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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Nine MBAs Chosen for Leadership Fellows Program
Nine graduating MBAs are taking positions with nonprofit and public-sector organizations with the support of the School’s Leadership Fellows program. Now in its seventh year, the program offers a select group of HBS students the opportunity to experience high-impact...
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- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
If organizations want to help their employees keep up with the Joneses, turns out it’s better to keep the Joneses out of sight. So suggests an article in the Journal of Finance by Harvard Business School assistant professor John Beshears. The piece is based on a field...
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- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
The News Corporation/News of the World scandal has been described as a case study in bad management. What was there about the company's organizational culture that led to "Murdoch's Mess"? Professor Michel Anteby, who studies how meaning is built at work and...
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- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Reinventing Savings Bonds
- September–October 2022
- Article
Seeking Purity, Avoiding Pollution: Strategies for Moral Career Building
By: Erin Reid and Lakshmi Ramarajan
This study builds theory on how people construct moral careers. Analyzing interviews with 102 journalists, we show how people build moral careers by seeking jobs that allow them to fulfill both the institution’s moral obligations and their own material aims. We...
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Reid, Erin, and Lakshmi Ramarajan. "Seeking Purity, Avoiding Pollution: Strategies for Moral Career Building." Organization Science 33, no. 5 (September–October 2022): 1909–1937.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Automating Short-Term Payroll Savings: Evidence from Two Large U.K. Experiments
By: Sarah Holmes Berk, James J. Choi, Jay Garg, John Beshears and David Laibson
Automatic enrollment is often used to increase retirement savings. What are the effects of using it (or, alternatively, requiring an active enrollment choice) to increase short-term savings? We evaluate two experiments in the U.K. at employers that enable workers to...
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Berk, Sarah Holmes, James J. Choi, Jay Garg, John Beshears, and David Laibson. "Automating Short-Term Payroll Savings: Evidence from Two Large U.K. Experiments." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32581, June 2024.
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What to Do When Industry Disruption Threatens Your Career
By: Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin and Whitney Johnson
This article discusses how to diagnose the risks that disruptive industry forces pose to individual careers and offers suggestions on how to mitigate such threats. Recommendations are based on analyses of individuals’ career histories in the professional services...
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Groysberg, Boris, Eric Lin, and Whitney Johnson. "What to Do When Industry Disruption Threatens Your Career." MIT Sloan Management Review 60, no. 3 (Spring 2019): 57–65.
- September 2007
- Case
Still Leading (B9): Hon. Colin Powell—A Portfolio for Powerful Impact
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Lance P. Pierce
Describes the post-career leadership issues for former General and Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Lance P. Pierce. "Still Leading (B9): Hon. Colin Powell—A Portfolio for Powerful Impact." Harvard Business School Case 308-041, September 2007.
- April 2003 (Revised June 2003)
- Case
Abby Joseph Cohen: A Career Retrospective
By: Ashish Nanda
This case provides a career retrospective as of 2003 on Goldman Sachs strategist Abby Joseph Cohen. It reviews Cohen's career path and progress through key decision points.
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Nanda, Ashish, and Kristin Lieb. "Abby Joseph Cohen: A Career Retrospective." Harvard Business School Case 903-118, April 2003. (Revised June 2003.)
- 06 Oct 2019
- News
She’ll Be Running Up the Mountain When She Runs
- August 2009
- Exercise
Managing Your Own Human Capital: Executive Interview Exercise (2009)
By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
This note contains instructions for an exercise in which students interview C-level executives on how they have managed their careers.
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Managerial Roles;
Personal Development and Career;
Strategic Planning;
Personal Characteristics
Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams. "Managing Your Own Human Capital: Executive Interview Exercise (2009)." Harvard Business School Exercise 410-047, August 2009.
Vincent C. Ziegler
Zeigler presided over Gillette’s strongest financial performance in its 73-year history. He helped Gillette reach the $1 billion mark in revenues in 1973 – up from $340 million when he assumed the CEO position. Under Zeigler, Gillette introduced the Trac II razor,...
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Anthony Overton
A pioneer black manufacturer, Overton established Hygienic in 1898 and produced baking powder, extracts, and toilet preparations. After moving the firm from Kansas to Chicago, he began to manufacture a full line of cosmetics and perfumes under the High-Brown Products...
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David W. Mitchell
Mitchell orchestrated the acquisition of Tiffany’s & Company – expanding Avon to a $3 billion+ operation with over 1 million direct sales representatives. Mitchell produced exceptional financial returns while expanding Avon’s global presence.
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Personal Care & Home Products
King C. Gillette
Gillette invented the safety razor, creating a new U.S. industry. In 1903, Gillette sold 51 of his razors and 168 blades. He increased these numbers dramatically so that by the end of the next year, he had sold 90,000 razors and 12.4 million blades. Gillette grew his...
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Max (Francis) Factor, Jr.
Taking over the family company after the death of his father in 1938, Factor is regarded as a pioneer in the cosmetics and makeup business. He transformed the company from a Hollywood makeup studio into a worldwide provider of name brand cosmetics, bringing the makeup...
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Mary Kay Ash
Ash created a successful cosmetics company by and for women by utilizing a direct sales force and creative motivational sales techniques. At the end of its first year, Mary Kay Cosmetics boasted $198,514 in sales and 318 salespeople. By 1977, the company had over...
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Richard M. DeVos
In 1959, with his partner Jay Van Andel, DeVos established one of the most profitable direct selling companies in the world. Van Andel and DeVos accomplished their success through the use of an elaborate pyramid-like distribution system in which independent...
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Personal Care & Home Products
Samuel B. Colgate
Despite the fact that Colgate’s term as head of Colgate-Palmolive came at the height of the Depression, Colgate was able to grow the company significantly. When Colgate took over, the company had $62 million in annual sales. Five years later, Colgate had increased...
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