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- 14 Nov 2023
- What Do You Think?
Do We Underestimate the Importance of Generosity in Leadership?
column Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure? If memorability is a measure, leaders appear to learn more from failure than from success. Dan Wallace emailed me about a case he remembered in an HBS class about an entrepreneur who... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- October 2013
- Article
Corporate Venturing
By: Josh Lerner
For decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure to rein in costs and produce results, companies are investing in promising start-ups to gain knowledge and agility. The logic of corporate venturing is... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Knowledge Acquisition; Corporate Strategy; Research and Development; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention
Lerner, Josh. "Corporate Venturing." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 10 (October 2013): 86–94.
- November 2012 (Revised July 2013)
- Case
Gerry Pasciucco at AIG Financial Products
By: Gautam Mukunda and Thomas J. DeLong
Gerry Pasciucco was appointed to lead American International Group's Financial Products (AIGFP) group after the government bailout of AIG in 2008 and charged with the task of shutting down the division while minimizing the government's losses. AIGFP's failed trades had... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Crisis Management; Financial Crisis; Management Teams; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; United States
Mukunda, Gautam, and Thomas J. DeLong. "Gerry Pasciucco at AIG Financial Products." Harvard Business School Case 413-059, November 2012. (Revised July 2013.)
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
even more difficult than in the past. Why the concern about coordination between sales and marketing? Every business exists for financial performance—making money. We know generally how to measure it across different companies and... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
acquired. Until we can better develop and apply contextual intelligence, failure rates for cross-border businesses will remain high, what we learn from experiments unfolding around the world will remain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
The Founder's Dilemmas
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How Are Middle Managers Falling Down Most Often on Employee Inclusion?“Organizations know how to hire people with diverse backgrounds; they don’t seem to be doing a very good job of retaining them.” Whether based largely on conviction or the acceptance of research on the business value of a diverse... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
Teaming in the Twenty-First CenturyEven as academic journals and business sections of bookstores fill up with titles devoted to teams, teamwork, and team players, Harvard Business School Professor Amy C. Edmondson wonders if many might be... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in Chinaworking inside the country to create value for its Chinese users, employees, and business partners. To critics, Google was selling out its core principles to play in the world's second largest economy. “Google shot themselves in the foot... View Details
First Look: February 14Cloud Computing Authors:Kyle Armbrester and Robert G. Eccles Publication:European Business Review (January 2012) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=5748 Assent-maximizing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and AmericaTheories of legitimate regulation have emphasized the role of governments either in fixing market failures to promote greater efficiency or in restricting the efficient functioning of markets in order to pursue public welfare goals. In either case, features of markets... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Financial Markets; Personal Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Welfare; France; United States
Trumbull, J. Gunnar. "Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-047, November 2010.
Courses - EntrepreneurshipAvoiding Startup Failure Lindsay Hyde Spring 2024 Q3Q4 3.0 Building Web 3 Businesses Scott Duke Kominers Shai Bernstein Spring 2024 Q3 1.5 Business Marketing and Sales (also... View Details
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadershipnow is that our intrinsic survival mechanisms—such basic behaviors as how to enter a building, or bring in the mail, or greet a friend—require conscious thought in a way they have not since toddlerhood. The services and businesses that... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!By: Willy Shih
This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Standards; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Information Technology
Shih, Willy. "Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!" Harvard Business School Case 612-017, September 2011. (Revised July 2012.)
Organisational Learning in Software Requirements Engineering and ManagementThe current research project addresses the continuing low success rate of software development projects, which has been frequently reported in empirical studies. For example, the 2004 Chaos Report by the Standish Group found that only 29% of 9,236 application... View Details
Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival Amid Political and Civil ViolenceKeywords: by Shon Hiatt & Wesley Sine
MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk ManagementBy: Robert C. Merton
Against the backdrop of financial crisis, a distinguished group of academics and practitioners discusses the contribution of financial management and innovation to corporate growth and value, along with the pitfalls and unintended consequences of such innovation.... View Details Keywords: Financial Crisis; Market Participation; Finance; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Value; Distribution; Capital Structure; Risk Management; Business Ventures; Business Model; Strategy
Merton, Robert C. "MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk Management." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 20, no. 4 (Fall 2008): 20–38.
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?Move over, venture cap. There's a new kid on the block. It's the business incubator, and it has the potential to remake the way businesses are launched in the Internet economy. Incubators are not really new,... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
The Stock Market and Bank Risk-TakingBy: David S. Scharfstein and Antonio Falato
We argue that stock market pressure to generate earnings encourages banks to increase risk. We measure risk using confidential supervisory ratings as well as financial information released in regulatory filings. We document that there is an increase in the risk-taking... View Details
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