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    Chasing Stars

    It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous practice... View Details

    • 23 Jan 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

    2018 Protean Power: Exploring the Uncertain and Unexpected in World Politics Firms in Firmament: Hydrocarbons and the Circulation of Power By: Abdelal, Rawi Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53729... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 14 Jun 2016
    • First Look

    June 14, 2016

    forthcoming Harvard Business Review Press Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—Part of a manager's job is making tough calls, and the hardest challenge can be resolving "gray... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • September 2022 (Revised May 2024)
    • Case

    Navya: Steering toward a Driverless Future

    By: Julian De Freitas, Elie Ofek, Shaun Ingledew and Tonia Labruyere
    In 2022, Sophie Desormière arrived at French roboshuttle producer Navya, tasked with charting a new course in a challenging sector. The company, which had recently listed on the Paris Stock Exchange, was burning through cash reserves and needed to transform the promise... View Details
    Keywords: Autonomous Vehicles; Market Entry and Exit; Opportunities; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Consumer Behavior; Business Model; Auto Industry; Transportation Industry; France; United States
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    • July 2020
    • Background Note

    Gender Diversity on Boards: Views from Norway

    By: Aiyesha Dey
    The issue of gender diversity on boards has received increased attention in U.S markets over the past few years. In 2018, California introduced a law which required boards of U.S-listed firms with headquarters in California to include at least one female director by... View Details
    Keywords: Board Of Directors; Board Decisions; Gender; Diversity; Governing and Advisory Boards; Norway; United States
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    • October 2020
    • Article

    Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Long-Term Performance

    By: Diwas S. KC, Bradley R. Staats, Maryam Kouchaki and Francesca Gino
    How individuals manage, organize, and complete their tasks is central to operations management. Recent research in operations focuses on how under conditions of increasing workload individuals can decrease their service time, up to a point, in order to complete work... View Details
    Keywords: Healthcare; Knowledge Work; Discretion; Workload; Employees; Health Care and Treatment; Decision Making; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Productivity
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    • January – February 2011
    • Article

    Stop Holding Yourself Back

    By: Anne Morriss, Robin J. Ely and Frances X. Frei
    After working with hundreds of leaders in a wide variety of organizations and in countries all over the globe, the authors found one very clear pattern: when it comes to meeting their leadership potential, many people unintentionally get in their own way. Five barriers... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics
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    • 24 May 2021
    • Op-Ed

    Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

    COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion
    • 14 Feb 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Relational Contracts and Organizational Capabilities

    Keywords: by R. Gibbons & R. Henderson
    • May 2024 (Revised February 2025)
    • Case

    Choosing the Course of Passion: Brooke Boyarsky Pratt at knownwell

    By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Alexis Lefort
    Brooke Boyarsky Pratt (HBS ’13) enjoyed considerable success in her early career, quickly climbing the ranks to associate partner at McKinsey, and later becoming an executive vice president at Berkadia, a Berkshire Hathaway portfolio company. Throughout these years,... View Details
    Keywords: Passion; Career; Career Planning; Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Mission and Purpose; Identity; Business Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Health Industry; United States
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Explaining the Vertical-to-Horizontal Transition in the Computer Industry

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    This paper seeks to explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated corporations in the late 19th century and the opposing forces that led to a vertical-to-horizontal transition in the computer industry 100 years later. I first model the... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Design; Business History; Vertical Integration; Horizontal Integration; Digital Platforms; Computer Industry
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    • 13 Feb 2020
    • Book

    Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

    these blunders have no way to find out that their assumptions about how to organize, manage, and lead are in fact undermining their intentions. Things will go astray in any organization, but power differentials—necessary though they may be—keep those things from being... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About

    in turn have helped companies create hundreds of thousands of jobs and change our lives, in the workplace and at home.” Arthur Rock (MBA 1951) graduated from Syracuse University and served in the US Army before earning his MBA. He began... View Details
    • 31 May 2023
    • HBS Case

    Why Business Leaders Need to Hear Larry Miller's Story

    View Video Editor's note: Watch the video in "full screen" mode for the best viewing experience. If Larry Miller hadn’t concealed his criminal record, would he ever have been given the chance to turn his life around? Would his talent have... View Details
    Keywords: by Jamal Meneide; Entertainment & Recreation; Consumer Products
    • 16 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Strategy and the Internet

    yet, price has been defined as the primary if not the sole competitive variable. Instead of emphasizing the Internet's ability to support convenience, service, specialization, customization, and other forms of value that justify attractive prices, companies have View Details
    Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
    • Web

    Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    highly effective value oriented expansion is the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia system. They expanded outside of Philadelphia beginning at the turn of the 21st century with the aim to improve the care for all children in the area by... View Details
    • 01 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 1

    often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to dispatch inspectors, which in View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Feb 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

    Perseverance, “By high school, Jeff had turned the family garage into a laboratory for inventing and experimentation. One day, Jackie [his mother] got a call from Jeff’s high school saying he was skipping classes after lunch. When he got... View Details
    Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail
    • 17 Nov 2015
    • First Look

    November 17, 2015

    forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Introduction: New Perspectives on Corporate Capital Structure By: Acharya, Viral, Heitor Almeida, and Malcolm Baker Abstract—The National Bureau of Economic Research held a symposium titled "New Perspectives on Corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    Social Learning

    One major area of my research is social learning: the ways and extent to which people discover what they want and need from the behavior and opinions of others.  Social learning takes many forms.  Probably most obvious is word of mouth—the advice and... View Details