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- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
ownership patterns that help to explain the dispersion. For instance, government-owned organizations tend to receive low management scores across all the sectors and countries in the study. "They are particularly View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
of advantage. The three principles of judo strategy, they say, are based on those of the martial art itself, which teaches smaller competitors to turn the weight and strength of larger View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
students to clarify their personal and professional goals while looking at their strengths and weaknesses. They are asked to reflect on their experiences View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
relates to the impact of these shifts: to what extent do they really affect the pace of innovative discovery and diffusion? Much of the theoretical economics literature, such as Richard Gilbert and Carl... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
absence of cost asymmetries and as long as Windows has a first-mover advantage (a larger installed base at time zero), Linux never displaces Windows of its leadership position. This result holds true regardless of the View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
growth. Regional industry growth also increases with the strength of related clusters in the region and with the strength of similar clusters in adjacent regions. We also find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
terms of value created for customers, employees, and shareholders? If the latter, is it the natural result of a system of incentives geared to short-term financial rather than longer-term business benefits? View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 May 2022
- Blog Post
The Territory of Motherhood: A Reflection in Honor of Mother’s Day
amazing moms who have turned into dear friends helped to soften this reality. They reminded me of my own strength and became my personal cheerleaders. They were there without being asked View Details
- 25 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
3 Reasons I Chose to Attend HBS
physically and emotionally taxing, but the reflection that I did before I started the process provided me the strength and focus that I needed to go through it. View Details
- Career Coach
Thoba Grenville-Grey
Thoba wants to help students interested in investing careers from international backgrounds break into US roles by highlighting the nuances of the process and the potential resources and View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
The Old Heave-Ho
First-year students let off a little end-of-the-year steam at the RC Olympics, held on campus last May. Sections competed against each other, testing their strength and agility in events such as dodgeball,... View Details
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
Tightly packed workers and other weak protections allowed COVID-19 to sweep through American slaughterhouses during the past year, infecting at least 45,000 employees and... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? I draw from extensive personal interaction and correspondence with nearly fifty former executives as well as research in psychology, criminology,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
by transforming" the existing business or creating a new one. An effective e-leader, Hargrove continues, must shift from "being a productivity and efficiency junkie to being an opportunity seeker View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
sophisticated set of financial incentives that are applied to both administrative and clinical staff. The case allows students to evaluate the strengths and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Suchita Prasad
what it would take for me to achieve my end goals. On a more personal level, the HBS MBA has provided more meaningful insight into myself as I have mapped my strengths and weaknesses. I have learned to raise... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
Provides the reader with a basic understanding of organizational structure. The first section outlines some of the key tools and criteria that must be taken into account in designing organizational structures. In the second section, some... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
accountability standards and for monitoring them. The authors show how accountability frameworks attached to principal-agent logics and applied universally across cultures typically fail to achieve their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
The JD/MBA Seminar: The Perfect Practice Ground
contentious parts of the debate and how to resolve those pieces. We will never forget the long-lasting, personal bonds forged in this seminar. In the future, this cohort gives us both the strength View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
Business Studies (forthcoming) Abstract The last decade of work in corporate governance has shown that weak legal institutions at the country level hinder firms in emerging economies from accessing finance View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace