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- 16 May 2023
- HBS Case
How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’
the road.” “That’s what I remember from growing up, this constant conflict and fight over hours,” recounts Stavros, a partner at private equity firm KKR, in a new series of Harvard Business School case studies that detail his radical... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 03 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact
says Harvard Business School assistant professor Maria Roche, one of the paper’s authors. And here's a surprising part: The knowledge spillovers happen most within a radius of 20 meters, or 65 feet. Neighborly influence falls off... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 20 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care
been aiming throughout her earlier career and subsequent business school education. The Redwoods Program, especially its hands-on practicum component, “drew me to DaVita,” Coyle says. Now that she has successfully established herself as a... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research
real estate agency market present a puzzle for economic theory because brokerage is not a concentrated industry. We model brokered markets as a game in which agents post prices for customers and then choose which other agents to work... View Details
- 16 Feb 2024
- News
Remembering Angela Chao (MBA 2001)
Chao Family Statement on Passing of Angela Chao Chao Family Statement on Passing of Angela Chao We are deeply saddened by the news of Angela Chao’s tragic and untimely death. Angela has been a valued friend to Harvard Business School for... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research
1497–1531. gWorks By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce G. Yudkoff May 2025 | Teaching Note | Faculty Research Citation Purchase Related Ruback, Richard S., and Royce G. Yudkoff. "gWorks." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 225-074, May... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
collaborate with on this effort? Can this model be replicated at scale across the country? Purchase this case: https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218110-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-079 Membership... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2015
- Blog Post
Crossing the Atlantic
Coming to Harvard Business School was a forcing function to re-think my career path. One thing was for sure, I was committed to not return to consulting post-HBS. Therefore, it was a surprise to my friends, and most of all me, when I... View Details
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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research
Thatcher Legacy: Markets and Fiscal Dominance in the United Kingdom By: Rafael Di Tella May 2025 | Teaching Note | Faculty Research Citation Purchase Related Di Tella, Rafael. "Liz Truss and the Thatcher Legacy: Markets and Fiscal Dominance in the United Kingdom."... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
contexts (Coase, 1937; Williamson, 1981; Ouchi, 1980). The underrepresentation of democratic models compared to hierarchy would thus seem to reflect, in part, a triumph of this economic logic (e.g., Hansmann, 1996). What does the balance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
More than ever, newspapers need these organizational capabilities. It's still far too early, of course, to tell what the Washington Post will look like five years from now. But Bezos's experience on these three fronts may give it as good a shot as any at getting there.... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
change). They can be used to diagnose a culture and to model how likely an individual leader is to align with and shape it. The authors offer five insights regarding culture's effect on companies' success: (1) When aligned with strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Middle East & North Africa - Global
Middle East & North Africa Cairo, Dubai, Istanbul, Tel Aviv HBS continues its efforts to build a deep understanding of and expertise in global business practice and innovation around the world, including throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Course Materials For: 'Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership - An Ontological Model'
By: Werner H. Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger
This course is designed to leave students being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression - rather than attempting to learn the characteristics, styles, and skills of noteworthy leaders, and then trying to remember and apply them... View Details
Erhard, Werner H., Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, and Kari L. Granger. "Course Materials For: 'Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership - An Ontological Model'." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-038, October 2010.
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
Simulation and Beliefs By: Pedro Bordalo, Giovanni Burro, Katherine B. Coffman , Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer How do people form beliefs about novel risks, with which they have little or no experience? Motivated by survey data on beliefs about Covid we... View Details
Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job
Many professionals aspire to work for a start-up. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to today’s dynamic innovation economy. Yes, start-ups look magical, but they can also be chaotic and inaccessible. Many books are written for... View Details
- 16 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million
First 1,000 Customers, we explored how these two-sided platforms got their start and attracted a significant number of early adopters based on a Harvard Business School case that professor Teixeira wrote with Morgan Brown. “Airbnb... View Details
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
Case 315-109 Pearson Affordable Learning Fund An in-house venture capital fund for affordable private schools at the base of the pyramid established by Pearson, the world's largest education company, PALF sought to invest in business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
into four components of workflow. Results: 8,312 patients who had a head CT were included in this study. The median cycle time from patient arrival to head CT preliminary report was 3 h and 13 min with 39 min of waiting time resulting from bottlenecks. In the 4-step... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital
Walking into Harvard Business School as friends, roommates, and colleagues in 2017, Henri Pierre-Jacques (MBA 2019) and Jarrid Tingle (MBA 2019) already knew each other well. What they didn’t know yet was how their angel syndicate, Harlem... View Details