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- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
different sources (e.g., food versus fire safety). Up Close and Personal: Developing Foundations for Leader Development through Personalization of Management Learning Authors:Gianpiero Petriglieri, Jack Wood, and Jennifer L. Petriglieri... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
poorly suited," explains Froot. “Why can't they produce enough of this coverage at a lower price?” A local property-casualty insurance agency can easily hold enough capital to cover losses from house fires or burst pipes; such losses... View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
Dubai's history. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710061-PDF-ENG Malden Mills (A) (Abridged) Nitin Nohria and Thomas R. PiperHarvard Business School Case 410-083 CEO Aaron Feuerstein of Malden Mills decided to pay idled workers after a massive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/213078-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-061 Samuel Colt: An American Gun Maker Samuel Colt not only perfected and patented the technology for a gun that could fire multiple times... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
declining. Banking and other financial services are now more important to the national economy. Security forces initially fired upon demonstrators, but withdrew after President Obama intervened with a phone call to the king. Some... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
environment? A: The sociological literature contains a number of wonderful ethnographies—vivid descriptive accounts—of men doing dangerous work in such settings as coal mines, fire departments, and the military. Invulnerability looms... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
Over the years, he had overcome many hurdles, including buying out his "too-fiery" co-founder, firing all of his employees so he could start all over again when he became disillusioned with the company's developing culture, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
should be designed to fit the corporate strategy. Although the results are capable of alternative interpretations, analysis provides no support for the view that "lean and mean" headquarters lead to better performance. Asset View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
more about-the CEO finally backed down. "I get it," he said. "That's how we can afford to be great." Charismatic leaders sometimes assume that they can avoid this trade-off by sheer force of personality. If they just get everybody View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
half the offer that Microsoft had made in its acquisition offer in 2008. The depth of the challenge is underscored by the frequent CEO changes the company has had, culminating in the recent firing of the latest CEO, Carol Bartz. The case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
(examining equity splits within the founding team) and "Golden Handcuffs" (examining the role of vesting terms). In the control realm, my 2003 paper in Organization Science on founder-CEO succession examined the factors that lead to a founder's being View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
through until you acknowledge your own culpability. If you fire me from my job, I have to look myself in the mirror and ask, "What role did I have in getting fired?" In a CNN interview that I showed in class, Mark puts all the... View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
on consumers' browsers, resulting in higher prices for returning shoppers, consumer backlash led the company to state that such practice was a "mistake" and that it would refrain from pricing based on customer demographics in the future. Similarly, when Amazon... View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
periphery." Problems, in other words, appear initially at the borders. Unfortunately, when middle managers actually raise these problems—especially those that contradict the firm's prevailing assumptions and conventional wisdom—they are often ignored, or worse. Henry... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
they’re putting out small fires everywhere by answering emails and crossing relatively menial obligations off the to-do list. To relieve time stress, people would benefit by setting aside blocks of time every day or even just once a week... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
severe, a company shouldn’t be afraid to fire the worker. Leaders can’t worry too much about whether that worker might sue for wrongful termination. “Fear of lawsuits is not an excuse for not taking action,” Goldberg says. And when an... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
alone for whistleblowers to come forward about them. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/413040-PDF-ENG Olympus (B) Jay W. Lorsch, Suraj Srinivasan, and Kathleen DuranteHarvard Business School Supplement 413-075 This case outlines Michael Woodford's awards and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
Editor's Note: As an institution charged with fighting global poverty, the World Bank has found itself on the firing line of late. Critics cite a persistent lack of transparency and failure to include local insights in decision-making... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
for a third force: a new enterprise logic capable of marrying the new markets for deep support and the new capabilities of the digital medium. The fire is laid. What's needed is the match. Many people already sense that there must be a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace