57 Posts found for Source: Harvard Business School (HBS)

You have one minute to explain yourself, your business, your goals, and your passions. Your audience knows none of these. Are you prepared? Can you present your vision smoothly, enticing them to want to know more?

Content: Online Resource | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Abstract:
We develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs’ time use. The idea—sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up—is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm’s priorities as well as the presence of governance issues. We follow 94 CEOs of 600 top Italian firms over a pre-specified week and record the time devoted each … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Andrea Prat, Luigi Guiso, Oriana Bandiera, Raffaella Sadun | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subject: Corporate Governance

We analyze the optimal strategy of a high-quality incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider four alternative business models—a subscription-based model; an ad-sponsored model; a mixed model in which the incumbent offers … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Feng Zhu, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subject: Strategy

When facing a cross-border negotiation, the standard preparatory assessments—of the parties, their interests, their no-deal options, opportunities for and barriers to creating and claiming value, the most promising sequence and process design, etc.— should be informed and modified by two classes of potentially relevant cross-border factors, the general and the negotiation-specific. Drawing on considerable literature in cross-border and cross-cultural negotiation, this paper develops the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: James K. Sebenius | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subjects: International, Negotiation

When facing a negotiation that crosses national borders and/or cultures, the standard preparatory assessments—of the parties, their interests, their no-deal options, opportunities for and barriers to creating and claiming value, the most promising sequence and process design, etc.—should be informed and modified by potentially relevant factors. Drawing on considerable literature in cross-border and cross-cultural negotiation, a two-paper series develops a four-level prescriptive framework for effectively … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: James K. Sebenius | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subjects: International, Negotiation

We all want breakthroughs; it’s just that we can’t know exactly which of the bold new ideas will break through. It’s is also hard to get traction for ideas that are so far ahead of their times that the infrastructure or human habits do not yet support them.

As many technology companies have seen to their peril, you can leap much too far into the future … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subject: Innovation

Drivers such as globalization, deregulation, or technological change, just to mention a few, are profoundly changing the competitive game. Scholars and practitioners agree that the fastest-growing firms in this new environment appear to have taken advantage of these structural changes to compete “differently” and innovate in their business models. However, there is not yet agreement on what are the distinctive features of superior business models. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Joan Enric Ricart, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subject: Strategy

This note accompanies the Cross‐country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an unbalanced panel dataset with information on the adoption of over 100 technologies in more than 150 countries since 1800. The data is available for download at [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Authors: Bart Hobijn, Diego Comin | Sources: Harvard Business School (HBS), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Subjects: Economics, IT / Technology / E-Business, Reference / Search

Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry costs or raise entrepreneurial returns, thereby increasing net returns and attracting entrepreneurs. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Edward L. Glaeser, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto, William R. Kerr | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subjects: Economics, Entrepreneurship

One of the root problems with business schools is that too many are infected with assumptions that reinforce and bring out the worst in human-beings. In particular, the logic and discipline of economics usually rules the roost at business schools.

Editor’s Note: The comments add as much or more value as the article itself.

Content: Article | Author: Robert I. Sutton | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subjects: Economics, Ethics

Aine Donovan discusses the responsibility of schools to teach ethics.

Editor’s Note: the main article isn’t that enlightening, but some of the numerous comments posted are.

Content: Article | Author: Aine Donovan | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subject: Ethics

There is a stream of research — which economists routinely ignore, reject, or are unable to process — that shows self-interest is not hardwired but is in fact a social norm that gets stronger or weaker depending on the assumptions that people hold about their own behavior and those around them.

Content: Quotation | Author: Robert I. Sutton | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subjects: Economics, Organizational Behavior

MBA students need more than professed values. They need to know that the world is morally complex and morally dangerous. They need to know that bad deeds can come from good values. They need to know that valuing integrity enough to keep one’s hands off other people’s money is only the beginning, not the end of business ethics.

There are many ethical questions in business life … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: James Hoopes | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subjects: Ethics, MBA Related

Although providing employees with answers to their problems often may be the most efficient way to get things done, the short-term gain is overshadowed by long-term costs. By taking the expedient route, you impede direct reports’ development, cheat yourself of access to some potentially fresh and powerful ideas, and place an undue burden on your own shoulders. When faced with an employee’s problem, you can … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Judith Ross | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subject: Management

Shouldn’t business and business schools be looking at their practices and precepts with the same critical eye as the economics profession? Three questions, culled from Alan Webber’s book, Rules of Thumb, can help propel the thinking on these issues in the right direction.

Content: Article | Author: Alan M. Webber | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subject: MBA Related

Goal setting is one of the most replicated and influential paradigms in the management literature. Hundreds of studies conducted in numerous countries and contexts have consistently demonstrated that setting specific, challenging goals can powerfully drive behavior and boost performance. Advocates of goal setting have had a substantial impact on research, management education, and management practice. In this article, we argue that the beneficial effects of … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Adam Galinsky, Lisa Ordonez, Maurice Schweitzer, Max H. Bazerman | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subject: Organizational Behavior

People routinely engage in dishonest acts without feeling guilty about their behavior. When and why does this occur? Across three studies, people justified their dishonest deeds through moral disengagement and exhibited motivated forgetting of information that might otherwise limit their dishonesty. Using hypothetical scenarios (Study 1) and real tasks involving the opportunity to cheat (Studies 2 and 3), we find that dishonest behavior increased moral … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Francesca Gino, Lisa Lixin Shu, Max H. Bazerman | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subjects: Ethics, Organizational Behavior

All else equal, a venture-capital-backed entrepreneur who starts a company that goes public has a 30 percent chance of succeeding in his or her next venture. First-time entrepreneurs, on the other hand, have only an 18 percent chance of succeeding, and entrepreneurs who previously failed have a 20 percent chance of succeeding. But why do these contrasts exist? HBS professors Paul A. Gompers, Anna Kovner, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Anna Kovner, David S. Scharfstein, Josh Lerner, Paul A. Gompers | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subject: Entrepreneurship

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