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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Arizona, give their CEO updates on their respective projects via video chat. There are more than a dozen reports, covering everything from marketing to engineering to HR. Some are brief, some—a disagreement over a potential... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
political consensus to make investments in the infrastructure that will lead to more effective use of these resources. There is a largely unrecognized opportunity for the private sector to engage in selective investments that consider... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract In their seminal 1985 paper, Katz and Shapiro study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided platforms and direct network effects. We consider systems compatibility when competing platforms are two-sided and there are indirect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
look at the "softer" components of risk management, including a comparison of two different, equally effective risk officer styles and roles. Social Strategies That Work Author:Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Publication:Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
The diary findings also showed a positive carry-over effect in creativity and productivity, one day and even two days after a worker reported being in a good mood. So what can managers and entrepreneurs do to promote a healthy, positive... View Details
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
rejiggering to compete in our ever-more-mobile, Internet-dependent society. Recovering from crisis requires more than a push-button response. Source: Olivier Le Moal Margolis, who co-wrote a Harvard Business Review article called How to Bounce Back from Adversity with... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
Effectively By: Casciaro, T., F. Gino, and M. Kouchaki Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51004 February 2016 Journal of Accounting & Economics Labor Unemployment Insurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
eventually lost out. In this case, says Ahuja, the company may have been better off giving up its product and instead profiting by licensing the idea to Gillette or another large company. "Companies patent something to prevent others from coming into their space,... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
was targeted by a proposal. With respect to the effect on compensation practices, we find that (i) targeted firms where the proposal was approved experienced a decrease in the level of CEO compensation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
we identify core insights about how firms compete against one another in established markets. Based on our evaluation, we argue that a promising research opportunity for strategy lies in exploring how firms strategically interact in new markets and which moves are most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
and instructions for employing the 4+2 formula. They also warn readers that although they believe they are offering the most statistically effective approach to achieving the highest performance, it requires a high degree of stamina and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
David H. Langstaff (MBA 1981), president and CEO of Veridian Corporation of Arlington, Virginia, a knowledge–systems company that works extensively in the area of cyber assurance and security. Explains Langstaff, “For managers, it’s not... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
over time turn even blue-collar workers into capitalists, and Americans-historically passbook savers-into a nation of investors. "For the general public," notes John J. Brennan (MBA '80), chairman and CEO of the Vanguard Group,... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
turnaround of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in the 2002-2003 season? Was it Paul Pressler as head of Disney Sports, because he got investment funds from Disney CEO Michael Eisner and then hired Bryan Murray? Was it Bryan Murray as the general... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
of course be Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, who put in just one year at Harvard College before retreating westward to lay the groundwork for the computer revolution. HBS alumni selected Gates, barely twenty years old and a business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the rest of the world looked to as a capital market that effectively allocated resources in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
walking around. One of Baer’s Major League Baseball (MLB) peers, Boston Red Sox president and CEO Larry Lucchino, calls him “one of baseball’s most versatile and effective executives.” “He leads the league... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
best because God, President Roosevelt, and I would never, ever forgive you.” Affectionately called “the body snatcher” by FDR because his CEO meetings proved so very effective, Weinberg rapidly accumulated an extraordinary advantage for... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
workers into capitalists, and Americans-historically passbook savers-into a nation of investors. "For the general public," notes John J. Brennan (MBA '80), chairman and CEO of the Vanguard Group, one of America's largest mutual fund... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons