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- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
mainstream customers. Therefore, a key issue is who do you do business with initially who lets the venture start moving down the "right" product road map? Who do you do business with initially who can help you on the path of having the View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
percent battery power. Your brain is your most vital asset; it is a physical organ that, like any other piece of equipment, requires maintenance and care. Both physical and mental hygiene practices need to increase right now, because both... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
of all organizational units. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-030.pdf Future Lock-in: Or, I'll Agree to do the Right Thing Next Week Authors:Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When making decisions a person... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
mentions a tireless vigilante: the Punisher. What is the motive behind Marvel’s decision to begin producing its own films? Creative control and a greater portion of the potential profits. When we came out of bankruptcy seven years ago we... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
in our data set by non-negotiation organizational research reveals that more open systems assumptions increase the likelihood that a negotiation article will be cited in organizational studies, after controlling for other, previously... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
product for the conversion of crop residues from corn into fermentable sugars for the production of motor fuels. But the problem was that the company only controlled one piece of the value chain. To succeed in this nascent sector, should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
relatively low concentration of ownership and control in large firms before 1910. Archival evidence such as company statutes and shareholder lists document that in many Brazilian corporations voting rights... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
selected through exit early in their careers, made time allocation decisions such as delayed marriage, and tended to migrate to places that were conducive to innovation. Father's income was positively correlated with becoming an inventor, though not when View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
became. With his eyes on the future, he drastically pruned the company's product line, jettisoning items that held little promise and concentrating on data processing. The most important decision any company ever makes is what markets it will serve with what products.... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
to design women-friendly online dating options: not a larger dating pool but a smaller, curated one; not anonymity but transparency—real names, attached to real Facebook profiles; and, most vitally, control of a streamlined online dating... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Taylor Gibbs chronicles more than 200 years of her paternal family’s history and highlights their contributions to the civil rights movement in the United States. The Human Element: The... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
thinking about where to hold them, specifically, inside or outside of tax-deferred accounts. "Getting this decision right can be pretty close to a free lunch," says Bergstresser, who with colleague James Poterba, a professor at... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Just Do It — Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) Hold Your Tongue — Dick MacKinnon (MBA 1962) Find Your Place — Rusty McClure (MBA 1975) Be Prepared — Peter Kiernan (MBA 1965) Know Your Market — Steve Frenkiel (MBA 2007) Ask the Right Questions —... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
Hopkins course catalog. I didn’t realize there was a German requirement to study physics, which had all been done in Germany before the war. After three days of German, I switched to engineering.” Unceremonious end: “I loved Salomon Brothers View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone to pull in the same direction. How do you accomplish all this? Continually ask the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
privatization garners attention in industries whose importance, infrastructure, and enormous capital needs once put them under the comfortable control of their governments. Historically, observed HBS professor Richard Vietor in his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
we can start combating what is already a crisis, is to get modules out into the field as quickly as possible. Can the sector as a whole grow quickly enough to meet the need? I am definitely optimistic. Given all of the investment in this space, we are at a tipping... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
believe many Americans feel a disdain for the government, and they see private enterprise as a way of fighting the system. I also think that in the United States, people are more likely to strike out on their own and are freer to move around. O'Lear: View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
solution in combination with property rights can be used to capture a stream of rents. The tools a firm can use to manage bottlenecks are, first, an understanding of the technical architecture of the system and, second, an understanding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
and services they consume. In many cases, collaborative user innovators are vying with producers for intellectual property rights and the control of standards and innovation trajectories. In light of these... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne