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- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
paper. The Research The researchers studied data from OutsourceCo (a pseudonym), a major provider of outsourced teleradiology services in the United States, with more than 1,400 client sites, mainly hospitals and radiology group practices. The 97 radiologists in the... View Details
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
escalated. A Deloitte survey in 2010 of 131 financial institutions worldwide found that 79 percent had enterprise risk management programs in place or in progress, an increase of 20 percent from just two years earlier. And 86 percent had a chief risk officer who... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
around physical and mental health is not a luxury or a frill, but an essential aspect of risk management. CEOs and top management need to prioritize taking care of their own health. Boards need to persuade their leadership teams to make... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
executive compensation packages, and the board of directors’ evaluation horizons could be barriers to such decisions. My work so far has concentrated on the ESG issues where firm-level action is actually producing value both for the... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
with the project at hand. Specifically, we study an academic researcher’s (1) personal background (gender and country of origin economic advancement), (2) professional development (time since PhD completion and editorial review board... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
business holdings. The traditional Argentine newspaper La Nación provides an example of such a shift, when in 1996 a change in ownership of the controlling stake led to the appointment of Julio Saguier as board chairman. Saguier was... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
metrics to monitor performance?; Are the compensation rewards for our top executives tied closely enough to increases in shareholder value, with real penalties for nonperformance?; Finally, does our board have enough industry experts who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
as a never-ending struggle between board members and executives—"principals" who guard the organization's resources but have limited information to "monitor" how these resources are used—and "agents" who have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
start-up companies, two of which we have followed quite intensively for a period of two years, at first even sitting in on their board meetings and then tapering off to periodic interviews. We've also written three Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
founders of Lynx Solutions have survived major challenges within their board of directors, the firing of Lynx's founder-CEO and departure of its successor CEO, and a crisis sparked by media allegations that it had been spying on its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
also extended to the companies in which XTV invested. These were structured as separate legal entities, with their own boards and officers. XTV sought to recruit employees from other start-ups who were familiar with managing new... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
less resources into firm governance. For instance, the researchers found that for the group of firms they looked at, VCs were 14 to 21 percent less likely to place an investor on the board of directors in the first round of... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
programs to an investment board comprising both insiders (senior GSK executives) and outsiders (including a venture capitalist and a biotech CEO). After a three-month review period, successful teams are awarded three years worth of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
in their lives, whether as executives, board members, or philanthropists. In either case, these students are not content to simply follow in the footsteps of previous generations of leaders. They have grand ambitions to change the world... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
the head office, often the CEO. However, once the CEO or chairman is on board with the project, the case writing process flows very smoothly. The approval process may require a substantial amount of effort and calendar time up-front, but... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
President] Mike Bailin had not been convinced of this, it never would have happened." Indeed, Mr. Bailin worked with Dr. Cook to build support for this collaboration at the board level. View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
widespread, the type of criticism activists levy seems less out of place. Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) both backed Peltz’s campaign for a board seat at DuPont this year, for example. Leveraging the growth of... View Details
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
A worldwide economic crisis. Intense scrutiny from board members, customers, and government regulators. Expanding global markets. Public protests aimed squarely at your industry. Running a financial institution, never easy to begin with,... View Details
- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
discussing such things as the end of cheap oil, the exportation of jobs, work-life issues, the importance of attitude versus skills in work, marketing productivity, "judo management," the innovator's dilemma, the accountability of View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
candidates for the top sales job: a veteran sales director who has excelled under the old order and a brash outsider who has experience selling solutions but doesn't know the industry. With an outside board director pressuring him to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne