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  • 13 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

sample of actual applications from entrepreneurs seeking commercial loans for the first time. They acquired the loan files from a large commercial lender in India, a country challenged by a dearth of verifiable financial data. As is View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 18 Nov 2022
  • HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

2021, the firm had 36 employees and $18 billion in assets. That year, its flagship small-company fund outperformed 99 percent of competitors. “An important question for organizations is how to avoid group thinking in teams. ” As Brown approached retirement (and his... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

Under founding director Dr. Aristotle Alip's leadership, CARD has become one of the top microfinance institutions in the world. More recently, larger commercial and financial institutions are seeking a slice of the microfinance market. The main View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 May 2011
  • HBS Case

QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

heard." "Retailers like Mercadona and QuikTrip have created ways to institutionalize improvement.” Ton notes that another commonality between QuikTrip and Mercadona lies in the strongly held values of its leadership. QuikTrip's... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

expected to try to fill up their own vessels with fish on each voyage—to do less would not be in their competitive interest. Yet if every fisherman acts this way, all will lose out as the overall stock becomes depleted. Economists call this dynamic View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 28 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How to Avoid a Price Increase

Gourville discusses the price-versus-quantity dilemma in this e-mail interview. Manda Salls: When prices for raw materials increase, companies need to compensate to keep their profit margin on target. What are the typical responses? John... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 02 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

It’s a sticky but common dilemma for managers: A valued employee finds out that a coworker earns more, gets upset, and demands a raise. If gender or race figure into the wage gap, tensions can escalate fast.... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 04 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

chance to thrive. Drawing on more than a decade of researching smashing successes and painful failures alike, Wasserman walks readers through the dilemmas that plague and challenge most new entrepreneurs, starting with pre-founding career... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
  • 22 Jul 2019
  • Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

authors explain the fundamentals of platforms, different strategies and business models, common errors, and platform battlegrounds of the future that involve competing technologies and implications for organizations. There is advice for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 May 2009
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams

not underestimate or ignore undesired results. How Can Individual Performers Be Developed Into Team Players? HBS Cases: When Good Teams Go Bad Know when teamwork doesn't work—and how to fix it. Professors Jeff Polzer and Scott Snook teach "The Army Crew Team" case and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 03 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

Instead, we value democracy of the kind that not only heeds majority opinion but also has a healthy respect for individual and minority rights. This is an important distinction, because liberal democracies tend not to impose a "democracy vs. security" View Details
Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities
  • 21 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to Sink a Startup

Wasserman realized that he wanted to learn more about the dilemmas inherent in launching ventures. He returned to HBS, first to earn a PhD (in 2002) and then as a professor, dedicating his research to the pitfalls of founding and how to... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 04 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee

product portfolio. Maybe we are no longer going to produce assault weapons. Or maybe we will make a really interesting effort into producing smart weapons.” Unique ideas and insights are common on the podcast Harvard Business School After... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 23 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

illustration of the earliest trends and dilemmas (c. 1900–1930), when business schools found themselves caught between their business connections and their striving for moral legitimacy in higher education. We show how several of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 10

  Publications February 2015 Academy of Management Review Reflections on the 2013 Decade Award: "Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited" Ten Years Later By: Benner, Mary, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

investors, could provide this commitment mechanism. Common ownership of competitors within industries and long-time horizons in ownership of shares are key characteristics for investors that could act as stewards of the commons. Social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

restructuring can feel like a “just because” pursuit among companies, which often coincides with a change in C-suite leadership. “If you bring in an executive from the outside, it’s very common that, as soon as they get into their chair,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Inner Life of Leaders

require adaptation and the avoidance of the repetition compulsion. Q: Your book describes leadership dilemmas facing well-known individuals historically and currently, including Robert S. McNamara, Ronald Reagan, Martin Luther King Jr.,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

important purchases and the consumption dilemmas that lead friends to seek my advice, they rarely deal with buying products such as toothpaste, breakfast cereal, or washing machines. I am not arguing that this section of the economy is... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
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