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- 10 Mar 2021
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Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
relates to team performance. With that said, I have a great team of individuals who are incredibly focused and dedicated, so I feel good about what’s to come. You were a team of about 10 people at Carnegie; at Columbia, it’s closer to 30.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
well received. A new program, Charting Your Course: Alumnae Career Choices and Transitions, was designed to bring together alumnae — many of whom have reduced their professional commitments for some time in order to raise a family — and help them develop View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
people are held accountable for their actions as individuals rather than as a group, they tend to weigh their choices more carefully.—Cynthia A. Montgomery and Rhonda Kaufman Make directors accountable to shareholders. One compelling way... View Details
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Bryan Guerra
your current role & your long term career? HBS gave me a deeper sense of connectedness to a larger community of individuals who are all extremely bright, curious, and more than anything, willing to help in a moment's notice. HBS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
research on high-need-for-achievement professionals — people with an insatiable need to keep achieving at all costs — DeLong took stock of the ways in which he and other driven executives can become victims of their own ambitions and resistance to change. An expert on... View Details
Raymond J. Noorda
Upon his arrival at Novell, Noorda realized that the future of computer networking lay in the software and not the hardware. Novell’s product, Netware, dominated the network operating system market in the early 1990s by making it possible for View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Edward J. Berwind
During his years at the helm of Berwind-White Coal Mining, Berwind was closely associated with J.P. Morgan in the consolidation, reorganization, integration, and expansion of his coal operations. Berwind was reputed to be the world’s largest View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Samuel Goldwyn
Goldwyn is recognized worldwide as one of the most significant single individuals in the history of the motion picture industry. Goldwyn became Hollywood's pre-eminent independent filmmaker producing a body of work, which included 80... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
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- 01 Jun 2006
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Field Studies a Win-Win
Field studies give small teams of second-year HBS students, working under faculty supervision and guidance, an opportunity to get a handle on the kinds of real-world problems that individual companies are facing. Sponsoring companies and... View Details
David Duffield
After failing to convince Larry Ellison that Oracle should invest in the development of human resource management software, Duffield decided to create his own business. PeopleSoft with its innovative software for managing human resource functions became a phenomenal... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016
Abstract—Many experiments have found that participants take more investment risk if they see returns less frequently, see portfolio-level returns (rather than each individual asset’s returns), or see long-horizon (rather than one-year)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016
counter this ambiguity, this paper proposes that the strength of the greedy signal relates to an individual's volunteer reputation. Results from an online experiment support this possibility: the crowd out in response to public incentives is less likely among View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
business environment or used along with any individual case. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308063 Corrections Corp. of America Harvard Business School Case 107-071 This case illustrates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007
engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends with greater detail than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
That approach is obviously critical to an understanding of how businesses work, but equally important, as Professor Koehn has indicated, are the human beings who make the decisions that create and sustain enterprises. I wanted to use a biographical approach to focus on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
for disabled travelers and their companions. THE BREHMS: On location in Lisbon, working to make the world accessible to individuals with physical challenges. Photo courtesy of Darren Brehm In 1993, Faith and I were seriously injured in a... View Details
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
“They should pay all of their invoices now and pay anything they can forward,” says Mills. “The Apples of the world should take it as part of their civic responsibility.” Mills emphasized that acting quickly, with both small individual... View Details
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
dominated by factories, the study concludes. More research coming To understand what this means for the US economy longer term, Tabellini is undertaking new research. "If this migration response comes from the fact that fewer high-skilled View Details
- 01 Jan 2020
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Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
This may have sparked the rage leading, on at least one occasion, to the murder of an H-1B visa holder. Another concern is the tight control that the sponsor holds over an individual during the process. Sponsoring companies may commit to... View Details