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- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
aligned. It was what we call in the book "forging strategic identity." Sometimes, usually with startups, this is done at the beginning of the CEO's tenure. In other instances this way of thinking develops over time. This process is often accompanied by divestment and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
employees. By 2012, sales had increased by nearly 50 percent, and VW’s brand ranking had climbed from No. 55 to No. 39. Based on consumer surveys, brand monitor Interbrand selected VW as the top environmental brand in 2012. While creating...
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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
never work late or on weekends. I’ve found that if you work efficiently during the day, you can “just leave” at 5:30 or 6. These are pretty simple things, but over the years the effect of being home for dinner and to see the kids added...
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- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
experiencing a threat to their abilities, individuals who misrepresent their performance as better than it actually is boost their feelings of competence. We situate these findings in the literature on self-protection. We show that this “counterfeit competence” View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
broad sell-off in the shares of grocery retailers and suppliers. Behind the precipitous declines lay recognition that Amazon’s bold move into brick and mortar assets offered transformational opportunities. Amazon could gain expertise in perishable product View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
we identify core insights about how firms compete against one another in established markets. Based on our evaluation, we argue that a promising research opportunity for strategy lies in exploring how firms strategically interact in new markets and which moves are most...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008
association, fair pay practices) and whether these codes have affected their business outcomes (e.g., staff turnover and absenteeism, product defect rates, sales growth). In this paper, we review the existing evaluations of other private...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
with direct incentives for CSR is an effective tool to increase firm social performance. The findings provide evidence identifying corporate governance as a determinant of managerial incentives for social performance and suggest that CSR...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
parameters, which must be learned from sales data. In the presence of these unknown demand parameters, the retailer faces a tradeoff commonly referred to as the exploration-exploitation tradeoff. Towards the beginning of the selling...
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Carmen Nobel
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
or "I have a new point of sale system and I want to be able to get the data out of that system and do something with it." The types of skills and capabilities that would be too expensive for people to hire full time in-house, they just...
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- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
economists—had foreseen. The crisis raises questions about how competently financial institutions, such as mutual funds, managed their global capital investments. It raises questions about how effective the International Monetary Fund's...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
of capitalism, and it demonstrates the unsettling effects of the rise of the United States on European powers. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53430 2017 Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
lower quantities, magnifying the below-normative level behavior when facing high margin but partially counterbalancing the above-normative level behavior when facing low margin, violating the pull-to-center effect in both cases....
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
they were doing, various subpopulations of applicants, effectively hiding them from the process. The fundamental design paradigm rests on doing things really efficiently. Rather than spend a lot of time—which, of course, time is money...
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- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
significantly higher for companies with a wider divergence between the corporate insiders' control rights and cash-flow rights, suggesting that companies whose corporate insiders have larger excess control rights are more financially constrained. The View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
its revenues every year since reporting its first sales in 2010. “Right now the public is only just beginning to get an idea of what Local Motors can do.” “Right now the public is only just beginning to get an idea of what Local Motors...
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- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
level of specialization in cardiovascular care and the quality of its clinical performance on cardiovascular patients. We find that, on average, focus has a positive effect on quality performance. We then distinguish between positive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
effectively by teaching them to interrupt unwanted impulses and bringing them to a state of mindfulness before the impulses turn into action. The Awkward Ozarker: A Curious Tale of Self-Reinvention in a Scantily Settled Land by Blant Hurt...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
not doing this to increase our sales ... or our profits." Our sample cases have exhibited remarkable correlation between altruistic drives and family companies. From an ethical point of view, it is to be expected that individuals...
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- 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25
their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ability to innovate and compete....
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Sean Silverthorne