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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998) in that its assumptions ensure that there is an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
resource management, which emphasized job rotation and minimal hierarchy. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/812134-PDF-ENG RentJuice Thomas R.Eisenmann and Liz KindHarvard Business School Case 811-069... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
implications of our findings for the literature on absorptive capacity and open and distributed innovation. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1802696 Do Market Leaders Lead in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
organization strategy to enable the different functions to work together to bring products to market more quickly. As Ludwig grappled with a way to jumpstart change at DIS, he began to suspect that people throughout the unit were talking... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
wearing gym clothes rather than an elegant outfit or wearing red sneakers in a professional setting. Nonconforming behaviors, as costly and visible signals, can act as a particular form of conspicuous consumption and lead to positive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
for interaction, but how these two mechanisms interact in formal organizations is not well understood. We argue that organizational structures and geography delimit opportunities for interaction, but that within the opportunity sets created by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Business School Case 812-040 Moda Operandi is a startup in the fashion industry. The firm organizes online trunk shows of designers' collections, allowing its members to directly order clothes from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
belonged to a union, while in other states the union density was only 3 to 5 percent. "So the people who had jobs said, ‘Let’s unionize to make sure these farmers don’t take our jobs’" According to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
context in which we’ll apply it, AR increases our ability to absorb and act on it. AR will become the new interface between humans and machines, say Michael E. Porter of Harvard and James E. Heppelmann, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
administration in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School and a general partner at Flybridge Capital. He closely studies the startup environment and draws from his experience as a... View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
effect of different legal and cultural environments on bankruptcy proceedings. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/214055-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-044 DoubleDutch Lawrence Coburn and Pankaj Prasad,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
tackles one of the most difficult questions in the startup world: How can you tell if a new business will succeed? The Year’s 10 Most Popular Articles from Our Archives What Is... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
well-thought-out decisions.'" Given the prevailing lack of specificity about their duty, most boards gradually develop an implicit understanding of what their job should be. As long as the business was... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
were: What part of the job demands rationality? Yaron Kaufman suggested that "Managers must be rational when it comes to planning, financing, operating and measuring business performance . Irrational... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
Governments and policymakers often assume that infrastructure development is key to jumpstarting economic growth for citizens, an “If we build it they will come” chain reaction of new jobs, more efficient transportation, and safer... View Details
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
performance and succession, corporate strategy, and executive compensation. In a recent interview at Harvard Business School, governance expert Jay Lorsch, the School's Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, offered his insights.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
will still get high-quality health care, but within a system designed around the concept that tradeoffs exist. When health care organizations act this way, they begin to thrive in unprecedented ways. A: Morriss: Obviously, when your... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
imposing "physical presence," "intellectual strength," a "natural sense of humor," and the "ability to present himself well to both Wall Street and the average worker." Given this, you may conclude that View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett