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- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
We label these two alternative modes Leviathan as a majority investor and Leviathan as a minority investor, respectively. Next we differentiate between these two modes by describing their key fundamental traits and the conditions that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
absolute game-changer for me. From refining my leadership skills to sharpening my strategic thinking, every module pushed me to grow in ways I didn’t expect. I walk away from CLIMB not just inspired, but equipped with the tools to make a... View Details
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From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni
that clarity and offer alternative paths forward better suited for your skills and interests. Examples include adding new dimensions to your current role or making a lateral move to another company. External Assessment To better... View Details
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
volatility, the length of time investors held a firm's stock, and the cost of capital. The results showed that short-term companies attracted short-term investors (bringing with them a whole new set of performance pressures on executives) and that the financial and... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Competing with Complementors: An Empirical Look at Amazon.com By: Zhu, Feng, and Qihong Liu Abstract—Platform owners sometimes enter complementors' product spaces to compete against them directly.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
this is a political decision, and it's above my pay grade. There may be some strategic assets that we (as Americans) don't want to sell to foreigners. Congress is going to have to decide which ones those are. It may be that we don't want... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
increases that would solve these problems are not expected in the near- or medium-term. The paper outlines first a number of directions for effecting improvement through marginal capacity increases and better management of demand and available capacity. It then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
analyzing that data and designing strategy around it. That’s one reason eight HBS professors pooled resources in June to launch the Competing on Business Analytics and Big Data Executive Education program. “It was unprecedented to engage... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
last twenty years my colleagues at TruePoint and I have asked leadership teams to define a strategic direction (business strategy and values) and then commission a task force of their best performers one to two levels below them to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
forecasting, strategic planning, and statistical decision making have not prepared them for this amount of flux in the environment. In short, these rapid-fire changes are putting extreme pressure on business leaders to lead in ways not... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Crises.” Josh Lerner : Winner of the 2022 Doriot Award for the Best Private Equity Research Paper for “Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Equity” ( Journal of Financial Economics , January 2022) with... View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
creating a luxury brand and reconciling several strategic imperatives: the need to build a strong and desirable brand identity, grow the business but also protect the brand integrity and exclusivity. The case also provides an opportunity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
women, they flocked to Coke Zero. PepsiCo took a similar successful tack with Pepsi Max, the manly alternative to Diet Pepsi. And the Dr Pepper Snapple Group went all out with Dr Pepper Ten; the 10-calorie soda's unapologetic slogan is... View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
Publications Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance Authors: Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Publication: Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we investigate whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
Authors:Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell Abstract We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
value-creating contingencies and risk-sharing provisions to the contract? Can the contract cope not only with economic issues but also with the egos involved? These are but a few of the many common negotiating errors we see in practice. Q: Your 3-D View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
Four decades after HBS became the first business school in the country to require the use of personal computers in the MBA Program, the School is undergoing a different kind of technological transformation, one that leverages generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 18 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?
It stands to reason that every major company has a unique set of strategic goals. Consequently, it stands to reason that the chief executive’s compensation package should be uniquely designed to align to those goals, while addressing the... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
not only generically more attractive in terms of the prosperity level they can support - the perspective taken by the traditional strategic industrial policy - but also are within reasonable reach for a country given its existing industry... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
analyze in advance exactly what would happen the day the article came out and what precisely he should do to channel fear, anger, and confusion into a determination to act fast and succeed. The day came. A full-blown crisis was created.... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter