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- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
professor Tom Eisenmann, who also serves on the board of OneMain.com, one of the nation's ten largest Internet service providers, and on the advisory boards of many Internet start-ups. Eisenmann's definition... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
answering one key question: How are leaders successfully managing competitive companies in the 21st century? Today's constantly changing business environment presents challenges and opportunities that are more dynamic and complex than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
corporate governance, such as the presence of engaged independent board members and other measures, is vital for this separation to work well. “But if management is not under shareholders’ control,” continues Viceira, “it may act in its... View Details
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
Quest for Charismatic CEOs(Princeton University Press, 2002).Lagace: CEOs are suddenly very much in the spotlight, but you have been studying the dynamics of CEO successions for a number of years. What drove you to examine this topic in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
firm's pre-acquisition board of directors remain on the board of the combined firm after the merger. This also holds true at the level of individual target directors. An individual target director is more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
http://or.journal.informs.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/60/5/1199.full.pdf+html Convergence of Position Auctions under Myopic Best-Response Dynamics Authors:Cary, Matthew, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
come to the rescue. However, before we jump to conclusions, we are cautioned to assemble more information. Dr. B. V. Krishnamurthy pointed out that "odds are heavily stacked against (investors)," because "it is difficult to believe that View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Journal: Economic Policy The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying By: Kerr, William R., William F. Lincoln, and Prachi Mishra Abstract—How is economic policy made? In this paper we study a key determinant of the answer to the question: lobbying by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
experience—time spent onsite observing the people, places, and norms of a distant locale—is crucial in globally distributed collaboration, how such experience actually affects interpersonal dynamics is poorly understood. Based on 47... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
older children remains essentially unchanged. To our knowledge, this is the first rigorous demonstration that one need not succumb to temptation in order for it to detrimentally impact one's economic productivity. The Dynamics of Social... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
environment qualities, are systematically missing. Regions would benefit from a closer look at the insights from businesses when developing their strategies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49625 in press Organizational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
investment. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/ships_qje_2014.pdf Working Papers Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract— Architectural capabilities are an important... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory constraints. As common in practice, the retailer does not know the consumer's purchase probability at each price and must learn the mean demand from sales data. We propose an efficient and effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
corporations, the CEO is selected by a higher authority (the board of directors) acting on behalf of the shareholders, which gives him strong positional power to shape the company's direction, strategically and organizationally. The PSF... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
Globalization By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51810 The Structure of Board Committees By: Chen, Kevin D., and Andy Wu Abstract—We document and analyze... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
finite-horizon stochastic dynamic program to study when the value of concealment is positive or negative. We show that when consumers are myopic, the value of concealment is always positive. In contrast, we show that when consumers are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
Back, Moving Forward: A Review of Group and Team-Based Research, edited by Margaret A. Neale and Elizabeth A. Mannix, 359-381. Emerald Group Publishing, 2012 Abstract Purpose-We review how team members' identities and interests affect team functioning, paying special... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
regulation of unethical behavior. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49337 May-June 2015 NACD Directorship Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards By: Ludwig, Edwig, Elise Walton, and Michael Beer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
entirely. "It means realizing that investors take seats on the board and looking at how this may change the dynamics of the team, including the possibility of a new CEO," Wasserman says. They... View Details
- 31 Oct 2006
- HBS Case
Governing Sumida Corporation
examines how CEO Shigeyuki ("Shiggi") Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired "committee system" for its board of directors, the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a collaborative project undertaken by... View Details