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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
the right leadership style by knowing which levers shape organizational capabilities and how to use them Use power and politics to address resistance and maintain control during a transition Understand the link between personal and... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
the big Internet wins of the late 1990s, you may not know a thing about early-stage investing. By the same token, if you had 10 failures in multiple industries, you might not know anything either. But you will if you keep paying... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 05 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)
noticed that the students who did have a large number of opportunities available to them sometimes felt overwhelmed with information and options. “I became interested in what is the best way to make the education system fairer, while also... View Details
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
limited control over sales," says Ton. "And of course, those boring supply-chain tasks won't get done." "Retailers have to cut labor to some extent when sales are lower," Ton says, "but they need to be careful about how low they go." She... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
with the right antibiotic on the first day they are admitted to the hospital—day zero—rather than being hit with multiple days of toxic broad-spectrum antibiotics. To enable their diagnostic tools, DZD has built one of the world’s largest... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS professors recently gathered to review the current crisis. Is it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
from post-secondary education and training to career. We’ll look at the effectiveness of state systems and consider the policy options at both the state and federal levels. We’ll also discuss underemployment among college graduates and... View Details
- 30 Jul 2025
- News
Play with Purpose
marginally different, but in US sports, everyone generally in basketball and football and hockey, there's a system approaching a cap in terms of what you could play. It's all different, but everyone can spend the same amount of money and... View Details
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
Employee well-being. CEOs were concerned about their employees: their safety on the job; overall well-being; and their own task as leaders of “keeping up morale and managing people’s fears.” Having to make decisions under uncertainty while trying to appear in View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/aknin%20dunn%20norton.pdf Correlation in the Multiplayer Electronic Mail Game Authors:Peter A. Coles and Ran Shorrer Publication:B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (forthcoming) Abstract In variants of the Electronic Mail Game... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage cultivation of public lands. During the first phase of American occupation (1898–1918), we find that the progress of implementing these reforms was very... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007
process so that creators produce tangible artifacts regularly; (6) realize that there will always be some conflict between an organization's creators and its stewards; (7) avoid overly prescriptive control mechanisms that may alienate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
acquired than those in a control sample. We argue that the combination of hedge funds' short investment horizons and their large positions in target firms makes M&A the only attractive exit option. The results also suggest that hedge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
to the information necessary to make important choices, both the ERP and CAD systems would increase the likelihood that plant managers and production workers would make decisions and act on them without having to consult an executive at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
self-report of the licensee. The self-reporting aspect of the environment gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
deals." When constructing a single pipeline, for example, it is often necessary for a company to negotiate with multiple countries, each with its own laws, cultural differences, and political sensitivities. Those complications, says HBS... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
people spend less time at work by empowering them to take decisions without 2- or 3- levels up approvals ." Tema Frank said that "we need to move to a system where people are compensated based on results achieved rather than... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
territories where people control their own turf, their own profit-and-loss responsibility, and their own division. New ideas, whether that includes the Internet or anything else, don't descend upon a company in the boxes that have already... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Millennium Development Goals which range from halving extreme poverty to providing universal primary education, they provide sustainable benefits to a developing community for multiple generations, and they have the ability to impart the... View Details