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- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
Illustration by Edmon de Haro Illustration by Edmon de Haro During his 11 years in the Israeli Air Force, Shimon Elkabetz (MBA 2017) had several near-death experiences related to weather. Once he flew into a foggy cloud bank after the...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
directors hold large blocks of stock in public corporations, those firms experience increased performance relative to competing firms whose board members lack such significant holdings. "Sophisticated large-block owners are beneficial to...
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Judith A. Ross
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
organization defining its role and finding its niche and space in the world will find it easier to communicate and achieve that super stretch goal. They start with a blank piece of paper. They do not have to re-design.” Alex Kahel View Details
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by James Heskett
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
cannot be attributed to the usual suspects of success: superior business models or cutting edge technology. Holt is interested in what makes identity brands resonate. In his research, he focuses on the best-performing identity brands—the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
organization wishing to profit from big data. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century/ Great Leaders Don't Need Experience Author:Gautam Mukunda Publication:Harvard Business Review 90,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
(relative to the hiring manager) influences other organizational members’ support (or lack thereof) for who is hired through perceptions of the hiring manager’s motives and morality. We apply principles derived from the literature on View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Allie Corless
cleantech startup called Rentricity, I am thrilled to be able to focus all my energy on this one endeavor to ensure its success and longevity. How has your HBS experience shaped your career path? My HBS View Details
- 05 Apr 2021
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?
enjoyed their stints at the School and their interactions with students. The other half were like the well-known CEO who came to my office to tell me, “I’ve decided to leave at the end of the term. This is the toughest job I’ve ever had.” Lest my View Details
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by James Heskett
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
experience at GE can teach large organizations about overcoming barriers to innovation. READ MORE Dan Morrell: What made you want to stay at GE and make your career there? What was enticing about the mission and the work? Jeff Immelt:...
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- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
debate about gay rights in Indiana” To investigate, Toffel and Chatterji designed an experiment to gauge whether mentioning Cook’s concerns about the RFRA influenced public support for the law, and whether Cook’s opinion affected...
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- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
employees to take better control of both their workdays and their lives. Excerpt From sleeping With Your Smartphone It all began with an experiment that my research associate and collaborator, Jessica Porter, and I initiated in order to...
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by Leslie A. Perlow
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
—it's the challenge of leading a major company in the turbulent global economy. A longtime executive at Monsanto and BFGoodrich, Price believes that the turmoil caused by forces such as consolidation, overcapacity, and technological change is best met with a blend of...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ian Walsh
after he got out of the service. "I wanted to emulate my father, who always attributed his self-confidence to his Marine Corps experience," Walsh explains. By age fourteen, Walsh had already made his first solo flight. In 1992, he earned...
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James E. Aisner
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
drop of around one-third of the total weekly sales across the album and its associated songs is directly attributable to people switching to buy music online. And it might be helpful to point out that my model controls for any trends in...
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- 08 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity
assigned to a team led by another woman, the experience was revelatory. “I could see myself in that more senior role,” she says. Still, Eberle Walker had never envisioned herself on the path to CEO. Her mentors were chief operating...
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Entrepreneurship
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
Lewis (HBS MBA '92), took the Internet retailer of office supplies from 25 to 400 employees and $50 million to $500 million in revenues. Being an "intrapreneur" within a larger corporation—with a larger corporation's deep pockets—offered a nice hybrid View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
in the past. He’s so fed up with these notions that he has written a book titled Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time. It would be easy to write off his book as a rant based on a non-scientific set of personal View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
organizations identify the net positives of tradeoffs and on making them thoughtfully and deliberately, without remorse. Could you talk a little about the four service “truths”? Frei: Companies that excel at service typically do a great job in four areas: identifying...
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- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
first time was not what they had expected. "By starting online, some people had experiences they wouldn't have had if they had been able to see up front what someone was like," Norton says. "So we wanted to explore ways to...
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