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  • November 2008
  • Article

Winning the Race for Talent in Emerging Markets

By: Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill and Jay A. Conger
"This war for talent is like nothing we've ever seen before," write the authors, who have spent decades studying talent management and leadership development. Recently they interviewed executives at more than 20 global companies to identify strategies for attracting... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Culture; Recruitment; Diversity; Developing Countries and Economies
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  • 07 Dec 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Towards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting

Keywords: by Abigail Allen & Karthik Ramanna; Accounting
  • Research Summary

Wage Policies and Incentives to Invest in Firm-Specific Human Capital (joint with George Baker and Nancy Dean Beaulieu)

The accumulation of firm-specific knowledge improves firm productivity and employee reten-tion, by creating a wedge between what the employee is worth inside and outside the firm. How does the firm create incentives for investment in firm-specific human capital when... View Details
  • 22 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

Publication:Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 12 (December 2009): 4919- Abstract This paper investigates how the job histories of CEOs influence their capital allocation decisions when they preside over multi-divisional firms. I find that after CEO turnover,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Colocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Keywords: by Kevin Boudreau, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan & Karim Lakhani; Health
  • February 2021 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

SafeGraph: Selling Data as a Service

By: Ramana Nanda, Abhishek Nagaraj and Allison Ciechanover
Set in January 2021, the CEO of SafeGraph, a four-year-old startup that sold Data as a Service, looked to the future. His aim was to become the most trusted source for data about a physical place. The company provided points of interest (POI) and foot traffic data on... View Details
Keywords: Data As A Service; Monetization; Pricing; Business Startups; Analytics and Data Science; Consumer Behavior; Analysis; Business Model; Health Pandemics; Information Industry; United States
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Competitiveness & Economic Development - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

learn more about the "Microeconomics of Competitiveness" (MOC) course led by Michael Porter and offered at Harvard and 100+ affiliated universities around the world. Frameworks & Key Concepts Understand the key concepts of national... View Details
  • 15 Mar 2024
  • HBS Case

Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

global businesses where if we aren’t talking about the politics in those countries, how do we have a proper supply chain? Do we just guess?” Wing asks. While personal voting records and political party affiliations don’t need to be... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman

    Paul W. Marshall

    MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; banking; brokerage; computer; consulting; defense; management consulting; manufacturing; metals; professional services; retail financial services; retailing; steel
    • Web

    Giving - Alumni

    one of our affiliated charitable entities in order to qualify for a tax deduction or a tax credit. France Germany India United Kingdom If you are at least 70½ years old, you can use your individual retirement account (IRA) to make a gift... View Details
    • 24 Dec 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: December 24

      Working Papers Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—CEOs affect the performance of the firms they manage, and family CEOs seem to weaken it. Yet little is known about what top executives... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • Web

    Finance Faculty - Faculty & Research

    Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice of Entrepreneurial Management Unit Affiliates Carliss Y. Baldwin William L. White Professor of Business Administration, Emerita Dwight B. Crane Professor, Emeritus Kenneth A. Froot André R.... View Details
    • 18 Apr 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

    forthcoming Academy of Management Journal Ideological Misfit? Political Affiliation and Employee Departure in the Private-Equity Industry By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, and Rory McDonald Abstract—Though organizations are increasingly active... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Marketing Faculty - Faculty & Research

    Administration Unit Affiliates John A. Deighton Professor, Emeritus Stephen A. Greyser Professor, Emeritus Benson P. Shapiro Professor, Emeritus Gerald Zaltman Professor, Emeritus View Details
    • February 2021
    • Supplement

    HNA Group: Global Excellence with Chinese Characteristics (C)

    By: William C. Kirby, Billy Chan and John P. McHugh
    July 2017 was supposed to be a triumphant month for HNA Group. The latest Fortune Global 500 list showed the company had again skyrocketed in its ranking to no. 170, an improvement of over 200 positions from the year prior. Yet earlier that same July, the mysterious... View Details
    Keywords: Conglomerate; Airline Industry; Coronavirus; Financial Risk; Debt; Bankruptcy; Global Strategy; Restructuring; Health Pandemics; Financial Markets; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Condition; Globalized Firms and Management; Business and Government Relations; Air Transportation Industry; Financial Services Industry; China
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    Accounting & Management Faculty - Faculty & Research

    Assistant Professor Hellman Faculty Fellow Unit Affiliates William J. Bruns Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus David F. Hawkins Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus View Details
    • 25 Oct 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: October 25

    stores are multi-sided platforms (MSPs). We propose a definition that provides a more precise notion of MSPs by requiring that they enable direct interactions between the multiple customer types that are affiliated with them. Several... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Apr 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan

    Keywords: by Douglas J. Skinner & Suraj Srinivasan
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Does Who Helps You Impact Your Behavior? Examining the Effects of Social Interactions on Knowledge Sharing in Online Communities

    By: Eunkwang Seo, Frank Nagle and Sonali K. Shah
    Online communities provide vibrant forums for knowledge sharing and are increasingly being used by individual users and firms to source knowledge and create and capture value. Yet, there is much to learn about how the actions of community members affect other members,... View Details
    Keywords: Online Communities; Knowledge Development; Innovation; Reciprocity; Knowledge Sharing; Networks; Innovation and Invention; Interpersonal Communication
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    • 26 Apr 2016
    • First Look

    April 26

    intermediaries—called outsourcing agencies—have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers are high quality. Workers affiliated with an agency have substantially higher... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne