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- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
two: new ventures need dedicated teams, given space and autonomy. But venture teams also need to be responsive to business realities. And they need to have sponsors in the wider organization to back them up because so many things can go... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
high levels of employee engagement "turns around and pays back multiple times what you invest in it," Gochnauer said. And sometimes, boards do get it. "I find that boardrooms are filled with people who want to be proud of what they're... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant research effort has gone into understanding the economic impact of immigration into the United States,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
for a company that's hiring like crazy More than a year into the pandemic, as the economy improves and recruiters begin to ramp up hiring again, Ng advises job seekers to zero in on companies that are advertising multiple openings.... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
creating healthy lives, not just profits, from its medical products. Higher-ambition leaders craft a distinctive set of practices, outlined in our book, to enact the multiple stakeholder perspective." In addition to being the Cahners-Robb... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
negotiations can affect interaction processes and how negotiations can be not only a solution to, but also a source of, inter-organizational conflict. Principals, agents, and teams face different sets of constraints and opportunities in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
of organizational features during growth; the second, their dramatic change. We juxtapose the two narratives to reveal ongoing gaps in the study of how growth can effect change along three dimensions: organizational design, team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
ventured with a research team inside a dozen global giants—including IBM, Procter & Gamble, Omron, CEMEX, Cisco, and Banco Real—to discover what has been driving the change. After conducting more than 350 interviews on five... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Course MaterialsAirbus A380—Turbulence Ahead Harvard Business School Case 609-041 Multiple delays of the Airbus A380 have shocked analysts and investors alike. What are the causes of these delays and how should investors respond to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
exchange for taking on the risk of young companies in uncertain environments, venture capitalists receive board level oversight privileges, which range from approval of budgets and advice on product development to the right to replace the management View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
could teach the richest nation on earth about how to finance infrastructure. But, there are important lessons in multiple examples of roads, power, ports, and water projects that actually get built, thanks to successful funding models.... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
Lakhani said the question comes down to this: Do we have the right labor force? His research team recently held a three-weeklong contest that looked to improve the accuracy and processing speed of an algorithm designed to analyze genomic... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
organizations in 20 countries, they and their interview team assessed how well manufacturers, schools, and hospitals adhere to three management basics: targets, incentives, and monitoring. They found that huge numbers of companies follow... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
number that maximizes joint utility); (ii) an equilibrium selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (iii) a coordination problem... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
real-time. With these forecasts, an airport’s operating team can make data-driven decisions, identify late connecting passengers and assist them to make their connections. The airport can also update its resourcing plans based on the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
care delivery at GWH. Rather than treating high-risk pregnancies as a homogeneous group, Dr. Narayan pioneered the development of eleven condition-based, high-risk clinics led by dedicated multidisciplinary teams of physicians, midwives,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
in multiple innovations, including smartphones, search, online purchasing, and social media. Lead director John Thompson led the board committee that chose insider Satya Nadella as its next CEO. Nadella completely changed Microsoft’s... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
itself into the world's third largest luxury retailer with multiple brands. The company had performed well even after the departure of star designer Tom Ford and former CEO Domenico De Sole. However, the challenging global economic times... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 8, 2013, psychology lost a giant. Six and a half feet tall, with an outsize personality to match, Richard was the leading scholar in two distinct areas: work design and team effectiveness. In both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
rhetoric and symbolic activities in the process of creating new markets. This study analyzes how entrepreneurial firms use these cultural strategies to position themselves in a nascent market category they are creating. Using an inductive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne