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- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
Nitin Nohria as a graduate student in 1994. To learn the extent to which chief executive turnover affects corporations, they studied the performance of two hundred of the largest U.S. companies before and after chief executive... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
tomorrow's corporate and organizational leaders, according to Associate Professor Michel Anteby. In this book excerpt from Anteby's Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education, he takes readers on a guided... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
organizational rank would indicate—recognized experience in a particular style of negotiation, for example. Can such "perceived relative power" make a difference at the table? The short answer is yes. In "Perceived Relative... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
and Japanese competitors. The American carmakers seem less passionate about their product, and relations between the different organizational functions seem more constrained, as does the product-design process.” Flexible and Nimble HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Alumni Books The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the... View Details
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Research Links | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Visit & Contact Us Special Collections Baker Library Search Search Search U.S. Steel Resources Research Links Research Links Resources Time study group, McDonald Works, McDonald, Ohio. Show... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
Working Papers The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds Authors: Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, and Antoinette Schoar Abstract This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter (pronounced “SHOOMpayter”) to the study of economic behavior was to humanize it. In part because of his own turbulent life, he came to understand that mathematical certitude could not always prevail where “indeterminate human... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
high impact. Filtering A Leader There are three factors that social scientists agree minimize the impact of leaders: An external environment in which responses of competitors limits the leader's discretion to act. Internal organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
learn Kahn’s study on the effect of managerial quality on baseball team performance and Belichick’s example in practice offer valuable lessons that support the hype generated when coaches are hired. First, all other things being equal,... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
prison. Studies by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics show that nearly seven out of 10 former inmates reoffend and return to prison within three years. The Reset Foundation tries to break that cycle by diverting people from the penal... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
information and financial and other intermediaries. How will the Asia-Pacific region benefit from the presence of the HBS research office? The intellectual capital created by the exchange of ideas and the study of Asian business practices... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
“business is an extraordinary force for good.” While Nohria earned a chemical engineering degree from prestigious IIT Bombay, he harbored a dream of becoming an entrepreneur even as he applied to a doctoral program at MIT. At MIT, he discovered his love for the field... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
Working PapersAn Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions Authors:Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Combining new, hand-collected data with a widely studied dataset, we examine how firms use... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51552 forthcoming Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm By: Kato, Takao, and Pian Shu Abstract—We View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
new job. In other words, is there a self-selection bias in studies of the effects of job on a person's chemical makeup? As Stephanie Smith put it, "Perhaps it's a case of either the hormones and natural adaptability of the person... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
Summing Up Is "identity" a victim of competitiveness? A recent study of organizational behavior published by Timothy Kieningham and Lerzan Toksoy shows that employees' perceptions of their... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
Dávila, now on the faculty of Stanford Business School. Some thirty case studies are also available in a version of the book geared toward students as well as managers who want to tap more extensively into examples of best practice. Q:... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 14 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
From Colombia to the District of Columbia: Making an Impact with Paulina Llano (MBA 2022)
her ultimate goal – working in her home country to make it a better place. Positioning Herself for Success After high school, Llano lived in France for a year and then studied Business Administration and Political Science at Universidad... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
2015 Modern China Studies Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—This article seeks to understand the motivations behind the People's Republic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne