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- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
Two years ago, the World Management Survey on organizational leadership reported that firms led by family CEOs (managers related to the family owning the business) are often managed badly, particularly those where a first-born son has inherited the View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
real-time. With these forecasts, an airport’s operating team can make data-driven decisions, identify late connecting passengers and assist them to make their connections. The airport can also update its resourcing plans based on the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006
less control over their strategy than they think while middle managers and operating managers can have a much greater role in strategy than is generally recognized by either those managers or by top management: But the complexity of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
opportunities, and defined the opportunities for packet software. That framework is changing now. The Internet is redefining software. The Internet is redefining the role of computing and communication and their interaction with each...
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- 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016
Immigrant Entrepreneurs and the Social Safety Net By: Olds, Gareth Abstract—This paper explores the role of public health insurance in small business ownership among immigrants, a group with high rates of entrepreneurship. The Personal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8
organizational capital in explaining performance. August 2013 foreignpolicy.com Like a Boss: How Corporate Negotiators Would Handle Nuclear Talks with Iran By: Sebenius, James K. Abstract—While the Obama team deserves high marks for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
interim manager that Tham had assigned. The client, Wong Lung, ran a family-owned garment manufacturing business along with his younger brother, as well as his two overseas-educated children. While Wong needed the American manager's technology expertise, his own...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007
found many firms mistakenly applied an "outsourcing" mindset to collaboration efforts which, in turn, led to three critical errors: First, they focused solely on lower costs, failing to consider the broader strategic role of...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
2017 Harvard Business Review The Real Reason Uber Is Giving Up in China By: Kirby, William C. Abstract—The article examines the role of the Chinese government in transport firm Uber's decision to sell its China operation to a rival...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
financial advisor, Barclays Capital, had also been working with KKR and its partners to create a bid process that could favor them. In addition to the fee from Del Monte for advising on a successful sale, Barclays also desired to play a leading View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
organization, specifically, closed-source (or proprietary) versus open-source (or distributed) development. Our results reveal significant differences in modularity, consistent with a view that distributed teams tend to develop more...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources-what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"-plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209001 The New York Jets—A West Side Story Harvard Business School Case 207-027 In 2005, Jay Cross, New York Jets president, must decide how to proceed with finding a new home for the...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016
Multidisciplinary physician teams met to inform a 3-phase process of (1) concept development, (2) measure specification, and (3) implementation via EHR integration. Results. Outcomes were divided into 3 tiers that reflect the entire cycle...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
effective care teams and good management of local operations (clinical microsystems). Clinicians influence both, and local clinician leaders will have several key tasks. Publisher's link: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1301814...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
understood and managed. The key to success? Incentives. Fortunately, new research has shed light on the role incentives can play in promoting new ideas, but these findings have been absent from innovation literature-until now. By using...
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Sean Silverthorne