External Team Leadership - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

for someone who's part of the team and who's making them successful. I think that comes from humility. In the new economy of the 21st century, leadership is about this combination of confidence and humility.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

foundation for being a leader and the effective exercise of leadership can also be seen as the foundations not only for great leadership, but also for a high quality personal life and an extraordinary organization. One can see this as a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2010
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First Look: May 11

Amyris' marketing team was investigating the commercial interest for both types of products, while the research and development team and the operations group were building processes that could accommodate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53786 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Scope versus Speed: Team Diversity, Leader Experience, and Patenting Outcomes for Firms By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Martine R. Haas... View Details

30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

Richard Hackman died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 8, 2013, psychology lost a giant. Six and a half feet tall, with an outsize personality to match, Richard was the leading scholar in two distinct areas: work design and team... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

They absolutely do,” Mensah said. “Courageous people do it all the time. They don’t need consultants to teach them. They don’t need training. You do it like you do everything else. You make it a priority. But they don’t want to do it. What you really want to do... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

in conjunction with debt, to be the best policy alternative under real external shocks for emerging nations. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44340 How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

practices, routines, and technologies. Some of these tools have the potential to become part of the bank's decision-making processes, others do not. Then the team looked at ways that the tool-makers could expand their influence. They used... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking

28 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

challenges to pursuing that opportunity were, first, gaining credibility and commitment within HBS for such a new endeavor, and, second, demonstrating to the relevant external practitioner and academic stakeholders that we could create... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

August 2014 (Revised August 2015)
Supplement

Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (B)

By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats

Valve, one of the world's top video game software companies, has also become an iconic example of an organization with virtually no hierarchy. A 400-person organization, Valve's unique organizational form (described in detail in the case and accompanying employee... View Details

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13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

Ashton Perry of Lucent Corp.'s Lucent Venture Partners. "It's hard enough to incent an entrepreneurial team in the way the external market will incent them without raising all kinds of questions about... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

lower risk levels for banks that employ bank managers with higher equity stakes. Our evidence also suggests that external shareholders affect risk taking via directors representing their interests. We also demonstrate that regulation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Apr 2021
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

manager, among other things, “you were there to tone down the heat from above and keep your team motivated and focused.” Tim Armour said that his growing organization tried to remain as flat as possible, but is adding to middle management... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

external factors play a surprising role in strategy formulation and execution. As Gilbert explains, "A lot of our book is about understanding (a) that realized strategy is often different from intended strategy, and (b) there are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

at times of low market liquidity. We provide evidence suggesting that mutual funds’ cash holdings are not large enough to fully mitigate price impact externalities created by the liquidity transformation they engage in. Download working... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

renewal. This change process involves disciplined conversations, actions, and associated learning by the senior team, diffusing these learning capabilities to the extended senior leadership team and, over... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007

underlies future lock-in. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-038.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAbraham Lincoln and the Civil War Harvard Business School Compilation 805-115 Analyzes Abraham Lincoln's leadership... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu.... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

January 2018
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Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (B)

By: William R. Kerr and Gamze Yucaoglu

On November 7, 2017, Sidar Şahin, founder and CEO of Peak Games, a Turkey-based global mobile gaming company, had just closed the sale of Peak Games’ card games studio. This sale included three of the company’s top grossing games and half of its team. Sahin was happy... View Details

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01 Jun 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

Nonprofit Accountability Working Paper. Nonprofit leaders face multiple, and sometimes competing, accountability demands from numerous actors, for varying purposes, and requiring differing levels of organizational response. The challenge for View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Market Makers Bid for Success

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What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

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Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (B)

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

First Look: June 17

Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

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The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (B)

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