Wisdom Of Crowds - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

leader is the chairman of the family holding company and the clear leader of the family owners. In general, family business system leaders are the individuals with the most resources under their control;... View Details

23 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

shop may be a harbinger of things to come,” says Luca. The study didn’t specifically track the fate of existing shops or services after new businesses started opening in the area, so it’s possible the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2019
News

Remix

Instead of joining the other parents in a competition for weak Wi-Fi in a crowded waiting room, Dixon camped out in her car. She used the time to strategize her startup; news radio kept her company. In all... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

Portrait Project

Jamie Gong

Wild daisies. Hidden ice cream. Waves lapping against our little island. These memories of childhood summers with my grandmother remain, even as her own memory fades. Seven years ago, my indomitable grandma¬—a cancer survivor—was... View Details

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

crowded classroom, including a Harvard graduate student and former high-school teacher who was the course’s head teaching fellow last year; a historian who has coauthored some of the course’s 24 new cases;... View Details

Keywords: April White

23 Mar 2023
News

Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

of nonalcoholic beverages. The livestreamed event also included a Founder’s Chat between 2018 aNVC Crowd Favorite winner Benoit Dupont (PLDA 2016), cofounder and CEO of... View Details

17 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

person can possibly possess the knowledge, experience, and wisdom needed to make every decision. Organizational success today requires the involvement of everyone at all levels. Less authority-driven... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

danger of failing before, now your anxiety has made failure a foregone conclusion. We've all experienced the crippling effects of job performance anxiety. But far from being uniquely relegated to nightmare... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

Grushka-Cockayne, that executives should adopt a similar approach when it comes to using probability forecasts of business-critical issues; for example, the likelihood that product demand will increase by a given percentage next quarter.... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

Moreover, moral and ethical considerations may decisively influence how the law is applied. As a result, purely technical legal advice is often inadequate. CEOs should be looking for lawyers with wisdom and the courage to push back if... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

16 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Advice on Advice

discounting the wisdom they were given, often because of an egocentric bias that has them naturally favoring their own viewpoints. Sometimes people will ask for advice from others, but their true goal is to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Portrait Project

Yiwei Zhao

treasure the intimacy of shared vulnerabilities—the heartbeats behind each face in the crowd. For it is in the soft echoes of my mom’s wisdom that I've come to understand that... View Details

09 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

determination and stamina--five speeches a day--and the size of his crowds impressed ordinary voters watching on television much more than Clinton's barrage of paid ads. The... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

that certain aspects may not work exactly as intended. It behooves organizations to be more thoughtful about how sponsorships are designed. For instance, a protégé’s success may be less about the mere vote of confidence than about the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

here . Related Themes: Global Crisis & Debt Data More Info Does Reserve Accumulation Crowd Out Investment By: Carmen Reinhart, Vincent Reinhart & Takeshi Tashiro MAY 2016 In this paper, Reinhart, Reinhart, and Tashiro study nine Asian... View Details

29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

management and personnel, they said. What creates superior performance management? Attention to outcomes. Focus on stakeholders. (Surveys, satisfaction. How do funders and community perceive what we do?) Reversing a weak culture of... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

24 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors

explicitly mentioned identity in the email, including the line, “I was hoping you might be willing to write back with a few words of wisdom for a young [person]/[man/woman/Black man/Black... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

competition, and earnings management affect mean reversion in accounting return on assets. Using a sample of 48,465 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that accounting returns mean revert faster in countries where there is more... View Details

16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

years. Never before in the history of entrepreneurship has there been this extraordinary amount of committed capital designated to invest in startups. If you have built a good business with promising... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

innovation of new business models. Can you talk about that a bit? A: Yes, even if your company is operating in an established market, some organizations have shown that it's possible to open up space in a View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

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