Filter Results:
(642)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,508)
- People (18)
- News (1,346)
- Research (642)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (338)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,508)
- People (18)
- News (1,346)
- Research (642)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (338)
Sort by
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management consulting firms. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
utilize diverse levels of analysis. Paper: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/management Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services Authors:Clark, Jonathan R., Robert S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
during the class period. Named directors receive more negative recommendations from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a proxy advisory firm, and significantly more negative votes from shareholders than directors in a benchmark... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
electronic communication data, one at a leading biopharmaceuticals company and a second at a global media and professional services firm. One of these follows senior leaders through a period of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
providing an additional source of revenue, but reduces consumer demand for the service. We characterize equilibrium information provision, disclosure levels, and prices and show that competition with privacy has several effects on the marketplace. First, competition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
case considers the challenges professional service firm employees face in terms of work-life issues. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410112-PDF-ENG Purchase this Supplement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
and not just inside the Beltway. At HBS, a group of MBAs last spring crafted and sent to Washington a bold proposal to create a nonprofit, public-private Corporate Governance College to employ and train a cadre of professional directors... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
businesses after World War II, and how his children and grandchildren have taken the business forward, professionalizing the management and engaging in extensive social investments. The Group became a symbol of ethical capitalism, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
fulfillment). Finally, learning and growth synergies would be achieved by rotating experienced professionals to key jobs in the new companies (key staff rotation), by sharing computer systems (common systems versus plan) and knowledge... View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
organizational behavior as a field of study. He was a pioneer in creating a body of work on organization design, leadership, and change in both the private and public sectors. Lawrence’s professional work was rooted in an aspiration to do... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
weaknesses that underlie corruption everywhere. As an emerging professional he must also weigh the trust value of the personal relationships he is forming; his own comfort zone for ethical trade-offs; and the inherent uncertainties of... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
professional service firm reshaped its activities and beliefs over nearly two decades as it adapted to shifts in the social discourse regarding gender and work. Analyzing archival data from the firm over... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
services firm, comprising over 1,000 applications and over 3,000 dependencies between them. Our methods allow us to disentangle the effects of different types and levels of coupling. Our analysis reveals that applications with higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The experimental evaluation design randomly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could promote the health and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
collaboration is becoming a new and important source of competitive advantage. We propose several frameworks to help firms develop and exploit this new ability. Explicating Lean Principles by Examining Indian Software Services Authors:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Proceedings Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy By: Glaeser, Edward, Andrew Hillis, Scott Kominers, and Michael Luca Abstract—The proliferation of big data makes it possible to better target city View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
tail in action-reviewing sales data from Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen VideoScan, the online music service Rhapsody, and the Australian DVD-by-mail service Quickflix. What she found may surprise you:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
adopted by the gastroenterology professional organizations, that even if applicants had accepted offers prior to the match, they could subsequently decline those offers and participate in the match. This made it safe for programs to delay... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
on relative returns. Flows therefore seem to be stabilizing with respect to notions of relative, but not absolute, value. Health Services for the Poor in Developing Countries: Private vs. Public vs. Private & Public Authors:Tarun... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace