Coupling - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2011
News

Local Hero

could tell right away if he had a couple of tickets for the Giants game on Saturday,” Baer recalls. “He’d give me a little nod, and I’d know — yes! — we would be going to Candlestick to watch Willie Mays play center field.” Fast-forward a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

were not present for much of American history. That reflects a couple of things. The growth of the state has been quite dramatic, relative to the early decades of the American experience. There was, much like today, a huge concentration... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

to pass the ball. Coupled with a growth in analytics and innovative offensive schemes, the NFL has seen an explosion in passing offense over the past two decades. The New England Patriots and head coach Bill Belichick have been at the... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

engineering, technology and mathematics (STEM), and they have equivalent contributions in outcomes like granted patents and entrepreneurial firm starts. These contributions are increasing, up from 10%-15% just a couple of decades ago. And... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

18 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 18

find that the classification of software applications within this architecture, as being either Core or Peripheral, is a significant predictor of the costs of architectural change. Using OLS regression models, we show that this measure has greater predictive power than... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jun 2018
News

My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

and a half years, two years in New York and then a couple years in Los Angeles. And it was a wonderful first place to work. Very tough place to work in terms of hours and things like that. And we had decided to live in suburban New... View Details

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

relations director, weighed the advantages and disadvantages of incorporating information from the financial markets into the firm's planning and operations activities. What were his goals, and what sorts of obstacles did he face? Miller: I heard from a View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

had a "system" of hiring MBAs in cohorts of ten to fifteen. These young MBAs were generally placed into "assistant to" positions (assisting the head of a division, for example) for a couple of years to learn the... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

(photo by Jon Enoch) In truth, his business background is central to his work as head of state. Before coming to politics in 2003, Mitsotakis worked in finance at Chase and McKinsey in London. When the couple returned to Greece, where... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

exploring decarbonization models, pairing with power companies to feed its CO2 to their plants. “We have people who are rocket scientists”—literally—“who are looking at this for us and doing the energy analysis. I touch base with them every View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

31 Jul 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

business leader do we manage those forces? McGinnis: There's a couple of different things that you can do and I'll give you a few examples today. The first thing you need to do is... It's amazing. There's no stats out there by the way.... View Details

19 Jan 2023
News

Forged in Fire

fundamentally, there were a couple of stories that I could have told myself. Story number one is that I went blind because I've got incredibly bad luck, right? Or story number two is that I went blind because I'm one of the very few... View Details

10 Aug 2022
News

Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

multi-generational products. And what's the phrase too? There's a stealth. Is it a stealth- SWG: Yeah. DM: ... product as well? Can you talk about that idea? SWG: So I profiled companies that have done this very well. And a couple of... View Details

22 May 2020
Blog Post

Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

heartbeat spiked and my hands started to tremble slightly. I took a couple of deep breaths and started scanning for targets. Through the remote weapon system, I saw five individuals maneuvering amongst prepared fighting positions. I began... View Details

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

leader and a better human being for embracing the pain of this experience. Barry Rowan (MBA 1983) EVP & CFO, Cool Planet Energy Systems Seventh time’s a charm When I left HBS my plan was to work for a small company for a couple of years... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

coupled with this delivery system that was, wittingly or not, heartless. And I've been at it since then. I wrote Market-Driven Health Care, which was a very popular book. But the part of it that I thought was the most important, which is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

the dinner, he sent a limousine to our house to bring her to the School. But most touching of all: when my mother died, John came to her funeral service at the Village Church. Following the service, he gave me a big hug; it was like being picked up by a bear! (John... View Details

Keywords: Dean

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

change in directions that favor new sets of interests (for a review, see Battilana, 2010). A second factor that contributes to institutional change is determining whether the processes are endogenous to the everyday functioning of institutions, such as the loose View Details

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

would trade a couple of years of doing what you’re doing.” And the same for me. I’m like, “Yeah, it would be nice to have some money in the bank, too.” So we have a good laugh about that. It’s a tough thing to have both. I hear people all... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

active church members and had traveled to missions in the West Indies. The couple are survived by six children: David, Hamilton, and Royster Peterson; and Jennifer, Grace, and Catherine Price. Peterson is also survived by two brothers,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

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