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  • 29 Jan 2018
  • Book

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

learned from the failures to inform next steps. Finally, the support of senior leadership not just the technical leadership on the front lines of innovation was a critical input to the success of this extreme teaming process. Leadership’s commitment to the initiative... View Details
Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining
  • November 1999
  • Case

Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (C)

By: Andre F. Perold
Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (LTCM) was in the business of engaging in trading strategies to exploit market pricing discrepancies. Because the firm employed strategies designed to make money over long horizons--from six months to two years or more--it adopted a... View Details
Keywords: Fluctuation; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management; Risk Management; Markets; Motivation and Incentives; Financial Services Industry
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  • March 2010 (Revised August 2010)
  • Case

Systems Infrastructure at Google (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
This case describes how a senior vice president of engineering at Google, Bill Coughran, leads a high-performing engineering organization. The case focuses specifically on Coughran's encouraging two teams of engineers to develop competing solutions for application... View Details
Keywords: Independent Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Leadership Development; Product Design; Groups and Teams; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Strategy; Technology Industry; United States
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  • Research Summary

Wearing a Red Hat ¨C The Impact of Activist Industrial Policy on Software Development in China

The idea that the government should steer economic development by strategically hand-picking and managing certain industries is controversial but appeals to many developing countries that are eager to upgrade their industries. In this paper, I study China's recent... View Details

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Clubs - Business & Environment

Club Brings together creative, passionate, and motivated individuals to explore ways by which research, innovation, and policy can help solve the most pressing challenges in... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: David Goldman/AP] Related Reading Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either) Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps 'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 05 Oct 2020
  • Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

After earning a doctorate, Ashley Whillans received two tempting job offers: one in her hometown, where she could remain close to family and friends and work reasonable hours for the local government, View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

diversity.” For some post-M&A executives, however, the main motivation for promoting women and people of color is to avoid discrimination lawsuits. As one executive told Zhang: “We do not want to be on... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • January 2024
  • Supplement

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry
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  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

Because pricing is such a difficult and complex arena, it has confounded sales and marketing executives and scholars for centuries. In no other marketing element is the... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing
  • 09 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

strategies, and to develop integrated management control systems that tied the activities of marketers to particular investments. These management control systems provided sufficient, timely information with which agencies could... View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
  • 06 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

and the title of a second-year course he teaches at HBS. "At the foundation of finance is the idea that investors and managers act rationally, so that capital market prices reflect fundamentals View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 05 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

the experience of development and fundraising professionals in the impact investing space—that anchor investors are motivated by the ability to catalyze additional change by supporting fund managers early in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 08 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

blocking power. So let’s assume that, with many contenders, Amazon had powerful reasons to choose New York. Comparative advantages presumably ranged from a large and highly educated employee pool to big View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction
  • 23 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

them to deliver play-based exercises and quizzes to parents and children several times a week. Parents upload photos and videos of the results, View Details
  • 09 Apr 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Economics of Structured Finance

Keywords: by Joshua D. Coval, Jakub Jurek & Erik Stafford
  • 01 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love

thrive? Carroll’s inquiry into unleashing human potential began with a well-known idea dating back to the psychologist Abraham Maslow and others: the notion that intrinsic, not just extrinsic, rewards View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Sports
  • November 2024
  • Case

Group AMANA: Built to Last

By: Hise Gibson and Fares Khrais
The case chronicles the Bsaibes brothers’ journey in founding and operating Group AMANA; a contracting business founded in 1993, based in the United Arab Emirates with operations across the Middle East. Over the years, the business found itself grappling with major... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Family Business; Transformation; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Succession; Business Strategy; Construction Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates
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  • 02 Nov 2023
  • News

Seeding Startups

Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 10 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

Besides, prior studies have shown that other factors motivate self-employed people more than salary. Their bottom lines are not entirely measured in dollars, Kerr says. “It’s about being your own boss, spending more time with your family,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald