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- 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016
practice, disciplinary rigor, and successful search for powerful generalizations help explain the lasting impact of their 1965 book, A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations. Central to their argument are three important... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
should Calhoun choose? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/218022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-099 John Rogers, Jr.—Ariel Investments Co. John Rogers Jr., the founder and CEO of Ariel Investments, an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
down as a result. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54142 Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful Individuals Should Reveal Their Failures By: Huang, Karen, Alison Wood Brooks, Ryan W. Buell, Brian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
Activism in Sovereign Debt: "Vulture" Tactics or Market Backbone Harvard Business School Case 706-057 The role of distressed debt funds, also known as "vulture funds," in sovereign debt restructuring was a hotly debated topic, especially after the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Important are Big Ideas?
in a world where patents can be practically replicated through careful innovation. On a third front, however, Thomas Davenport and Laurence Prusak argue in What's the Big Idea? that the successful implementation of management concepts can... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral finance. The asset management group... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
development of the U.S. railroad industry in the latter half of the 19th century. Al went straight to the sources and expanded upon them in a series of important articles in the Business History Review. That work developed into his pathbreaking book Strategy and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
and field hospitals). In 13 years it developed from a start-up garage business into a successful firm of global reach and reputation. In 2010 its founder and CEO Philippe Prévost must decide the product and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
that, in the year 2000, we have too few CEOs; we need to grow them. And that comment reveals a basic fallacy and misunderstanding. You can't grow CEOs any faster, because people learn through experience. That's not to say that coaching... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
of rapid profit improvement. The question facing CEO Thomas J. Wilson was how to maintain the momentum. This case tracks the evolution of Allstate's strategy over 20 years, examining the logic behind the strategic changes, and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
and their impact on organizational climate, which predicts successful outcomes. We addressed this gap with a field experiment suggested by Toyota's problem-solving process. We tested three related process improvement activities: (1)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-051.pdf Alignment in Cross-Functional and Cross-Firm Supply Chain Planning Authors:Santiago Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the behavioral processes associated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
digital platform, and the increased fiscal pressures created by the worldwide economic crisis. Unfortunately, the educational programs for future health care leaders fail to provide many of the needed skills, according to a survey of CEOs... View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208083 Cyworld: Creating and Capturing Value in a Social Network Harvard Business School Case 509-012 May 2008, the new CEO of Cyworld, a social network... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
agriculture. In the successful industries that we all talk about, it was limited and muted and not the cause of success." Before opening up the discussion to other panelists, Porter pointed out that much of what had been viewed as... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
Alfred D. Chandler nor do they resemble small- and medium-sized Mittelstand firms, which Gary Herrigel highlighted as a successful alternative. That is why so far there has been little research about them beyond individual case studies.... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
reflexivity can be stimulated. Finally, we discuss the implications of our review and identify avenues for future research. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55662 Assessing the Impact of CEO Activism By:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
acquisition, development, and retention is a key topic for financial firms that Groysberg raises in his new book, Chasing Stars: the fact that stars often suffer a decrease in performance when they move from one firm to another. Too often, managers fail to consider... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
Teradyne and HP forced their organizations to focus on these new technologies. The CEOs of both companies got involved, creating separate, financially autonomous divisions for the projects to ensure that the technological breakthroughs... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
detailed data on how their CEOs allocate their work time, which we define as their span of activity. Span of activity provides a direct measure of the CEO's management style, including the attention devoted to specific subordinates and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne