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- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
people use various online social platforms, makes some predictions. In the first decade of its existence, Facebook, aided by the broad adoption of mobile devices and fast internet connections, emerged as a virtual Cheers bar where people... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
Business School Press), a new book by HBS professor Dorothy Leonard and Professor Walter Swap of Tufts University. The authors not only disprove the stereotypical perception of group creativity as an oxymoron but show how the group... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
describes the purpose of boards is phrased very broadly. For instance, in Delaware, which sets the standard for other states, directors find little help in the statute that defines their job: "The business and affairs of every corporation shall be View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
individualized) levels." Peter Lee added "The real issue is what you consider to be performance Performance is all about quality-quality of effort as well as results." Gerald Nanninga suggested that "let's solve the problem View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
effective competitor. Often growth organizations fail to take a tough-minded approach in assessing their management talent. They limit their future growth by failing to have the depth and breadth of talent... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
senior management at public firms still spends a lot of time in private powwows with hedge fund managers at corporate headquarters, road shows, or conferences—an average of 17 to 26 days per year for each... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at Harvard Business School. Roughly 42 percent of Fortune 500 companies said they’d reached an environmental target or committed to reaching one View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
configured as "traditional centers," familiar-looking branches that provided conventional banking services, though often supported by new technologies and redesigned processes. The group unveiled its first redesigned branch—a... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
entrepreneurs, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn. In Part One of a discussion about her recent book—in the April 16 issue of HBS Working Knowledge—Koehn described the brand-building savvy of three entrepreneurs in the past, as well as their clear lessons for View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- April 6, 2023
- Article
A New NFT Launch Strategy: The Wave Mint
By: Scott Duke Kominers and 1337 Skulls Sers
In an NFT project, the mint—the process by which tokens are initially allocated—largely determines who your community is and how they and the broader market view the project going forward. In this piece, we review a new minting strategy recently introduced by 1337... View Details
Keywords: NFTs; Mechanism Design; Sales Management; Sales Model; Crypto Economy; Non-fungible Tokens; Networks; Product Launch; Auctions; Market Design
Kominers, Scott Duke, and 1337 Skulls Sers. "A New NFT Launch Strategy: The Wave Mint." a16zcrypto.com (April 6, 2023).
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
Ideal Laboratory In the early 90s, Hewlett-Packard seemed a perfect setting for innovations in pay. A so-called "built-to-last" company, it was highly decentralized and enjoyed a sense of mutual trust, high commitment, and wide use of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
a vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemic is Moderna, a Cambridge company with an immigrant co-founder and an immigrant CEO. Another firm already conducting vaccine trials is Inovio Pharmaceuticals of Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, led by... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
management systems used by direct marketers; software for creating and managing graphics, video, and sound; and convergence technologies such as broadband that provide... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
Thus, in many ways, the whole teaching model condemns managers to act after the game is over. Maybe you can't teach intuition, but maybe you can. AG: You can promote intuition. You can recognize the innate aptitude of people to grasp what... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
Sloan School of Management, Harvard Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, the University of South Africa, and the Iran Center for Management Studies. His books on teaching, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion... View Details
- 15 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Coming to HBS with a Non-Finance Background
were quickly allayed when she visited HBS for a class visit – and she discovered that the student admissions rep who picked her up was a former TFA teacher. She soon came to find that HBS is a place that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?
the lower ranks. One of the causes may well be inequities in the ability of executives and frontline labor to negotiate compensation for their skills. In particular, the declining power of unions and the stickiness of minimum wage laws are often cited as factors. A... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
and option values) as well as the importance of retaining rare top management talent. All of this raises some interesting questions. Who is served by cutbacks in stock option availability? Will the cutbacks... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
The American regulatory agencies, described by Henry Kaufmann as "...less than robust... Understaffed, under-funded, and badly fragmented," have been, in his words, "slow to recognize some of the more serious abuses"... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
their patients. We focused on the following questions: How often and for what sorts of conditions do physicians prescribe advertised drugs requested by their patients? What other health care recommendations do physicians make as a result... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls