Complicity - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

the problem is that people usually focus on an entrepreneurial ‘personality’ rather than identifying the unique skills and behaviors of entrepreneurs who launch and grow their own firms.” Complicating this understanding are the many types... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge

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Finance - Faculty & Research

demand about as much as one's own recent payout experience. Third, the spillover effect decays as time passes while the effect of one's own experience does not. We discuss implications of this analysis for commercial sustainability of this View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

company can divest a subsidiary through a tax-free spin-off, management must first decide how corporate overhead will be allocated between the subsidiary and the parent. The allocation decision can be complicated by management's... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One

are many cases when what needs to be done is pretty clear, and with a little work and some assertion of authority you can say, "This needs to be done." My book tends to focus on cases where somebody is really pulled in different directions. You refer to the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Aug 2020
Book

From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jan 2007
News

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

hand is all that matters. So often in business we are reflecting on the past or looking toward the future." The past, for the Ayala Corporation, includes an impressive history entwined with the Philippines' own complicated political and... View Details

16 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

companies to become more aware of the complicated legacy of today's business practices and the origins of some their day-to-day management practices. "I got into this because I followed my sources," Rosenthal says. "I... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

things in a few words. General Electric's Jack Welch is a good example. He is astonishingly articulate and able to convey complicated concepts in just a few phrases." Of course, knowing your audience is also essential. "Great... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

also the integrity of family relationships. Did the expansion of the family branches in G3—where cousins and siblings might find themselves at odds—further complicate the path forward? Keywords: Ownership ; Family Businesses ; Family ;... View Details

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Business History - Faculty & Research

the free labor wage system, two obstacles complicated legislative action. Any law meant to enhance laborers' rights could neither favor one class over another nor infringe any workingman's ability to make voluntary contracts. These... View Details

11 Apr 2023
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Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

benchmark somebody's performance for pay? If the benchmark keeps changing, it complicates several things. So there’s a simple advantage that comes from using standard frameworks. Awada: I take a much more practical view. In the last five... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail

13 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?

Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

28 Nov 2023
Book

Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

professor Meg Rithmire describes in a recent book, Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia. Complicating matters, the 80 or so existing autocracies come in all shapes and sizes, and are often described as either... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2023
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How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

that, “It doesn’t have to be complicated people who are ‘engaged’ in their work (which means that they are psychologically and emotionally attached to it ) are something like 25-50 percent more productive than people who aren’t.”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

The Three Components of Family Governance

of having the council and board update each other periodically on their important objectives, having an annual joint planning session, or having a board member sit on the council or vice versa. Again, I opt for the least complicated... View Details

28 Mar 2024
News

Rooms with a View

creating a talent pipeline and reducing turnover by as much as 40 percent. Rating an employee’s individual performance is a complicated question, Mirza explains, because of the variables inherent in the hospitality industry. A manager who... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Christina Gandolfo; Hospitality

November 2019
Article

A Review of Bundled Payments in Total Joint Replacement

By: Olivia Manickas-Hill, Kevin J. Bozic and Thomas W. Feeley

The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative, developed by the U.S. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, aims to reduce health care expenditures while maintaining or improving patient outcomes.
Several published reports evaluating the impact... View Details

Keywords: Bundled Payments; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management

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Business, Ethics and Institutions. The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in a Comparative Perspective

By: Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones

This chapter offers a survey of the evolution of Turkish capitalism from the 19th century Ottoman Empire until the present day. It shows that Turkish business over the last century and a half was shaped in an institutional context similar to those in many developing... View Details

Keywords: Business Groups; Capitalism; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Government and Politics; History; Religion; Business History; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East