Entry In The US Market - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

in governance. In spite of all the checks and balances, failures occurred with boards of directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

described as a vulture capitalist, now gets a serious hearing when he urges Apple to make better use of its billions in cash or Dell to improve the terms of a management... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

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... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 7

ObenchainHarvard Business School Supplement 310-057 After posting its first-ever quarterly loss in 2008, Goldman Sachs surpassed market expectations for the first quarter of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Mar 2015
First Look

performance metrics should be included in assessing the sustainability performance of a company. Publisher's link: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415624510/ March 2015 Journal of Applied Finance... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

visitor to Asia, what can you tell us in general about what you are seeing there in terms of current business management trends? A: While each of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Fall 2017 Business History Review The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets By: Austin, Gareth, Carlos Davila, and Geoffrey Jones Abstract—This article... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

The use of the prototype center reflects an important tenet of service experiments: design and production problems should be worked out off-line, View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services

28 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

2003. He is now active mentoring young entrepreneurs, investing in companies, and painting. The interview is part of the Creating Emerging View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

an article that explores various uses of the corporate assessment tool that they developed for their research. They recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

contracts, and accounting and finance. The span of accountability. The second span refers to the range of trade-offs affecting the measures View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

29 May 2006
Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

"Is talent management portable?" That's the question asked and answered in a recent Harvard Business Review article discussing issues surrounding how top managers can transfer their skill sets to a... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology

Harvard Business School professors are more likely to be found in the pages of the Academy of Management Review than the New England Journal of... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Health

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

phrase that has been defined as a "state of rational apprehension that does not result in appropriate action." In her brilliant study of the disastrous decision to launch View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

30 May 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride

offered a course in starting new ventures. After 1983, the School began using the working definition of entrepreneurship as View Details

Keywords: by William Mahoney

07 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 7

people intuitively discount the future to a greater degree than can be rationally defended. Second, positive illusions lead us to conclude that energy problems do not exist or are not severe enough to merit... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

blood and hustle might come crashing down was a nontrivial possibility. But so was an increase in revenue that would elevate the company to a whole new league of wealth and View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

02 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

in digital distribution. Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage Fostering innovation in a mature company can often seem like a swim upstream—the needs of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

and service quality. Using longitudinal data from stores of a large retailer, I find that increasing the amount of labor at a store is associated with an increase in... View Details