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- 01 Jun 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures
Keywords: by Thomas F. Hellmann & Noam Wasserman
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
What do pizza delivery, unarmed guards, and metallization on compact discs have in common? They all represent businesses founded outside the U.S. that illustrate some of the enduring realities each international entrepreneur grapples with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay
see it happening at the Gap and Pizza Hut, but we also see it happening at Facebook, JPMorgan, and health care firms.” There are now hundreds of thousands of workers across the US with dubious managerial... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 2010
- Chapter
Unlocking the Slices of Genius in Your Organization: Leading for Innovation
By: Linda A. Hill, Maurizio Travaglini, Greg Brandeau and Emily Stecker
There is a widespread consensus that innovation is fast becoming the principal source of differentiation and competitive advantage in today's knowledge-intensive economy. But until we reframe our understanding of what innovation and leadership are all about, we fear... View Details
Hill, Linda A., Maurizio Travaglini, Greg Brandeau, and Emily Stecker. "Unlocking the Slices of Genius in Your Organization: Leading for Innovation." Chap. 21 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
- 05 Jan 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring
- 29 Jan 2019
- Podcast
IBM: View from the cutting edge of AI
If you ask her about emerging technologies, Sophie Vandebroek – VP of Emerging Technology Partnerships at IBM – can tell you firsthand how the pace of change is moving faster and faster. From AI to blockchain, Bill talks with Sophie about how businesses are harnessing... View Details
- September 2015 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
Château Margaux (Abridged)
By: Elie Ofek, Eric E. Vogt and Robert J. Dolan
Château Margaux, one of only five prestigious estates in the Bordeaux Medoc wine region to have been classified as a "first-growth", is facing a host of strategic decisions in early 2013. Up until this point the estate had been selling two red wines, a first wine whose... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
worked with local police to raid illegal DVD-making facilities in the days following the film's release. (The Mumbai police alone seized over 3,000 pirated DVDs of My Name is Khan on February 18, 2010.)... View Details
- 21 Jan 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Going Through the Motions: An Empirical Test of Management Involvement in Process Improvement
Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
In Build the Life You Want, Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness no matter how challenging your circumstances. Drawing on cutting-edge science and their years of helping people translate... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
Vivian Lu (MBA '95) has witnessed more than her share of harsh realities while working in the Third World, among them the gruesome sights of war-torn Somalia and the terrible... View Details
- September 2011
- Article
Up Close and Personal: Developing Foundations for Leader Development through Personalization of Management Learning
By: Gianpiero Petriglieri, Jack D. Wood and Jennifer L. Petriglieri
This paper examines the process through which management students develop personal foundations (such as self-awareness, self-management, and a grounding life narrative) for the ongoing development and practice of leadership. We conducted an inductive, qualitative study... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Innovation and Invention; Personal Development and Career; Curriculum and Courses; Customization and Personalization; Learning; Management Practices and Processes; Business Education
Petriglieri, Gianpiero, Jack D. Wood, and Jennifer L. Petriglieri. "Up Close and Personal: Developing Foundations for Leader Development through Personalization of Management Learning." Academy of Management Learning & Education 10, no. 3 (September 2011). (
Nominated for Carolyn Dexter Award For the paper that best meets the objective of internationalizing the Academy presented by Academy of Management. Winner of Best Paper in Graduate Management Education Sponsored by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) presented by Academy of Management
.)- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
media’s impact on the bottom line. You and your colleagues have taken a critical look at the assumption that social media works by attracting followers, which exposes the brand and in turn leads to sales. What’s wrong with that line View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 2016
- Book
Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
By: Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman
During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism... View Details
Beckert, Sven and Seth Rockman, eds. Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Bringing Teachers to All of America
country’s poorest communities. “As executive director of Teach For America's work in Arkansas, we focus predominantly on the Mississippi Delta region of the state, which is the... View Details
- 2017
- Working Paper
Seeking to Belong: How the Words of Internal and External Beneficiaries Influence Performance
By: Paul Green, Francesca Gino and Bradley R. Staats
In this paper, we examine how connecting to beneficiaries of one’s work increases performance and argue that beneficiaries internal to an organization (i.e., one’s own colleagues) can serve as an important source of motivation, even in jobs that—on the surface—may seem... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Motivation; Belongingness; Motivation; Job Design; Field Experiment; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy; Job Design and Levels
Green, Paul, Francesca Gino, and Bradley R. Staats. "Seeking to Belong: How the Words of Internal and External Beneficiaries Influence Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-073, February 2017.
- 06 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact
of the 75 percent of his classmates who did not go on to college after high school. Ameen has spent much of his time in college working to change... View Details
- 31 Jan 2018
- News
A Visible Example of What’s Possible
College of Business at San Francisco State University. Oubre observes that her HBS degree was the first step to a career that allowed her to “be a visible example so that more people who look like me will see what’s possible.” After... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
accent Other Degrees: BS in civil engineering, West Point; MS in industrial engineering, University of Arkansas Acting Experience: extra in TV series Savannah Previous Job: company commander, U.S. Army Sports: marathon running, boxing... View Details