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- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling books The Power of... View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
from shareholders to make changes that you know will threaten the long-term future of your company. This situation reflects the experiences of Paul Polman, the former CEO of Unilever. On the second season of my podcast, I talked to over a... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Management Practices, Relational Contracts, and the Decline of General Motors
- Research Summary
Overview
Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial markets. Her book manuscript and working papers shed light on the evolution of securities markets and the relationship between finance, governance, and society. Some of the topics she pursues include:... View Details
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
identity are aligned, in the sense that each supports the other. In particular, decentralized decision making requires that individuals have the correct sense of “who we are.” At the outset of a change... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
maintaining a personal balance and staying grounded can the CEO achieve the perspective required to make decisions in the interest of the company and its long-term prosperity. View Details
- 28 Apr 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
When Smaller Menus are Better: Variability in Menu-Setting Ability and 401(k) Plans
Keywords: by David Goldreich & Hanna Halaburda
- January 2008 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Forecasting the Great Depression
What is proper role of professional economic forecasting in financial decision making? The case presents excerpts from three leading economic forecasters on the eve of, and just after, the stock market crash of October 1929. The first set of excerpts is from Roger... View Details
Keywords: History; Mathematical Methods; Personal Development and Career; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis
Friedman, Walter A. "Forecasting the Great Depression." Harvard Business School Case 708-046, January 2008. (Revised July 2009.)
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
in a mutual caring way and also to help their firm excel. The designer can encourage this by fostering firm-wide symbols, rituals, and norms. However, any such social contract must be a mutual commitment to be effective. The leadership group must View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 10 May 2022
- News
Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay
- April 2017 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
The U-Turns of National Truck Stops
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Alexander W. Schultz
Raj Makam had spent months trying to restructure a 2006 investment he had made in National Truck Stops, Inc. (NTS) as a senior member of Oaktree Capital Management’s (Oaktree) Mezzanine finance business within their Corporate Debt platform. It was the first time they... View Details
Keywords: Mezzanine Financing; Corporate Debt; Bankruptcy; Real Assets; Financing and Loans; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Private Equity; Cost vs Benefits; Atlanta; New York (city, NY)
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Alexander W. Schultz. "The U-Turns of National Truck Stops." Harvard Business School Case 217-062, April 2017. (Revised August 2020.)
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
Publication:Financial Analysts Journal (forthcoming) Abstract We compare the earnings forecast performance of analysts at a large buy-side firm to that of sell-side analysts. Our tests show that the buy-side firm analysts make more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
marketplaces. Rothman had five food delivery startup options to choose from, a philosophy on how to analyze marketplace businesses, and a few weeks to make his first ever investment as a Partner at Greylock. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2023
- Blog Post
Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth
struggled to manage its finances in order to scale up. Those two jobs spurred Sweeney to join the M.S./M.B.A. program in order to add entrepreneurship to her engineering skills. “I realized I didn’t want to just assume that if someday I was in the View Details
- 11 Mar 2009
- HBS Case
The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine
Abdelal explains. Russia, he adds, also views Gazprom revenues as a means to make its economy less dependent on the energy sector in the long term. Abdelal notes that because natural gas is much cleaner than oil or coal, Europe will... View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- HBS Case
The Ferrari Way
car on the market, but the best combination of the two, which makes us the most thrilling. Our concept of performance includes pleasure.” While other sports car manufacturers try to make their cars as light... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Three Components of Family Governance
family informed about these. Help the family reach decisions and speak with one voice about its goals. Keep the board of directors informed about family views about the company and maintain a dialogue with the board about key business... View Details
- 19 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior
credits were almost negligible in tipping the scale. “When we are making the decision whether to go to college, it’s not staring us in the face that we will get a tax credit,” Beshears says. “So, it’s not... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Blog
What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?
taking time to reflect on the reasoning behind your decisions can help you neutralize the influence of such biases. Give sufficient time and feedback. While it's natural to gravitate primarily or exclusively toward people similar to you,... View Details
- 2020
- Working Paper
When Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? The Role of Negative Information in Expert Evaluations for Novel Projects
By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Misha Teplitskiy, Gary Gray, Hardeep Ranu, Michael Menietti, Eva C. Guinan and Karim R. Lakhani
The evaluation of novel projects lies at the heart of scientific and technological innovation, and yet literature suggests that this process is subject to inconsistency and potential biases. This paper investigates the role of information sharing among experts as the... View Details
Keywords: Project Evaluation; Innovation; Knowledge Frontier; Negativity Bias; Projects; Innovation and Invention; Information; Diversity; Judgments
Lane, Jacqueline N., Misha Teplitskiy, Gary Gray, Hardeep Ranu, Michael Menietti, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani. "When Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? The Role of Negative Information in Expert Evaluations for Novel Projects." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-007, July 2020. (Revised November 2020.)