by Richard Bierck - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

In a recent Harvard Business Review article, authors Richard Nolan and Warren McFarlan explored the role of the board of directors in IT governance—and how most "fall into the default mode of applying a set of tacit or explicit rules... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

cost performance of IT technologies over the first forty years changed by roughly 107, and for the foreseeable future will continue to evolve at the same rate. That is in sharp contrast to a train, which after eighty years moved six times... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

04 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought

Editor's note: A hybrid of a novel and a guidebook, Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader invites readers to critique the journey of Jim Barton, the new CEO of a west coast aerospace firm. Written by business... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan & Shannon O'Donnell; Aerospace

01 Apr 2011
Working Paper Summaries

When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of Leader Power on Team Performance

Keywords: by Leigh Plunkett Tost, Francesca Gino & Richard P. Larrick

28 Oct 2024
Op-Ed

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

electorate projected to double to 15 percent by November from 7.4 percent in 2000, according to Pew Research Center. “A new New York Times/Siena College Poll showed a steady narrowing in Democrats’ margin within this important group for... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro

06 Aug 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Field-Level Paradox and the Co-Evolution of an Entrepreneurial Vision

Keywords: by Ryan Raffaelli and Richard DeJordy; Manufacturing

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

Press, 2001. This excerpt is taken with permission from a contributed essay in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives And Investors Manage High-Tech Risks, edited by Lewis M. Branscomb and Phillip E. Auerswald. Chesbrough and... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

propose a way to alter our health insurance benefits universe for insured employees and the self-insured by combining the best of Republican and Democratic ideas about health insurance. More choice, affordability, and personal control A... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

19 Jul 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model

Keywords: by Vishal Gaur, Richard Lai, Ananth Raman & William Schmidt

25 Oct 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases

Keywords: by Richard L. Nolan; Education

27 Oct 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Does Venture Capital Attract Human Capital? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Keywords: by Shai Bernstein, Kunal Mehta, and Richard Townsend

24 Feb 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Accelerating Innovation In Energy: Insights from Multiple Sectors

Keywords: by Rebecca M. Henderson & Richard G. Newell; Energy; Utilities; Technology

February 2011 (Revised June 2013)
Case

Businesses for Sale by Briggs Capital, 2010

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

Briggs Capital was a regional mergers and acquisitions advisory firm that helped owners to sell their small firms. The case presents a company that was for sale in the fall of 2010—a troubled manufacturer of post and beam style homes and log homes. Using the actual... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Exit or Shutdown; Entrepreneurship; Financial Condition; Investment; Financial Services Industry; Boston

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