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27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

individuals in the business, their individual motivation, and their ability to work together harmoniously. Nowhere is the need to work together more important than in the twin customer-facing functions of marketing and sales. Sales and marketing look View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

to study education through the lenses of your research on innovation. How did you come to approach the problem in this way, and what makes the analysis of public education similar to, and different from, other industries you have studied... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

04 Jun 2018
What Do You Think?

Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

over for partner and left the firm. “He, the protected rainmaker, went on to make sexual advances to many other female associates and 15 years later is still employed in a cushy job at the firm.” Assuming that this situation is not unique and that those with... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

encourages similar candidness and humility in others. By taking the first step in revealing their vulnerabilities, leaders encourage an atmosphere where concerns and doubts are voiced. Potentially unforeseen problems can be addressed... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

organizations. But, at the same time, they don't really want to shift employers every two to three years for their entire careers. Similarly, companies would grind to a halt if they had to replace large portions of the workforce on a View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

like “helpful,” “rule of thumb,” and “tendency to hang out with similar people,” the editor of an academic research journal might prefer the academic terms “prosocial,” “heuristic,” and “homophily”—a word that runs rampant in social... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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Corporate Lobbying Strategy and Foreign MNEs

“U.S. Defense Contracts and the Lobbying Strategies of Foreign MNEs: The Liability of Foreignness and Make-or-Buy Decisions about Political Goods”

Many firms engage in lobbying with the expectation that their lobbying efforts will... View Details

Keywords: Non-market Strategy; Political Strategy; Lobbying; Make V. Buy; Multinational Enterprise; Global Strategy; United States

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

better. That meant a lot to him." The youngest of five children, Peter Levitt describes a father who was similar to his classroom persona. "He loved to debate, argue, and discuss issues," he says. "The dinner table was... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

licensed or sold the core ingredients, the MS-DOS operating system (followed by Windows) and the x86 microprocessor. Similarly, in the late 2000s, Google offered the Android operating system as a solution for handset makers that wanted to build smart-phones with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Supply Chain Inventory Planning

My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details

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Research

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

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Overview

The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details

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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management

In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details

12 May 2011
Research & Ideas

The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards

similarities and differences between the different types of boards and what newcomers to nonprofit governance can expect. Comparing Nonprofits And For-profits There are a number of important similarities and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

among new ecommerce customers and found that it was similar to that of existing customers, those who bought online before the pandemic. That suggests that new customers turned to online channels to cover View Details

Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

the trades of funds, rather than the holdings. Using this method, a fund that holds similar stocks to a successful fund, but buys them one quarter later, would not get credit for being similar to the... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

roll out a similar model beyond India—maybe even into Europe and the U.S. What's the secret? According to HBS professor Tarun Khanna, the success of the hospital, called Narayana Hrudayalaya, is due to the vision and tireless work of a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

places other than the Web, is clearly the next frontier. "Between Microsoft and Yahoo, we all have similar strategies. It's really going to be about great execution," he said. He added that desktop search offers an opportunity... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

27 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work

Primarily interested in incentives for growth in developing countries, the researchers began their study in India, where a large portion of businesses are family-owned. But they ended up finding similar results with follow-up studies in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Status: When and Why It Matters

Stuart, and Wang came to a very similar conclusion for the effect of status on citations to academic articles. Both studies provide compelling evidence that the purely symbolic value of status is considerably lower than we commonly think.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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