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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that newfound status on the strength of market-stabilizing structural changes that took root after the last crash. "Everything we do... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
Levitt style, sparked immediate controversy. “The article did succeed in stimulating a great deal of comment,” Levitt said in a 2003 interview with Stephen Greyser on the occasion of a colloquium that marked the article’s 20th anniversary and reassessed the View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Broughton (MBA 2006) (Macmillan) Having the drive, ambition, and inspiration to start a new business takes a particular mindset: the ability to disrupt the status quo, use design thinking to generate fresh perspectives, build resilience... View Details
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
RACI (pronounced “racy”). Each letter stands for how someone relates to a project: responsible for doing the work, accountable for the success of the work, needs to be consulted on the work, and needs to be informed on the status of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
middle class—outweigh the challenges of operating there. And indeed, as embodied by Nigeria's status as a net food importer despite having 80 million hectares of potential agricultural land, the challenges are considerable. Animal feed is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
members of the academy who were either denied tenure or had broken ranks with their "more academic colleagues" in order to teach leadership. More still are being taught by former practitioners who attained iconic status as... View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
status to the executive in charge of the project. This makes no sense if you truly believe that the point is aligning the whole organization around the strategy, not convincing the one executive that you are following his or her ideas.... View Details
- July 2024
- Case
Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO
By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc
In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Investment Banking; Stock Options; Financial Markets; Initial Public Offering; Institutional Investing; Price Bubble; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Internet and the Web; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Agreements and Arrangements; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Rank and Position; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Happiness; Reputation; Status and Position; Well-being; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Canada
Satchu, Reza, Tom Quinn, and Andrew Kosc. "Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO." Harvard Business School Case 825-037, July 2024.
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
show that, even in a world with perfect capital markets and without differences in innate ability, wealthy parents invest, on average, more in their offspring than poorer ones. As a result, persistence of economic status is higher at the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
regulators to industry, and the importance of considering Type I and Type II errors and status quo bias when contemplating whether to evoke the precautionary principle. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
such as conforming to the status hierarchy when it comes time to make a decision (for example, "She's been here the longest, so let's just go with her idea"), the opportunity for utilizing relevant expertise to improve team results... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
work and non-work identities. Specifically, we suggest that identity compatibility is influenced by (a) the extent to which individuals can control the co-activation of identities, and (b) the routinization of identity co-activation. We argue that factors such as View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
Stephen Schwarzman (MBA 1972) is chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone, the world's largest alternative asset manager with $991 billion in assets under management. He majored in culture and behavior at Yale and has spent a lifetime reading the zeitgeist,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
look large and compelling. But it can have significant downsides. Leaders who prefer to zoom in tend to create policies and systems that depend too much on politics and favors. They can focus too closely on personal status and on turf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
different attitude from what most people had. To boost the status of entrepreneurial study, I knew I had to get someone whose credentials, integrity, human qualities, and values were unimpeachable. Howard was known as an extremely smart... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
who is invested in keeping it that way. The book presents a new vision of how health care could work if it were truly designed to meet consumer needs, creating a call to action on how to demand and help create such a system. A wake-up call to an industry tenuously... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
spring’s Commencement address. As he greets a visitor to his bare-bones office in Mountain View, California, there’s little evidence of this former hedge-fund analyst’s meteoric rise to rock-star status as a kind of online pied piper for... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
May–June 2018 Harvard Business Review The Surprising Power of Questions By: Brooks, Alison Wood, and Leslie K. John Abstract—Much of an executive’s workday is spent asking others for information—requesting status updates from a team... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Gender-class differences are reflected in women’s employment beliefs and behaviors. Research integrating social class with gendered experiences in homes and workplaces deepens our understanding of the complex interplay between sources of power and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
marketplace status quo. Demanding a voice and sometimes a hand in the products they buy, these digitally empowered consumers― “Me’s”―have inverted the traditional power dynamics of retail into metail. To put it simply, your customers are... View Details