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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
some difficult twists and turns. Promotions, for instance, are typically much harder to come by in the early stages of their careers than they are for whites. And once they make the leap into middle and upper management, these trailblazers have to put together a... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
long-term decisions I could.” A room-filling presence, from his broad-shouldered frame to his toothy grin and exuberant eyebrows, Draper embraces feats of physicality. Video clips show the 57-year-old dancing wildly to Pharrell Williams’s “Happy” or publicly View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in terms of industry, size, age, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
knowledge spillovers. The strategic value of these agglomeration economies may vary by firm, depending upon the relative value of each economy, and upon firm and agglomeration economy traits. To better determine when a firm will be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
needs to accomplish to perform well. In particular, marketplaces work well when they provide thickness to the market, help it deal with the congestion that thickness can bring, and make it safe for participants to act effectively on their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
tools can be applied. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50595 in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Cognitive Fatigue Influences Students' Performance on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
management's actions with the long-term interests of an organization and its investors is, of course, to delay payment of options until long-term performance has been proven. Charlie Cullinane suggests, for example, that an organization... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
each individual system as a loosely coupled, relatively self-contained subsystem with defined interfaces to coordinate interdependencies with other parts of the overall array. Establishing processes to maintain stability whilst responding... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
motives, our paradigms, and what we are willing to accept and ignore to get what we think that we need." C. J. Cullinane was concerned that "This trend (service sector relative growth) will indeed catch up with the United States... View Details
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
concluded that alternative packaging solutions weren’t as green as they purported to be if they didn’t perform well in their main function: storing and preserving the food they contained. Recognizing they would need to use plastic... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database. The comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how both the entry rate and the distribution of entry sizes for new startups responded to changes in banking competition. Moreover, we distinguish the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
in trying to improve the measured dimensions of performance and so has a narrow span of accountability. By contrast, a manager responsible for market share or business profit can make many trade-offs and thus has a View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
from the incorporation of non-directed donors in transplant chains rather than simple exchanges. It is controversial whether these chains should be performed simultaneously ("domino paired donation," DPD) or nonsimultaneously... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
poor financial markets, b) increases in the share of FDI or the relative productivity of the foreign firm leads to higher additional growth in financially developed economies compared to those observed in financially under-developed ones,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
From the Chief Financial Officer Harvard Business School’s economic model performed well in fiscal 2024, delivering a healthy operating surplus on investments in our core programs, strategic priorities, faculty initiatives, and... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
the redirection of existing inventive activity. Read the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-118.pdf Finding the Right Mix: How the Composition of Self-managing Multicultural Teams' Cultural Value Orientation Influences Performance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
online-first and traditional retailers alike. We focus on the relatively understudied domain of online-first retailers and the engagement of a key omnichannel tactic; specifically, the introduction of showrooms (physical locations where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
U.S.-born parents, while the second includes mostly older, separated women with some college education, a relatively higher share of whom are foreign born and have foreign-born parents. Our results demonstrate the presence of additional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706036 Frederick Douglass Charter School: The Renewal Decision Harvard Business School Case 806-063 Five years after the launch of the Frederick Douglass Charter School, its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
even more specific and linked to the performance of individual directors. Some large pension funds like CalPERS, as well as some smaller, socially based funds, are moving in this direction. These funds use their Web sites to publish their... View Details