Building Transparency within the Sustainable Apparel Coalition: The Road to Successful Pre-Competitive Collaboration
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) was founded in 2010 to develop a common set of sustainability standards for the apparel, footwear, and home textile industries. The organization was an example of pre-competitive collaboration, a strategy in which companies... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Cooperation; Social Issues; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Apparel and Accessories Industry
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Building Transparency within the Sustainable Apparel Coalition: The Road to Successful Pre-Competitive Collaboration." William Davidson Institute Case 8-059-399, 2020.
- Article
No Team is an Island: How Leaders Shape Networked Ecosystems for Team Success
By: Inga Carboni, Robert Cross and Amy C. Edmondson
Today’s organizations rely on networks of dynamic systems of “agile” teams to get work done. Teams are distributed, transient, and loosely bounded in service of responsiveness and innovation. The key to this new way of doing work is managing the networked ecosystem in... View Details
Carboni, Inga, Robert Cross, and Amy C. Edmondson. "No Team is an Island: How Leaders Shape Networked Ecosystems for Team Success." California Management Review 64, no. 1 (November 2021): 5–28.
- June 2017
- Teaching Note
Succession Planning at Samsung: The Merger Formula of Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T
By: Gwen Yu
A merger deal of two Samsung group companies becomes a center of a corruption scandal. The merger of Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T was seen as a crucial step to transfer power to Lee Jae Yong, the heir of Samsung group. The deal was criticized to purposefully... View Details
- 2000
- Conference Presentation
The Effect of IPO Team Ties on Investment Bank Affiliation and IPO Success
By: Ranjay Gulati
- October 2013
- Article
With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship
By: Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier
To what extent do peers affect our occupational choices? This question has been of particular interest in the context of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such influences, however, are hard to identify empirically. We exploit... View Details
Lerner, Josh, and Ulrike Malmendier. "With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship." Review of Financial Studies 26, no. 10 (October 2013): 2411–2452. (Earlier versions distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 16918 and Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 11-108.)
- February 2024 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Can Families Conquer Private Equity? Pritzker Private Capital
By: Lauren Cohen and Sophia Pan
Anthony (Tony) Pritkzer, Paul Carbone, and the Pritzker Private Capital (PPC) team wondered how to approach the firm’s next phase of growth. PPC was a private equity firm that offered a differentiated approach to the family capital market. Back in 2016, the partners... View Details
Keywords: Family Office; External Financing; Succession; Leadership Transition; Family Business; Private Equity; Investment; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Business Model; Private Sector; Financial Liquidity; Risk Management; Organizational Structure; Competitive Advantage; Venture Capital; Management Succession; Financial Services Industry; Chicago; Illinois; United States
Cohen, Lauren, and Sophia Pan. "Can Families Conquer Private Equity? Pritzker Private Capital." Harvard Business School Case 224-078, February 2024. (Revised June 2024.)
- November 2022
- Supplement
What are the lessons learned to make intrapreneurship successful in a large company
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon. "What are the lessons learned to make intrapreneurship successful in a large company." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 723-859, November 2022.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Dusting Off the Old Ones: Drug Licensing to Startups, Innovation Success and Efficiency
By: Mosab Hammoudeh, Joshua Lev Krieger and Jiajie Xu
This paper investigates whether moving R&D from incumbents to startups can increase innovation. Using comprehensive drug development data, we examine the outcomes of drug projects licensed from large firms to startups. We find that these projects licensed to startups... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Research and Development; Performance Efficiency; Pharmaceutical Industry
Hammoudeh, Mosab, Joshua Lev Krieger, and Jiajie Xu. "Dusting Off the Old Ones: Drug Licensing to Startups, Innovation Success and Efficiency." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-067, March 2024.
- 2000
- Conference Presentation
The Effect of IPO Team Ties on Investment Bank Affiliation and IPO Success
By: Ranjay Gulati