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Social Learning
One major area of my research is social learning: the ways and extent to which people discover what they want and need from the behavior and opinions of others. Social learning takes many forms. Probably most obvious is word of mouth—the advice and... View Details
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
burned out. The virtual meeting that runs back-to-back has shed light on the need for mini-breaks and recovery time. The result of the remote work environment, in some industries, is that leaders believe... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty
Save the Children and thought that Bryant Gumbel might make a donation," she laughs. The reasoning was classic Crotty: bold, altruistic, and always focused on drawing others into a good cause. Crotty's brush with death came toward the end View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Web
Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni
stage of your professional journey. Career Coaches HBS offers six free individual coaching sessions a year to alumni from a cadre of trained career coaches. You do not need to... View Details
- Research Summary
Lean Startup Management Practices
Many information technology startups have embraced "lean startup" management practices. Lean startups confront high levels of uncertainty about both customer problems and product solutions: the strength of demand for new... View Details
- 2011
- Case
How Fast and Flexible Do You Want Your Information, Really?
By: Thomas H. Davenport and Jim Snabe
Almost all executives want more and faster information, and almost all companies are racing to provide it. What many of them are overlooking is that the real aim should not be faster information but faster decision making, and those aren't the same things. Executives... View Details
Davenport, Thomas H., and Jim Snabe. "How Fast and Flexible Do You Want Your Information, Really?" 2011.
- 2006
- Working Paper
Too Motivated?
I show that an agent's motivation to do well (objectively) may be unambiguously bad in a world with differing priors, i.e., when people openly disagree on the optimal course of action. The reason is that an agent who is strongly motivated is more likely to follow... View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Employees; Wages; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance; Agency Theory; Motivation and Incentives
Van den Steen, Eric J. "Too Motivated?" Sloan School of Management Working Paper, No. 4547-05, April 2006. (Available at SSRN.)
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
leader does matter.) Because there is not only a business, but also an ownership group and a family that need capable leadership, a family business system is much more complicated than other kinds of... View Details
- 12 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Allocating Marketing Resources
Keywords: by Sunil Gupta & Thomas J. Steenburgh
- 2019
- Chapter
Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates
By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
An extensive literature on venture capital has studied asymmetric information and agency problems between investors and entrepreneurs, examining how separating entrepreneurs from the investor can create frictions that might inhibit the funding of good projects. It has... View Details
Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates." In The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship and Collaboration, edited by Jeffrey J. Reuer, Sharon Matusik, and Jessica F. Jones. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
- Case
National Storage Affiliates: The REIT IPO Decision
By: Charles F. Wu, Max de la Bruyére and Gregory D. Himmel
In 2015, two years after founding National Storage Affiliates (NSA), Arlen Nordhagen and Tamara Fischer had an important decision to make. Should they proceed with NSA’s IPO? Although they had targeted to receive $15–17 a share, it was now apparent that the figure was... View Details
Wu, Charles F., Max de la Bruyére, and Gregory D. Himmel. "National Storage Affiliates: The REIT IPO Decision." Harvard Business School Case 219-026, August 2018. (Revised September 2018.)
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 03 Jan 2023
- Book
Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action
those bands? What would leaders do if they found that they’re underpaying an employee? “That's often an inhibitor to people having this conversation because they're afraid of what they'll find,” says Opie. Step 2: Building a bridge... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
right investors—ones who could also act as advisors—surprises would be rare. He now needed to weigh the pros and cons of the different term sheets and VCs and decide which offers to ultimately accept.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
to grips with the question, Shu and co-author Erin Scott, of the National University of Singapore, needed to find a setting in which they could pinpoint the relationship... View Details
- January–February 2023
- Article
The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Davide Sola and Martin Kupp
Many start-ups experience enormous popularity and runaway growth, but only a few go on to become stable giants. What separates them from the pack? They all go through a developmental stage called extrapolation, say three business school professors.
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Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Scalability; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Davide Sola, and Martin Kupp. "The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up." Harvard Business Review (January–February 2023): 56–65.
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
they need to “show up” on videoconference or in email to update workers regularly about how their companies are pivoting to weather this crisis and are protecting employees worried about their jobs, says HBS professor Tsedal Neeley, the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading
new ability to collect and store an incredible amount of data. And that has made sales management a more complex job, requiring a level of analytical and business acumen that wasn’t View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
fund a company, we need to believe that the existing CEO could bring the company to a successful outcome. We found proprietary technology is important but doesn't make much of a difference as a unique... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley