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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
idea. Some think it is cool but get distracted by the next cool idea that comes along. Some embrace the concept for a time but give up because implementing it is too hard. And a few fully commit to the model and get incredible results. Shift Points: One Hundred Ideas... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
and study of the Great American Business Leaders database. The project identified and analyzed the accomplishments of some 860 top executives in the 20th century, and results are now starting to emerge. A portion of the database is free... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
levels of language skills, communication and performance suffer. Q: You have written about English becoming the primary lingua franca in global businesses. Do you see any dangers in that proliferation? Are there cultural assumptions that... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
Passion for another kind of far-reaching change was the driving force behind Diagnostics For All (DFA), a nonprofit offering a low-cost, point-of-care diagnostic tool that won top honors in the 2008 social venture track in addition to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Medical (a minimally invasive device for the extraction of bone graft during spinal fusion procedures) are both awarded top honors in the business venture track. In the social venture track, Sana Care wins with its low-cost mobile... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
community influences on organizations; sheds new light on the temporal dynamics of both endogenous and exogenous punctuating events; and provides more nuanced understanding of corporate-community relations. When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
company as an undervalued stock. CEOs and CFOs put themselves in a bind by providing earnings guidance and then making decisions designed to meet Wall Street's expectations for quarterly earnings. When earnings appear to be coming in short of projections, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
profiled performed during the recession? A: All the companies I studied, with one exception, outperformed their peers. Their share price declined less at a time when everyone else's declined greatly, and now they're prospering again. They... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
called a meeting of all his top managers the next week. He reassured them that they enjoyed his full confidence and that he had no intention of undermining their authority as he had done with the departing division manager. He candidly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
Issue Focus: Leadership Illustration by Craig Frazier What HBS Learned from West Point The Evolving Case Method Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Making the Leadership Case Related Faculty Research What Top Scholars Say about... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
PublicationsThe New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance Authors:Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2010 Abstract Retailers today are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
priors/worldviews, or relevant features of a problem not being top of mind. Most research studying such losses does not empirically distinguish between these mechanisms. Instead, we show that most highly cited papers in this area presume... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
organizational studies research. We empirically assess this assertion by analyzing studies of negotiation published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
maintaining a long-term strategic plan is of value in thwarting such investors. Executives and directors are advised to analyze their corporations from the point of view of an activist investor, to create harmony within the board of directors, and to measure View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
passed, often twelve to twenty-four months. Such a clause, for instance, sparked a public legal battle two years ago when Google hired away a top Microsoft executive, Kai-Fu Lee. But disputes and tensions over noncompetes are not isolated... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
CEO, rising leader of a firm in transition, and manager of massive complexity-thanks to our incredibly networked and increasingly unpredictable world of business. What if you were in his shoes? If you're a top executive today, you... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
corporate gamesmanship and dizzying sums associated with M&A; activity, for the business scholar, such deals are often more interesting as windows inside organizations, revealing how they adapt and perform in times of dramatic change.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
that reduced government procurement costs and streamlined distribution channels. “This was a turnaround situation,” Gibbons explains. “NIB had a declining top line and was operating in the red. We needed to shift from a monopolistic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
Medical Center” (CCHMC) details how one institution has implemented its own version of health-care reform, taking overall perfor-mance levels from well below average to the top 10 percent in the industry. Coauthored by HBS assistant... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
companies offer a direct stake in the company's performance through stock, a share in profits, or both. Companies with employee stock ownership plans report significantly higher sales growth and higher revenue per employee than do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne