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  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Bad Times for Business

Moss Kanter: Silos, Cronies, and the Business Monarchy When organizations are structured into narrow territories that reinforce “silos” or “cells,” that can be harmful in several ways. Under such conditions, individuals in the... View Details
  • 26 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

activity, but a gap remains for seed-stage financing. The founders are evaluating the best way to structure their private equity fund to reflect their own assets and abilities and the needs and resources of the entrepreneurial scene in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

short as possible. The TARP money and the flexible terms on which it was legislated were critical to the rapid funding of administration decisions. The uniqueness of TARP, however, probably ensures that another intervention of this sort... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 25 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

illusions and overcommitment, as well as the tendency to stick with the status quo and to discount the future. Organizational vulnerabilities arise because of structural barriers to the effective collection, processing, and dissemination... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

significant impact in the structure and interpretation of financial information of banks. This document explains the major changes on bank accounting, their purpose and structure, and discusses their impact on financial information... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

technologies and the eventual creation of a regulatory structure to prevent entrepreneurial chaos. LR: To follow up on that, Professor Spar, you've created a four-phase model of how companies develop along the technological frontier—from... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

must figure out how to structure the job, and how to start her relationship with her new boss, CEO Richard Parsons. Two factors complicate this decision. First, AOL Time Warner is experiencing significant internal conflict and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

may benefit from limited developer access. Second, an open platform may lead to higher investment than a proprietary platform. Third, opening one side of a proprietary platform may lower incentives to invest in platform quality. Fourth, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Keepers of the Flame

the XXVIth Olympiad, opening next month in Atlanta. On an overcast morning in Atlanta, as the airport rapid transit train glides past auto-body shops and rain-swept intersections toward downtown, a passenger can glimpse in the distance a gleaming white View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 24 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

cyberspace is new and sparkling with opportunity, it is not that new and that much sparklier than other technologies were on the eve of their creation. We are undeniably living in a revolutionary period. We see this revolution every day and feel it crack the View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

configurations that have developed. There are two central arguments. First, states carved out more sovereign space in places like Greece and Turkey, where religious elites were integral to early centralizing reform processes. Second, region-wide View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

factors that inhibit trust formation and those are easier to identify—but the ones that work may be a bit harder," he said. A corporate structure containing relatively few layers of authority is also more conducive to trust formation... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

failure tolerance has an equilibrium price—in terms of an investor's required share of equity—that increases in the level of radical innovation. Financiers with investment strategies that tolerate early failure will endogenously choose to... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

including Thomas Jefferson and Jack Welch. More on them later.) Under most circumstances, a leader is elected or appointed. And it makes no difference who ends up in power so long as the person is experienced and is hired through the View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

development—such as case discussions, lectures, simulations, coaching sessions, live projects, etc.—in terms of their potential to develop executives for the future. We then examine the impact of the forces of digital disruption—the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

displace—producer innovation in many parts of the economy. We argue that a transition from producer innovation to open single user and open collaborative innovation is desirable in terms of social welfare and so worthy of support by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

conditions. During normal or expansion periods in the economy, the dynamics of cost of capital generate an upward sloping term structure; however, in times of high economic uncertainty, the term View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

forms of innovation: process innovations ... innovations in the way we think ... innovations in organization structure ... and so on." These comments pose the question of whether too many elements, many of them counter to human... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

generated by the primary product to improve the process efficiency of the by-product. We also examine the market structure where two firms practice by-product synergy, as well as conditions under which the by-product becomes the primary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

journey from 2003 to 2006. The case describes the changes in the senior team, structure and processes of the organization. It follows two illustrations of a powerful employee engagement process for honest conversations between the senior... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace