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- Working Paper
Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg
Achieving transformative impact has been much discussed by social entrepreneurs, funders, and consultants. These discussions have focused on issues of increasing impact and scale, but often with no clear distinction between the two terms. In order to provide clarity,... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Performance Efficiency; Growth and Development; Outcome or Result; Strategy
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Tricia Gregg. "Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-062, January 2018.
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
prowess, productivity, and ultimately prosperity. This chapter describes recent work in economics and management scholarship on how firms grow, with specific focus on questions surrounding the types of innovations that large and small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders
Source: guvendemir Courage is the quality that distinguishes great leaders from excellent managers. Over the past decade, I have worked with and studied more than 200 CEOs of major companies through board service, consulting, and research... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It
in their current circumstances; for people who are working hard and maybe even finding success in their life and work, but who struggle to find meaning or fulfillment in what they are doing; for those who... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
Working PapersExploring Inventory Trends in Six U.S. Retail Segments Authors:Adenekan (Nick) Dedeke and Noel H. Watson Abstract Our paper describes inventory trends for both public and private U.S. firms in six retail segments between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
networks that have been documented by researchers include mutual learning; enhanced legitimacy and status for the members; economic power; and an enhanced ability to manage uncertainty, she continued. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
Working PapersAnomalies in Estimates of Cross-Price Elasticities for Marketing Mix Models: Theory and Empirical Test Authors:Andre Bonfrer, Ernest R. Berndt, and Alvin Silk Abstract We investigate the theoretical possibility and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
people in the area regained confidence that life was returning to normal. Niinami’s company also donated lunch to Soma City elementary school students for three days in April before the school could get lunch service going again. When he... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
Working Papers Money or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets? (revised) Authors: Shawn Cole, Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia Abstract Why is demand for formal financial services low in emerging markets?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2023
- In Practice
After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?
life of an early-stage business. When a situation is declared code red, startups should know who’s on point for communication with each stakeholder, who’s leading a process and how each process will be led. Also, plan for retrospectives... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Experiment of On-the-job Learning of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj Abstract—I study whether return migrants facilitate knowledge production by local employees working for them... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2022
- Book
Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?
True North: who they really are, deep down, and what their fundamental purpose is. Only then, he says, will they be prepared to work with a team, rather than issue top-down directives. Finding yourself and your leadership values George... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
learned--and that many of these skills require executives to rethink their conception of what a superb leader actually does. Developing and practicing these skills requires hard work and may demand that talented executives overcome some... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jul 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?
and too little to types of intelligence that enhance leadership performance. He argues that "when it comes to predicting work performance, cognitive-ability tests have been demonstrated to be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
lowers it.” Everyday unethical behaviors Gino and Kouchaki conducted a series of studies to compare people’s memory for their own unethical actions with their memory of other life events, as well as their memory of other people’s... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008
Working PapersCompetition in Modular Clusters Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard Abstract The last twenty years have witnessed the rise of disaggregated "clusters," "networks," or "ecosystems"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
benign envy in addition to decreasing their perceptions of the entrepreneur’s hubristic pride (i.e., arrogance) while increasing their perceptions of the entrepreneur’s authentic pride (i.e., confidence). These findings align with previous View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
But there's a growing consensus that ads don't work on mobile devices; consumers just don't like them. Instead of creating tiny banner ads, smart marketers will turn to apps to reach customers and engage them. Effective apps will do one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?
where you don’t know your neighbors,” he says. “In India, you grew up knowing abject poverty and that has stayed with me throughout my adult life and influenced my research.” He came to the United States about 40 years ago to research how... View Details
- 25 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Collaborating Across Cultures
Working on a $30 million historical epic about the Tang Dynasty to be set in China, Hollywood screenwriter David Franzoni struggled to make the story appeal to Western audiences. Then Franzoni hit upon an idea: tell the tale through the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding