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- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
positive note, however, healthcare companies were commonly thought to be recession proof and thus might be a sound investment in the event of a down-turning economy. Burnham had to decide if this was the right time for an exit, and if so,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
organizational studies research. We empirically assess this assertion by analyzing studies of negotiation published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
What if the way we work could be a catalyst for solving huge problems like inequality and climate change? In the new book Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy, Harvard Business School Professor Julie Battilana and a dozen other social scientists... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
annual Cyberposium conference held at Harvard Business School on November 19. As an industry, he suggested, venture capital has little to recommend it. "In the future, I see a median rate of return of zero or less," stated Sahlman, observing that the View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
the company's two-decade transformations. 3 In many ways, however, Welch is an exception: Very few top executives have been able to transform themselves from being analytically driven strategy directors to people-oriented strategy... View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
groups, but not large blocks. If a large corporate wishes to pursue such a goal, it is more prudent to execute it with a small team.” In a related comment, Ashok Jainn stated, “Age is no bar Super stretch goals, when they’re not handed down from the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Multinational Banking 1830-1990, and Professor of Management Practice Dante Roscini, who held top leadership roles in the capital markets units of Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley before coming to HBS, where he teaches the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
There's much more at stake in the Olympics than medals. Giant corporations are eager to tie huge marketing and advertising campaigns to the Olympic rings and ideals. NBC spent more than $600 million to win the broadcast rights for the... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
which of those get funded, the consequences of that activity is what adds up to the strategy of the company, not words on paper. And once you see that, you begin to ask questions such as: What determines which ideas get sponsored and funded? If I'm the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
Arnott put it, "Entrepreneurship is the motor that gets technology to market." According to Kamal Gupta, "Scientific research and technological innovations create new products, but the top line and bottom line come from... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
in the research project (team size). The current study draws upon research from scientometrics, social networks, and resource availability and use and involves an empirical analysis of a sample of 1,329 articles published between 1980 and 2008 in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers
JetBlue today is considered one of the top airlines in the world, and its customer ratings are as high as its airplanes. But not that long ago JetBlue was a prime business school example of a nightmare scenario displacing 130,000... View Details
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
one-standard-deviation increase in store labor brought about a 10 percent increase in profit margin. These findings ran contrary to the thinking of store managers that Ton interviewed. They consistently identified service quality as a top... View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs' time use. The idea—sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up—is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm's priorities as well as the presence of governance issues.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
customers by appealing to digital savvy, middle-class customers that QNB Finansbank was lacking for a long time. By the end of 2016, it accounted for 16% of QNB Finansbank's deposits. With the support of the top management, Atan was able... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
"excessive" use of decision rights. Consistent with these implicit incentives, we find that employees in tightly monitored business units are less likely than their loosely monitored counterparts to 1) use decision rights and 2)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
wafer is mapped to indicate good regions and bad regions, and this information is then used in cutting the wafer into individual components. Development groups need to be starved so they develop the right focus and priorities.— Alex... View Details
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
over a course of a career or in the flash of an eye—just ask Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, who was a top endorsement target of clients such as Coca-Cola until he was disgraced earlier this year in a dogfighting scandal.... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
They focused on utility patents, or new or improved useful products that grant the inventor exclusive commercial rights for up to 20 years. To qualify, patents needed to list at least one US inventor. What they found was a huge spike in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
the nature of leadership affirmed by the "wisdom of crowds" is clearly circumscribed, according to others. Jack Hughes, for example, says, "The Wisdom of Crowds has effectively shattered the narrow view that the right... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett