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- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
professionals in venture capital firms or who were cashed-out entrepreneurs acting as angels for small start ups. Both sets of people had certain expertise that they were trying to transmit to highly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
process that comprises many small projects, that evolves to meet the emerging demands of the ever-changing marketplace, that allows for frequent experimentation, and that delivers value on an ongoing basis. "Several decades ago, we... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
of Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna, the Henry B. Arthur Fellow of business ethics at Harvard Business School. In a nutshell, the case goes like this: "Jim" accepts a summer internship as a loan officer from a US-based social investment View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
self-sorting, and manager-directed joint learning. It shows that such culture will be stronger among more important employees and in older and more successful firms where employees make important decisions and the manager has strong... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
in a multi-platform bundle. Dominant firms otherwise sheltered from entry by standalone rivals can be vulnerable to an adjacent platform provider's envelopment attack. We develop a taxonomy of envelopment attacks and analyze conditions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
inspired-makes all the more impressive what the design firm IDEO has already achieved. Its help-seeking and help-giving culture is behind the firm's success. But how has IDEO managed to make helping the norm? To answer this question, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
addition, firms with more KLD concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory compliance violations in later years. KLD environmental strengths, in contrast, do not accurately predict pollution... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
dearly for the intangible aspects of the product, which the firm works very hard to keep integrated with the physical product. Deals with a range of issues confronting creative economy companies, such as how to produce products with very... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
included presentations by Shelley Correll (Stanford University), Pamela Stone (CUNY), and Irene Padavic (Florida State University) and conference cochair Robin Ely. Padavic and Ely discussed why work/family initiatives have failed to advance women executives, using the... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
we identify core insights about how firms compete against one another in established markets. Based on our evaluation, we argue that a promising research opportunity for strategy lies in exploring how firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
In it, I compared data collected from the offices of a large marketing services firm to which I had been given unusual access. Here are some data from employee engagement studies, human resource reports, and financial statements that the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
employees, rapidly rising health-care costs, and the likely loss of existing protection against lawsuits for pain and suffering from medical events. She then disclosed the results of a 1999 KPMG survey of CEOs and consumers about consumer-driven health care. The View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
incentives to invest in the face of potential holdup problems and also with the proposition that exclusive arrangements lead firms to seek contingent control rights to avoid lock-in when environmental uncertainty is high. Private Equity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
in September, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands, by one of my colleagues, Rakesh Khurana, may help explain it. Khurana traces the development of business schools from their early days in a small number of "elite" institutions (his... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
non-profit organizations, and for-profit firms including financial institutions. They embody a number of different assumptions about incentives, drawing from economics, psychology, and sociology. We describe examples of each program and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
investments in an area. Another potential outcome could have been that infrastructure and finance end up being more complementary to each other. This would be in the sense that, while infrastructure is really important, firms would locate... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
internal marketplace for ideas, talent, and capital. Concurrently, leadership will move from that of a "wise seer" making the big decisions to individuals within the firm who create the context in which things can happen.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
do really well, that also increases the chances that they're going to be replaced. My research shows that in small companies, it's still true that when founder-CEOs do badly, they are replaced. But the interesting paradox is that when... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
relationships to sustain them. Transitions also are times when small differences in a new leader's actions can have disproportionate impacts on results. Everyone is straining to take the leader's measure and people are forming opinions... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
components. In essence, a small number of components generate a large proportion of system costs. However, we find major differences in the potential benefits available from refactoring these systems, related to their differing designs.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne