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- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
Shivaratri Snan bathing day on March 10. To accommodate everyone, the Indian government creates a temporary city-building roads and providing power on what is normally an empty flood plain. Senior Lecturer and Dauten Real Estate Fellow... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
Publications September 2014 Research in Organizational Behavior The Governance of Social Enterprises: Mission Drift and Accountability Challenges in Hybrid Organizations By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, Julie Battilana, and Johanna Mair Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
from initiating and smoothing communication to establishing long-lasting relationships and mutual trust, and from bargaining and drafting agreements to securing their implementation. Chinese negotiators can be at once warm hosts and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
better. Thus, the process of creating a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard translates the formulated strategy into specific objectives, measures, targets, and initiatives in the four inter-related perspectives. Our work helps... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
one might conclude that efforts to influence human decisions through "nudging" might be effective. However, respondents were far from unanimous in drawing this conclusion. Adnan Younis Lodhi initiated the debate by saying... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
from themselves Heese initially expected to find that small-town newspapers are beholden to local market forces—that they may refuse, for example, to blow the whistle on the town’s biggest employer. Plus, he figured newspapers may not be... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Credit: Steven Zimmerman/Wikipedia Commons Google software engineer James Damore’s ten-page manifesto excoriating his employer for its diversity initiatives incited a major controversy in August about... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
variability in the importance of their posts. There are alternative routes to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in developing expertise, but officers who belong to the same caste as the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
mid-2012 Lit Motors had created both engineering and design prototypes and conducted initial customer tests on less than $750,000 of investment. Lit Motors' founder, Daniel Kim, had started the company to design and manufacture an... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
war years; and innovator Herb Kelleher at Southwest near the end of the century. In this e-mail interview, Mayo, director of the HBS Leadership Initiative and the Thomas S. Murphy Distinguished Research Fellow, discusses how executives... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2182628 Government Green Procurement Spillovers: Evidence from Municipal Building Policies in California By: Simcoe, Timothy, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—We study how View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
starts a premium vodka business, bringing in his cousin at an early stage, but with no initial discussion of the eventual split of equity or managerial control between the two. The article offers each man's case for his ownership stake in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
initial choice, for themselves and their organizations, among broad, flexible, open-ended directions. This initial direction will evolve, sometimes dramatically, in response to what is learned from first... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
claim to systematic scientific insight. This book describes the first generation of economic forecasters and the methods they created to predict the future of the economy. The forecasting field was initially developed by entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
firms’ institution-seeking behavior by documenting how they make strategic use of weaker institutions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51721 Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
Initiation to Graduation By: Raisch, Sebastian, and Michael Tushman Abstract—Large companies initiate many new businesses, but few of them reach scale. The ambidexterity literature describes how companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Union (EU) are federal systems in which the responsibility for environmental policy-making is divided or shared between the central government and the (member) states. The attribution of decision-making power has important policy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
Tracking Performance Indicators By: Beveridge, Christiana, Sofia Warner, Greg Leya, and Thomas W. Feeley Abstract—Given that accountable care organizations (ACOs) have not achieved the degree of cost reductions and quality improvements View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
are difficult to assemble. We combine several restricted-access U.S. Census Bureau data sets to create a unique longitudinal data platform that covers 1992–2008 and many states. We describe differences in the types of businesses initially... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
409-021 Padraic Kelly became Managing Director (MD) of the engineering services firm Buro Happold in 1996. One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current size where... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace