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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
Initiative to apply innovative business practices to drive high-impact social change. 1994 Building on his earlier work, Michael Jensen advances “agency theory,” the underpinning for compensating executives with stock and stock options.... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
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An Emerging Entrepreneur | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
incomplete information. “The course Public Entrepreneurship was very influential in helping me think of the government as an entrepreneurial ally rather than a detractor—especially when you’re trying to scale a solution to social problems,” he adds. “And the View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://hbr.org/2012/05/six-myths-of-product-development/ar/1 Working PapersLearning by Supplying Authors:Juan Alcácer and Joanne Oxley Abstract Learning processes lie at the heart of our understanding of how firms View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
MORE Polli matches characteristics to career paths on the Skydeck podcast Polli launched Pymetrics in 2013 to fill this gap. A PhD in neuropsychology who spent a decade as a researcher at Harvard and MIT, Polli started working on the company while at HBS, View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
knowledge-intensive multinational corporation suggest that reluctance to speak up, even with pro-organizational suggestions, is driven by specific implicit theories about speaking up in hierarchies. Study 2 uses open-ended survey... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
support) to build up their theories of change and their organizational capacities. That, I think, is a positive development. But it's coming at a time when need is even greater and resources are diminishing.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
research has evaluated this alternative view and developed a theory based on the effect of past savings on growth through the adoption of new technologies (mostly through foreign direct investment: FDI). Q: What is the technological... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
focusing on disruptive technologies, offers his analysis of the Twitter IPO phenomenon. In our second-year MBA elective Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (a course developed by my colleague Clay Christensen), one of the... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
predictive and prescriptive implications, this theory contributes to the general notion that pricing might affect as much as capture perceived value. Paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-055.pdf Capital Structure with Risky Foreign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Driving Change in Education-to-Employment
a federally-sponsored RCT study show that Year Up’s impact on the earnings of graduates are among the largest of any workforce organization in the country. My role as Strategic Advisor to the Office of the CEO is focused on two projects: 1) View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
transparent and accountable. Our theory of change is time-proven: One, education matters to your opportunities in life. Two, early education is determinative. Three, media and technology can deliver education at scale costeffectively. And... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity of accepting an equal split, with the costs of negotiating a differentiated allocation of founder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
building and launching satellites. But one thing I’ve been interested in is, have VCs gotten too caught up in chasing the cheap experiment sectors? Who will fund the big, expensive, life-changing, pathbreaking technologies? + ONLINE... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
out five bold imperatives for attracting, developing, and retaining the very best people. They show that great talent management has more to do with a pervasive "talent mindset" than it does with better HR processes. Loyalty Rules!: How Today's Leaders View Details
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
continued collaboration. Building a Better America—One Wealth Quintile at a Time Authors:Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely Publication:Perspectives on Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Disagreements about the optimal level of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
Developing Theory Using Machine Learning Methods By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres Abstract—We describe how to employ machine learning (ML) methods in theory development. Compared... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
demonstrate their impact on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework premised on an organization's operational mission, scale, and scope. Not all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
to choose a home page provided by a competitor). The second principle focuses on opportunity: specifically, opportunity that is facilitated by giving developers platform access and the ability to innovate and build on platform... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
theories outlined in Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution, Seeing What’s Next offers a practical model that helps decision-makers spot the signals of industry change, determine the outcome of competitive... View Details
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
evaluating and building online social platforms in the future. "If you're asking whether these sites help the people who need the most help to communicate, the answer is that it really depends on the individual site and the... View Details