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- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
The challenge then becomes enabling this alignment, which requires the CEO to prioritize based on the mission of the organization. In practice, we find that many leaders have trouble prioritizing because they're View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
data network, the easier it is for workers to lean on superiors and rely on them to make decisions. It's also easier for executives to micromanage and keep all the decisions in the corporate office. Trust is... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom on proper sequencing: "Get your own house in order first." Yet this was not the path that President George H. W. Bush followed in preparing for the first... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Working PapersAdding Bricks to Clicks: The Contingencies Driving Cannibalization and Complementarity in Multichannel Retailing (revised) Authors:Jill Avery, Thomas J. Steenburgh, John Deighton, and Mary Caravella Abstract This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
improving inventory management for its network of small and large retailers. Set just after the announcement of the Adidas-Reebok transaction in 2005, with New Balance having recently initiated a companywide effort to improve operational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
and people in the bureaucracy and government sometimes look askance at the private sector, believing them to be pursuing purely private gain." Nilekani is intent on keeping the UIDAI organization lean... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
transpires within the larger, corporate context of Intuit, where founder Scott Cook has been attempting to transform the enterprise into a leaner, more innovative company. The case describes in detail the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
exploit a quasi-natural experiment that holds constant the information event across firms, but varies the availability of a major news outlet in local markets. We find that firms subject to the threat of slanted coverage suppress the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
iPhoto This weekend the NFL is concluding its annual draft. Up to 255 college football players will be distributed over three days across the 32 NFL teams. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made the... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
have a proposal that seems to lean pretty heavily in one direction distributionally, I think there is going to be a further loss of confidence or buy-in with how the system is working. "I think the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
PublicationsClusters and Competitiveness: Porter's Contribution Authors:Christian H.M. Ketels Publication:Chap. 10 in Competition and Competitive Advantage: The Ideas of Michael Porter, edited by Robert Huggins and Hiro Izushi, 173-192.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
these ventures? Should investors care whether a founder leans toward Rich or leans toward King? A: From an investor's perspective, Rich versus King is a fundamental issue. During my internship View Details
- 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
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
product should have been, says HBS entrepreneurial management professor Thomas R. Eisenmann. In his new MBA course, Launching Technology Ventures, Eisenmann introduces students to the idea of the lean... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
phrases in content on U.S. political issues from two sources-Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia. Our overall slant measure is less (more) than zero when an article leans towards Democrat (Republican)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
production methods. But the payoffs have not been nearly as dramatic for service industries applying lean principles. HBS professor David Upton and doctoral student Bradley Staats look at the experience of Indian software services... View Details
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
(with or without MBAs) in their efforts to build similar careers. As employees of these organizations, will we notice a difference? How will female leadership influence the way we work? Should I even be asking the question? What do you... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
due in part to an overall lack of liquidity. On average, survey respondents with less than $10,000 in monthly bills had only enough cash on hand to cover one month of expenses. “Firms today are very View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome
Sandberg’s [MBA 1995] chapter in Lean In about her husband, Dave Goldberg, then his obituary and Sheryl’s reflections on his unexpected death. That comes close to Marcus... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna