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  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

in this primary group have interlocking tasks, their bonds of trust will facilitate their joint task performance and they can be officially recognized as a work group or team. The more extended bonding drive of employees will also... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a... View Details
  • 18 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

general competencies into company- and job-specific expertise, develop relationships, and make a contribution to organizational performance in relatively short order. Once they begin to make a contribution... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

variability than was the case historically. Under the new policy, dividends would be tied to the company's underwriting results, its performance relative to predetermined goals, and a target payout ratio.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

differences between the attributes of stock issuers and repurchasers to shed light on characteristic-related mispricing. During years when issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms, for example, we show that large firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

a business opportunity from the perspective of a "triple bottom line"-a performance evaluation scheme focused on "people, planet, and profit" that construes success in terms of social benefits, environmental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Career Histories and the Biotechnology Industry

Professor Higgins' other major project focuses on the consequences of individuals' career experiences for firms and industries. This second research stream centers on the careers of executives in the biotechnology industry.

Professor Higgins has written... View Details

  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

securities laws. If someone promises to do something and knows that they can't perform that promise, that's considered fraud. In a business plan, one must make an honest appraisal of what's doable and set forth their assumptions, so the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 05 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

acute and chronic stress). Both hormones are found in men and women. Men naturally have more testosterone than women do, but the researchers were measuring the levels relative to gender norms. The normal level of cortisol is the same for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Jun 2010
  • What Do You Think?

How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?

Summing Up Strategy, execution, and culture: Do we have our priorities right? First, my thanks to all of you who weighed in on the issues of the month regarding ways of thinking and asking questions about the relative importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 08 Apr 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It

maker better off emphasizing performance over luxury? Are luxury and sustainability mutually exclusive? And just what is the “new aspirational lifestyle?” Here is what they found. A Good Place to Start The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto; Retail; Fashion
  • Web

Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Clusters, Convergence, & Economic Performance by Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter, Scott Stern This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in the economic performance of industries,... View Details
  • 04 Jan 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

cause or not. Each situation is different. It may depend on the nature of the CEO’s shortcomings and the terms of their contract. Was the problem merely poor company performance (rarely regarded as “cause”), poor judgment (a borderline... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

Abstract Existing performance metrics utilized by the PGA TOUR have biases towards specific styles of play, which make relative player comparisons challenging. Our goal is to evaluate golfers in a way that... View Details
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 17, 2015

prowess, productivity, and ultimately prosperity. This chapter describes recent work in economics and management scholarship on how firms grow, with specific focus on questions surrounding the types of innovations that large and small firms pursue and how they impact... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

other policies to change relative prices can provide a countervailing force by subsidizing exports. But they increase the costs of imports, hurting both domestic consumption and export-oriented industries with high import content. More... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 27 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

to address ever-changing challenges. "Companies struggle to onboard employees even when times are good and relatively predictable." The only way to fast track onboarding and enable those workers to reach peak View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg
  • 12 Oct 2022
  • Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

military school in Brasilia, Brazil knowing this was my path to college and, more importantly, absolute financial independence from my family. While I succeeded, that came at a price: my identity could be summarized as just a high-performance student and displaying the... View Details
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52718 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Follow the Informativeness Principle? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Relative TSR... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 7

644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate from the incumbent following increased service quality (price) competition only when the incumbent offers... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel