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- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
titles such as chief financial officer, chief marketing officer, chief technology officer, and chief human resources officer. “In companies that have more related businesses, it makes sense to have these View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent
Experts on the African economies say globalization has yet to benefit the continent in a significant way, and that what is really needed is political change and more investment from within its own borders.... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
Summing Up Is Business Agility a Product of Top-Down or Bottom-Up Resource Allocation? Respondents to this month's column provided possible explanations for greater reliance on top-down resource allocation processes (RAPs) while reminding us that a blend of influences... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
region's burgeoning energy sector by attracting green-minded companies to the urban core and position Charlotte as a highly progressive business center. The idea was to make Charlotte the "new energy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
the Harvard framework (Figure 11.1), which was developed by William Sahlman 1 and Howard Stevenson 2 is described in Chapter 12. Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from making bad... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
“lean-in." We use a laboratory experiment to examine the effect of leaning-in. Despite men and women achieving similar and positive returns when they are forced to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
the present. Q: One of the payoffs in your book for global strategists is an analysis of the top ten countries in terms of economic development and potential trajectories. Obviously each situation is different, but which countries would... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- March 2004
- Background Note
Recent Facts About MBA Job Searches
Presents data on Harvard Business School MBA job searches from 1997 to 2002. Includes color exhibits. View Details
Keywords: Job Search
Higgins, Monica C., and Christine Teebagy. "Recent Facts About MBA Job Searches." Harvard Business School Background Note 404-013, March 2004.
- July – August 2005
- Article
Designing High-Performance Jobs
By: Robert Simons
Simons, Robert. "Designing High-Performance Jobs." Harvard Business Review 83, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2005).
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-004.pdf What Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis (revised) Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
to have higher academic achievement and experience greater acceptance by their peers in adolescence. Despite this positive influence on educational outcomes, it is still unclear why some children are more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
morality and decrease people's ability to justify dishonesty. The second principle, Visibility, aims to restrict anonymity, prompt peer monitoring, and elicit responsible norms. The third principle,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
top-level management from outside is a natural outcome of the belief that almost any of our competitors has better people than we do." And Lowell Kuehn posited that "the outsider is all promise,... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of accelerating digital convergence and decreasing magazine sales. Historically a proponent of evolutionary change, he is considering a radical move: creating a senior management View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
number of times that each team member has worked with every other member of the team) has a significant and positive effect on performance but that conventional measures of the experience of individual team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- April 1999
- Teaching Note
Dimensions of Technology Strategy: Managing Innovation: Overview Teaching Note for Module 5
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Provides instructors with an overview teaching note for the technology strategy module of the course. The cases in the module give students insights about several issues in technology strategy. These include: 1) Whether to be a technological leader or follower; 2)... View Details
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
experiences are mediocre, forgettable, and some are plain awful. But once in a blue moon, an experience is so great that it leaves positive memories for years. Why do some product or service experiences have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- January 2003 (Revised January 2005)
- Case
Peter Isenberg at Fischer Stevens (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Maria Farkas
Having made managing director at an elite investment bank, Peter Isenberg struggles to understand his new role in the firm. He feels as though little has changed, although it is clear to him that those around him have new expectations. View Details
Hill, Linda A., and Maria Farkas. "Peter Isenberg at Fischer Stevens (A)." Harvard Business School Case 403-127, January 2003. (Revised January 2005.)
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
political processes from which they were once excluded. Another asset big corporations enjoy is the power to protect programs once they are put in place, and the strength to thwart the status quo. With this... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
Some reviewers are always critical and leave worse reviews on average; others might always be positive, fawning over every restaurant's spaghetti or tuna sub. Still others are erratic, showing little predictability in how they review.... View Details