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- 12 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards
Delivery of service, motivating and inspiring staff, and conceiving of new directions for growth are all vitally important. Planning, budgeting, and measurement systems in are vital in both settings. Both types of organizations face the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- January – February 2012
- Article
When One Business Model Isn't Enough
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jorge Tarzijan
Trying to operate two business models at once often causes strategic failure. Yet LAN Airlines, a Chilean carrier, runs three models successfully. Casadesus-Masanell, of Harvard Business School, and Tarziján, of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, explore how... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Failure; Business Model; Service Operations; Asset Management; Value; Complexity; Competency and Skills; Business Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk and Uncertainty; Customer Relationship Management; Air Transportation Industry
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Jorge Tarzijan. "When One Business Model Isn't Enough." Harvard Business Review 90, nos. 1-2 (January–February 2012).
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
their companies. If ever there was a time for leaders to be authentic, this is it. They need to be humble, open, and realistic about the health care and logistical challenges they are facing while using the best scientific and technical... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
course, one can argue that this is what the highway system of the U.S. (or any country, for that matter) is all about. Or at a more micro level, it is what General Motors, Ford, and others created when they built a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
individuals within the organization. Using unique data on lending decisions made by employees in a highly decentralized financial services organization, we show that a monitoring system that captures soft information for vertical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
research has focused on the underuse of incident-reporting systems. After all, the thinking went, a system used to collect and report incidents will only help an organization learn from its mistakes and lead to better safety results—to... View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
Academy of Management Journal Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-clearing Across Difficult Terrain By: Fisher, Colin M., Julianna Pillemer, and Teresa M. Amabile Abstract—How do teams working on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
impact. In the eco-tourism field, impressive companies are developing advanced methods for both measuring and countering environmental impact. Solutions becoming more complex However, the more speakers considered the business View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
Ernst & Young. Love was preparing an important bid for a large industrial manufacturer that needed help installing an enterprise resource planning system. He had already directed projects for implementing information systems for... View Details
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
now? Zuboff and Maxmin: A century ago mass consumption was on the rise. People wanted more things. The answer was to produce more goods at an ever-lower cost—mass production. Corporations were organized around a managerial hierarchy invented to provide a tight inward... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
complex, ever-changing deal situations that occur in today's business environment. Harvard Business School professor Guhan Subramanian fills that gap by examining complex deals where negotiators are fighting on multiple fronts—across the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
causes of the scandals were systemic rather than a matter of a proverbial "few bad apples." In the panel, moderated by HBS professor Krishna Palepu, panelists also said that new laws ,and regulations were already making a... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
complex situation instead of adding to the complexity. This is the case for permission marketing that seems to undo the marketing clutter, and also for personal television services that undo the confusing View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
self-report of a licensee. Self-reporting gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
to a disproportionate rise in innovations where information on future prospects is revealed quickly and cheaply and has reduced the relative share of innovation in complex technologies where initial experiments cost more and reveal less.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
work together to create all aspects of the urban environment. Also necessary are new systems and processes for helping cities operate efficiently and effectively, including the use of new information and communication technologies already... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Working PapersHiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, Christopher Malloy Abstract We test the hypothesis that firms appoint independent directors who are overly sympathetic to management, while still... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
would advocate a discontinuation of operations after attempting unsuccessfully to resist meeting government demands for private information. Some suggested more complex strategies. Among those in favor of staying and trying to reach some... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
clear-cut business strategy for its research laboratory, and, in turn, many of PARC's technologies did not fit into Xerox's strategic objectives. For instance, the Alto's ability to adapt to large customers' computer systems was... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner