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- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
HBS professor David A. Thomas hates the word "mentor." In his opinion, it's as empty a buzzword as "coach." In fact, when Thomas spoke to an audience of around 100 administrative managers at Harvard University... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
strategic problems faced by corporate executives. A course description from 1917 claimed that "an analysis of any business problem shows not only its relation to other problems in the same group, but also the intimate connection of... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
wildly inaccurate, the psychology of perception systematically leads negotiators to major errors. Self-Serving Role Bias. People tend unconsciously to interpret information pertaining to their own side in a strongly self-serving way. The following experiment View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
achieve their goals. I've been especially interested in the pattern of succession in many entrepreneurial firms—specifically, that many founders are replaced by "professional" CEOs early in the life of the venture. My data shows... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
former HBS professor who is now dean at the new Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University; and Sakakibara, a former Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI) official with a doctorate from Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
For too long, scholarship in the field of management has looked at economic performance rather than social welfare, argue HBS professor Joshua Margolis and colleagues James P. Walsh, of University of Michigan Business School, and Klaus... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
negotiation? That's a big motivation for us. When we think about what might make women walk into a negotiation with, say, lower expectations than men, one of the explanations for that comes from social psychology. It's called the entitlement effect. That research View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman
A show of hands, please. "How many of you would be fifteen minutes late for an appointment with your CEO?" Gail McGovern, president of Fidelity Personal Investments, scanned the audience, but only a few hands wavered upwards.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
customers over long periods of time. What's the secret of long-running megabrands such as Mountain Dew, Nike, and Budweiser? The magical sweet spot when a brand delivers imaginative stories that are perfectly attuned to society's desires. His new research, which he... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision
Editor's note: In their new book, The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development, HBS professor Josh Lerner and London School of Economics professor Mark Schankerman look at the impact of open source software on economic... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
A recent study by HBS assistant professor Jordan Siegel tests whether foreign firms can leapfrog their countries' weak legal institutions by listing equities in New York and voluntarily abiding by U.S. securities law. The study, which... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
A conversation with Nancy Koehn, author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust From Wedgwood to Dell, HBS Press, 2001. "I am just fascinated by the power, the quirks, the determination, and the durability of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
When Harvard Business School dean Kim B. Clark returned from a road tour a couple of years ago, he had some important issues he wanted to discuss with Professor Myra M. Hart. Evidence—granted, most of it anecdotal—was mounting to show... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
delivery services should not be discounted too soon, according to HBS professor and marketing specialist John A. Deighton. As Deighton explained in the article "Who Wanted Webvan to Survive?" published last summer in The Boston... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
property rights by showing that both of the predicted linkages (from marginal returns to investment and from investment to revenue) exist in a single empirical setting. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-007.pdf Why Do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams
be developed into team players? How do teams learn? How Does A Team Leader Win The Confidence Of The Group? How Team Leaders Show Support—or Not What does a team leader do so that employees know they are being supported? A Q&A with... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
An acclaimed author and expert on the development and commercialization of technological and business innovation, HBS professor Clayton Christensen has written a new book aimed at changing our national conversation about health care. In... View Details
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
details how one institution has implemented its own version of health-care reform, taking overall performance levels from well below average to the top 10 percent in the industry. Coauthored by HBS assistant professor Anita Tucker and... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
about equally (un)likely. Comparing the career imprints and career paths of people who worked at these two firms shows that those who left Baxter and Abbott to join biotech firms had a differential impact on this new and emerging field of... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
power of states. But the world is not flat, argues HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat. Think of it as partly globalized, or "semiglobalized." "Strategies that presume complete global integration tend to place far too much... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace