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- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
forthcoming Strategic Management Journal When Does Advice Impact Startup Performance? By: Chatterji, Aaron, Solene Delecourt, Sharique Hasan, and Rembrand Koning Abstract—Why do some entrepreneurs thrive while others fail? We explore... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
the firm's business practices. We have built a simple classification system that when combined with an "assessment" model could yield powerful diagnostics on how to migrate and manage a company's portfolio of CSR programs.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
on riskier projects and strategies. But risk management must overcome severe individual and organizational biases that prevent managers and employees from thinking deeply and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
co-edited with Lina Gálvez-Muñoz, a scholar and lecturer at the University of Reading and University of Seville. The essays in their book, entitled Foreign Multinationals in the United States: Management and Performance, describe the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
manufacturing. And thanks to the war, Doriot has gained a lifetime of experience in organizing and managing new ventures in a pressure-cooker environment. It is not surprising, then, that the former head of the New England Council's... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
unite partners' objectives for creating a flexible supply chain; benchmark performance against other retailers; and evaluate and manage new technologies. Raman and Fisher provide specific, detailed metrics and techniques that can be used... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
enterprise in management and organization research, the lack of a cohesive knowledge base in this area is concerning. In this chapter, we propose that the underdevelopment of the attendant research infrastructure is an important, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
community service projects such as serving as classroom aides in inner-city schools or assisting staff at neighborhood Boys and Girls Clubs. Expansion of the relationship over the ensuing decade found Timberland supplying City Year's... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 01 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
Participant-Centered Learning, it was a program for 60 Latin American academics on case-method teaching, field-based research and case writing, especially with an eye to tailoring materials for unique management issues of Latin America.)... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
275,000 people. The case provides an update on TopCoder's growth and resulting changes in its platform and business model, specifically, its decision to virtualize the project management role. Issues related... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
project flopped, don't attack the person"). Deborah Blagg: Classic productivity books often focus on time management, but Extreme Productivity takes a much broader look. It reads more like a businessperson's handbook. Did you intend... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
neurology at Harvard Medical School. She is also an OpEd Project Fellow and director of the Center for Value-based Healthcare and Sciences with MGH. Katie Sonnefeldt is a research associate at HBS, supporting research in performance View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
it may become part of a larger debate in 2006 about added pressures on managers to produce short-term earnings regardless of the impact on the long-term health of the business. In his annual year-end letter to directors, Martin Lipton, a... View Details
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
in the United States, but US companies gave it all up.” HBS Professor of Management Practice Willy C. Shih served as president of Kodak's Digital & Applied Imaging business through the turn of the 21st century. Shortly after starting... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
management decisions, with consequences for aggregate economic activity. This article discusses the role of investment banking and investment management industry veterans on the Financial Accounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
What Does It Mean to Be Community Managed? Author:Siobhan O'Mahony Publication:Journal of Management & Governance 11, no. 2 (May 2007): 139-150 Abstract The concept of "open source" software initially referred to software... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
years, I believe I have a clear sense of the state of corporate governance in the United States and in much of Western Europe. Not surprisingly, my crystal ball for predicting future developments and demands on boards cannot be so clear. The Language of Global View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
creditors for quality reporting. In contrast, the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis posits that public equity firms, because their managers have a greater incentive to manage earnings, have lower... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- May 2017 (Revised July 2017)
- Supplement
Aadhaar: From Voluntary to Mandatory
By: Tarun Khanna, Anjali Raina and Rachna Chawla
Approximately 1.1 billion residents of India (99% of the population) had a unique biometric identity—Aadhaar—by 2017. In six years, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) had achieved an unprecedented milestone in emerging and developed markets. The... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Emerging Markets; Information; Information Technology; Organizational Design; Infrastructure; Identity; Projects; Information Management; Government and Politics; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Transformation; Society; Welfare; Social Issues; Private Sector; Public Sector; Information Technology Industry; Asia; India; New Delhi
Khanna, Tarun, Anjali Raina, and Rachna Chawla. "Aadhaar: From Voluntary to Mandatory." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-512, May 2017. (Revised July 2017.)
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
performance on immaterial issues perform the best. These results speak to the efficiency of firms' sustainability investments, and also have implications for asset managers who have committed to the integration of sustainability factors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne