Richard B. Fisher - Publications - Faculty & Research

August 1995
Teaching Note

State Street Boston Corporation: Leading with Information Technology TN

By: Richard L. Nolan, Donna B. Stoddard and Chiara Francalanci

Teaching Note (5-196-058). View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Financial Institutions; Transformation; Technology Adoption; Information Management; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry

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16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

our new knowledge-based enterprises. Perhaps Apple's John Scully should have remained at Pepsi; Kodak's George Fisher at Motorola; H-P's Carly Fiorina at Lucent; and Xerox's Richard Thoman at IBM. But as... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

December 2013 (Revised March 2015)
Course Overview Note

The Entrepreneurial Manager: Course Overview, 2015 Winter Term

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Thomas Eisenmann and Joseph B. Fuller

Course overview of The Entrepreneurial Manager. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Management; Business Education

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2009
Journal Article

Evaluating Dedicated and Intrinsic Models of Temporal Encoding by Varying Context

By: Rebecca M.C. Spencer, Uma Karmarkar and Richard B. Ivry

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2003
Article

Confirming Management Earnings Forecasts, Earnings Uncertainty, and Stock Returns

By: Michael B. Clement, Richard Frankel and Jeffrey Miller

In this study we examine the association among confirming management forecasts, stock prices, and analyst expectations. Confirming management forecasts are voluntary disclosures by management that corroborate existing market expectations about future earnings. This... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Corporate Disclosure; Price; Stocks; Investment Return

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06 Oct 2003
What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

be managed effectively on a continuing basis. As Richard Eckel put it, "'Disruptive' is the clue for why the proposed method of sustained growth will fail in most organizations ... B-schools graduate and laud those who are risk... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 1

PublicationsThe New M&A Playbook Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising, and Andrew Waldeck Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Companies spend more than $2 trillion on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 1992 (Revised June 1993)
Case

Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.: IT Support of Corn Research and Development

By: Richard L. Nolan, Donna B. Stoddard and Sorin A. Bodea

Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Research and Development; Information Technology; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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August 1997 (Revised March 1999)
Case

VeriFone (1997)

By: Richard L. Nolan, Anne Donnellon and Donna B. Stoddard

VeriFone, a leading manufacturer of payment systems technology, was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in June 1997. The case describes the strategic challenges that VeriFone faces as it positions itself to compete in the Internet payment systems marketplace. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Internet; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Business Strategy; Information Technology Industry

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01 Jun 2003
News

South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs

for alumni to use their business skills,” says Sanchez, noting that the group will assess and refine its strategies before entering the next project cycle. Richard Gehrman (MBA ’76) and Tony Levy (MBA ’88) serve as cochairs of the... View Details

Keywords: Alumni groups; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

their lives in the office, they'd like that time to be spiritually as well as materially rewarding." Leading experts on the topic, including Peter B. Vaill (MBA '60, DBA '64), a professor at the University of St. Thomas business school in... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

July 1994 (Revised July 1995)
Case

VeriFone: The Transaction Automation Company (A)

By: Richard L. Nolan, Donna B. Stoddard and Hossam Galal

Describes VeriFone's new organizational model and its role in catapulting VeriFone to a market leadership position. Examines the impact of information technology and information access on the ability to leverage global resources, market responsiveness, and... View Details

Keywords: Leading Change; Leadership Development; Market Transactions; Information Technology; Organizational Design; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Structure; Information Management; Information Technology Industry

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02 Aug 2004
What Do You Think?

For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

broken. It is really about people and ethics." B. V. Krishnamurthy concurred, saying "... the Act ... is unlikely to result in any radical transformation of the system. Such a transformation has to be an internal process with... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

2002
Working Paper

Learning as Strategy Dependent: Tradeoffs in New Technology Implementation

By: Richard Bohmer, Amy Edmondson, Gary Pisano and Ann B. Winslow

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17 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

common and strategic sustainability practices. This dynamic distinction helps for understanding whether and how sustainability practices can help companies establish a competitive advantage over time. How Are Small Businesses Adjusting to COVID-19? Early Evidence From... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2015
News

A Boomtown's Echo

on the macro and micro effects of this boom—on the markets, the environment, and the future of small-town North Dakota. Read on for thoughts from Senior Lecturer John Macomber, Wade Myers (MBA 1994), Barbara George (MBA 1980), Professor View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

10 Oct 2014
News

Chicago Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

alumni in the region, as well as with HBS faculty members and administrators. The evening also featured remarks by Dean Nitin Nohria, Professors Robert S. Kaplan and Chris Malloy, Associate Professor Amy Cuddy, recent graduate Cory Rothschild (MBA 2014), HBS Campaign... View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

the detrimental effects of each trigger. We conclude by discussing implications and recommendations for organizational scholars to take a more integrative approach to developing and evaluating theory about unethical behavior. Learning from Roger View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 20

http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/dtq013?ijkey=WB7zzaO3bsqcw4t&keytype=ref Pension Fund Design in Developing Economies Author: Luis M. Viceira Publication: In Evaluating the Financial Performance of Pension Funds, edited by View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace