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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Until the nineteenth century, the scope for applying (imperfectly) competitive thinking to business situations appeared to be limited: Intense competition had emerged in many lines of business, but individual firms apparently often lacked... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley
embarked on a path that would lead him to become a pioneer in database marketing and customer engagement. While working as a research assistant at HBS after graduation, Brierley agreed to help the headquarters of his undergraduate fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, find... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
show how Cemex, Toyota, Procter & Gamble, and other firms adroitly managed cross-border differences and how others failed at this challenge. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands by Rakesh Khurana (Princeton University Press) Associate... View Details
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
corporate HR function. Becoming a Cognitive Referent: Market Creation and Cultural Strategy Rory McDonald describes the making of a "cognitive referent," which is a firm that customers, the media, analysts, and employees... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
transitory fluctuations remain largely unexplained. To help fill this gap, this paper further documents the recent rise in transitory fluctuations in compensation and investigates its linkage to the concurrent rise in volatility of firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
number of US organizations with over a hundred employees is well over a hundred thousand. In the year 1900, the number of firms that did business around the world, on all continents, was very close to zero. Today the number is so large it... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
Paul M. Healy, and Yang Gui Periodical:Journal of Financial Transformation (forthcoming) Abstract Since 1949 Lehman Brothers has used an investment committee to select the top ten recommendations made by its analysts each year. We examine the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
failed ventures, but also to allow managers of going concerns to divest stores in efforts to enhance performance and to change strategy. The operations literature has examined product liquidation, but retail store liquidation differs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30
Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf Publication:NBER Innovation Policy & the Economy (MIT Press) 10 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.nber.org/books/lern09-1 Working PapersInternational Financial Integration and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
and performance in professional service firms and how to use McKinsey 7S Alignment to diagnose a firm's or practice's alignment, identify misalignments, and determine how to bring about the changes needed to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
afford to write off these firms as noncompetitive threats or unworthy partners on the global business stage. "There is still a lot of apprehension about state-owned enterprises," says Musacchio. "The debate is very polarized. Either you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
way, the league is planning to debut in 2000. "The gold medal performance of the U.S. women's soccer team at the 1996 Olympics showcased our talented players to the nation and the world," says the NSA's development consultant, Jennifer... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
level. Yet the corporation's senior management and human resource professionals resisted changing the scheme, pointing out the high quality of junior hires that the firm was making. It was not until 2009 that the firm's management agreed... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007
modularized. Instead these areas should be located in transaction-free zones so that the costs of transacting do not overburden the system. The boundaries of transaction-free zones constitute breakpoints where firms and industries may... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007
teams often changes over time or between projects. In this paper, we use detailed data from an Indian software services firm to examine how such changes may affect the accumulation of experience within, and the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
performed was correlated to his balance sheet and the perception of the entire industry. Is there ever a circumstance in which a leader of a company needs to use puffery to advance a firm or industry? Dey:... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24
sustainability performance and how its sustainability initiatives were contributing to its financial performance. The narrative of this call was very similar to the narrative of the company's first "integrated report," which was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
really pay off when companies need that goodwill from the public? In a recent working paper, No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events, Oberholzer-Gee set out to test the insurance hypothesis using... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
overlap, into four areas: competitive strategy, corporate strategy, global competition, and technology strategy. The largest of the subgroups, competitive strategy - essentially the core of the unit - looks at the techniques a firm uses... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young