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- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
you to that goal." With that in mind, Merton and a team of financial engineers created SmartNest, an individually tailored pension program that requires just a few simple inputs from employees before they "set it and forget... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
recalls Quattrone telling an analyst who wanted to issue a less than flattering report about a client. `Do you want to work in this firm? Do you want to be a team player? When it comes time for bonus review, all this will be remembered.'... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
Nokia lowered its guidance for Q2 2012, explaining in a press release that "competitive industry dynamics are negatively affecting the Smart Devices business unit to a somewhat greater extent than previously expected.")... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
2016 Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development By: Beckert, Sven, and Seth Rockman, eds. Abstract—During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
http://hbr.org/2012/04/retail-doesnt-cross-borders-heres-why-and-what-to-do-about-it/ar/1 Teamwork on the Fly Authors:Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012). Abstract In a fast-paced and ever-changing business environment,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
wherein managers work in cross-border teams to resolve a variety of complex, international, management problems. The challenges they encounter are much like those of the "virtual" teams at the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
in the form of implied accusations or aggravated tones of voice. These dynamics are virtually inevitable, even when managers try hard to avoid them. We introduce the distinction between hot and cool topics to help clarify when avoiding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=41870 Expected Returns Dynamics Implied by Firm Fundamentals By: Lyle, Matthew R., and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We provide a tractable stock valuation model to study the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
and innovation need not be strategic tradeoffs and highlight the substantive role of senior teams in building dynamic capabilities. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-088WP.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
business contribution. The case uses interviews with Winfrey and her team to analyze how the business model and strategy of the company has changed—in the context of a dynamic marketplace, rapid... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
given to applications, the coarseness of rating patterns, and the sellers' dynamic certification strategies. In the model, certifiers respond to the sellers' desire to get a chance to be highly rated and to limit the stigma from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
for all titles released by a sample of over 200 artists. I analyze sales dynamics from January 2005 to April 2007—a period in which the share of unbundled units jumped from roughly one-third to two-thirds of total unit sales. My modeling... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
commitments that influence the supply chain, and governments creating proper incentives and market dynamics to fuel innovation and usher in improvements.” Puri and his team did indeed make the decision to... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
features of the institution—the incentives staff face and how the institution is governed—remain largely unchanged. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-027.pdf The Dynamic Interplay of Inequality and Trust—An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
highlight the substantive role of senior teams in building dynamic capabilities. The Implications of Unverifiable Fair-value Accounting: Evidence from the Political Economy of Goodwill Accounting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
managers publicly acknowledge the need to explore new businesses and markets, the claims of established businesses on company resources almost always come first, especially when times are hard. When top teams allow the tension between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
benefits from racial diversity but that diversity is a liability when society's negative stereotypes about racial minorities' competence inhibit such interactions. We analyze two years of data from 496 retail bank branches to investigate racial asymmetries in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
in" to a set of ideas on a broad scale, why should we expect a leader to be able to address the downside of buy in, which some have come to regard as "groupthink," the creation of a dynamic in which members of a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
him and one of its board members? Understanding the dynamics of the CEO search process, as well as the ways in which chief executive turnover influences corporate performance, has been the goal of recent research by HBS assistant... View Details
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
in the existing network structure. Specifically, we propose that the dynamics of proximate network structures, which reflect firms' and their partners' direct connections, affect the formation of bridging ties by shaping the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne