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- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
product line within Xerox. He had the support of Xerox's chief executive officer, David Kearns, for establishing the new internal structure. This structure would work much like an internal venture capital firm. Xerox would exploit Adams's... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
written by Lal with HBS colleague David Bell, was published in Quantitative Marketing and Economics last June. Lal discusses his findings with Manda Salls. Salls: Frequent shopper programs have become part... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
the keys to their successful global expansions? By HBS professors David Bell, Rajiv Lal, and Walter Salmon. Global Knowledge Sharing And Performance Drivers Organizing Multinational Companies: Building a... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
David Upton's Alumni Conference report on the state of information technology for business-to-business began with a lesson in technology history because, said the HBS professor, "understanding doesn't come easy without an... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
of the many immigrant policymakers who played a part in establishing the foundational financial system of this country, along with Robert Morris [England], Haym Solomon [Poland], Alexander James Dallas [Jamaica], Stephen Girard [France] and John Jacob Astor and View Details
- 03 May 2021
- What Do You Think?
Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?
(Image credit: iStockphoto/adamkaz) CEO activism entered a new chapter with the decision by more than 200 leaders of large corporations last month to publicly declare their support for voting rights for Americans and, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Aug 2018
- News
New Study: Too Much Collaboration May Be Bad
- 30 Jun 2020
- News
Disruption Amidst Disruption: Fintech in the Age of Coronavirus
- Teaching
Overview
Teaching Fellow - Transforming Health Care Delivery (THCD) at Harvard Business School - Taught by Ariel Stern
Spring 2022, Spring 2023
Teaching Fellow - Introduction to System Dynamics for Executive MBAs at MIT Sloan - Taught by John Sterman and David... View Details
Teaching Fellow - Introduction to System Dynamics for Executive MBAs at MIT Sloan - Taught by John Sterman and David... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?
the lower ranks. One of the causes may well be inequities in the ability of executives and frontline labor to negotiate compensation for their skills. In particular, the declining power of unions and the stickiness of minimum wage laws are often cited as factors. A... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
submitted, from managing a remote workforce to making decisions in the face of vast uncertainty. Not surprisingly, one significant challenge reported by many CEOs was how to position their company to survive, or even thrive, during the... View Details
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
Harm By: Minor, Dylan Abstract—We explore the relationship between managerial incentives and environmental harm. We find that high-powered executive compensation packages can increase the odds of environmental law breaking by 40%–60% and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
Apple Card marked another significant innovation in access to financial services. Fast forward two months, and Apple Card may now find its place in history for a less positive reason—the dark side of the technological revolution rearing its ugly head. Last week, Danish... View Details
- 11 Jan 2022
- News
School for Scaling Impact: Starting Harvard’s ALI ‘22
- 30 Apr 2015
- News
Business bookshelf: 'Strategy Rules' about Gates, Grove and Jobs
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
industry. That said, technology will be most powerfully utilized during the pandemic by those firms who apply it organization-wide to create more nimble, efficient organizations, more capable of managing the factors of production (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- May 2004 (Revised June 2004)
- Case
Sarvega
By: Paul A. Gompers and Vanessa del Valle Broussard
David Cowan, general partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, has taken the lead on Sarvega, a Bessemer-backed company that was recently orphaned by the departure of one of Bessemer's other general partners. Cowan must decide whether to reinvest in Sarvega and, if so,... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Venture Capital; Investment; Governance Compliance; Resignation and Termination; Negotiation Deal; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology Industry
Gompers, Paul A., and Vanessa del Valle Broussard. "Sarvega." Harvard Business School Case 204-137, May 2004. (Revised June 2004.)
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
same time, the Los Angeles Rams “morphed from a plodding exemplar of mediocrity” to an explosive conference winner, also with the help of a modern, creative offensive system, helmed by the youngest coach in NFL history, Sean McVay. The... View Details
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
United Airlines’ April 2017 effort to remove passenger David Dao from his assigned seat. Five passenger videos show what happened in painful detail: When Dao wouldn’t leave, United personnel summoned airport security officers who forcibly... View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
the 1980s, with time dimension modifications introduced by Anderson for clients of Acorn Systems. We asked Kaplan to describe the problems with traditional costing approaches, the improvements made by TDABC,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert