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  • 08 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?

We have written about how top NFL coaches try to stay relevant over time. Our empirical evidence supports the idea that most organizational leaders see a decline in performance as they get more tenured, but some are immune to this... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 06 Nov 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

the unit level." Saravanan introduced the old/new, product-market 2X2 matrix to argue that top-down resource allocation is most appropriate when both products and markets are new. But he reminded us that "The decision on the total spend available and the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 27 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work

a CEO's incentive to perform is in large part tied to what happens when he or she does not perform—a risk of getting ousted. But aligning a board to say we're going to start looking for someone else is a lot more complicated when the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Apr 2012
  • News

Just Compensation

Ferracone replies, “I think so. A good leader is accountable for the performance of the organization and stands up to it in every respect, including with his or her compensation. If a leader’s compensation is excessive View Details
Keywords: executives; executive compensation; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 23 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

compatible versions of the platform. This article examines factors that favor proprietary versus shared models when designing new platforms, then explains how management challenges differ for proprietary and shared platform during network mobilization. The Effects of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

paper was published in 2019. "We find that startups founded by individuals most sensitive to labor market conditions display lower financial and innovative performance than startups founded by entrepreneurs who are less... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?

loyalty, tradition and internal maintenance, are the monkeys. Organizations frequently show aspects of different cultures, making for dragons. Competitive and entrepreneurial firms consistently perform better than do more bureaucratic and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

ongoing topic for founders and investors. But relatively few start-ups (and surprisingly few VCs) clarify ongoing customer selection criteria. Q: In the article's step-by-step process, you emphasize the "ideal customer profile."... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

project, the professors aimed to provide an ethical reference point for both future and current business leaders. "We wanted a way to help companies answer these questions," Margolis says. "How do we know if we're doing well on ethics? And how do we know... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog

2. How to assess the risks and returns in private investments and real estate portfolios 3. How to perform relative value analyses of differing investments 4. How to manage troubled investments (when to hold... View Details
  • Mar 2012
  • Article

The Incentive Bubble

The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea--that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock instruments for managers,... View Details
  • 23 May 2011
  • Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

which corporate and investor behavior is changing. We did so by analyzing data from more than 2,000 companies in 23 countries, and then ranked those countries based on the degree of integration of corporate environmental and social View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

to speaking up. At the same time, we've been in many organizations that have pockets—groups, departments, work units—that are palpably open and actively engaged in discussion, debate, experimentation, or improvement. Other companies we know, in which voice or other... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

dominates other state-of-the-art methods for identifying investment benchmarks. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48220 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Get It... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

seven large institutions. These direct investments perform better than public market indices, especially buyout investments and those made in the 1990s. Outperformance by the direct investments, however, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52149 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Get It Right? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Standard principal-agent models... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How to Break the Expert’s Curse

relatively actionable." The Upside-down Guitar Effect The next experiment explored how experts could experience the feeling of inexperience without the benefit of past documentation. Zhang hired 74 skillful right-handed guitarists to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?

online lab studies and a field experiment, all of which confirmed that asking for feedback produces more vague and limited responses, while asking for advice results in forward-thinking and actionable input. The difference boils down to mindset: judging past View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why Evolutionary Software Development Works

industry experts to rate the comparative quality of each product relative to other products that targeted similar customer needs at the time the act was launched. Product quality was defined as a combination of reliability, technical... View Details
Keywords: by Alan MacCormack; Technology
  • 20 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price stickiness statistics. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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