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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Managing Firms in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from the Time Use of Indian CEOs

By: Raffaella Sadun
The success or failure of a company is often ascribed to the behavior of its CEO. Yet little is known about what top managers actually do, whether this matters for firm performance, and why it differs across firms. We provide some answers by developing a new survey... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Performance; Outcome or Result; Management Teams; Manufacturing Industry; India
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    Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation

    Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about—innovation far more audacious... View Details
    • 16 Aug 2023

    Industry Spotlight: Social Impact

    Wonder what an MBA could do to help with your professional growth? Hear from the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative staff and alumni focused on social enterprise to learn more about how HBS ignites and accelerates that drive for social... View Details
    • Web

    Japan - Global

    companies and explore cutting-edge innovations. Beyond these academic and professional activities, the students also experienced both traditional and modern Japanese culture through various immersive activities. The program provided an... View Details
    • 08 Mar 2021
    • In Practice

    COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

    A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 16 Oct 2015
    • Blog Post

    HBS and the Arts

    philanthropists. After three years in finance I was ready to come to HBS to build a more holistic skillset.  At work, it is easy to fall into a given professional function, or limit your engagement to thinking only about the performance... View Details

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Determinants of Early-Stage Startup Performance: Survey Results

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
      To explore determinants of new venture performance, the CEOs of 470 early-stage startups were surveyed regarding a broad range of factors related to their venture’s customer value proposition, product management, marketing, technology and operations, financial... View Details
      Keywords: Startups; Survey Research; Performance Analysis; Entrepreneurship; Performance; Analysis; Business Startups; Failure; Surveys
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      Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Determinants of Early-Stage Startup Performance: Survey Results." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-057, October 2020.
      • Article

      Lessons from England's Health Care Workforce Redesign: No Quick Fixes

      By: Richard Bohmer and Candace Imison
      In 2000 the English National Health Service (NHS) began a series of workforce redesign initiatives that increased the number of doctors and nurses serving patients, expanded existing staff roles and developed new ones, redistributed health care work, and invested in... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care; Work Force Management; United Kingdom
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      Bohmer, Richard, and Candace Imison. "Lessons from England's Health Care Workforce Redesign: No Quick Fixes." Health Affairs 32, no. 11 (November 2013): 2025–2031.
      • December 2009 (Revised February 2010)
      • Case

      The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF) in 2009

      By: Luis M. Viceira and Brendon Christopher Parry
      In late June 2009, management at The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF) was considering expanding the footprint of the TIFF Diversified Fund (TDF), the first truly comprehensive endowment management vehicle offered under the TIFF banner. The recent large capital... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Asset Management; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Risk Management; Product Marketing; Financial Services Industry; United States
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      Viceira, Luis M., and Brendon Christopher Parry. "The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF) in 2009." Harvard Business School Case 210-008, December 2009. (Revised February 2010.)
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Performance Pressure as a Double-Edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation While Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge

      By: Heidi K. Gardner
      In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing team motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I conducted a... View Details
      Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Expectations; Groups and Teams
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      Gardner, Heidi K. "Performance Pressure as a Double-Edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation While Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-126, April 2009. (Revised January 2012.)
      • March 1996
      • Case

      Ernst & Young United Kingdom (A) (Abridged)

      By: John J. Gabarro and Samantha Graff
      Intended to be a robust example of the challenges encountered during the early stages of a large-scale organizational transformation effort in a professional service firm. Describes a massive change program initiated and led by the new managing partner along with a... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Leading Change; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Restructuring; Problems and Challenges; United Kingdom; London
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      Gabarro, John J., and Samantha Graff. "Ernst & Young United Kingdom (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 496-049, March 1996.
      • 14 Jun 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: June 14

        PublicationsThe Paradox of Excellence Authors:Thomas J. DeLong and Sara DeLong Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 6 (June 2011) Abstract Why is it that so many smart, ambitious professionals are less productive and satisfied... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 23 Jun 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: June 23

      Business School Exercise 409-129 This exercise is designed to help students and professionals map their professional networks and identify areas of strength and weakness in their networks.... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 14 Aug 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Improving Patient Outcomes: The Effects of Staff Participation and Collaboration in Healthcare Delivery

      Keywords: by Ingrid M. Nembhard, Anita L. Tucker, Jeffrey D. Horbar & Joseph H. Carpenter; Health
      • July 2020
      • Case

      Mortgage Backed Securities and the Covid-19 Pandemic

      By: Emil N. Siriwardane, Luis M. Viceira and Dean Xu
      In April 2020, global financial markets were still reeling as the COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly across the world. Global equity markets had initially fallen by 30% in response to the pandemic, and high-yield credit markets had dropped by nearly 20%. In contrast,... View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19; Mortgage-backed Securities; Health Pandemics; Financial Markets; Assets; Resource Allocation; Financial Instruments; Decision Making
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      Siriwardane, Emil N., Luis M. Viceira, and Dean Xu. "Mortgage Backed Securities and the Covid-19 Pandemic." Harvard Business School Case 221-010, July 2020.
      • 2017
      • Report

      The American Angel: The First In-Depth Report on the Demographics and Investing Activity of Individual American Angel Investors

      By: Laura Huang, Andy Wu, Min Ju Lee, Jiayi Bao, Marianne Hudson and Elaine Bolle
      Early-stage financing from angel investors is critical to the success of high-growth startups. Recent estimates suggest that annual US angel investment activity may total as much as $24 billion each year, contributing to the growth and success of more than 64,000... View Details
      Keywords: Angel Investors; Geography; Risk; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Demographics; Geographic Location; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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      Huang, Laura, Andy Wu, Min Ju Lee, Jiayi Bao, Marianne Hudson, and Elaine Bolle. "The American Angel: The First In-Depth Report on the Demographics and Investing Activity of Individual American Angel Investors." Report, Overland Park, KS, November 2017.
      • December 16, 2019
      • Article

      Why Your Startup Won't Last

      By: Ranjay Gulati and Vasundhara Sawhney
      Why do some startups that have crossed the threshold of “product-market fit” and have a viable business model still fail? This article begins by exploring the argument that most startups need more professionalization to thrive. Founders resist putting in place... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Organizational Structure; Growth and Development Strategy
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      Gulati, Ranjay, and Vasundhara Sawhney. "Why Your Startup Won't Last." HBR Ascend (December 16, 2019).
      • Article

      Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women

      By: Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony Mayo, Robin Ely and David Thomas
      Any list of top CEOs reveals a stunning lack of diversity. Among the leaders of Fortune 500 companies, for example, just 32 are women, three are African-American, and not one is an African-American woman. What’s going on? The authors studied the careers of the roughly... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Diversity; Race; Gender; Personal Characteristics; Relationships; Success
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      Roberts, Laura Morgan, Anthony Mayo, Robin Ely, and David Thomas. "Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 2 (March–April 2018): 126–131.
      • 2011
      • Case

      The Secrets to Managing Business Analytics Projects

      By: Thomas H. Davenport, Stijn Viaene and Annabel Van den Bunder
      Managers have used business analytics to inform their decision making for years. And while few companies would qualify as being what management innovation and strategy expert Thomas H. Davenport has dubbed "analytic competitors," more and more businesses are moving in... View Details
      Keywords: Analytics; Business or Company Management; Information Management
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      Davenport, Thomas H., Stijn Viaene, and Annabel Van den Bunder. "The Secrets to Managing Business Analytics Projects." 2011.
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