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- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
In the aftermath of such highly public and grossly damaging business debacles as Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom, much attention and plenty of criticism have been directed at those companies' corporate boards. Traditionally, board... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
whatever information they have about consumers’ price knowledge, drawing inferences from gender if that is all they have to go on, but disregarding gender if provided more direct information on consumers’ price expectations,” the... View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy
us look at profiles of others, without actually letting these people know that their content was viewed." With a better understanding of why we love social media platforms so much, Piskorski wanted to learn how companies that sell... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
Framework Authors:Herman B. Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt Publication:Chap. 2 in Learning from Catastrophes: Strategies for Reaction and Response, edited by Howard Kunreuther and Michael Useem, 18-41. Wharton School Publishing, 2009 An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
via paper status report Expanded personal relationships throughout the organizationStrong personal connection at leadership levelEmerging infrastructure, including relationship managers, communication channels/vehicles Expanded opportunities for View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
Professor of Business Administration, and colleagues Dr. Eva Guinan and Jin Paik more about the study and results. They are referred to as the LISH team below. Martha Lagace: How did you learn about the problem and connect with... View Details
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
learn to measure market demand and calculate market penetration rates and market share. "Situation Analysis": Before managers can begin to formulate marketing strategies for their businesses, they must have a strong... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
me to achieve my top priorities?; (3) Do I give subordinates timely and direct feedback they can act on? Have I developed a succession roadmap?; and (4) Is my leadership style still effective, and does it reflect who I truly am? This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
innovation can be achieved whether a state is big or small, red or blue. There are fifty states in this union, and many are still waiting for the political innovation spark to be lit. Will you do it? Lighting that spark requires shaking away View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
prove their worth quickly, VCs may be underfunding other more complex types of startups that require more time to bear fruit. “One of the challenges with this approach is it really directs attention of investors to projects where you can... View Details
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
Publications August 2013 Cengage Learning Principles of Management. 1st ed By: Gulati, Ranjay, Anthony J. Mayo, and Nitin Nohria Abstract—Prepare your students, as managers, to confront today's challenges and opportunities that are more... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
HBS case study mentioned in Bower's book, Mulcahy drew counsel from a wide constituency of friends and acquaintances at the company to help set its future direction based on color printers and office services. Xerox has since rebounded... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
Effects of Performance Pressure on Teams' Knowledge Use and Performance". Her research on more than seventy audit and consulting teams—combining survey data, hundreds of interviews, and direct observation at meetings—reveals insights into... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson and Penn State professor James Detert explored the challenges employees face speaking up to internal authorities. Their research focused on behavior in large, multinational corporations, but the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
foreign markets. Following a reduction in tariffs on trade between the two foreign countries, the model predicts growth in the number of source-country firms engaging in foreign direct investment, growth in the size of affiliates that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast region of the United States in August 2005, it destroyed homes and lives. A paradoxical effect, however, is that the storm's aftermath created an opening in New Orleans for school leaders to consider anew the View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
Working PapersDigital Interactivity: Unanticipated Consequences for Markets, Marketing, and Consumers Authors:John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld Abstract The digital interactive transformation in marketing is not unfolding, as many thought it would, on the model of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
silence? Michel Anteby: Vocal silence allows organizations to instill rather than impose morals. Indeed, the absence of direct guidance from higher authorities does not equate with the absence of any guidance. In vocal silence, an... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
features of relational pluralism inside and across organizations. We conclude with a discussion of future directions for research. August 2013 Psychological Science A 'Present' for the Future: The Unexpected Value of Rediscovery By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
festival, or mela, for the millions of pilgrims. The Maha Kumbh Mela is happening right now. It's expected to draw close to 200 million people over almost eight weeks, and as many as 30 million in a single day. The Harvard team is here to View Details