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- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
Abstract All teams would like to think they do their best work when the stakes are highest-when the company's future or their own rests on the outcome of their projects. But too often something else happens. In extensive studies of teams at professional service firms,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
Benjamin Abstract—I examine Google's pattern and practice of tying to leverage its dominance into new sectors. In particular, I show how Google used these tactics to enter numerous markets, to compel usage of its services, and often to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
approach illustrates a crucial leadership attribute for launching remote teams: leading by example. Her one-on-one sessions with teammates exemplified the communication patterns conducive to a psychologically safe and inclusive team... View Details
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
and consistent with experimentation to learn about earnings. This pattern motivates estimating the expected returns to entrepreneurship within a dynamic lifecycle model that allows for non-random selection and gradual learning about the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
pattern recognition. Our partners combine tenacity and confidence with a large dose of humility. Accel prefers early-stage companies. Isn’t that the riskiest strategy? It is certainly the riskiest part of the business. At the same time,... View Details
- Blog
In-Person Programs: Q&A with Portfolio Directors
had to go to great lengths to come to campus, overcoming all sorts of obstacles including getting vaccines, navigating overall travel restrictions as well as their own company’s restrictions on travel, and much more. Once they arrived, they went through the usual View Details
- 28 Jan 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
pioneered the case method and nurtured its adoption in business education around the globe, Moon is cautiously optimistic that the latest curriculum changes will repeat that pattern by developing new techniques that can be replicated... View Details
- 13 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Following My Dream: Launching a Venture
at different times of the day and observed customization and turnout patterns on a longer time-frame. Users are excited to try out new ingredients and we even served a user who has never had a smoothie before in his entire life! (He loved... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June Bulletin When using Dreambox, first-graders can learn pattern recognition from colorful cartoon pirates, third-graders are quizzed... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
the ways in which game theory can help explain actual patterns of interaction. Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the Frontiers of Management by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard Business School Press) In a new book that draws on nearly two decades of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
organizations. The authors analyzed the companies in the top-performing quartile of their sample and discovered that "the better performers follow a pattern that we have found elsewhere in the industrial and industrializing world:... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
occupations—management, medicine, law enforcement, and addiction counseling—and noticed three surprising patterns that cut across all four occupations. First, in contrast to the stereotypical image of an emotionally numb performer... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
their loyalty patterns by looking at the repeat purchase rate of these new customers compared with those of existing users. To do that, we calculated the portion of consumers who bought again within 60 days of their first purchase. We... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
pessimistic forecasts for banks that could be their future employers. This pattern is not observed when the same analysts forecast earnings of companies that are not likely to be their future employers. Moreover, we use the Global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
incidents of terrorism have been rising across South Asia over the past decade, and this increase has been concentrated in economically lagging regions in the post-2001 period. This is in contrast to both the historical patterns of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
marketers to offer consumers much more choice including the ability to tailor solutions to individual needs at only slightly greater cost. American Express and Harrah's Entertainment, both heavy investors in IT, now tailor their marketing communications to the buying... View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
workloads, directors haven't rethought their patterns of operating—their meetings, committees, and other interactions. Compliance has changed their relationship with executives, however, turning directors into micromanagers who closely... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
Home, a nonprofit established to mobilize the American workforce quarantined at home, and began offering their MadeByUS kits that include everything—from assembly instructions to precut gown panels—for anyone with a sewing machine and knowledge of fabric View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
portfolio investor that predominantly makes asset allocation decisions. For U.S. regulators, these patterns do not recommend increasing barriers to foreign investment. Indeed, America should be rolling out the welcome mat and thanking... View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
patterns of behavior, not the other way around," writes Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti, an expert on innovation, entrepreneurship, and operations. “The planning process we describe is going to surprise many... View Details