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- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
with Michael Ewens of the California Institute of Technology and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf of MIT Sloan School of Management. The researchers focus on one of the most important technological shifts in recent years—the introduction of Amazon... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
adequate policy response, nor that coordination is at all easy. The fact of frequent, effective diffuse interest representation suggests that we must look more closely at the incentives and tools by which advocates overcome the very real obstacles to a coordinated... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
the attention of consumers on the go, fresh bread fans, and people looking for a place to relax with a cup of coffee in the afternoon. Expected to top $1 billion in sales this year, the publicly held Panera has also satisfied the... View Details
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
especially in B2B companies. Q: What do you mean by "performance pricing," and how does it benefit a company? Ben Shapiro: Collectively, we have worked with hundreds of companies on integrating pricing, strategy, and organizational processes—the View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
A core feature of youth service programs, namely their dual identity of helping others (i.e., service beneficiaries) and helping oneself (i.e., participants), might partly explain the mixed outcomes. We find that participants focus on one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
accountability, collaboration and initiative. Each of these factors lead to winning, and winning reinforces the actions and leads to greater confidence. This holds for external confidence as well. Winning yields positive attention from... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
put it mildly, this was an overly rich valuation—Parker’s entire investment up to that point had been an Apple II and 10 used diskettes. With Parker’s enthusiastic assent, Sahlman used the TDC business plan as the focus of his very first... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
this article, I outline an agenda for strengthening the links between key institutions. Leaders, I argue, should focus on four goals: 1) linking knowledge creation to venture creation to speed the conversion of ideas into market-ready... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
the concrete promises of applying neuroscience to consumer psychology. Building from this, we focus on using brain data to predict consumer behavior, a topic that has recently generated a lot of excitement from academics and practitioners... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
increase self-efficacy. For example, our team found that a simple time-blocking exercise that encouraged employees to find blocks of time to focus on “important” but not “urgent” work each week reduced stress and improved the productivity... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
related real estate from Anheuser-Busch for $150 million, they didn’t only buy a baseball team. Just as the Boston Red Sox enjoy (or endure) the attentions of fans across a wide swath of New England, the Cardinals are a focal point for... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
research by judgment and decision-making scholars, psychologists have developed a detailed picture of the ways in which human judgment is bounded. This paper argues that the time has come to focus attention... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
most companies, the financial risk remained too high to justify the potential reward—a situation that too often led to dangerous vaccine shortages. It was at this moment that Moderna turned its attention to vaccines. The company had been... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
do all they can to uplift the performance of others, the focus changes and the behaviours improve. This is a collective responsibility. Leadership is a position you collectively occupy on the excellence ladder, not a person or a role “... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Business School Case 808-120 Ashdown's "growth" plan called for Mustafa Khalaf to leave his job as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Ashdown Contracting and to focus his attention on the growth of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
some advice for leading a successful honest conversation: Focus the conversation on the question that matters. What do you want to learn? Make it safe to share the whole truth. A task force of eight or so trusted leaders commissioned by... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
wings battle over who gets the biggest piece of the pie, while paying little attention to expanding the pie of social resources for all. Q: If I recall my political science studies, lawyers and career politicians are disproportionately... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
higher education system and some knowledge of the obstacles and opportunities for change based on having worked with K-12 schools,” said Amara Warren (MBA 2023). “This SIP helped me narrow my focus and made me even more committed to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
the recent innovation has come from technologists and pedagogical talent working together to create an environment where the teacher can focus solely on trying to understand what a student knows and what he or she needs next." EQUAL... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
value-added by the MBA degree. Those questions, and the desire for greater attention to organizational realities, global perspectives, and leadership skills, have been getting more vigorous and louder. Second, this is very much a time for... View Details