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- 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17
Working PapersThe First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures Authors:Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman Abstract This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
Churchwell: What inspired your work analyzing the study of business history around the world? Geoffrey Jones: There were two main factors driving our desire to bring together this survey of the current state of business history worldwide.... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
science/learning, metrics, structured interventions, open communication, and promoting culture change at the work unit, leader, and organization level. Conclusions and Relevance: Understanding the business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
senior researcher in the Global Research Group who has been working recently with a number of faculty members to develop Asian-based cases for the School's curriculum. "There's one Chinese company, for example, that has established... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
extends existing work demonstrating the importance of political economy explanations for financial development and financial backwardness. It should help to better understand which policies will work for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
100 years. The situation may be due in large part to the role of university-based business education from the founding of the Wharton School in 1881 and continuing right up to the present. According to Khurana, the schools first emphasized that managers should carry... View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10
under these conditions. After describing these foundational perspectives and more recent work that addresses this paradox, we outline several promising directions for research in this domain. We encourage researchers to develop... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
alliances are built. By motivations, we mean the conscious values and explicit purposes that initially drive individuals and organizations to explore the possibility of working across sectors. It is vital that each partner have clarity... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
comfortable expressing their opinions? A: How do you change a culture of fear? It's difficult! Despite some well-intentioned efforts, we haven't yet worked with an organization that has fully transformed... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
employees who are experts in their various areas of work. They say they feel "childlike" when they have to switch to the working language. It affects how they contribute. Managers primarily tend to worry about things like View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
rigor, it is hard to understand the significance of this empirical literature, and quite easy to dismiss it as anecdotal and unscientific. Third, many business historians still work within national frameworks. As a result, much literature... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
as Tom Nicholas suggests in a recent survey of the literature, while many scholars have documented the link between innovation and economic growth, a less well understood question is, "What drives innovation in the first place?" Historical View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 12 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?
I’m not just a professor and business consultant; I’m also a parent to two kids. As I’ve often mused, the challenges leaders face at home and at work aren’t necessarily all that different. In particular, both contexts leave leaders... View Details
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Homeland Security: A Ready-made Market
have," said Mark Cleverley, a senior solutions executive at IBM. "The CIA can talk to the INS," agreed Mark Hogan, vice president and general manager at BEA Government Systems, "but there are policy issues that affect the speed of adopting new... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
Working PapersDeterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/10/great-leaders-dont-need-experience/ar/1 Working PapersTeam Scaffolds: How Minimal In-Group Structures Support Fast-Paced Teaming Authors:Melissa Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
nuanced cultural approaches." Whether this will produce sustained economic superiority or a model to be emulated in the U.S. is debatable.—James Heskett Roy Bingham points out that "American management seems to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent—but what good does this talent do if no one is able to speak their mind? The traditional culture of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
Many people today are focused on the global economic crisis, but Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter sees also a global crisis of business. The model of American capitalism that worked so well to raise the fortunes of... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
Working PapersAn Optimal Lower Bound for Anonymous Scheduling Mechanisms Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Shahar Dobzinski, and Ron Lavi Abstract We consider the problem of designing truthful mechanisms to minimize the makespan on m unrelated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace