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  • 21 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

talent will be the decisive stroke for top leaders. In Hill's essay on "Leadership as Collective Genius" in Management 21C, she spells out what the creative process entails at the collective level, as well as ways that several company... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

online shoppers might be intrinsically different from past customers in a key way: how they view returns. We even went a step further and probed three other factors that might explain lower return rates. First, we wondered if new online... View Details
Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail
  • 12 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

forces, but patterns over time and how markets move and customers buy. They may not know your specific market details or the intimate buying patterns of your target customer, but as Bob Mason, managing partner of Project11 says, “We often ask the right questions... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 10 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

assistant professor at Harvard Business School; Patrick Rooney, an HBS research associate; and Jonathan Smith, a policy research scientist at The College Board. “The effects we see for widely covered scandals are large, which speaks to the decision-making View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
  • 06 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

In this uncertain economic climate, downsizing and layoffs are a sadly frequent occurrence. Although bad news is always painful to deliver and to hear, the process of conducting "necessary evils"—such as layoffs or firings—can... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

century-old match industry when he took the helm of Diamond Match Company in 1914. Fairburn designed a manufacturing process using sesquisulphate to produce matches rather than white phosphorus, which had been publicly condemned for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

Transparency with Costly Information Processing By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marco Pagano Abstract—We study a model where some investors (“hedgers”) are bad at information processing, while others (“speculators”) have superior... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Jun 2016
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June 7, 2016

data are often voluminous and unstructured, presenting analytical challenges for traditional tools that were designed for well-structured, quantitative data. We adapt methods from natural language processing and machine learning to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

and the organizational structures which have emerged." His suggestion for companies going forward: Think twice about the strategies and assumptions that are driving your industry. Universities, venture capitalists, public investors and the firms themselves should... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6

non-profit project-oriented setting, introduces fundamental risk management principles and processes that are easily applicable to private sector settings. Gentry Lee, senior systems engineer and de-facto chief risk officer, is applying a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

way they operate is unsustainable from an environmental perspective. We need to build, improve, and manage cities in a smarter way. This calls for smarter design and construction, which requires new, more collaborative processes that... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

others. This chapter reviews research on how these biases manifest themselves in the core processes of organizations—that is, how people are hired, compensated, developed, and evaluated—all of which are aspects of organizational life that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

is the need to consider how social spending changes as industries consolidate and mergers change the locations of major corporate headquarters. Q: What are your next research steps in this line of work? A: Building on this paper, Gerald... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

this Action Plan will allow individuals to reflect on these critical areas and help them determine appropriate and impactful steps to help further their development. Purchase the exercise: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs. I focused on understanding the processes by which CEOs were selected—in particular the phenomenon of outsider CEO succession. In the conclusion I wrote a bit about the role of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

is asked to investigate the matter and to decide what, if anything, to do about it. The case raises issues in aligning strategy and sales systems, performance evaluation criteria, and on-going performance management processes in field... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

sociologists present a clear analysis of Cuba's economic and social circumstances and suggest steps for Cuba to reactivate economic growth and improve the welfare of its citizens. These authors focus first on trade, capital inflows,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

opportunity to see both sides of the issue. When Hrad enters into a contract to create a new accounts payable system for Welsh toy distributor Tegan, the outsourcing firm from the Czech Republic views the project as another step in its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

over-application and excess chemicals leaching into water systems. Wet processing is also particularly impactful. The World Bank estimates that 17–20 percent of industrial water pollution worldwide comes from textile coloration and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

Dora Stern Abstract—This study sheds new light on first- and early-mover advantages. Research on this classic topic often assumes that each firm participates in the entirety of the innovation process and that all firms aim to monetize... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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