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- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
achieve their goals. I've been especially interested in the pattern of succession in many entrepreneurial firms—specifically, that many founders are replaced by "professional" CEOs early in the life of the venture. My data shows... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
Turnover in India (revised) Authors: Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani Abstract We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
interest. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation, an agency that funds partnerships between universities and private companies. We assess the effect on participating firms' innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
when several other similar services with big name sponsors such as Google have failed to gain much traction? Apple has a chicken-and-egg game to solve. Consumers won't use the service unless it's in use at a compelling number of stores.... View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
originated. “We are using data from regulators, writing studies, but seldom going back to the regulators to say, ‘This is what we learned,’” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W. Toffel, whose research examines companies’... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
Below, excerpts from an interview. Lagace: What is an example of an experiment you've conducted that looks at differences in how women and men negotiate? McGinn: One of the interesting first pieces of data we looked at was job offers to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
trend? Alan MacCormack: There are 3 main drivers. First, the complexity of products is increasing, in terms of the breadth and number of technologies they include. Cars send maintenance data wirelessly to dealerships; sneakers contain... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract— We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in six countries parsing granular CEO diary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
Planning to ask a big company for a charitable donation? You may be wise to time your request around a huge sporting event—specifically, an event that takes place in the firm's home city. A recent research paper shows that enormous events... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
Big Business in Japan Authors:Anthony J. Mayo and Mayuka Yamazaki Publication:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 10 (October 2009): 30. (Conversation) Abstract At age 74, Yoshiko Shinohara is a towering figure in Japanese business. She has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
in the state. But his innate talent kept bursting the bounds of his own vision. After Wal-Mart had made some progress, one of his executives asked: "Well, now, Sam, how big do you really want this company to be?" Replied Walton,... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
believe those who claim to have definitive answers to these big questions. The data to answer most corona virus questions with certainty doesn’t exist. We won’t know for five years if immunity lasts five... View Details
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
need for global collaboration accelerates and companies recalibrate their remote and hybrid arrangements, Choudhury and colleagues present the first real-time data on how different time zones affect employees’ ability to communicate in a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
Series Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices Companies Must Forget—and Borrow The Business of Crowdsourcing Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation Who Has the Power in the Music Industry? View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
often leading to new patents and companies—and at the same time producing a rich dataset for research. Comparing the list of winners for 100 years with databases of patent data from the British Patent Office, the results were... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
thrive? Bhaskar Chakravorti: Let me start with a replay of a conversation I had recently with Frederick, the person who runs the auto repair shop where I regularly take my 1998 and 2002 vintage cars. I asked him if he was experiencing a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
distributional issues, and the likely effects of reforms to tax provisions such as the AMT are considered. Download the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://www.nber.org/papers/w14149 Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles Authors:Robin Greenwood and Stefan Nagel Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
international institutions, a bank and a museum, adds value to both in terms of interaction with customers and breadth of audiences. The paper further points to key aspects of resource integration in a co-marketing partnership. Design / methodology: The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Sloan Management Review (forthcoming) Abstract Many people today in the information technology world and in corporate boardrooms are talking about "big data." Many believe that, for companies that get it right, big View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
students. So we thought, why not?” “This is orders of magnitude more complex,” says Casadesus-Masanell, the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration at HBS. “I don’t think the School has ever done anything quite like this. It’s been a View Details