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  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

organizational decision-making forums. Based on the ability to combine and balance these two processes, we distinguish analytically among four positions of influence that experts can occupy-box-tickers, disconnected technicians, ad hoc... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

every business and nonprofit segment. Conventional approaches to strategy development and problem solving no longer work―there is no stable industry or market equilibrium structure that we will return to “when change abates.” Most company... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

1979) This book ruminates, from a natural world perspective, on consciousness, choice, growth, time, and death in the context of quantum physics, Kabbala, and healing energy. It discusses natural communities, seasons, migration, cycles, and View Details
  • 03 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

design—reflecting a lack of understanding of the entrepreneurial process—and problematic implementation. Government must play a careful balancing act, combining an understanding of the necessity of playing a catalytic role with an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

Feedback Shapes Social Networks By: Green, Paul, Jr., Francesca Gino, and Bradley Staats Abstract—Many organizations employ interpersonal feedback processes as a structured means of informing and motivating employee improvement. Ample... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

Garry Twite Abstract U.S. corporations hold significant amounts of cash on their balance sheets, and these cash holdings have been justified in the existing empirical literature by transaction costs and precautionary motives. An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2020
  • Blog Post

WE RISE

much—just 31 cents. “We don’t want to put up barriers. We’re doing some things structurally to make sure we don’t exclude founders because of where they came from or what their prior experience is.”—Kerry Rupp (MBA 1999), general partner,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Venture Capital / Private Equity
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Lasting Impressions

have a career, and by the time I entered my freshman year of college I had decided to go to Wall Street." The HBS experience played a key role in shaping and focusing the early ambitions of these five classmates. "Educationally - that is, the thought process, methods... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 24 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast

Entrepreneur’s Circle where innovators are in a space where the industries are different but many of the structural components that they're looking at are quite similar, and so the amount of mutual aid that just appears out of the... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 15, 2016

efforts around diversity and inclusion. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/417037-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-038 Zurich Insurance: Global Job Structure and Data Analysis Zurich Insurance was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Building a Better MBA

analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health of MBA programs but on balance... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

standard preferences and show that the endogenous structure of the network is conducive to sharing by a significant number of peers, even if sharing is costlier than freeriding. We build on this model of p2p to analyze the optimal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

advantage of distributed innovation and outsourcing can bridge the tension between value creation and value capture by modifying the modular structure of their technical systems. Specifically, we introduce the concept of "IP... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

deliberations. Boards need to think more carefully about how they manage and organize themselves. Palepu: Paul, you spoke about the breakdown of checks and balances in the system generally. Can you elaborate? Healy: One thing that strikes... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Over the Top

on shifting the balance of power in the boardroom away from management. Senator Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Shareholder Bill of Rights Act, introduced May 19, casts shareholders as the antidote to runaway executive compensation and excessive... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Promise & Perils

firms to large capital-intensive enterprises, such as banking, telecommunications, mining, and transportation. By the late 1980s, many had developed a good deal of autonomy. Twenty-five years of economic reform have changed the structure... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

operating in manufacturing and electronics. The increasing impact of digital technologies on all of its business units had prompted CEO Joe Kaeser and his team to put digitalization at the core of the new corporate strategy, alongside electrification and automation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

markets. We find that introducing a signaling mechanism increases the welfare of workers and the number of matches, while the change in firm welfare is ambiguous. A signaling mechanism adds the most value for balanced markets. Should You... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

Group formation increases individual payoffs, and group structure is robust to varying levels of reciprocity and transitivity. Increasing population size increases group size more than group number, and manipulating baseline trust in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

present a model in which fire sales propagate shocks across bank balance sheets. When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, a natural way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If potential buyers are limited, then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne