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05 Jun 2013
What Do You Think?

Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’

In it, I compared data collected from the offices of a large marketing services firm to which I had been given unusual access. Here are some data from employee engagement studies, human resource reports, and financial statements that the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Netscape's initial financiers, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. While Brooks struggled to interest EG&G in backing his concept (EG&G considered Brooks's idea outside its core business), Kleiner Perkins moved View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

01 May 2000
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Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

Can you design processes to reflect the promises implicit in hard-wiring?; (4) Do you have the people, incentives, and technology to deliver on the promise?; (5) Are you big enough?; (6) Do you have the financial capability to protect... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Sep 2010
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Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

suboptimal, and they used these insights to start developing their own solutions. It was a real privilege when a Big 4 audit firm that participated in my research gave me direct access to its clients. Across an array of clients I interviewed and surveyed nearly 100... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

20 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 20

works published on their economic history. (When) Are Religious People Nicer? Religious Salience and the 'Sunday Effect' on Pro-social Behavior Author: Deepak Malhotra Publication: Judgment and Decision Making (in press) Abstract Prior... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Oct 2003
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The Growth of the Social Enterprise

relationship can range from loose to tight with respect to the financial and operational interactions between affiliates and the central organization. A loose affiliation generally refers to a network of organizations committed to... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

16 Nov 2020
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Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

transitions, it helps to temper the need to look decisive and have policies with the desirability of asking lots of questions. "The task of a new leader is to shift the cycle from losers’ dysfunctions to the unified team that is able to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Apr 2001
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The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

such as, "How do we deal with family relying too much financially on the business, because family dependence can drain the very life out of the business if we give in to it too much?" "How do we develop the next generation... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

study of a sponsorship collaboration between a global financial institution (UBS) and a multi-site museum (Guggenheim) evaluates critical aspects of resource integration between the partners with implications for the theory and practice... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

deregulations also led to a dramatic increase in "churning" at the lower end of the size distribution, where new startups fail within the first three years following entry. This churning emphasizes a new mechanism through which View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

cities between 1910 and 1930. Instrumenting immigrants’ location decision by interacting national changes in migration flows across ethnic groups with pre-existing immigrants’ enclaves across U.S. cities, we find that immigration raised... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

psychology of decision making, rather than voters' willingness to compromise and support a bill they weakly oppose when that bill is bundled with one they strongly support. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-147.pdf ... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 2024
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Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (B)

By: Tiona Zuzul and Susan Pinckney

In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between staying true to the tenets of the natural wine... View Details

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Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal

The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details

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03 Apr 2009
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How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

of tech-savvy citizens and managers. What of the impact on investors and the financial community? Columnist David Brooks has suggested that new technologies actually fostered lightning-fast investment View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News

08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

Streamline approvals. A complicated decision process can burden the fund with too many goals and lead to ineffective investing patterns. Provide powerful incentives. Companies that don't offer adequate compensation to their venture... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2001
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Entering the Age of Alliances

in K-12 education, has brought to a collaboration with Hewlett Packard (HP) high credibility and access to key curriculum decision makers in the public education system. A leading designer, manufacturer, and service provider of products... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

were essential, and radical corporate social responsibility concepts were pursued by some firms. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53419 forthcoming Capitalism Beyond Mutuality New Prospects for Organizational Democracy? How the Joint... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Dec 2009
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Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

recession. The financial crisis opened the door to massive public interventions in the world's economies, in which the government served as venture capitalist. But these efforts focused on the most troubled and poorly managed firms in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

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Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

First Look: April 20

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

First Look at New Research: February 21

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New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

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Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (B)

Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)

How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

First Look: October 8

Entering the Age of Alliances

First Look: April 29

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

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