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- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
decades. Whether you adopt the one-leader model for your own family enterprise, as RBS has done, or whether you build a team of leaders, you still need to design, structure, and allocate all the necessary leadership roles. Why? Because... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
socially appropriate than achieving overall equity. Furthermore, individuals care more about achieving equity in time than equity in money. Narrow bracketing of equity concerns and more inequity aversion in time than in money persist when individuals make View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
examines a way to offset such potentially deleterious effects—by focusing on time, a resource that tends to receive less attention than money but is equally ubiquitous in our daily lives. Across four experiments, we examine whether... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
support for ultimate target agreements. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/jsebenius/articles_scans/10_NegCampaignsNN.pdf Working PapersPayout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment Authors:Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
research team to give away. While 53 percent chose the (objectively more valuable) Best Buy gift card for the higher-income recipient, only 25 percent of the participants did so for the lower-income person. The implication? Study participants effectively View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
Profiles - MBA
access to accurate medical information for first responders, cost-effective methods to diagnose diabetic retinopathy and glioblastoma, and resource allocation for healthcare workers in infectious disease settings and have been awarded a... View Details
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
practical applicability of others. “The FBI division-level strategic plans are useful as management tools, but they are not uniformly threat-based nor do they align with a needed corporate strategic plan for the Bureau that would allocate... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Suggestion: Discuss issues related to social identities across cases, regardless of the protagonist’s demographic group (e.g., “Would the protagonist’s actions be perceived differently if he were a woman or a racial or sexual-orientation minority? Note: Ask such... View Details
- 2010
- Book
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution
By: Robert L. Simons
To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into day-to-day actions that will enable your company to win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Innovation and Management; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Competitive Strategy
Simons, Robert L. Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution. Harvard Business Review Press, 2010.
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
research and technological innovation, this approach is misguided and potentially risky. This article argues that researchers need to pay close attention to issues such as biases in data collection and spurious correlation. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
Part II Featured Exercises Identify which opportunities your organization should and should not pursue Propose a system you can use to focus organizational attention on emerging threats and uncertainties Apply course-wide knowledge by... View Details
- Web
Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
the possibility that time variation in investors’ beliefs and tastes play a role in determining the quantity and allocation of credit. Operating under the hypothesis that the price of credit disproportionately affects the financing costs... View Details
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability
and administrative costs into the cost of serving individual customers. Either they treat all such costs as fixed-period costs and don't drive them to the customer level, or they use high-level, inaccurate methods, such as allocating a... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
all the guidance. They don't allocate all the resources. But because they have considerable authority, influence, and control over resources, we rely on them to do their part in setting direction and guiding their group. Because the... View Details
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
the next budget cycle. With a delay strategy, attention can be diverted to some legitimate, pressing issue, the sort of which always exists. There is the sudden budget shortfall, the unexpected competitor announcement, the dangerous new... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
the right questions," says Kaplan, a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. "Most leaders spend a lot of their time looking for answers. Very often, they may feel isolated and alone. I want to help them refocus their View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
some people than others, in order to reach their goal. Next, help negotiate the allocation of resources within the team, recognizing that some functions will contribute more to the team (at the very least, in terms of people’s time) than... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
agnostic about nonprofit versus for-profit because, ultimately, community ownership and governance have different dynamics, and this is possible in all different flavors. Within this public benefit corporation version, there are shares that are View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
ChiSuper and return to their original employers with three-day’s notice. At one point during the pandemic, ChiSuper had more than 1,000 employees from catering companies who were allocated to different units such as logistic centers, food... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
before, the heady boom was followed by a sharp correction—at least for entrepreneurs in all arenas except for artificial intelligence. What happens next, however, is unclear. This talk seeks to understand the implications of these recent events for the future of... View Details