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- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
paper, the authors argue that neither companies nor investors can be seen as taking sustainability seriously unless it is integrated into the quarterly earnings call. Until that happens, the core business and sustainability are two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
Team Diversity: An Integrative Multi-Level Model of Cross-Boundary Teaming By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey Abstract—Teaming across expertise boundaries, within and across organizations, is an increasingly popular strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?
care knowledge and technological capabilities among patients, according to Stern and her coauthor, HBS doctoral researcher Mitchell Tang. “There is more to unpack here and potentially something to remedy,” Tang says. The article, written... View Details
- 05 Jul 2012
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?
met. Knowledge sharing would seem to foster trust as well. Other research suggests that trust may be associated with managers who hire, recognize, and fire the right people. At an organizational level, an aversion to letting people go in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
the project; the partner was also required to integrate some local smallholders into the production chain. In December 2009, Codevasf was almost ready to start accepting bids for Pontal. For Clementino de Souza Coelho, director of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?
attracting younger fans. Gazette: The product on the field is just too slow and boring for younger fans compared to, say, the NBA? Greyser: I’m not saying that it’s slow and boring, especially to knowledgeable fans. I’m saying the pace is... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
TV, cable programming—but is still trying to figure out the best strategy for integrating them. Despite repeated structural changes, employees still operate in silos. In short, the National Geographic case is fertile learning ground for... View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
the political process of determining institutions of capitalism is "thin," in that managers find themselves with specialized technical knowledge unavailable to outsiders and with little political opposition-such as in the case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
Teams app to Office 365 in 2017. Microsoft executives briefly considered buying Slack, but founder Bill Gates reportedly opposed the move. "New companies like Slack emerge with a great product, better than Microsoft has, and then Microsoft observes it, imitates it, and... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
of Nations, is that free markets require certain conditions in order to function—among them, well-defined property rights, enforceable contracts, non-collusion between parties, and complete knowledge that puts everyone on a level playing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
codified and integrated into this knowledge base in a way that ensured compatibility with its existing components. And third, it established processes to evolve this knowledge... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
PublicationsConcentrating on Governance Authors:Dalida Kadyrzhanova, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate governance. Using a simple model that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2022
- Book
What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose
emphasized autonomy as an operating norm, to the point where employees who had worked in more conventional organizations found the transition jarring. Leaders integrated crowdsourcing into decision-making, most notably in the firm’s... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
of others. Modes of organizing and conveying knowledge themselves have become worthy subjects for query. The history of “disciplines, genres, paradigms, and other forms of representation” joins the study of social, cultural, political,... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
to do now, and to have any hope of doing that, we need to be integrating the specialized domain knowledge that managers possess into these tools and systems.” Marketers have long envisioned the potential for... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
were not strong enough to prevent the growth of private labels in Europe, but they were sufficient to maintain Unilever's strong position in higher margin products. It was able to leverage knowledge of brands and products between... View Details
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
since the human genome sequence was completed-has changed the way we think about, study, and approach the development of novel therapies. However, these advances in knowledge have so far not been reflected in substantial medical progress... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
Eccles, George Serafeim, and James HeffernanHarvard Business School Case 412-052 Rodolfo Guttilla, director of corporate affairs for Natura Cosméticos S.A. (Natura), prepared for a meeting with key stakeholders to discuss the future of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
integrates them in a powerful way. Kaplan and Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard, a performance measurement system, in 1992. The Execution Premium is their fifth book as coauthors. Kaplan recently explained the ideas behind The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
affects each of Porter's Five Forces as well as the resources and capabilities of the firm. The availability of patents may be key to deciding what barriers to entry exist. The enforceability of covenants not to compete and assignments of inventions may determine who... View Details