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- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
annualized abnormal returns of 14.1 percent while mismatched pairings saw returns of -39.8 percent. (See "The Impact of Fit.") Consider the experience of Paolo Fresco, whose success spearheading GE's growth into Europe did not... View Details
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits
To transform lofty aspirations into quantifiable impact, nonprofits need to become more familiar with traditional business tools such as business plans, precise mission statements, and goal setting to improve their performance. That was... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- September 2009 (Revised December 2011)
- Teaching Note
IBM Values and Corporate Citizenship (TN)
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird
Teaching Note for [308106]. View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
Solving: HBS Alumni Making a Difference in the World, and more recent conversations specifically about COVID-19 impacts and responses, we’ve talked with many Harvard Business School alumni the world over. Here are some examples of how... View Details
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
intermediation and may have slowed employment gains in trade and services. Development lending goals were met, but these had no impact on the real economy. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
Summing Up Responses to this month's column raise questions about whether Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, requiring that senior managers certify the integrity of the processes by which their companies' financial reports are prepared, will have much View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
IT vendors including Oracle, IBM, and Sun that traditionally have built offerings based on proprietary technologies are now investing billions of dollars into open source software—arrangements that are transforming in some ways the... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
pulls the plug on old utopian desires and creates new ones in their place. The greatest challenge for a brandtopia comes when there is a major disruption in popular culture. The best brands, Holt suggested, read the new ideology forming in popular culture, and then... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?
(Image credit: iStockphoto/SDI Productions) Despite reams of material written about remote work in recent months, we know very little about the impact of remote management on performance. Perhaps it’s too soon. Until we can assess... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
the complex regulatory environment that governs Indian gaming. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51932 Fall 2016 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management The Impact of Supplier Inventory Service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
Publications Impacto Histórico de la Globalización en Argentina y Chile: Empresas y Empresarios (The Historical Impact of Globalization in Argentina and Chile: Enterprises and Entrepreneurs) Authors: Geoffrey Jones and Andrea Lluch, eds.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
genome, Goldberg has focused his most recent efforts on explaining the impact of this revolutionary discovery on the agribusiness system. "All industries that deal with living things or organic compounds will have a common language... View Details
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
know it's getting harder. We all need to keep learning and adapting.” We asked Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, to discuss how managers can work faster, embrace digital transformation to cultivate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
and by the effects of their private governance mechanisms. These organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
interest in developing social entrepreneurship courses, and last but not least, practitioners themselves, who are seeking to achieve mission impact as effectively, efficiently, and sustainably as possible. Q: What do you mean by social... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
attempting the transformation required to embrace a new, dominant technology—the choice to maintain focus on the old technology. In considering this choice we distinguish between "racing" strategies, which attempt to fight off... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
influences strategic decision-making, little is known about its impact on ascriptive inequality. This study proposes a performance effect on racial bias: higher team performance reduces managers’ performance pressure and, therefore, leads... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
measuring IR. Moreover, I show that investor activism on environmental or social issues or a large number of concerns about a firm's environmental or social impact leads a firm to practice more IR and that this investor or crisis-induced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
press An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://ceo.usc.edu/book/doing_research_that_is_useful.html Business Network Transformation in Action Authors: Marco Iansiti and Ross Sullivan Publication: In Business Network... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
As we start to think about returning to work, shopping, and recreation, there is much talk about transformed workplaces and innovative social distancing designs. But how will companies, workers, and customers have confidence that these... View Details