Term Structure - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

all the previous years combined. Investment initiatives are around participating in the information flow. We [at Accel] are interested in companies that help us understand how to structure information, communicate, categorize some of that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

advantage? It's a conscious strategy to play to their strengths? A: I think that's right. For instance, Polaroid identified digital imaging as an opportunity very early on; in fact, you could argue that its mindset in terms of what the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

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Phillip Michael Strazzulla

lead to LifeGuides? One project I worked on was a structured reflection for my section to be done during a summer internship. Many of the large firms that recruit on campus spend a lot of money, wine and dine you, try to get you to forget... View Details

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Ruzwana Bashir

areas we’re tackling are pretty practical, such as what our operator onboarding process should look like or how we structure our meetings, whilst others involve the larger elements of our organizational design and strategy. It’s... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

After Ozempic

Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Pete Ryan; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

07 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands

be smaller for them, they will also need to be even more conservative with cash. Underrepresented founders often will be held to a higher standard in terms of financial progress and are likely to be faced with more board oversight (more... View Details

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

conflicts of interest. For example, the change in the commission structure in 1974 created a whole new dynamic that influenced the role of research by investment banks. And the growing importance of consulting at public accounting firms... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

08 Jan 2014
What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

term cultural changes (she cited reduced education, greater dependence on drugs, and entitlement programs) are the basis for many of the disparities in employment. Productivity is necessary where not enough skills are available at the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

subscription.) The researchers set out to discover the extent to which the mobilization of women within villages, and the broader institutional dynamics between villages, fostered the initiative's success. In terms of institutional... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Becoming an Ethical Negotiator

have to decide what you owe them (if anything) in terms of fairness, candor, and use of pressure tactics. Whatever poster or credo you may hang on the wall doesn't mean very much if your actions don't really match those values. My... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Mar 2014
Blog Post

BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up

for future partner prospects. Julia and Katharine agreed that the leadership team is focused on where the company is in terms of its scale. They have 85 employees now, and are looking at internal operations carefully. In fact, both Julia... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

12 Jan 2016
First Look

January 12, 2016

practitioners often exhibit confusion about whether the terms "integrative" and "distributive" refer to behavior or to underlying issue structure (or both). Third, the authors develop the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

Interorganizational Conflict Authors:Elizabeth Long Lingo, Colin Fisher, and Kathleen L. McGinn Publication:In Handbook of Conflict Management Research, edited by Neal M. Ashkansy, Oluremi B. Ayoko, and Karen Jehn. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming Abstract We... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2007
News

Up from the Ashes

introduces his famous term “creative destruction”: “The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organized development from the craft shop and factory to giant concerns illustrate the same process of industrial mutation —... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2008
News

Team MBA

about how best to structure our time as a learning team. Do we do summary write-ups? If so, how long should they be? How much time do we want to spend discussing each case? In the beginning, you’re trying to figure out the case method and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

marketing are construed exclusively in terms of how choices deviate from utility maximization principles as a function of how choices are presented (e.g., framing, sequence, composition). This limits our understanding of a range of other... View Details

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

and welfare. We find three main results. First, we show that allowing patent pools may reduce welfare when standards are negotiated and patent pools need to be ex-post incentive compatible. Second, we show that ranking combinations of standard-setting and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

Vayanos Abstract We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in which clienteles with strong preferences... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

structure with management and ownership formally represented in different organs. In the case of La Nación, the newspaper is owned by a corporation (La Nación S.A.), but the Saguier family, descending from its founder, controls both its... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

21 Nov 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

platforms. We explore this "rating aggregation problem" and offer a structural approach to solving it, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in stringency and accuracy, (2) reviewers to be influenced by existing reviews, and (3)... View Details