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  • 09 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 9

performance of hybrid organizations that pursue a social mission, and sustain their operations through commercial activities, by studying work integration social enterprises (WISEs). We argue that social imprinting and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

merchandise sales, with sales so far topping only $30 million, compared to Vancouver's $51 million. Such lackluster performance spells trouble not only for the Games themselves, but also for all of the brands that hope to ride its bobsled... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51996 forthcoming Quarterly Journal of Economics Catering to Investors Through Security Design: Headline Rate and Complexity By: Célérier, Claire, and Boris Vallée... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

its intake of meat. Nor can universities be made by legislative fiat to perform functions for which they are not expressly designed. For example, requiring universities to admit underprepared students is unlikely to produce a proportional... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education
  • November 2010
  • Supplement

Dow's Bid for Rohm and Haas (CW)

By: Benjamin C. Esty
Spreadsheet Supplement for 211020. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Performance; Joint Ventures; Financial Crisis; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Markets; Sales; Lawsuits and Litigation; Negotiation Deal; Governing and Advisory Boards; Cash Flow; Decisions; Chemical Industry; Kuwait
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  • 04 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

the business environment cause economic shifts that destabilize industries, companies, and even countries. They allow new entrants or forward-thinking established players to introduce innovations—in products, markets, or processes—that... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

capital processes to create value for its peripheral technologies. If there were promising technologies within Xerox that were not being utilized in Xerox's businesses, XTV provided a new path for them to enter the market. If that technology subsequently created... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

Case 112-095 The CEO of a financial services organization must decide how to maintain the company's "customer-first" values in the face of significant performance pressures after the economic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

from "real work." But when Google's people analytics team examined the value of managers, applying the same rigorous research methods the company uses in its operations, it proved the skeptics wrong. Mining data from employee surveys, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

business schools. The upshot was the rise to global prominence of firms based in the Rest, including Foxcomm, Huawei, HNA, Cemex, and TCS. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52975 The Role of Taxes in the Disconnect Between Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2019
  • Teaching Note

CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap

By: William R. Kerr and Ted Smalley Bowen
Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-081. The teaching note presents background, case details, and teaching strategies, along with board plans and supporting graphics. View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Training; Demographics; Economics; Education; Energy; Jobs and Positions; Intellectual Property; Labor; Knowledge; Leadership; Management; Marketing; Organizations; Outcome or Result; Performance; Personal Development and Career; Projects; Relationships; Risk and Uncertainty; Science; Technology; Energy Industry; North and Central America
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  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future

high-spirited address at the conference's conclusion. An entrepreneur responsible for starting fifty companies in ten countries, Twaalfhoven passed along his perspective on a number of topics, including the economic View Details
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Field Course: Business of the Arts - Course Catalog

sample syllabus for this course Overview The nonprofit arts and culture industry generates more than $166.billions of economic activity in the US—approximately $64 billion in spending by arts and cultural organizations and an additional... View Details
  • 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

  PublicationsTowards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors:Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna Publication:Journal of Accounting & Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

types of investments? In relation to manager selection, how could the Notre Dame investment team continue to find the best managers to create alpha? To what extent would the performance of managers during the crisis be predictive of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

was able to overcome the economic crisis that it faced and to maintain higher than average economic productivity, the other performed below average. “One of them failed, and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

the details of their business is crazy," Hargrove declares. "Michael Eisner, for example, works on the design of rides at Disney World and has input into all of Disney's films." Updated advice: All your coaching and mentoring will come to... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance

The Balanced Scorecard, an influential book on strategic performance management and control. 1997 Robert Merton and Myron Scholes win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for a new method to... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

and the multiple purposes for which goals are used, including planning, coordination, motivation, and evaluation. We explain why performance goals must pass three important tests: alignment with strategy, measurability, and linkage to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

Provide Wisdom? By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We compare the performance of a comprehensive set of alternative peer identification schemes used in economic benchmarking. Our... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel