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- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
lecture courses as MOOCs. While the future role of MOOCs in higher education remained a topic of public debate, edX needed to answer concrete managerial and strategic questions. For example, what should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
that allowed the Clinic to excel at patient satisfaction without jeopardizing its traditional strengths. Publisher's link: https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=25931&i=25933&cs=73d8fb9a10c18f812eceaf3628cd1b24 2006 Encyclopedia of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
increasing managerial slack, and/or to GPs making it attractive for executives to go along with some value-decreasing acquisitions that do not serve shareholders' long-term interests. Our findings have significant implications for ongoing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
managerially substantial increases in current retailer orders (i.e., demand, not just sales). Specifically, a one percentage point increase in fill rate, measured over the prior year, is associated with a statistically significant 11%... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
importance of organizational governance, and the role of governing boards in particular, in prioritizing and aligning potentially conflicting objectives and interests in order to avoid mission drift and to maintain organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
catastrophic risks to patients, physicians, pharmaceutical firms, and regulators. Between the early 1960s and the present, national systems were built to collect, standardize, and respond to individual reports of side effects, with the Food and Drug Administration... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
3 million fans a year, as it has done for nine of its eleven seasons at AT&T Park. However, in an industry where filling the airwaves has become as important as filling the stands, Baer’s brokering of a partnership in a regional sports network — yet another major View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
worldwide phenomenon. Sensing, analyzing, and developing appropriate responses to the complex new demands of the expanded, global marketplace is difficult, and the greatest challenge comes in developing the organizational capabilities and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
effectively within the newly merged entities. No PDF is available at this time. Reputation and Competition: Evidence from the Credit Rating Industry Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract Fair and accurate credit ratings arguably play an important View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
Company; and HBS professor Michael Porter (MBA ’71). In addition to the pioneering roles played by this innovative quartet, there is another leitmotif — a fifth key player — that runs throughout the book: The industry would not exist as... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
for leaders. For example, globally dispersed businesses can't reserve key leadership roles for people from exclusive groups; leadership must become inclusive, or fail. Leaders must learn to collaborate in a world of networked... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
talent shortages. Anne Bonaparte sees it firsthand in her corporate customers: a lack of frontline security workers. “They’re not developers or data scientists,” she says. The workers they need range from entry level to managerial... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
majority, leadership ranks remain male-dominated. The persistence of these inequalities begs the question: Why haven’t we made more progress? In Glass Half Broken, Colleen Ammerman and HBS professor Boris Groysberg reveal the pervasive organizational obstacles and... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
how personal taxes affect CEOs' decision to sell their vested equity and compare it against diversification, managerial overconfidence and other determinants of CEOs' sale of equity. While CEOs frequently sell large amounts of their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
especially small- and medium-sized domestic companies. They provide the jobs, the income, and the motivation for individuals to become educated and move up in the world. For local business to flourish, however, it often needs access to world markets, technology,... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
asked five alumni to revisit their hopes and dreams Complete Table of Contents June 2023 Curb Appeal Can Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) clean up New York City in her role as commissioner of the Department of Sanitation? Alumni Achievement... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
league’s salary cap is meant to create an equal playing field. Some teams, including the Patriots, have been able to use the salary cap’s restrictive nature as a source of competitive advantage. According to SB Nation, the Patriots “kept right on diving into dumpsters... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that around the peak of the technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
new fintech entrepreneurs, and banks—small and large—vying for a position. Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream grapples with the broad significance of small business to the economy, the historical role of credit markets, the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
technologies which they leveraged to carve a leadership role in the inherently risky artificial fertilization business. As the company grew, its executives grappled with managing the political, ethical, and business risks associated with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace