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CEOs and Coaches: How Important Is Organizational 'Fit?'

By: Boris Groysberg and Abhijit Naik

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08 Jan 2012
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Progress Principle: You're More Important Than You Think

01 Dec 2022
News

Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share information, but it fails to... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

31 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap

scientifically backed, natural solution to help us feel better – didn’t exist. 2. Diligently research the idea to pressure test both the concept, but also, your commitment Once you have an idea you care about, you start to think about it All. The. Time. This... View Details

2016
Working Paper

Who Gets Hired?: The Importance of Finding an Open Slot

By: Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher Stanton

Despite seeming to be an important requirement for hiring, the concept of a slot is absent from virtually all of economics. Macroeconomic studies of vacancies and search come closest, but the implications of slot-based hiring for individual worker outcomes has not been... View Details

Keywords: Hiring; Selection and Staffing; Employment

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01 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'

laboratory to study coach-team matching effects. Clear-cut measures of team performance and precise employment records are publicly available, and the set of teams vying for coaches’ services is comparatively small. Controlling for coach and player quality as well as... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

summer 1994
Article

The Importance of Patent Scope: An Empirical Analysis

By: J. Lerner

Keywords: Patents

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14 Feb 2014
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Q&A: Michael Wheeler on the importance of improvising

01 Feb 2016
News

CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'

Article

The Growing Strategic Importance of End-of-Life Product Management

By: Michael W. Toffel

Requiring manufacturers to manage the their products when they become waste is an innovative form of regulation, one that has been adopted by countries in Asia, Europe, and North America on a variety of products that range from vehicles to appliances to batteries.... View Details

Keywords: Product; Environmental Sustainability; Cost Management; Wastes and Waste Processing; Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Manufacturing Industry; Asia; Europe; North and Central America

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August 1977 (Revised November 1985)
Teaching Note

Blanchard Importing and Distribution Co., Inc., Teaching Note

By: Paul W. Marshall and Steven C. Wheelwright

Teaching Note for (9-673-033). View Details

Keywords: Distribution Industry

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18 Apr 2011
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The Most Important Question a Manager Can Ask

30 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”

difficult for a school to create the equivalent of a tough childhood, a religious revelation, or a life and death experience." Setting aside the issue, Shaun Greene even questioned the importance of crucibles of leadership, raising... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Sep 2023
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Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details