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19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

fairly radical change in this company, where technical excellence was seen as the primary basis for promotion. Although senior management did not act on this suggestion, which would have been, admittedly, very difficult in their well-established culture, it points in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

08 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

misconduct disclosures may be higher. Near the top for best ethical practices was USAA Financial Advisors, which serves military families and had only a 3 percent rate of misconduct. More distressing than the rates of financial... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

16 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’

strategy from the top of the organization to a specialist function." Montgomery maintains that it's time for CEOs to reclaim strategy, a point she argues fervently in her new book, The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs. The... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery

06 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?

next morning, Group A took the floor and made their recommendation right off the bat: DataClear should immediately establish an office in the U.K. and staff it with four to six salespeople. Britain would be a beachhead into all of Europe,... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

06 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13530 Cases & Course MaterialsBest Practices: Decision Making Among Venture Capital Firms Harvard Business School Note 804-176 Describes investment decision-making processes, based on interviews with 56 percent of the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

“historically there was an issue with the top guys having all the power and the economics, so there were quite a few spinouts in the past.” Another investor who decided not to invest in the firm’s funds said, “One of the things that we... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

and hazards. Several techniques can enhance the power and efficacy of queries: Favor follow-up questions, know when to keep questions open ended, get the sequence right, use the right tone, and pay attention to group dynamics. Publisher's... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

D. Anderson Cancer Center, and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, which are moving toward results measurement and integrated practice unit structures. Reforming the U.S. system does not require a top down, big bang, government-led... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

17 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

tenure. On average, workers hired by managers who made fewer exceptions (those in the bottom quarter of exception rates) stayed on average 120 days; those hired by managers who made the most exceptions (those in the top quartile of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

performance—and the issues about how top executives seem to be getting a different kind of deal than employees get, there is a fundamental cynicism about the free enterprise system. The closed CEO labor market and the consequences it has... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits

in-between area remain grey, organizations have no way to measure whether programs are working, or even know if they are on the right track. Confusion Over What Things Cost Bradach was surprised to find that many organizations have a weak... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

23 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

position or some other method of impacting standard setting. Q: Have you spotted any country or regional trends in the implementation of IAS? A: Europe is really the leader right now. The EU decision to adopt IAS (the actual standards are... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services

20 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: December 20

the redirection of existing inventive activity. Read the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-118.pdf Finding the Right Mix: How the Composition of Self-managing Multicultural Teams' Cultural Value Orientation Influences Performance... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 20

http://www.springerlink.com/content/91647u2175267563/ Ownership Structure and Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Structural Estimation Authors: Chen Lin, Yue Ma, and Yuhai Xuan Publication: Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This study examines... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

what goes on in any organization or community sliding downhill—suppression of information, group vs. group antagonisms, isolation and self-protection, passivity and hopelessness. He began the turnaround with messages of optimism and hope, new behaviors at the View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

As the information economy emerges and technology transforms "business-as-usual," senior-level executives need to understand the "big picture" of how IT impacts their entire organization—from top to bottom. The HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

04 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 4

examine the legal basis of applicable rights and identify the circumstances in which such transfers are permitted. Publisher's link: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/legal-aspects-of-transfer-of-ips-may2013.pdf 2006 Review of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

percent battery power. Your brain is your most vital asset; it is a physical organ that, like any other piece of equipment, requires maintenance and care. Both physical and mental hygiene practices need to increase right now, because both... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

Editor's note: As traditional hierarchical organizations flatten, new ways of thinking about internal communications must be developed—news no longer flows just from top to bottom. In Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

29 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

economist herself, delve into the phenomenon in their paper Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies, forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. “Inside tech firms there’s a huge competition for talent right now,” Athey... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

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