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- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
considerations guiding financial reporting. Financial reports produced under the positive theory of GAAP would also generate information useful for equity valuation, but equity valuation is not predicted to be the primary objective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Ontological Foundations of Leadership and Performance: Being a Leader, and the Effective Exercise of Leadership, A New Model
By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger
This paper is the (pre-course) introduction document to an experimental course developed by the authors and taught at the U. of Rochester Simon School of Business. The intention of the course is to leave the participants actually being leaders and being able to... View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
universality of moral standards in the context of business activity. Section five describes attempts to specify standards for MNCs that involve taking a position on two key debates in the broader literature: the debate over the purpose of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
Baldwin, and Christopher L. Magee Abstract Hierarchy is a generic structure in which levels are asymmetrically ordered. In an industry setting, classic supply chains display strict hierarchy, whereas clusters of firms have linkages going... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
range of contexts, information costs approach zero. In this chapter, we discuss how sharply reduced information costs enable organizations to engage with communities of developers, professionals, and users for core innovative activities, frequently through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
2015 Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile: Business Enterprises and Entrepreneurship By: Jones, G. Abstract—This book compares the effects of globalization on two Latin American... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
From Tunisia to Egypt, Bahrain to Yemen, as a number of nations in North Africa and the Middle East go through cataclysmic changes, the world watches and wonders what the future may hold as myriad protestors risk their lives for revolutionary change. Three Harvard... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
successful agreement. Following Robert Putnam's (1988) two-level games schema, I characterize such "behind the table," or "Level II," barriers more broadly, offer several innovative examples of how each side can help the other overcome them, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Alive: Exploring Generative Moments in Doing Qualitative Research. Vol. 27, edited by Arne Carlsen and Jane E. Dutton. Advances in Organization Studies. Copenhagen Business School Press, forthcoming An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5
company's business model. We analyze this process to explain how, under conditions of ambiguity, organizational goals can form through a collaborative social exchange that resembles the innovation process. Our research suggests that,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
Business Speaks English: Why You Need a Language Strategy Now Author:Tsedal Neeley Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 5 (May 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Platform Envelopment Authors:Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To dislodge them, entrants generally must offer... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The entrepreneur's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
for interaction, but how these two mechanisms interact in formal organizations is not well understood. We argue that organizational structures and geography delimit opportunities for interaction, but that within the opportunity sets created by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as social enterprises, combine aspects of both charity and business at their core. In this paper we distinguish between two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/bgjs13_84709dcc-425f-4fe2-8600-0f8cbb50be16.pdf August 2013 The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management The Case Method By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—The case method was developed concurrently with the emergence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19
CEO-doubled during this period, this growth was driven primarily by an increase in functional managers rather than general managers, a phenomenon we term "functional centralization." Using panel data on senior management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
different organizational contexts, i.e., summer field training and during academic semesters. Leader performance was measured with leadership grades (supervisor ratings) aggregated over four years at West Point. Findings-After controlling for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
negative, financial contributions compete with mature businesses that are the primary revenue generators for the firm. Revenue is power, and for senior management taking their eyes off the mature View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace