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- 21 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 21, 2007
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsFinding the Right Job for Your Product Harvard Business School Note 607-028 Asserts that the typical ways that companies have learned to segment their markets, by product... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2003
- What Do You Think?
What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?
more practical context in which ethical dilemmas can be resolved than can separate courses in ethics or values. Further, how ethical and value-based dilemmas are taught may be as important as the inclusion of such subjects in the curriculum. Rene Wentworth commented... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
exhibits a higher degree of hierarchy than the electronics sector. We further analyze the differences in hierarchy using a simulation model based on transaction breadth and transaction specificity. The empirical measurement and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
organizations that have successfully tapped their data assets, diverse perspectives, and deep knowledge to build an organizational decision-making capability. The book introduces a model that utilizes the collective judgment of an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
welcome. In fact, new hires often enter fresh roles feeling optimistic and confident their organizations are eager to hear from them, but over time, employees increasingly feel less “psychologically safe” to contribute ideas, new research by Harvard Business View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
School of Business, be sure your competitive position is closer to that of a leading-edge, perpetually paranoid warhorse like Microsoft or Wal-Mart than to a depthless upstart like Netscape or a resting-on-its-laurels Kmart. D'Aveni... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138794313/ January 2015 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Strategic Disclosure: The Case of Business School Rankings By: Luca, Michael, and Jonathan Smith Abstract—We empirically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
iPhoto Jeff Bezos, visiting a Harvard Business School classroom 21 years ago, told skeptical students his goal with Amazon.com was to "sell everything to everyone everywhere." Even dog food? students wondered, which would... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
Returns By: Greenwood, Robin, and Dimitri Vayanos Abstract—We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
School Assistant Professor Boris Vallée. “Platforms need to be attentive about this potential problem when thinking about their design. They want as many investors as possible, both sophisticated and less so, [and] they want to make sure... View Details
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
Group plc: May 2006 Harvard Business School Case 807-006 Since 2004, Philip Yea, the first outsider ever to lead 3i Group, one of Europe's largest publicly listed private equity firms, has been trying to help the far-flung organization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
apps for frontline employees to contain the pandemic. The experience will like reshape the entire health care industry for years to come. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Health Care Initiative at Harvard Business School how... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
now own over 80% of banking assets in Mexico, and we show how, using a political economy model and a series of econometric tests, this has helped to stabilize the system and reduced non-performance loans, but it has also increased the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
Customers value some of the most powerful brands in the world primarily for their "cultural value": They provide imaginative resources that people use to build their identities. These are what Harvard Business School professor... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
Among the most popular elective courses at Harvard Business School is Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE). Developed by Professor Clayton M. Christensen, the course teaches future leaders how to use well-researched... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
a one-fifth reduction in the likelihood of losing their board seat and in the likelihood of losing other directorships. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-048.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsDasher Company Harvard Business View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
Researchers at Harvard Business School publish hundreds of studies around business management each year, often in collaboration with peers from other institutions. Here are insights collected from papers and journal articles published... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
professor at Harvard Business School who coleads the WMS with Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics. "If you really want to be convincing, it's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
Summing Up How will sustainability be achieved? To sum up responses to this month's column, the question is not whether global sustainability will be achieved but how. One school of thought could perhaps be characterized as enlightened... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett