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- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
pressure to reinvent their performances to stay ahead of the competition. When David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty "disappear," Franz Harary responded with a vanishing space shuttle. The same is... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
governance and civil society. At the same time, however, professionals in the West are under increasing pressure from commercialism or skepticism about their ability to rise above self-interest. This book focuses on professionals in China... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS professor and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
research in China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Poland, and the US indicates increasing pressure on these basic resources - and worsening inability of governments to self-fund investment in advance. Hence, there are... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
initiatives through a holistic and strategic process of continuous CSR auditing, editing, and development. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-088.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAffinity Plus: Priorities and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
personal-care physicians, nurses, and even self-care practitioners with some level of training to do work once performed only by specialists. Disruptive innovation, in this way, always moves upmarket, Christensen said. Not only will this... View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
making complex decisions. Under some circumstances, unconscious thought improves decisions even more than conscious thought. Executive functioning depends on energy provided by glucose, and we know from previous research that the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
controls for sustainability performance ratings, analyst forecasts, insider trading, institutional ownership, earnings quality, and other voluntary disclosure activity. Changes in material sustainability disclosure are followed by changes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
Performance By: Li, Shelley Xin, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations empower frontline employees to experiment with different ways to meet diverse customer needs across different locations. We conducted a field... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
extraordinary performance and achieve its goal of growing to 20,000 financial advisors by 2017. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707497 Introduction to the RC Strategy Course Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
they do like the United States—and leave the issue alone? The answer may lie in determining when, why, and how businesses can thrive by balancing their boards, says Harvard Business School Professor Boris Groysberg, whose research on drivers of individual and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
human nature and organizations and performance,” Iansiti says. “The case shows that in any kind of environment, you’ve got to know your stuff. So from this perspective you can’t go ahead and accuse somebody of deflating a football without having a deep understanding of... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Pvt. Ltd. (formerly SET Pvt. Ltd.), a leading television broadcaster in India. Describes Singh's decision to evaluate employees based on values as well as performance and the management committee's response. Allows for discussion of 1)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
the High Intensity Workplace: An 'Always Available' Culture Breeds a Variety of Dysfunctional Behaviors By: Reid, Erin and Lakshmi Ramarajan Abstract—People today are under intense pressure to be “ideal workers”—totally committed to their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
Industrial customers prefer to see products and services unbundled and priced separately. Gimmicks are out; reliability, durability, safety, and performance are in. New products, especially those that address the new consumer reality and... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
the Japanese economy get off the ground, and the company's business there was dwarfed by its domestic business. But as Toyota's U.S. sales grew, political pressures increased the political and administrative distance between the two... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
source development. We use DSMs to analyze a sample of matched-pair products—products that perform the same function but that have been developed via these contrasting modes of organization. Our results reveal significant differences in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
inherently a platform for performing computations as dictated by their programs. I state and prove five propositions about platform systems, which stand in contrast to the propositions derived for step processes in Chapter 8. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are connected to through their network and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
Lagace: As you teach MBA students and Executive Education participants, are they describing new pressures that weren’t there before? Hill: Leadership is truly getting more demanding. I don’t think anyone ever succeeded by him- or herself... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace