by Tom Quinn - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Sep 2011
What Do You Think?

What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?

Summing Up The first impression I get from respondents to this month's column is that Steve Jobs can't be replaced as CEO of Apple by just one person. Rather the succession must include at least a head of design (according to Yadeed Lobo)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

06 Jan 2010
What Do You Think?

Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?

causing global warming and turn that energy and resources into actually improving our way of life with limited impact on our world." Tom Dolembo questioned whether agreements are necessary. He believes that change driven View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

01 Aug 2012
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

Summing Up Is There a "Right Size" for a Company? This month's question of whether "too big to succeed" should be a larger worry of CEOs than "too big to fail" as usual produced more questions than answers (or agreement). View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services

26 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

worked are positively correlated with firm performance, and differences between family and non-family CEOs account for approximately 18% of the performance gap between family and non-family firms. We investigate the sources of the differences in CEO labor supply across... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Video

New Founder Series Lessons from Entrepreneurial Failure

09 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

Economic difficulties need not mean that we lower our standards for leadership. If anything, we should raise our sights. New work by HBS professor Michael Beer and colleagues shows that there is still a place for what they term... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Nov 2020
Video

New Founder Series: Lessons from Entrepreneurial Failure

16 Jul 2020
News

Black Lives Matter and the promise of entrepreneurship

01 Oct 2019
News

Today’s venture capitalists owe something to 19th-century whalers

01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

production. Most of that market, says Shen—who oversaw the acquisition of Swedish carmaker Volvo by the Chinese auto giant Geely—is dominated by low-speed vehicles that possess even more limited utility than... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

03 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

important question: Can able managers create value for their organizations by applying the resources at their disposal, and are they thus a source of competitive advantage? In general, NFL head coaches are responsible for player... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

03 Sep 2018
News

Moving Pictures

movie by Michael Keaton) who oversaw the Pulitzer Prize–winning investigation. “Over the course of two years he dug out of us everything we knew—and then some.” That legwork and intense focus translated into a gripping, moment-by-moment... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

reality is one reason the district is in such dire straits. When former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett took office in 2011, he cut statewide education funding by $1 billion, which meant a $5 million... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

12 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

Legal Aspects of Management. This module deals with the way in which intellectual property rights—as protected by patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets—enable firms to achieve competitive advantage. Purchase this note:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Feb 2017
News

How Immigrants Have Contributed to American Inventiveness

June 2005 (Revised March 2017)
Teaching Note

Siebel Systems: Organizing for the Customer

By: Robert Simons

Teaching Note to (103-014). The Siebel Systems case describes the unusual accountability and organizing choices made by managers of a successful, rapidly growing software development company. The case is set in 2002, but details the critical decisions made by founder... View Details

Keywords: Management Control Systems; Execution; Organization Design; Structure; Job Design; Diagnostic Control Systems; Customers; Strategy; Organizational Design

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March 1994 (Revised October 1994)
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Reading Energy

By: Forest L. Reinhardt

Reading Energy builds facilities that produce energy from nontraditional fuels. A privately held, entrepreneurial organization, it has spent six years developing a plan to build a waste-to-energy plant in the town of Robbins, Illinois. The plant would burn municipal... View Details

Keywords: Energy Generation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Community Relations; Business Plan; Agreements and Arrangements; Contracts; Risk and Uncertainty; Government and Politics; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Illinois

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12 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 12

income between two organizations in similar businesses. It can be measured by the "Four Rs" of referrals and retention of employees, returns to labor, and relationships with customers that foster customer referrals and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2009 (Revised April 2011)
Case

Yahoo! in China (A)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Daniel Baer

In 2007 Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo!, was lambasted by U.S. Representative Tom Lantos, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, for Yahoo's role in the arrest and imprisonment of Chinese journalist and democracy advocate Shi Tao. The case describes the... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Compliance; Laws and Statutes; Rights; Business and Government Relations; Internet; Information Technology Industry; China; United States

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August 2020
Case

This Old House of Worship: St. Anthony Shrine (A)

By: Ryan Raffaelli

This multimedia case asks students to consider how leaders of non-profit organizations manage difficult financial, operational, and cultural turnarounds. Since its founding in 1947, St. Anthony Shrine had been a central partner in serving the Downtown Boston community.... View Details