Filter Results
:
(949)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(949)
- People (3)
- News (351)
- Research (450)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (145)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(949)
- People (3)
- News (351)
- Research (450)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (145)
- Web
HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
extends across all business disciplines. To achieve climate goals, we need business leaders to build skills across disciplines and to understand how climate change considerations are being infused into all areas of management. Faculty...
View Details
- 04 Nov 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Do We Chase Stars?
those floating around in the industry." (Vanitha Rangganathan); and "We chase stars because we are fallible Glamor always is enticing." (Vadeed Lobo) Women are particularly successful in porting their skills because "...
View Details
Keywords:
by Jim Heskett
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
opportunities to develop skills (“crucible experiences”) and a greater motivation to relocate out of the challenging context. We also find that managers deployed to a challenging context early in their careers continue to experience...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New...
View Details
- 2011
- Working Paper
Top Executive Background and Financial Reporting Choice
By: Francois Brochet and Kyle Travis Welch
We study the role of executive functional background in explaining management discretion in financial reporting. Taking goodwill impairment as our reporting setting, we focus on top executives (CEOs and CFOs) whose employment history includes experience in investment...
View Details
Keywords:
Financial Reporting;
Goodwill Accounting;
Experience and Expertise;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Managerial Roles;
Agency Theory
Brochet, Francois, and Kyle Travis Welch. "Top Executive Background and Financial Reporting Choice." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-088, February 2011. (Revised November 2011.)
- 06 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Programs 2024 Preview: From Climate Change to Formula 1
Mercedes F1 team; experts across industry and academia discussing climate change in the business context; HBS’s own former Dean, Nitin Nohria, exploring the reality of the CEO role; the evolving qualities required for being a digital...
View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
Collaborating with a friend, Nouf, Fatima launched Jonnah, a nonprofit that would help women with sewing skills get the materials, space, and services necessary to run a garment business. By August 2018, they had successfully launched...
View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
that innovation comes from the edges"). Thus, the program is not viewed as a subsidized Corporate Social Responsibility activity but as a positive net benefit activity, as well as a way of addressing skills shortages by tapping into...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
too, as CEOs take note of future stars. But medium-sized organizations have the most difficulty with talent identification because these companies often lack the infrastructure and human resources capabilities, says Sasser. With or...
View Details
Keywords:
by Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
bores you, and which the world does not need—this life is hell. —W.E.B. Du Bois In the organizational context, the four-drive theory implies that every person, from the CEO to the most junior employee will bring a predictable set of...
View Details
Keywords:
by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
from foreign countries, raise their hand. "What do you associate with it?" The yellow border, answers one. Others note the stunning photography, detailed maps, and magazines piled up all around the house. A few minutes later National Geographic View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
Bond CEO and Cofounder, Social Finance Tracy Palandjian attributes her instincts as a social entrepreneur to her Chinese upbringing. “Master the basics, then innovate,” “Waste nothing,” and “Distance tests the strength of horses; time...
View Details
Keywords:
Susan Young
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
competitors, prize allocation and structure, divisionalization, open entry) as a means of reconciling non-monotonic incentive responses to competition, effectively manipulating the number and skills distribution of contestants facing one...
View Details
Keywords:
Anna Secino
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
http://hbr.org/2014/01/the-new-patterns-of-innovation/ar/1 January 2014 Journal of Labor Economics Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln Abstract—We...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
can impair an enemy organization’s performance don’t need to come from highly trained federal operatives, but can be pulled off by “ordinary citizens” without special skills or training. “Sometimes when things go wrong, an organization...
View Details
Keywords:
by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
voluntary disclosure and marketing decisions. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/StrategicDisclosure.pdf January 2015 Innovation Policy and the Economy Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari,...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
is an essential skill, and where the science of negotiation is headed. Negotiation is a core competence for life, "not merely an important skill to be wheeled out for special occasions," they argue. James K. Sebenius is the...
View Details
Keywords:
by Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech
other’s experiences and maintain a tight-knit community from which we can learn every day. 2. The program is for those passionate about health care and life sciences I also expected that most people in my cohort would be solely interested in being a View Details
- November 2010
- Article
Which of These People Is Your Future CEO?
By: Boris Groysberg, Andrew Hill and Toby Johnson
Americans have long believed that U.S. military officers-trained for high-stakes positions, resilience, and mental agility-make excellent CEOs. That belief is sound, but the authors' analysis of the performance of 45 companies led by CEOs with military experience...
View Details
Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Training;
Leadership Style;
Managerial Roles;
Situation or Environment;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, Andrew Hill, and Toby Johnson. "Which of These People Is Your Future CEO?" Harvard Business Review 88, no. 11 (November 2010): 80–85.
- Web
Climate Impact - Business & Environment
individual investors with access to a series of professionally managed private investment funds focused on climate solutions. We are empowering our customers to participate in the acceleration of climate solutions through increasing accessibility to investment...
View Details