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- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
of the reason he was given the top coaching job. Losing streaks are associated with autocrats who cling to control even as events spin out of control—one consequence View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
desired occupational identity. This practice produces an engaging form of control that relies on management's selective allocation of identity incentives. These findings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Experiment 2 demonstrates that effects of indirect agency cannot be explained by perceived lack of foreknowledge or control on the part of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
commercial hindrance. A recent study of more than 500 biomedical startups suggests that ventures rooted in the core research of their founders have a more challenging time reaching key measures View Details
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
States outperformed the rest of the world in the majority of years. As such, there is something particularly bad about the return experience of foreign investors taking a View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
Cultural differences can influence business negotiations in significant and unexpected ways, as many a hapless dealmaker has learned. In some cases, it's a matter of ignorance or blatant disrespect, as with the American salesman who... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
to become a center for making mobile phone components and handsets, especially products using CDMA technology, which is widely used in South Korea. Controller board MADE IN CHINA REASON U.S. companies long ago outsourced the manufacture... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Building Startup Skills for Business and Life
the program in 2004 and taught the first few sessions himself, says, “My belief going in was that E360 would give at-risk kids an opportunity to take control of their futures.” The curriculum fosters... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
technologies to drive experiments and make decisions more centrally. The note highlights important tradeoffs in achieving control and maintaining flexibility across multiple units. It describes how some companies mitigate some View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
percentage increase in nurses' perceptions of safety improvement were no better than that of 48 control hospitals. Thus, we investigated drivers View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
investing. Whereas most randomized control trials have long learning cycles of years or more, PAD’s interventions are delivered digitally, “so we know immediately who listens to what messages, and we can... View Details
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
How can online advertising fraud be detected and prevented? What should we look at, where should we look, and what methods and tools should we use? These questions are relevant to anyone who buys online advertising. According to HBS professor Ben Edelman, an expert on... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
submerge nearly all of the crypto-ness under the hood, and the fact that it’s managed on a blockchain is just how they make the architecture work. The thing that will be helpful for consumers is the fact that, with these crypto... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
profitable investment decisions. During the last ten years, Wall Street research has been battered by a series of shocks. As concerns over conflicts of interest mounted, the integrity View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2008 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Sovereign Wealth Funds: For Profits or Politics?
By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim
On March 21, 2008, the U.S. government secured an agreement from two leading sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) to adopt a new set of investment principles to govern the Funds' activities. SWFs, broadly defined as an investment fund owned by a national or a government, were... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Investment Funds; Sovereign Finance; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; International Relations; State Ownership; United States
Alfaro, Laura, and Renee Kim. "Sovereign Wealth Funds: For Profits or Politics?" Harvard Business School Case 708-053, May 2008. (Revised July 2009.)
- August 2018
- Case
Garanti Payment Systems: Digital Transformation Strategy (A)
By: Shelle M. Santana and Esel Çekin
Işıl Akdemir Evlioğlu, executive vice president of marketing at Garanti Payment Systems (GPS), a subsidiary of Garanti Bank, is grappling with three questions. First, should GPS create its own mobile app for credit card customers or leverage the bank’s already... View Details
Keywords: Loyalty Program; Campaign Management; Campaign Enrollment; Branding; Customer Acquisition; Regulations; Regulatory Changes; Bank; Retail Banks; Banking; Credit Card; Payment Systems; Installment; Mobile App; Call Center; Data Analytics; Digital Technology; Banks and Banking; Business Subsidiaries; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Credit Cards; Brands and Branding; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Transformation; Financial Services Industry
Santana, Shelle M., and Esel Çekin. "Garanti Payment Systems: Digital Transformation Strategy (A)." Harvard Business School Case 519-014, August 2018.
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
starts a premium vodka business, bringing in his cousin at an early stage, but with no initial discussion of the eventual split of equity or managerial control between the two.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
of developing a formal model). What we had missed is that Microsoft's initial advantage (larger installed base) together with its pricing power allow the company to price strategically to control Linux's... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9
status, we find that groups benefited—up to a point—from having high status members, controlling for individual performance. With higher proportions of individual stars, however, the marginal benefit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace