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- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
individuals in MBA and Executive MBA programs. Our third study developed survey measures of the six implicit voice theories identified in the prior two studies in a new sample of 265 adults with diverse work experience, and examined... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
and innovation need not be strategic tradeoffs and highlight the substantive role of senior teams in building dynamic capabilities. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-088WP.pdf Organizational Designs and Innovation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
Michael Morris and Paul Ingram at Columbia Business School, we surveyed Executive MBA students in Beijing, Shanghai, and New York, asking them detailed questions about their professional networks. These View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
guidance is needed or to make introductions to customers, prospective partners, or job candidates. Advisers may also mentor junior members of a team when you lack the funds or time to hire in an experienced leader. Advisers are usually... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
Mott said "let's not forget the plethora of research that shows teams consistently outperform individuals. It is the modifying effect of the team, which also slows down the decision-making process, that produces a better... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
and execute truly creative solutions. Perhaps the traditional image of the creative genius working alone to create great breakthroughs is not so accurate after all. To shatter conventional wisdom about group creativity is one purpose of... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5
and Enel, the largest electric utilities in Germany and Italy, respectively. In March 2007, Acciona's executive chairman Jose Manuel Entrecanales is considering three strategic alternatives: tendering its shares-and realizing a capital... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
job and getting banned from serving as an executive or director at any other company for five years. This consensual workplace relationship—forbidden under the iconic fast-food chain’s fraternization policy because of potential conflicts... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
line of research examines how best to schedule work to improve operational performance. This literature typically takes the perspective of a central planner who directs individuals to execute tasks in a prescribed order. In many settings,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
predict the health care needs of patients, continually enhance patient outcomes, and drive transformative solutions to import community access to health care. For example, using patient data including emergency department visits and sodium levels, the analytics group... View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
implementations." In this e-mail interview Miller discusses lessons learned with colleagues Vincent Dessain (HBS MBA '87) and Daniela Beyersdorfer of the Paris-based HBS Europe Research Center. Dessain, executive director of the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
Supplement to HBS No. 817-018. The (B) case briefly outlines what the co-founder and CEO want to do about the issues in the (A) case and the questions this response raises in the mind of the executive charged with implementing the CEO’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
decreases as functional managers join the executive team suggesting a shift in activities from general to functional managers-a phenomenon we term "functional centralization." Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
situations as well.” The decision to study alumni connections was borne of the professors' personal school ties: both received their PhDs in finance from the University of Chicago. In 2007, each landed a position in the Finance Unit at HBS, where they View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
Advanced Management Program and a founding member of Intel. Now executive vice president of that corporation, he is also president of Intel Capital, a corporate venture capital unit investing in companies in this country and companies... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
maximizing shareholder value as the primary focus and motivation for a corporation's existence” Topics tackled include how boards can most effectively oversee company strategy, CEO succession, and executive compensation. Also considered... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
market, we induce a theoretical framework to explain how firms win the race to find a viable business model. As the new market emerged, high-performing firms enacted three strategies in sequence that helped them achieve their objective quickly and efficiently. First,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
games on a new challenge, he founded an online gaming venture, which later became known as 38 Studios. During the venture's first two years, he built a team of 70 people, including an executive View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Business School Case 415-047 BlackRock: Diversity as a Driver for Success In July 2014, the Global Executive Committee (GEC) for BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, held a two-day offsite to discuss the state of talent within... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel