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  • October 2021
  • Article

Directors' Perceptions of Board Effectiveness and Internal Operations

By: J. Yo-Jud Cheng, Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Rajesh Vijayaraghavan
We contribute to the growing literature on the effectiveness of corporate boards by examining the effect of two insights that have been largely unexplored in prior studies that use public data. First, since boards’ responsibilities are wide-ranging, more holistic... View Details
Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Performance Effectiveness; Perception
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The Wisdom of Competitive Crowds

By: Kenneth C. Lichtendahl, Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Phillip E. Pfeifer
When several individuals are asked to forecast an uncertain quantity, they often face implicit or explicit incentives to be the most accurate. Despite the desire to elicit honest forecasts, such competition induces forecasters to report strategically and nontruthfully.... View Details
Keywords: Forecast; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 2017
  • Chapter

Innovation Policies

By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation, but has not examined how this affects which projects principals will start. We demonstrate that failure tolerance has an equilibrium price – in terms of an investor’s... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Investing; Abandonment Option; Failure Tolerance; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Attitudes; Investment; Failure
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Innovation Policies

By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation, but has not examined how this affects which projects principals will start. We demonstrate that failure tolerance has an equilibrium price ― in terms of an investor's... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Investing; Abandonment Option; Failure Tolerance; Venture Capital; Attitudes; Investment; Failure; Innovation and Invention
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  • June 2010
  • Case

Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (Multimedia)

By: Anette Mikes
An early adopter of Enterprise Risk Management, energy giant Hydro One anticipated new threats and opportunities in an industry that faced climate change and carbon legislation, the deregulation of electricity markets, and the greater adoption of renewable... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Energy; Energy Industry; Canada
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  • October 2005 (Revised February 2007)
  • Case

Red Flag Software Co.

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Tarun Khanna, David Lane and Elizabeth Raabe
In 2005, just five years after its formal launch, Beijing-based Red Flag Software was the world's second-largest distributor of the Linux operating system and was expecting its first annual profit. On a unit basis, Red Flag led the world in desktops (PCs) shipped with... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Competitive Advantage; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Globalized Markets and Industries; Information Technology Industry; Distribution Industry; Beijing; United States
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  • 12 Oct 2022
  • Video

Lumumba Seegars: Inequality & Agency in ERGs

    Better, Not Perfect

    Every day, you make hundreds of decisions. They’re largely personal, but these choices have an ethical twinge as well; they value certain principles and ends over others. Max H. Bazerman argues that we can better balance both dimensions—and we needn’t seek... View Details

    • 29 Nov 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

    participants. Respondents shared information about how they were paid and their emotional health. Regardless of industry and income, employees paid with incentives were significantly more inclined to spend extra time with colleagues than... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
    • 25 Apr 2024
    • News

    Origin Stories

    Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
    • 07 May 2014
    • What Do You Think?

    How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

    earned (vs.) that which is inherited Each member of society must contribute to society's wealth by building their own and sharing Once you die, the wealth gets transferred to society." Carlos Avendano made the point that wealth... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • Web

    Find Past & Upcoming Events - Alumni

    Connect with fellow alumni in over 100 alumni clubs and associations. There are 93 regional clubs and 9 shared interest groups. Reunions Reunions Reconnect with classmates, participate in faculty sessions and socialize with friends.... View Details
    • 23 May 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

    and policymakers turn this real-time data into actionable insights.” Related Reading: Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities The Battle for San Francisco Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities? What do you think of this research? View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    Action Plan: Wild at Heart

    At first glance, Heather Evans (MBA 1983) might not seem the likeliest candidate for a career in ecological landscaping. A former chief marketing officer and “true urbanist” (“to the extent I used to hate visiting people in the country!”), Evans spent most of her life... View Details
    Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; gardening; entrepreneurship; sustainability
    • Web

    Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

    automatically when you advance the film for the next picture. . . . You can have your pictures when they mean the most. You can share and enjoy the pictures together with others in the pictures." 76 Users also had the benefit of... View Details
    • 09 Oct 2020
    • Blog Post

    4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech

    joint degree, I wanted to share four things you should know about this new program: 1. Students come from a variety of backgrounds In my cohort of 11, I initially expected more than half to have worked in biotech. I was pleasantly... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    3-Minute Briefing: Frances Haugen: (MBA 2011)

    and the levers to prevent and mitigate them. If we can all sit around the table and have a shared conversation, we can get to a duty-of-care standard. We’re not saying do it all; we’re saying there should be a floor somewhere in the... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; whistle blower; Facebook; leadership; social media
    • 28 May 2020
    • Blog Post

    How to Fit in at HBS

    needed to “fit in” in order to get the promotion, land the next job, and get the raise. I had mastered the art of camouflage, and, though I never felt ashamed of my story—in fact, I would never change it because it has taught the most valuable lessons of life—I had... View Details
    • 12 Aug 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

    School Working Knowledge. HBS Digital Media Producer Amelia Kunhardt produced the video interview. [Image: kuri2000 ] Related Reading The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
    • Web

    The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV Explained CSV Explained The Three Levels of CSV Adding a Social Dimension to... View Details