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- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
the management and business history literatures that entrepreneurship needs incorporating more strongly as an explanatory factor. This working paper argues that Koç acted as both a Kirznerian and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
activities that our resilient sample of firms is undertaking can be repeated by other businesses to overcome the profound business challenges posed by the pandemic. 1. Learn... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52309 Harvard Business School Case 817-056 IguanaFix IguanaFix is a rapidly scaling Latin American startup that provides an online platform connecting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
should they be changed? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/116029-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 116-046 Google to Alphabet: Two Job Opportunities No abstract available.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
People achieve success in the early years of their career by specializing and becoming functional experts—in essence, they succeed by knowing more and more about less and less, says Benjamin C. Esty, chair of the General Management Program at Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
between bundling and indirect network effects, we find that they act as substitute strategies, with a lower relative effectiveness for bundling when network effects are stronger. 2013 pub From Social Control to Financial Economics: The... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
published in the company’s prospectus. The lessons to be found there are classic examples (and warnings to other IPO companies) of how not to frame a public offering. WeWork took advantage of being deemed an “emerging company” under the View Details
- 17 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership
now is that our intrinsic survival mechanisms—such basic behaviors as how to enter a building, or bring in the mail, or greet a friend—require conscious thought in a way they have not since toddlerhood. The services and View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
want from the airline.” The strategy also made good business sense because after all, Bastian told his managers and executives, “If you take care of your people, they take care of your customers.” In committing to the strategy for the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
Impasse means that we need to change our whole approach to a problem. Thoughts are always part and parcel of the feeling experience: thoughts of "I'm not doing something correctly, I'm not succeeding, I'm not fulfilling my potential.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51538 July–August 2016 European Business Review The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors By: Teixeira, Thales S., and Peter Jamieson Abstract—A new wave of Internet View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
brain that simply produces desires and cravings and emotions. We don't have to act that way. We don't have to be controlled by our limbic system. On the contrary, we can manage View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
actions on performance. However, standard regression models estimate only the average effects of these actions across firms. Our paper discusses how random coefficient models (RCMs) may generate new insights about firm heterogeneity and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. [Image by: iStock Photo ] Other stories by Julia Austin Making the Right Technical Hire How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities Startup... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 01 Nov 2017
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?
a decision to assess all board members and the top 200 executives regarding their historical and future ability to effectively perform their jobs while truly acting in accordance with View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
and Rakesh Khurana Harvard Business Publishing, 2010 Abstract There is a widespread consensus that innovation is fast becoming the principal source of differentiation and competitive advantage in today's knowledge-intensive economy. But... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
job test scores or grant managers discretion in making hiring decisions. We implement our test in the context of the introduction of a valuable job test across 15 firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
properly? Possibly," she said. "Could they potentially put social pressure on CEOs who are acting badly?" Global Threatens Local Harvard Business School's Jan W. Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
the nation's private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs in our country. They are also instrumental in driving the... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
and Organizational Issues Thomas Eisenmann and Alison Berkley WagonfeldHarvard Business School Note 812-100 This note discusses the organizational challenges that startups often encounter as they begin to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel