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- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
front-line workers who voice concerns and share ideas about how to solve problems. Our study is among the first to develop and empirically test theory about how specific management practices can encourage... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2016
- Working Paper
Notes on Developing a Strategy and Designing a Company
By: Kevin J. Boudreau
The practice and teaching of business strategy today exist largely as a set of alternative views and frameworks not entirely connected to one another. These notes contribute an integrated sequence of steps for creating or evaluating a strategy and associated company... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy
- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
morale, and impair the organization’s overall performance. Unlike the human interference instigated by operatives for the CIA, business leaders don’t typically throw up these work obstacles intentionally. After all, they may actually believe they’re following... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Research Summary
Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR)
Conducting research on new management concepts in supply chain management like CPFR. Identifying best practices in the nine-step-CPFR process. Major differences in CPFR-implementation in the U.S., Europe, South America, Asia and Africa.Linking e-marketplaces in the... View Details
- 15 Jul 2011
- News
Why being the boss is such a pain
- 2022
- Book
Purpose + Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World
By: George Serafeim
The roadmap and best practices to reap the enormous value that can emerge when your business prioritizes social and environmental goals—such as climate change, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability—right alongside the pursuit of profit.
We not only... View Details
We not only... View Details
- May 2007 (Revised March 2010)
- Case
Maria Sharapova: Marketing a Champion (A)
By: Anita Elberse and Margarita Golod
In July 2004, a then 17-year-old Maria Sharapova won Wimbledon, arguably the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world. Max Eisenbud, Sharapova's agent at International Management Group (IMG), knew the championship would lead to a flood of new opportunities. What... View Details
- November 2011 (Revised August 2012)
- Background Note
Customer Discovery and Validation for Entrepreneurs
By: Frank V. Cespedes, Thomas Eisenmann and Steven G. Blank
Provides practical guidelines for conducting market research to explore and validate demand for entrepreneurial offering. Explains how the research objectives of entrepreneurs might differ from those relevant to managers evaluating product or service offerings to... View Details
- 12 Apr 2021
- News
The Answers Are Not Clear Yet on Semi Shortage: Willy Shih
- 15 Sep 2011
- News
The Dark Side of High Achievement
- 2023
- Book
How the Harvard Business School Changed the Way We View Organizations
By: Jay W. Lorsch
The story of the field of organizational behavior (which overlaps considerably with the origin story of Harvard Business School) and how it created the “medical model” of systems thinking—anchored in the practices of listening, observing, testing, and only then... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Systems Thinking; Medical Model; Organizations; Behavior; System; History
- 15 May 2018
- News
Why some companies are dropping degree requirements in hiring
- 03 Nov 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Adding Value Through Venture Capital in Latin America and the Caribbean
- 2010
- Working Paper
Reversing the Queue: Performance, Legitimacy, and Minority Hiring
By: Andrew Hill and David A. Thomas
Studies of minority hiring have found that poor-performing firms or firms in highly competitive contexts are more likely to hire minority candidates. However, most work has examined hiring for entry and mid-level positions, not senior management. Management positions... View Details
Contextual Intelligence
I have come to a conclusion that may surprise you: trying to apply management practices... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- News
Employers Open To Ditching Degree Requirements When Hiring
- 20 Jul 2021
- News
Rewriting the Social Contract
- June 2012
- Article
Short Termism: Don't Blame the Investors
By: Francois Brochet, George Serafeim and Maria Loumioti
The article presents research on executives and corporation investor relations. A study is conducted of the language used by executives in conference calls discussing earnings with investors and financial analysts. A correlation was found between the use of language... View Details