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- 10 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points
promotion. What she did know was that the economy was weak and she had invested ten years at the company, so she was hoping for the best. When I finished the story, Howard shook his head, kicked a pinecone out of his path, and grumbled,...
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Re: Howard H. Stevenson
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
Abstract—Many experiments have found that participants take more investment risk if they see returns less frequently, see portfolio-level returns (rather than each individual asset’s returns), or see long-horizon (rather than one-year)...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Customers at the Back of the Line Are Anxious—Can You Keep Them from Leaving?
line has an end and there is an identifiable person who occupies it,” says Buell. “They know they’re last and everyone around them knows it as well.” The anxiety we feel about being last can affect how consumers experience waiting for a...
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- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant....
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- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt...
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by Michael Blanding
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
components and evaluate the performance of the active components of the bank business model, Juliane and Erik shed light on the bank’s performance over the period 1960-2016. They argue that the very strong investment performance of...
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- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
successfully navigate their academic careers. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50056 Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules By: Azoulay, Pierre, Joshua S....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
less competent than employees who do not. Across five experiments, we explore how reframing a socially inappropriate emotional expression (distress) by publicly attributing it to an appropriate source (passion) can shape perceptions of, and decisions about, the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Shadow of a Giant (A) Harvard Business School Case 609-002 As the only significant competitor to Intel Corporation in PC microprocessors, Advanced Micro Devices faced daunting investment choices. Not only did it have to fund...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
When evaluating whether to invest in a new idea, senior executives often rely on experts. But these advisers often favor ideas that are easy to execute over tough-to-pull-off but potentially groundbreaking plans. The risk for companies:...
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- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
the writing of popular film scripts like The Matrix or Star Wars. Character behaviors, actions, and motivations hook the interest of readers at all levels, regardless of their professional experience with IT, while the plot sets up a series of expectations that keep...
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by Martha Lagace
- 2002
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Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
By: Rakesh Khurana
Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected...
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Managerial Roles;
Selection and Staffing;
Personal Characteristics;
Experience and Expertise;
Investment Activism;
Corporate Strategy
Khurana, Rakesh. Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
brands and SKUs,” she says. Shruti, who graduated at the top of her class at the Indian Institute of Technology and had experience in consulting and impact investing, came to HBS to gain the skills to launch an India-based impact View Details
- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
policies, agreements, and plans, as well as forums (like boards, family councils, and annual meetings of the owners) to develop the plans, agreements, rules, and policies, to address important issues and to work out differences. One very wise View Details
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by John A. Davis
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
themselves, shifting both professional and personal priorities in profound ways. Indeed, far beyond a deep understanding of business, industry, and leadership, the reflections below highlight the ways in which cases have also revealed,...
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- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
may be exposed to trade secrets, and they agree not to use or disclose them without permission. Business plans should expressly state on the cover page that they are confidential and proprietary. That's not as strong as a nondisclosure agreement, but laws in some...
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by Staff
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
A simple view of negotiation presents a cold transaction between what one person has and what the other person is willing to pay for it. If the price is right, the deal gets done. As anyone who has recently...
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- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
substantially when the managers and lawyers work as partners both to craft the objectives and to devise the means of accomplishing them. Fifth, every firm should have a general counsel or chief legal officer—one person either in-house or...
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- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
elite patronage, the canal could operate as a commercial enterprise free of adverse political interference. Under the Panama Canal Authority, the canal professionalized its management and began making long-term investments with an eye to...
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