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  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

broadcast and marketing strategy, with special focus on the very lucrative but highly competitive U.S. market. Its CEO Christian Seifert believed that a strong international position was vital to continued View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

have conspired to enable insider trading? And if so, what did that mean for the future of the Firm? Purchase this case: https://hbr.org/product/mckinsey-co-protecting-its-reputation-a/415021-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-022 Honeywell and the Great Recession... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

Nelson's successful and smooth transfer of his CEO role at age 58 to his very capable nephew, Eduardo Melzer, 40. Nelson remains chairman of the board with clear responsibilities. RBS is stable and poised... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2019
  • Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

corporate strategies and business execution, as well as what CEOs and boards can learn from successful and unsuccessful activist interventions. Using a mix of cases, guest lectures, and discussions with... View Details
  • 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

learn. We propose that legitimacy building can comprise an advocacy trap that blocks meaningful learning vital to the success of a new firm. By suggesting a downside to legitimacy building and identifying a new barrier to learning, rooted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 7

from abroad is substantially more challenging than the economics alone would predict. This paper looks at some of the issues firms moving large assembly operations back to the U.S. have faced, along with recommendations for more View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016

member to discover how and whether his employees can speed up cleaning, checking, restocking, and refueling. Expert commentary comes from Atilla Korkmazoglu, president of ground handling and cargo operations at Celebi Aviation Holding, and Vikram Oberoi, managing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

bores you, and which the world does not need—this life is hell. —W.E.B. Du Bois In the organizational context, the four-drive theory implies that every person, from the CEO to the most junior employee will bring a predictable set of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
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The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details

  • 23 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

Harvard Business School Professor Boris Groysberg. "Nobody knows what strategic conversations are actually unfolding." For that reason, many CEOs are reconsidering the classic command-and-control structure in which a few people are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Hawes Hall | About

educated in Hawes Hall would use their knowledge “to serve their fellow human beings.” Her husband, the retired chairman and CEO of Connecticut-based Life Re Corporation, also emphasized the link between business education and public... View Details
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

mixed effectiveness, as people who deliver backhanded compliments erroneously believe that they will both convey high status and elicit liking (Studies 2a-2b), but recipients and third-party evaluators grant them neither (Studies 3a-3b); however, backhanded compliments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

presented from the perspective of the company CEO and its global brand director who is also part owner. In 2015, Mavi had sales of $419 million, up 20% from the previous year. Growth rates like these were becoming routine at Mavi. But,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards By: Ludwig, Edward J., Anna Elise Walton, and Michael Beer Abstract—Over the past years, forward-looking CEOs have adopted a higher-ambition approach to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

"More broadly, evidence points to disparities on both sides of the market—both African American guests and hosts face discrimination." After the research was made public, policymakers took note. Users began to push back. The hashtag #AirbnbWhileBlack started... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service
  • 10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

Afrezza ever realize the potential that Alfred Mann, the late founder and former CEO, saw in the novel treatment? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-419 Becton Dickinson: Innovation and Growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

Typically, this performance is thought to be a characteristic of the firm, not the CEO who happens to run the firm. In contrast to this conventional wisdom, we find that equity issues depend on changes in Q and returns to a greater extent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

attractive to businesses, especially to e-commerce firms that thrive on global and scalable business models. Yet, most global e-commerce players, with a few exceptions, have failed to achieve significant success in Asia. This article... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

digitally enabled open platforms. I go on to argue that the competitive success of open platforms against closed platforms gave rise to the "vertical-to-horizontal" transition in the computer industry in the 1980s and 1990s.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman