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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
United States and five other countries. "We definitely think of ourselves as an entrepreneurial company, even though we've been around for a while," says Thompson. "It's been a productive and exciting time." Many observers believe that... View Details
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
consider showing up for work?" Bill Bittner observed that, "Those boards that recognize the need for change early can use the existing talent to make it happen, and save both money and careers." Anshu Vats said, " . .... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
filtration,” Macomber says. “That just doesn't make any sense. It's a cheap way to help people be healthier.” Together with co-author Joseph G. Allen, a professor at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Macomber explores “nine foundations for a healthy... View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
likely to collaborate on a deal than were two VCs from different alma maters. And the probability of collaboration between VCs increased by 39.2 percent if they were members of the same ethnic minority group. The data held up with what Gompers had View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
of strong ties to resistors accruing to the change agent are weaker and may yet turn into liabilities that reduce the likelihood of change adoption. Analyses of longitudinal data from 68 multi-method case studies of organizational change... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Driving Change in Education-to-Employment
a federally-sponsored RCT study show that Year Up’s impact on the earnings of graduates are among the largest of any workforce organization in the country. My role as Strategic Advisor to the Office of the CEO is focused on two projects:... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
hard to hide a dead body.") And neither gender-neutral crimes (such as robberies or arson), nor crimes in which the victims were identified as male, showed any notable increase. So the observed increase was likely caused by a greater... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
retailers require a rapid response from their suppliers. Indeed, a replenishment delivery time of no more than one to two weeks is now regarded as standard operating procedure. In their book, Hammond and her colleagues observe that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
where his father eventually landed a job at a General Motors factory in Doraville. Stan O’Neal attended the General Motors Institute (which later became Kettering University), a co-op program where he alternated between studying... View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
Study Results Author:Robert Simons Abstract This paper reports the collective finding from 102 field studies that look at the relationship between two organization design variables: span of control and span... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
Nanda Abstract Using loan-level data from Mexico, we study the relationship between the organizational structure of banks and the terms of lending to small businesses. We find that banks with decentralized lending structures—where branch... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
fourteen years later, Rwanda is looked to as a model for the rest of Africa, not the least for its successes with public health and health-care delivery. The goal of the Global Health Delivery Project is to make the first-ever systematic View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
Business, Aaron Chatterji, call “CEO activism,” in which corporate executives speak out about social or environmental issues not obviously related to their core businesses. “What prompted this research is that we kept observing instances... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-006.pdf The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors Author:William R. Kerr Abstract The ethnic composition of U.S. inventors is undergoing a significant transformation-with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of U.S. innovation.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
this before? It turns out that most problems have been solved before by somebody in a different environment. Associating that other experience to what’s going on in my world may make me look brilliant, but in reality my brilliance was in seeing that this had been... View Details
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
Yet we frequently observe in practice that sellers waive their rights to confidentiality. In this paper we provide an incomplete information explanation for why a seller will sometimes waive confidentiality even when confidentiality would... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
ad auctions as a dynamic game of incomplete information, so we can study the convergence and robustness properties of various strategies. In particular, we consider best-response bidding strategies for a repeated auction on a single... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
authors propose that a process emphasizing learning and adaptation is the key to successful innovation in this emerging age. To understand the procedures required for product evolution in these new circumstances, the researchers studied... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
a nurse, took him on visits to local hos-pitals, where he sometimes observed surgeries. After leaving the military in 1997 and before coming to HBS, Sanchez worked as a manager of research and development at Stryker Leibinger, a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry