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  • 08 Jul 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Adaptation vs. Coordination in I.T. Purchasing Authority

Keywords: by Kristina McElheran
  • 02 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

Think Team Stars don't shine alone. As Harvard Business School's Boris Groysberg and Linda-Eling Lee reveal in new research, it is imperative that top performers as well as their managers take into account the quality of colleagues.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 9 Nov 2021
  • Interview

How to Build Psychological Safety in Your Workplace with The Fearless Organization Author, Amy C. Edmondson

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Dominic Monkhouse
If you want to be better at leading a team. If you want to know how to lead a good decision making process. Or how to engage and inspire people to bring their full self to work, don’t miss Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School professor and author of The Fearless... View Details
Keywords: Psychological Safety; Organizational Culture; Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Motivation and Incentives
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  • Research Summary

Managing sustainability in supply chains

By: Michael W. Toffel
I am examining codes of conduct, management process standards, and government voluntary programs that address environmental and labor issues, seeking to understand what enables some of these programs to actually deliver on their promise of distinguishing organizations... View Details
Keywords: Environment; Environmental Performance; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Strategy; Regulation; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Service Industry; Construction Industry; United States; California
  • October 2019 (Revised February 2020)
  • Case

Brightview Senior Living

By: Lynda M. Applegate and James Weber
Marilynn Duker, CEO, was exploring how to grow the company while maintaining the culture that made it a leader in the field of senior housing. Brightview constructed and operated senior living apartment communities that offered independent living, assisted living, and... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Employee Relationship Management; Real Estate Industry; United States
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    Why Criticism Is Good for Creativity

    One of the most popular mantras for innovation is “avoid criticism.” The underlying assumption is that criticism kills the flow of creativity and the enthusiasm of a team. Aversion to criticism has significantly spread in the last 20 years, especially through the... View Details

      Shikhar Ghosh

      Shikhar Ghosh is a Professor of Management Practice in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He currently teaches in the elective curriculum and is the course head for 3 Technologies that will Change the World. Shikhar received the Apgar Award for innovation in... View Details

      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      Feeling Seen: Leader Eye Gaze Promotes Psychological Safety, Participation, and Voice

      By: Nicole Abi-Esber, Alison Wood Brooks and Ethan Burris
      Psychological safety is a hallmark of effective team functioning. Although prior work shows that characteristics of the leader influence employee judgments of psychological safety (and subsequent decisions to speak up), we know very little about “the specific behaviors... View Details
      Keywords: Eye Gaze; Psychological Safety; Voice; Participation; Nonverbal Behavior; Verbal Behavior; Ostracism; Conversation; Groups; Groups and Teams; Social Psychology; Safety; Leadership; Behavior
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      • 2023
      • Book

      Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems

      By: Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss
      Speed has gotten a bad name in business, much of it deserved. When Facebook made "Move fast and break things" an informal company motto, it fueled a widely held belief that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the other. That a certain amount of... View Details
      Keywords: Leading Change; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture
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      • 17 Nov 2014
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?

      assume that things will either turn out well (the optimists) or turn out badly (the pessimists). So here's a question to ponder: Is it better to have an optimist or a pessimist leading your family organization? As I'll show below, both... View Details
      • July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
      • Case

      Rosalind Fox at John Deere

      By: Anthony Mayo and Olivia Hull
      Rosalind Fox, the factory manager at John Deere’s Des Moines, Iowa plant, has improved the financial standing of the factory in the three years she’s been at its helm. But employee engagement scores—which measured employees’ satisfaction with working conditions and... View Details
      Keywords: Agribusiness; Change Management; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Gender; Race; Engineering; Geographic Location; Globalized Markets and Industries; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Style; Management Teams; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence; Status and Position; Trust; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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      • Web

      Faculty & Research

      sector. The proposed transaction centered on Ping Identity Corporation (“Ping”), a fast-growing identity access management (IAM) software company that was being taken private by Thoma Bravo. Blue Owl was invited to play a leading role in... View Details
      • August 2024
      • Case

      Circle: Reinventing the Future of Money

      By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
      In early 2024, Circle Internet Financial's leadership team gathered to discuss the company's strategic path as it prepared for an IPO. Founded in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire, Circle had emerged as a pioneer in digital finance through its USD Coin (USDC), a regulated... View Details
      Keywords: Currency; Governance Compliance; Initial Public Offering; Competition; Financial Services Industry
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      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Determinants of Early-Stage Startup Performance: Survey Results

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
      To explore determinants of new venture performance, the CEOs of 470 early-stage startups were surveyed regarding a broad range of factors related to their venture’s customer value proposition, product management, marketing, technology and operations, financial... View Details
      Keywords: Startups; Survey Research; Performance Analysis; Entrepreneurship; Performance; Analysis; Business Startups; Failure; Surveys
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      • August 2007 (Revised September 2008)
      • Case

      Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (A)

      By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop
      In 2002, Professor Nicholas Negroponte, a successful venture capitalist, author, and co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, announced his intention to build a PC so cheap as to make it possible to provide... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Marketing Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Developing Countries and Economies; Manufacturing Industry; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry; Cambridge
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      • June 2021
      • Case

      Mobileye 2021: Robotaxi and/or Consumer AV?

      By: David B. Yoffie, Danielle Golan and Nicole Tempest Keller
      In March 2021, Amnon Shashua, co-founder and CEO of Israel-based Mobileye, was preparing to meet with Intel’s new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, to review plans for the future. Mobileye had been acquired by California-based Intel in 2017, but still operated independently.... View Details
      Keywords: Technology Companies; Robotics; Autonomous Vehicles; Strategy; Decision Making; Transportation; Technological Innovation; Technology Industry; Auto Industry; Transportation Industry; Israel
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      • 05 Feb 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

      says. “So, I don’t want extrapolate too far, but I wonder about the implications of this for inequality in some ways.” You Might Also Like: University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed The Best Person to Lead Your... View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand
      • 03 Jan 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

      rich portfolios. Many pre-Black Monday discussions focus on whether coaches really matter and how much. Coaching ability is crucial in leading and managing the team that results in ascendancy over... View Details
      Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
      • 24 Aug 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: August 24

      http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-013.pdf A Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods Authors:Jordan Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract The last decade of corporate governance research has been focused in large part on identifying... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • August 2018
      • Case

      Enfoca: Private Equity in Peru

      By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar
      This case follows Enfoca, Peru’s largest local private equity firm and its portfolio company Maestro, a leading player in Peru’s hardware retail market. Peru’s GDP growth between 2008 and 2014 was the highest of any Latin American country. Growth of the Peruvian middle... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Emerging Markets; Capital Markets; Transition; Strategy; Peru
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