Filter Results:
(800)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,539)
- People (5)
- News (267)
- Research (800)
- Events (7)
- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (458)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,539)
- People (5)
- News (267)
- Research (800)
- Events (7)
- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (458)
Sort by
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
the firm. Recently Gibbons and Henderson (2013) have suggested that one way to formalize this insight is through a focus on the role of relational contracts within the firm. They hypothesize this implies that the performance effects of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
as so fundamental to leading people that it went without saying. Maybe more formal inquiries would reveal a recognition of the progress principle. To find out, we created a survey in which 669 managers ranked the importance of five... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
social categories (gender, tenure within the firm). In dyad-level models of the probability that pairs of individuals communicate, we find very large effects of formal organization structure and spatial collocation on the rate of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of modularity on IP protection by formally modeling the threat of expropriation by agents. The principal has three options to address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
Martha Lagace: What is missing in leadership models today? Michael Beer: Most formal leadership models do not incorporate institution-building in their definition of leadership. Leadership is thought of as a means for activating change,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
thorough understanding of the phenomenon is difficult to achieve because relevant work is scattered across multiple fields. This paper presents a unified picture of mirroring in terms of theory, evidence, and exceptions. First, we View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
expertise will continue to be the bedrock of the academy but the boundaries that separate schools and faculties will melt away. This trend has already taken hold at Harvard, where faculty from across the University are building formal and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
from other forms of profiling, and illustrate its occurrence in the workplace. Next, we discuss the underlying assumptions about identity performance and organizational culture that are used to justify formal and informal cultural... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
structure with management and ownership formally represented in different organs. In the case of La Nación, the newspaper is owned by a corporation (La Nación S.A.), but the Saguier family, descending from its founder, controls both its... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
aligned—or coupled—with their formal commitments to labor codes of conduct. Using data on 3,276 suppliers in 55 countries, we find that in suppliers with high-powered efficiency structures (piece-rate pay), labor codes are internally... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971), attempts to formalize a "capabilities based" approach to strategy only began to take shape in the past 20 years. In particular, the publication of Teece and Pisano’s... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
ventures. We introduce a formal model of voting where agents face costly tacit information to improve their decision quality. Equilibrium outcomes suggest a theoretical tension for group decision-making between the benefits of information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This paper provides the first formal model of business model innovation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
others. Oral history can also shed light on hypersensitive topics, such corruption, which are rarely formally documented. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55633 January 29, 2019 Harvard Business Review Time... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
Sebenius, James K. Abstract—Many negotiators have constituencies that must formally or informally approve an agreement. Traditionally, it is the responsibility of each negotiator to manage the internal conflicts and constituencies on his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
identities can shape team members' side conversations in ways that create shared interests and information among those with similar identities, even before the team begins its formal meetings. Originality/value-By identifying new routes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
integrated downstream buyer. But a vertical merger with a larger buyer helps more to facilitate upstream collusion than a similar merger with a smaller buyer. This formalizes the idea expressed in the U.S. and EU Non-Horizontal Merger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
captured during its daily interactions with shareholders and market analysts. As a first step, he put a formalized process in place to collect and present it in a more systematic way. The team, for example, keeps a record of investor... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
more formal procedural change. And fourth, managerial support and leadership is crucial. Even when implanted and implemented well, these new technologies will certainly bring with them new challenges. These tools may well reduce... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
innovation? Through a formal simulation model, we show that an open approach to innovation allows the firm to discover combinations of product features that would be hard to envision under integration. However, when partners have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace