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- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
commemorate the HBS milestone. Beyond moving the overarching topic of women and leadership, speakers examined the role academic research plays and how that research can be used for what Ely termed "a lever for change." “Better... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-078.pdf Deep Dives: The Role of Top Management in Linking Relevant Capabilities to Core Activities Authors:Howard H. Yu and Joseph L. Bower Abstract The inability of established firms to make necessary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
Republican presidential candidates, but the results could help many marketing teams decide how to allocate scarce resources between mass advertising and personal selling efforts, or, as the researchers call it, between the air war and the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
Case 407-050 Gianna Angelopoulous-Daskalaki led the bidding organization that secured the 2004 Olympics for Athens and then later the preparations for those Games. Tracks her leadership style and how she and her team won the bid. After... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
In discussions that continue to swirl in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the question of corporate governance's role is often front and center. In The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
Good venture capitalists are process literate: They have been through the game many times, they know where the traps are, and they know how to avoid them. They also have a strong set of relationships that they can bring to bear to help the entrepreneurial View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
markets also plays a causal role in shifting investments to more novel startups-by lowering the cost of experimentation for early stage investors and allowing them to make riskier, and more novel, investments. Paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
institutional theory, managers, and policymakers. What Good Are Shareholders? Authors:Justin Fox and Jay W. Lorsch Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2012) Abstract The article looks at the role outside... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
PublicationsForeign Direct Investment and Growth: On the Role of Complementarities, the Search for Mechanisms, and the Potential for Linkages Authors:Alfaro, Laura, and Matthew Johnson Publication:Encyclopedia of Financial Globalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
the context of an M&A transaction in an emerging economy and the role of private equity and venture capital in the development and the eventual consolidation of the new media advertising industry. Provides a context in which to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
Should it refuse to treat the patient further because he was bad for business, even though his life depended on future treatment? (The hospital's legal team advised refusing treatment; the doctor, who was often the recipient of the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
draws on theories of entrepreneurship and history to explore the ways in which historical processes play an integral role in entrepreneurship. It builds off the plea by Joseph Schumpeter for an active exchange between historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
provider, an intermediary, or any other participant in the value chain to the customer. Within a company the stewardship function might reside with the CEO, a top manager, or a team of senior managers. Despite much talk of... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
forthcoming Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—The Fearless Organization offers practical guidance for View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
of organizational features during growth; the second, their dramatic change. We juxtapose the two narratives to reveal ongoing gaps in the study of how growth can effect change along three dimensions: organizational design, team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
underlining that toolmaking plays a vital role in explaining how functional experts may compete in the intraorganizational marketplace for influential ideas and the attention of decision makers. Specifically, as risk management becomes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
Role of Business. "Our book argues that if we don't begin to address, in a systemic way, the issues and problems and the negative outcomes and challenges [of market capitalism], then we are likely to see a lot more movements like Occupy... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-048.pdf Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America Author: Gunnar Trumbull Abstract Theories of legitimate regulation have emphasized the role of governments either in fixing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
providers who have the scale, experience, teams and facilities to achieve excellent results. To move to a value-based approach to employee health benefits, employers must take a number of essential steps. The first is to mount an... View Details