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- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
different versions of their applications for each social networking site. Facebook's managers had to decide how to respond to OpenSocial. Should they join the initiative or keep Facebook Platform proprietary and seek further... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
in multiple innovations, including smartphones, search, online purchasing, and social media. Lead director John Thompson led the board committee that chose insider Satya Nadella as its next CEO. Nadella completely changed Microsoft’s... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
for positions of international leadership in research and education. Bargains-then-ripoffs: Innovation, Pricing and Lock-in in Enterprise Software Author:Ian Larkin Periodical:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2008).... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
consumers make complementary choices in purchase decisions (e.g., chips and salsa), product inter-operabilities (smartphones and networks), and dynamic decisions (current exercise and future healthcare consumption). Multiple consumers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
transparency while masking their true performance; other firms' disclosures, in contrast, are more representative of their environmental performance. What deters selective disclosure? We hypothesize that selective disclosure, a novel symbolic strategy firms use to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who recently published a paper on the topic of technology commoditization in MIT Sloan Management Review. According to Shih,... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
shock that occurred when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. Our study is among the first to theorize about the impact of ratings on subsequent performance, and we introduce important contingencies that influence firm response. These theoretical advances... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
from abroad, and only relatively benign competition among themselves, the Big 3 and their stakeholders were all happy and doing well." That comfortable situation changed abruptly when oil prices soared in the 1980s, and the Japanese... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
companies that managed the restructuring process successfully, despite facing huge obstacles, to highlight "best practice" (although in several cases I did not know what the outcome would be when I first contacted the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
growing rapidly in importance. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52240 forthcoming Management Science Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
“Nothing sells itself,” says Frank Cespedes, senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. “When companies introduce new products, they are offering something that by definition is going to replace... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
the world into a multidimensional crisis. We are not only facing a health crisis, but economic and social crises, too, characterized by rising inequalities on top of an environmental crisis. A common root of these multiple crises can be... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
Rhetoric and Independence Are Not Enough: Empowering Managers and Directors to Do What Is Right, you challenge the adequacy of the Business Roundtable's assertion that the selection of a well-qualified and ethical CEO is the most... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
of Germany, stakeholder value, and Germany's social market economy. The Cayenne inspired yet more controversy when one of Germany's leading economists argued that it did not deserve its "Made in Germany" label. A good... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
have too many people on the board of financial institutions who don't know anything about financial institutions, then you have a problem. Q: But you also make the point that it's not possible for a board member to know everything. It's important that they know enough... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business will be conducted in the future. This paper describes how IBM View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
seen a variation on this story? Getting the Bosses' Approval From Ted Watson The general idea—hardly unique to us—was to do business consistently across all of our operating units. We would have the same approach to conducting any activity regardless of whether a View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
the person who was best suited to lead the early stage of company development is no longer the best person to continue leading the company. Now, the product has to be sold: You have to create a sales organization, manage View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
important for any company doing business in multiple countries. While it is simplistic to suggest that there is no country effect at play in determining the success of companies—Deshpandé and Farley do not make that contention—their work... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne