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- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
the players he developed—Ryan Giggs, David Beckham, Gary Neville, Paul Scholes—became true standouts in their generation, providing the club with a strong base on which to build. Managing this process well over a long period unavoidably... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016
full board committee membership for over 6,000 firms. Board committees provide benefits (specialization, efficiency, and accountability benefits) and costs (information segregation). Consistent with these benefits and costs, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009
PublicationsDesigning Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care Author:Richard Bohmer Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2009 Abstract Today's health-care providers face growing criticism—from policymakers and patients... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
impact, especially on practitioners. A central reason is that Porter addresses very specific needs of different practitioner constituencies, providing a framework and actionable ideas they could easily relate to. The final section turns... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
to get a "job" done. This note details the thought process and the methodology behind a jobs-based segmentation and provides numerous examples. It highlights three levels in the architecture of a job: 1) What is the fundamental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
build relationships that allow them to sell their more lucrative consulting services. Thus, from the executive team down to individual accountants, an auditing firm's motivation to provide favorable audits runs deep. As the collision case... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23
certain types of transactions. Bitcoin is of interest to economists in part for its potential to disrupt existing payment systems and perhaps monetary systems, and also for the wealth of data it provides about agents' behavior and about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
can go out and find everyone who has the skill listed on a platform like GitHub,” Koning says. Workers can also benefit from the rise in recruiting. They might receive requests from companies that weren’t on their radars but might provide... View Details
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
is easiest to use but limited to the features offered by your application or programming language. Most of the applications commonly used for data analysis on the HBSGrid provide some degree of implicit parallelization. The system-wide... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
father's travels provided me with a broadening experience," says Porter, at ease between sips from a can of diet soda, "and athletics offered an outlet for competing while exposing me to the importance of self-discipline and thorough... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
especially given the $783 billion in pump priming provided by the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act. “I hope these initiatives are successful in both accelerating the green transition and revitalizing the American job market... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
heightened uncertainty? While we are still far from knowing what constitutes a “best practice,” there is already a great deal of experimentation emerging globally. To provide an early report of these emerging approaches, over the past... View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
their network to overcome resistance to change. We argue that strong ties to potentially influential organization members who are ambivalent about a change (fence-sitters) provide the change agent with an affective basis to co-opt them.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
study highlights two vastly disparate companies—Coca-Cola and McKesson—that sought patents within the same technology class. The companies proposed devices that used carousel-like storage systems to dispense beverages and medical supplies, respectively. While both... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
customers on social networks such as Facebook. Professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski provides a fresh look into the interpersonal dynamics of these sites and offers guidance for approaching these tantalizing markets The 'Luxury Prime': How... View Details
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- 2011
- Working Paper
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade
The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details
Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, Kenneth Kimura, and Marion Fourcade. "How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-070, January 2011.
- 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016
of Monetary Policy By: Du, Wenxin, Carolin E. Pflueger, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—Nominal debt provides consumption-smoothing benefits if it can be inflated away during recessions. However, we document empirically that countries with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
What Does PRIDE Mean to You?
community. Before coming to HBS, I worked in finance, and through joining LGBTQ+ mentoring programs like Out4Undergrad and founding pride networks at prior companies, I developed a strong sense of community. These groups provided a... View Details
- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault
attention. “People we knew were coming to us wanting to know how they could offer support, where they should donate, and how to make an impact, and we were wondering that ourselves,” said Kenneth. “To provide one answer, we decided to... View Details