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- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
a broad range of issues including innovation and acquisitions in addition to labor practices and resource sustainability. A close examination of Nike's experience has led the author to conclude that a dedicated board-level committee of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
processing, storage, and communication costs have long been an important constraint on innovation and a reason for innovative activities to take place inside the boundaries of an organization. However, exponential technological progress has View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010
belief is sound, but the authors' analysis of the performance of 45 companies led by CEOs with military experience revealed differences in how the branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps) prepare leaders for business. Those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0910.html#wp10-061 Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Insights from Multiple Sectors Authors:Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell Abstract A combination of concerns about climate change and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
doing so, we match the data from the CEO interviews with financial performance data for the set of firms led by those CEOs as well as market performance data from the countries in which these firms are headquartered. Our results suggest... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
manage in a higher-ambition way. Book Excerpt From Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Val Gooding's experience and approach to collective leadership is particularly instructive. Over the twelve years from her arrival at BUPA in 1996 to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
hospital, considers which organizational structure will help them adjust to the changing health sector environment. The move from global budget to activity-based funding has led his and many other public hospitals to suffer losses in... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8
into a public-private partnership with the government of West Bengal, led by the Left Front and the Communist Party of India as equity partners; or whether to also accept a private equity firm into the project, what to build, and in what... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
Shannon O'Donnell, a research associate at Harvard Business School. "At the workshop, Paul asked each member of the group to talk about a part of the music that was particularly meaningful and the challenges involved in coordinating the playing of it," Austin... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
had the best of intentions. This led me to believe that some decisions are best made at the program level rather than within individual projects. So I began looking for an organization that had tackled this problem. The second reason for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
(emphasizing newcomers' unique perspectives and strengths) led to significantly greater customer satisfaction and greater employee retention after six months, compared to (a) socialization that focused on organizational identity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/819024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-158 John Chambers, Cisco and China: Upgrading a Golden Shield This case examines the role of Cisco led by John Chambers in facilitating... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
led to an Academy decision not to make the 2018 award. The key issue is what, if anything, the Nobel Foundation should have done and should do during the course of the scandal, and why. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
SchleferHarvard Business School Case 711-016 Since emerging from decades of conflict in 2002, Angola has been growing at a scorching double-digit rate, led by its oil industry. But the nation remains beset with seemingly intractable... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
risky collateral led to a dramatic expansion in the issuance of structured securities, most of which were viewed by investors to be virtually risk-free and certified as such by the rating agencies. At the core of the recent financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace