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  • 28 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

Case 308-073 After opening 60 schools in eight years through opportunistic growth, the national office of the KIPP schools network has designed a strategy dubbed "smart growth." Each KIPP school is a separately incorporated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 14, 2016

Behavior and Impact of Patent Trolls: A Survey By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We survey the empirical literature on non-practicing entity (NPE) litigation behavior and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

The influence of a nation's history, infrastructure, and culture permeates all aspects of life within the country, including the norms, values, and behaviors of managers in its national companies. Nationally influenced View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

the long term. Faculty Books Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling by Frank V. Cespedes (Harvard Business Review Press) Although US companies invest almost $900 billion annually in... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

Tech Standards By: Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6174/972.figures-only August 2013 Management Science Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Student-Profile

Patrick Ferguson

faculty advisors to pursue unconventional lines of inquiry. “I was a little nervous about studying general managerial accounting questions in a sports context, but my advisors, Professors Dennis Campbell and Karim Lakhani, pushed me to... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

at work and in how much time they devote to insiders vs. outsiders. We analyze the correlation between time use, managerial effort, quality of governance, and firm performance and interpret the empirical findings within two versions of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

Karen A. Jehn, and Martin Euwema Publication:Journal of Organizational Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract Contrary to much boundary spanning research, we examined the negative consequences of boundary spanning contact in multi-organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2016
  • First Look

May 10, 2016

Urde, Mats, and Stephen A. Greyser Abstract—The purpose of this article is to explore corporate brand identity and reputation, with the aim of integrating them into a single managerial framework. The Nobel Prize serves as an in-depth... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Article

How to Bounce Back from Adversity

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Paul G. Stoltz
The article focuses on how companies can be managed to overcome adversity with resilience. The characteristics of resilient managers who provide leadership for their teams and can build resilience in their employees are discussed. The manager's ability to shift... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Leadership; Crisis Management; Managerial Roles; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking
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  • Student-Profile

Yueran Ma

finance and macroeconomics are made in the face of uncertainty and beliefs play a central role. In the past few years, I have studied how non-financial firms in the U.S. exploit capital market frictions and act as arbitrageurs across different security markets. This... View Details
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

prosthetic implant purchase prices for primary total knee and hip arthroplasties across providers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52299 2016 Envy at Work and in Organizations Envy and Interpersonal Corruption: Social Comparison... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

New Releases

behavior on the job and how that behavior propels change within the organization are the primary determinants of success. In his introduction, Kotter discusses the difference between leadership and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 23 Aug 2011
  • News

New Kid in School

Perold, and Peter Tufano — which he said had a lot to do with his initial career decision to go to Wall Street. “Also, in my first year,” he says, “I was fortunate to have Nitin Nohria as my Organizational Behavior professor. He was... View Details
Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • January 2004 (Revised July 2007)
  • Case

Lumen and Absorb Teams at Crutchfield Chemical Engineering, The

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Elizabeth Schatzel
Large discrepancies have developed between two elite technology development teams at Crutchfield Chemical Engineering in terms of motivation and creativity. To investigate, Paul Burke, director of corporate technology development, commissioned a study of the day-by-day... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Managerial Roles; Projects; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives
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  • January 1993 (Revised March 1993)
  • Case

Kronos (A)

Mark Ain is the founder and manager of Kronos, which has grown to a $33 million dollar company in 13 years. The case focuses on Ain's rrole in the company. Presents data from a personality assessment of Ain and his senior management team as input to this decision. . View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Management Skills; Managerial Roles; Personal Characteristics; Management Style; Behavior
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  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

enjoyed their own versions of success with the mega-retailer. Getting a ground-level view of how two companies achieved those positive outcomes illustrates the story-within-a-story of implementing corporate change. “Achieving that is where macro concepts, micro... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade
  • November 2007
  • Case

Differences at Work: Allie (A)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
On a business trip, Allie's boss demands that she and a colleague skip planned company meetings and "meet him at the beach in their bikinis." View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Managerial Roles; Ethics; Gender; Diversity; Power and Influence
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  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

the future and the managerial skills required of the "conflict-competent organization." Assistant Professor Patrick W. Sileo mathematically analyzes bargaining behavior and how people should select... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • Web

Harvard Business School

curriculum. Existing first–year required courses such as "Human Behavior in Organizations" and "Planning and the Business Environment" started to incorporate case studies on Black entrepreneurship and corporate expansion into urban... View Details