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- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
better, the system would work well with alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power, unlike the existing energy system, which has a tough time with renewables. Potentially, customers would be able View Details
- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate...
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by Rachel Layne
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
where they can and work together with NGOs and governments, recognizing that they have the capacity to jointly enact solutions.” The core expectation that consumers have of brands in any situation, but...
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by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
more advantageous." This trend is so well established that a simulated long-short stock portfolio created by the researchers to take advantage of this fact earned abnormally high returns of up View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is...
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- January 2017 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?
By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth J. Cooper
Carmichael Roberts, a rare African-American venture capitalist, considered leaving his general partnership in a private equity firm near Boston and setting up his own in 2015. He weighed whether the timing was right, with the economy still not fully recovered from the...
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Venture Capital;
Equity;
Innovation And Invention;
Investment;
Ownership;
Science;
Science Bassed Business;
Markets;
Relationships;
Capital;
Private Equity;
Technological Innovation;
Investment Return;
Going Public;
Ownership Stake;
Science-Based Business;
Market Timing;
Marketplace Matching;
Partners and Partnerships;
Financial Services Industry;
Technology Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States;
Massachusetts;
Boston;
California;
San Francisco;
New York (city, NY)
Rogers, Steven, and Kenneth J. Cooper. "Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?" Harvard Business School Case 317-079, January 2017. (Revised December 2017.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
Embracing Commitment and Performance: CEOs and Practices Used to Manage Paradox
By: Tobias Fredberg, Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote and Flemming Norrgren
We tend to assume that great leaders must make difficult choices between two or more conflicting outcomes. In an interview study with 26 CEOs of top American and European companies (incl. IKEA, Campbell Soups, Nokia, H&M), we find that instead of choosing between...
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Leadership;
Managerial Roles;
Performance;
Strategy;
Management Practices and Processes;
Decision Choices and Conditions
Fredberg, Tobias, Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, and Flemming Norrgren. "Embracing Commitment and Performance: CEOs and Practices Used to Manage Paradox." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-052, January 2008.
- 2023
- Working Paper
LALIGA—From a Soccer Competition Organizer to a Global Player in the Sports and Entertainment Industry
By: Stephen A. Greyser, Kenneth Cortsen and Juan Fuentes Fernández
LALIGA, the first- and second-tier professional soccer league (known as “football” outside of the U.S. and Canada) in Spain, enters its 100th soccer season later this decade. The most popular game in the world (Giulianotti, 2012) has gone through many changes since...
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Soccer;
"Sports Organizations,;
Business History;
Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Technology Adoption;
Sports Industry
Greyser, Stephen A., Kenneth Cortsen, and Juan Fuentes Fernández. "LALIGA—From a Soccer Competition Organizer to a Global Player in the Sports and Entertainment Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-009, August 2023.
- 2021
- Book
We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems
By: Mitchell Weiss
The huge public challenges we face are daunting. At the same time, many of us have come to accept the notion that government can't do new things or solve tough challenges—it's too big and slow and bureaucratic. Not so. Entrepreneurial savvy in government is growing,...
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Entrepreneurship;
Public Sector;
Government Administration;
Government and Politics;
Technological Innovation;
Problems and Challenges;
Innovation Leadership;
Public Administration Industry;
Technology Industry
Weiss, Mitchell. We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2021.
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
organization's culture affects its economic performance. The basic working hypotheses are that: (1) people put forth more effort and produce better results for organizations whose values they identify with, and (2) therefore, it's in the...
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by Jim Heskett
- Web
Connecting Remotely to WRDS on Windows - Research Computing Services
subscriptions available to you by logging into your WRDS account. 2. SAS SAS/Connect allows you to communicate with the WRDS Unix server from within a SAS program running on your computer. It View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to...
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- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
understand how people choose their work partners—and how those choices impact the results in a competitive or cooperative environment. Once their results are solidified in the lab the team will return View Details
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by Kim Girard
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
It’s easy to understand why so many people embrace transportation network companies like Uber and the growing number of other ride-sourcing startups, which enable drivers to make money using their own...
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- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
there are two reasons why CEOs should be cautious about overdoing the percentage of time interfacing with customers. First, marketing and selling should be a prime task of the CEO's direct reports, the individual business unit leaders. The CEO should not have View Details
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by John Quelch
- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
A warning to CEOs and other top executives in high-pressure positions: Job stress could shave years off your life, causing you to die younger than lower-level workers, new research suggests. After all,...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
One by one, connecting veterans to opportunities
graduate and intern, to review more than a hundred LinkedIn profiles, helping former servicemen and women revise their online presence for optimal career advantage. “Technically, we made over a hundred or so profiles, but each person we...
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