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- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
organizations as being focused on tangible hard metrics like profit or market capitalization. But for-profits also do a lot of organizational capacity-building work. Venture capital investments are very much about building the organization, by making investments in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
can account for secular changes in how payouts were made over the last 30 years, during which repurchases have replaced dividends as the prime vehicle for corporate payouts. Other payout motives such as changes in compensation practices... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
these beliefs. This paper demonstrates that carbon leakage can arise despite a carbon tariff but, when it does, it decreases emissions in practical settings. Due in part to this clean leakage, imposing a carbon tariff is shown to decrease... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
have the chance to be cruel or kind to someone entirely different-to pay it forward? In five experiments, participants received greedy, equal, or generous divisions of money or labor from an anonymous person, and then divided additional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
creative or in love with risk, but they are deeply inquisitive, open to new experiences, and comfortable with the unpredictable. He also offers evidence-based, practical advice for interviews and résumé screening that hiring managers can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
Publications August 2013 Social Science & Medicine Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors By: Asad, Asad L., Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip Abstract—The number of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
higher quality employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in consistently hiring people aligned with company values, it can also neglect unit managers’ knowledge about which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
policies, purchasing procedures. Allocate just enough resources to keep it alive but not enough to risk its becoming an innovator — because that would require more investment. Under the banner of decentralization and business unit... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
Retailing, supply chain experts Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman explain how to use analytics to better manage your inventory for faster turns, fewer discounted offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies of retailing exemplars from around the world,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
therefore no reliable way to transfer codified knowledge about methods and practices across the organization. Furthermore, while "red team reviews" —progress reviews conducted by NASA's most experienced managers—proved... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
Letters Abstract Strategic orientation studies often provide 'best practice prescriptions' for firms in a given context-matching orientations to environmental conditions. While this perspective has value, empirical results are equivocal,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
on practical measures that businesses can implement to create shared value. Originally published in an online forum hosted by Harvard Business Review, it offers valuable advice about how CEOs, other senior executives, and boards of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
2016 Echoing Green Fellow Christine Su is co-founder and CEO of PastureMap. The for-profit software company helps sustainable ranchers record their grazing practices on mobile devices. (Photo courtesy of Echoing Green.) A division of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
requires careful dosing, consideration of harmful side effects, and close supervision. We offer a warning label to accompany the practice of setting goals. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-083.pdf Virtual Team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
are constructed. How is the notion of broadly guaranteed human rights impacted if we are increasingly divided into multiple publics? “Ads are not being sold. Audiences are being sold,” said panelist David Carroll, Director of the MFA... View Details
- April 2025
- Case
Techint: Strategic Choices for Community Impact
By: Lauren Cohen, Virak Prum, Kenneth Charman, Pedro Levindo and Mariana Cal
In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief Community Relations Officer at Techint, had to decide whether to invest in a new company-owned and operated technical school in Veracruz, Mexico, or invest instead in strengthening the city’s public education system. Techint, a global... View Details
Keywords: Technical Institutes; Community Relations; Social Impact; Argentina; Mexico; Brazil; Conglomerate; Stakeholder Management; Government And Business; Community Impact; Philanthropy; Business Conglomerates; Business Subsidiaries; Business Headquarters; Family Business; Decision Making; Private Sector; Public Sector; Education; Curriculum and Courses; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Teaching; Training; Learning; Energy; Engineering; Construction; Values and Beliefs; Geography; Global Range; Local Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Recruitment; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Knowledge; Resource Allocation; Industry Clusters; Infrastructure; Family Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Creativity; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Construction Industry; Education Industry; Energy Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Europe; Italy; Latin America; North and Central America; Mexico; North America; United States; South America; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Brazil
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Abstract—Can a business case be made for acting sustainably? This is a difficult question to answer precisely, largely because there is no generally accepted definition of the term "sustainability." Is it acting sustainably to protect the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- April 2025
- Case
Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters: Vickers Oils and Resolving Family Conflict over Generations
By: Lauren Cohen, Octavian Graf Pilati and Sophia Pan
Will Vickers, a seventh-generation (G7) member of the Vickers Family, grappled with a pressing challenge: how to re-integrate family members into the firm to recover lost talent. His father, Peter Vickers, was the lone leader of the Vickers Oils—despite having stepped... View Details
Keywords: Shareholder; Involvement; Family Office; Family Firms; Family Business; Business Growth and Maturation; Experience and Expertise; Retention; Leadership Development; Business or Company Management; Management Succession; Organizational Structure; Family Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Diversification; Conflict and Resolution; Consumer Products Industry; United Kingdom
Cohen, Lauren, Octavian Graf Pilati, and Sophia Pan. "Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters: Vickers Oils and Resolving Family Conflict over Generations." Harvard Business School Case 225-083, April 2025.
- July 2024
- Case
Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Rebounding
By: Boris Groysberg and Tom Quinn
This case traces the history and growth of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. From its development in 1993 by tiny studio Wizards of the Coast, to Wizards’ acquisition by toy giant Hasbro in 1999, to its evolution into a billion-dollar brand in 2023,... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Change Management; Transformation; Cost vs Benefits; Business Cycles; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Global Strategy; Growth and Development; Selection and Staffing; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Intellectual Property; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Succession; Risk Management; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Mergers and Acquisitions; Product Development; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle; Japan
Groysberg, Boris, and Tom Quinn. "Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Rebounding." Harvard Business School Case 424-047, July 2024.
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53928 Homesick or Home Run? Distance from Hometown and Employee Performance: A Natural Experiment from India By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Ohchan Kwon Abstract—Companies often assign workers to far-flung locations to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman