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  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

of India's Public R&D Laboratories By: Khanna, Tarun, and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract—In this paper, we build on the standard resource dependence theory and its departure suggested by Vernon to offer a novel explanation for why... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

Implementing Patient-Focused Care (A) (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 608-070 Reading Rehab Hospital has experimented with a popular concept in health care—patient-focused care—intended to increase quality and reduce costs by View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 13, 2015

people from higher social class countries (as indexed by GDP per capita) had lower levels of internationalism—that is, they made more friendships domestically than abroad. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49862 Crowdfunding as... View Details
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice Authors:Robin Greenwood, Jeremy C. Stein, and Samuel Hanson Abstract We argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises because firms behave as macro... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

demonstrate their impact on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework premised on an organization's operational mission, scale, and scope. Not all View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

by Roger Thompson A spate of business scandals — from Enron’s spectacular collapse to stock option backdating — have put business schools on the spot to explain what, if any, responsibility they might have for what’s gone wrong in America’s executive suites. Two View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

organized systems for improvement. Traditional structures and cultures within AHCs, although well suited to the tripartite missions of teaching, research, and clinical care, are not easily adaptable to the tasks of measuring, reporting,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 1996 (Revised December 2005)
  • Case

First Community Bank (A)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
First Community Bank, a bank-within-a-bank at Bank of Boston, was established in 1990 as a unique venture to serve urban communities. By 1995 it has achieved profitability but must manage relationships with the mainstream at Bank of Boston, serve as a change agent and... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Business Ventures; Business and Community Relations; Agency Theory; Change Management; Leadership; Balanced Scorecard; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Banking Industry; Boston
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  • 19 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

The Road to Impact

applicable skill set. As he was finishing his MBA, he interviewed at Lehman Brothers and learned that many people at the company had worked in government, notably former US Secretary of Commerce Peter George Peterson. Offensend thought that an View Details
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

(third-person theory of) or 2) as being and action are actually experienced "on the court," specifically as these are actually lived (real-time first-person experience of). As a formal discipline, the "on the court"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

CEO for a company seems to run on a scale based on size. The ultimate problem with that is the large failure effect. . . ." Responding to the point that hiring from outside an organization is often a more expensive solution, Balaji... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

A variety of academic work argues a relationship exists between the structure of a development organization and the design of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products are often... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • December 2010
  • Article

Acquisitions as Exaptation: The Legacy of Founding Institutions in the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry

By: Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang
This study focuses on the imprinting of institutional environments, particularly how founding institutions impact intra-organizational capabilities and how such imprints may have different external manifestations in subsequent historical eras. We introduce the concept... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Commercial Banking; Organizations; Theory; Policy; Government and Politics; Management Practices and Processes; Strategy; Competency and Skills; United States
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  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

firm profits. Publisher's link: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/groupon-2014-03-01.pdf August 2013 Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Reasoning in Entrepreneurial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

Academy of Management's Organization and Management Theory Division and Organizational Behavior Division. "First the embeds were quietly shown 'better ways' of accomplishing tasks by their peers-a 'ton... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • Web

Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

Will Benefit Senior Managers and Consultants Analysts Aspiring Finance Professionals Use financial tools and metrics to inform strategic decision-making and drive business performance. The program expertly leads you through progressively more complex View Details
  • 24 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

real interest rate, compared to the standard 0.3 percent, and was announced as "the best option in the market" for saving. Groups were randomly assigned to one of the three savings options and managed by the Chilean microfinance View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit

strategic and general management issues facing service organizations as well as the management of service in manufacturing companies. The multidisciplinary unit focuses on three functions critical to the effective delivery of service:... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 07 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

Although some research has examined overt status rivalries, typically focusing on battles for the top positions, our study contributes novel findings on the effects of disagreement amongst all members' perceptions of their team's status hierarchy. This paper develops... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

managers will use the discretion given by such estimates to convey private information on future cash flows, while agency theory predicts managers will use the discretion opportunistically. We test these alternative hypotheses using a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace