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- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
"loose" deal, in which the buyer engages in a mad dash from signing to closing in order to avoid getting "jumped." The British even have a term when someone else jumps your deal—it's called "gazumping." You can even buy gazumping insurance...
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by Julia Hanna
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
to reductions in dividends relative to the reference point set by prior dividends. Managers with strong but unobservable cash earnings separate themselves by paying high dividends but retain enough earnings...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
as one of those, Bill. Thanks for joining me. Bill: It's great to be here, Brian. Thanks for asking. Brian: I found this case to be very, very interesting. I think many of our listeners have probably referred to those rankings at some...
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- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
sociology in order to understand this critical turning point in German family business history. The book analyzes changes in ownership and management, dynastic, and succession strategies, as well as the "psychology of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
managers. They quickly understood that world-class institutions can't be built by one person. Business is all about helping people do together what they can't achieve on their own. LR: Since RCA and IBM figure prominently in several of your books, let's return to them...
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by Jim Aisner
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
information and assumptions went into the process, and to know how susceptible the conclusion is to small changes." Referring to an example of Royal Dutch Shell's early scenario planning efforts, Hugh Quick volunteered that "I...
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by James Heskett
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
ghostwriter, and there's only one of these six books that's coauthored and that's the casebook, which is Strategic Dynamics. High Output Management is a book that's gone through at least two editions. It's a book people still refer to,...
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- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
discussion in a way. There isn't a lot of reference being made to principles or broader goals for the tax system, or what we're trying to do with the tax system, aside from growth. Especially in a time where you see a lot of division...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
the tension between learning and performance, was an attempt to pull together a subset of insights from this longer journey about the challenges for managers who wish to promote learning without sacrificing performance in the short term. The longer journey that I View Details
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
inflection point in history, leaving one age and entering another. Many of our philosophical assumptions about what constituted leadership and competitive success grew out of a different world. The challenge now is to help managers...
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by Staff
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
correlations between their risk-based return premia, and periodic flights to quality. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/Comovement_RAPS.pdf The Effect of Reference Point Prices on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
the privilege of collecting loyalty card customer data. As former Tesco CEO Sir Terry Leahy put it in his recent book referring to the 1 percent loyalty discount: "It was a thank you, pure and simple." Can such small rewards...
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- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Harvard Business Review Planned Opportunism: Using Weak Signals to Spur Innovations By: Govindarajan, Vijay Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51052 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal The View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
not just relying on the printed word—why can we not do research by referring to video, sound, and the like? There is so much mathematics devoted today to extraction of quantitative data from all sorts of data sources that a move in this...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
project, the professors aimed to provide an ethical reference point for both future and current business leaders. "We wanted a way to help companies answer these questions," Margolis says....
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by Carmen Nobel
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
Reporting Advances Integrated reporting is an emerging management practice that involves the integration of a company's required financial report with its voluntary (except for a few countries) corporate social responsibility or sustainability report. Sometimes View Details
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by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
refers to corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their company’s core business. Distinct from nonmarket strategy and traditional corporate social responsibility, the recent wave of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
infeasible, creating a need to understand factors that foster teaming in the absence of team stability. Teaming refers to coordination and mutual adjustment that occur during episodes of interdependent work. The present research...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
maintaining a long-term strategic plan is of value in thwarting such investors. Executives and directors are advised to analyze their corporations from the point of view of an activist investor, to create harmony within the board of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
studies were less likely to criticize the actions of others when their behavior eroded gradually, over time, rather than in one abrupt shift. We refer to this phenomenon as the slippery slope effect. Our studies also demonstrate that at...
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Martha Lagace