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  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

also identifies criteria that make a decision strategic and derives explanations why strategies often reflect the background of the strategist. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52726 And the Children Shall... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

conversations, they reflected on key issues. Edited excerpts follow. Brian Hall focuses his teaching and research on performance management and incentive systems. He has provided expert testimony on performance pay before the U.S. Senate... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

process itself can actually shape the realized strategy of the firm. This can include internal reporting structures and incentive systems, but it can also reflect external factors such as capital markets and customers. One of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

reflects the beliefs of the CEO and the management team or not? 2) Does it matter whether the CEO or management team have strong beliefs or not? 3) Why do people tend to develop strategies in line with their background and past successes,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

reflecting about how the classic, mature thermostat industry was rapidly evolving. In February 2014, Google paid $3.2 billion to acquire Nest Labs, a new startup whose goal was to reinvent unloved home devices, such as thermostats and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

Swatch Group, reflected on the positioning of Omega, its revived flagship brand. Which marketing strategy would best allow it to confront its main competitor, Rolex? And how would potential adjustments to Omega's product, pricing,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

context, reflected in its introduction of product features, is influenced by prior industry affiliation. We hypothesize first, that prior industry experience shapes a set of shared beliefs resulting in similar and concurrent firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

theorists differ as to whether exploitation undermines or enhances exploration. The debate reflects a gap—the missing theoretical mechanism by which organizations break free of old routines and discover new ones. We propose that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

discussion about it in comparison with some other alternatives to hierarchy. We then characterize the recent surge of socially engaged models of enterprise and press the case that this turning point warrants reconsideration of the merits of organizational democracy. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors and which are considered most important. We use survey data from 967 analysts ranking 837 companies to judge how their forecasts are related to evaluations of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

Scientist 52, no. 6 (2009): 885-904 Abstract This article provides a critical reflection on the heavily normative nature of current accountability debates. In particular, it explores three streams of normative discourse on nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

Walmart's attempts to replicate its successful U.S. business model in Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Central America, China, South Korea, Japan, Germany, the UK, and Africa. Students reflect on the mixed results of these ventures and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

environmental performance. We hypothesize that key organizational characteristics reflecting visibility, such as size and environmental impact, shape this type of symbolic compliance and that these relationships are moderated by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

creates value for its stakeholders." On the surface, this notion appears to be similar to that of strategy. We present a conceptual framework to separate and relate business model and strategy. Business model, we argue, is a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

short, "The economic crisis in which the country now finds itself reflects not the failure of the free-market system, but more so the result of decades of misguided government policies that interfered with the functioning of that system."... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

Cassandra L. Govan, Dan Ariely, and Elise Holland Abstract—Recent evidence suggests that Americans underestimate wealth inequality in the United States and favor a more equal wealth distribution (Norton & Ariely, 2011). Does this pattern View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

Review Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS By: Ramanna, Karthik, and Ewa Sletten Abstract—If the differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

http://hbr.org/search/613073-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-140 18 Months in a Startup: Zaggora.com The founders of Zaggora reflected back on a tumultuous year and a half in which they had generated, from just $40,000 in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

end of the 19th century, but it did not start out as a superstar paper or at head of the pack. Q: What overarching themes of business history reflected in the Times interested you most? A: I loved writing the Wall Street section. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
  • 23 Dec 2002
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Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

created a fifth perspective solely to reflect environmental considerations. They argued: Our franchise is under severe pressure in many of the communities where we operate. Our strategy is to go well beyond what current laws and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

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