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- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
There is no single "best" style of leadership nor one set of attributes in all situations. We look at the sources of constraints and at leadership as a sense of identity: Leaders do not require a formal position; rather,... View Details
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
in the book the different roles, frequencies, participants, and agendas for operational review meetings and strategy review meetings. We open the book with a great quote often but perhaps inaccurately attributed to Sun Tzu in The Art of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
seven “C” attributes shared by effective coronavirus leaders. Calm. Your folks, your employees, your customers, your suppliers, are going to be looking to you as a leader to project a sense of calm through this difficult, uncertain... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
America, but during the first half of 2013, Porsche's sales increased by 31 percent, largely attributed to its growth with women drivers. The Cayenne and the Panamera four-door sedan have both been successful in attracting women to the... View Details
- 16 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.
approach is for the government to delegate the management of investment promotion activities to the private sector. This approach often has the disadvantage that the private sector will not handle well the attributes of the task that are... View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
- 17 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity
against the wall of the office. But Gino attributes some of her productivity at UNC to the lack of an actual view to the outside. "After all, it is sunny very often in North Carolina," she smiles. View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
performance of the market by making it more volatile and limiting its upside potential (via much larger amounts of short-selling). Most commentators about the market ignore this. When the market suffers big losses on a single day, they find some small piece of bad... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
them white, came out to support him. Why did Donald Trump’s candidacy appeal to so many women voters? Although his election has been attributed primarily to disenfranchised citizens, the data suggest otherwise. Women from varying... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Conversational Leadership
of which applies to a particular attribute of an organization. "Intimacy is about leadership," Groysberg explains. "Interactivity is about channels. Inclusion is about content. And intentionality is about goals, vision, and the strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
Wal-Mart's and Microsoft's dominance in modern business has been attributed to any number of factors, ranging from the vision and drive of their founders to the companies' aggressive competitive practices. But the performance of these two... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- Research Summary
The Toyota Production System: Rules for Activity, Connection, and Pathway Design and Improvement
Researchers have established that Toyota enjoys advantages in cost, quality, lead time, and flexibility when compared to its competitors in automobile assembly. Differences in generating value have been attributed to differences between the Toyota Production System... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
significance, and a legacy. Juggling all four at once is a trick that requires constant practice. People who fit our conventional notions of success display a lot of positive features, said Stevenson. But take a closer look and a positive View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
did Microsoft products fail to win more than 50 percent of these reviews. —Marco Iansiti and Alan MacCormack Putting this all together, we see that much of Microsoft's long-term success can be attributed to investments that have created... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 2024
- Working Paper
Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song
Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Zirui Song. "Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-012, September 2024.
- 24 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention
unusual to find stores from the same chain selling a product for different prices in different regions or online. Cavallo attributes this to the transparency afforded by the internet and customers’ concerns about fairness. “The web allows... View Details
- 01 Oct 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
graduating or an experienced manager, the most critical global attribute is open-mindedness. There's a curse that Americans in particular face, in that they're born in the world's largest, richest, and most technologically developed... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
Ecuador and Bolivia, was more than triple the number reported, representing tens of thousands of losses that were never attributed to the pandemic. And the United States saw the highest number of unexplained deaths in 2020: a total of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding