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09 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community

perhaps a bit self-congratulatory, but in retrospect this has certainly been 100% true. There’s a reason everyone always remembers the Erik Peterson case. I ended up spending the second semester of my second year with that very LEAD professor working on an Independent... View Details

06 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

in the United States, but US companies gave it all up.” HBS Professor of Management Practice Willy C. Shih served as president of Kodak's Digital & Applied Imaging business through the turn of the 21st century. Shortly after starting... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

distribution, where new startups fail within the first three years following entry. This churning emphasizes a new mechanism through which financial sector reforms impact product markets. It is not exclusively better ex ante allocation of capital to qualified View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, Renata Lemos, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs and on whether... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

2008). He is a past editor of the Academy of Management Review and co-founding editor of the Academy of Management Annals. Art now co-edits Research in Organizational Behavior. He is a Fellow of the Academy... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

Olympic bids in their own cities. Act from Choice: Simple Tools for Managing Your Habits, Your Emotions and Yourself, to Be How You Mean to Be by Robert Goldmann (MBA 1961) (Clarity Publications Inc.) With the goal of training your brain... View Details

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

hypothesis that if there were more women who were venture capitalists then there would be more points of intersection with women entrepreneurs. In our research using information from 1995 and 2000, we documented all the women in the venture capital industry who were on... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

05 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology

imagination. Tell us about your summer internship experience?My internship experience was nothing short of incredible. I debated doing a more traditional role in product management for the summer, but ultimately decided to stick to a... View Details

Keywords: Technology

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Bibliography - The Art of American Advertising

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details

11 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

August 2018 Journal of Accounting Research Virtual Issue on Empirical Management Accounting Research By: Abernethy, Margaret, and Dennis Campbell Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 28

Twenty-four months after successfully integrating the two companies, Brazos has received two attractive offers for the combined distributor. With the company's management projecting double-digit growth for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2019
News

Making Sabbaticals Mainstream

about does it make people happier, more successful? Does it make companies have greater retention, better recruiting? We need to get to the evidence in order to actually change the culture around this, to enable more people to be able to take sabbaticals. As you... View Details

14 Dec 2018
Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

First-year students participate in a Global Immersion at the end of the second semester. They travel all over the world participating in short-term consulting projects that add value to our global company partners and help students build... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

10 Jan 2020
Blog Post

PRIDE in the HBS Community

opportunity. We kicked off the first week of October with the National Coming Out Day portrait project series. About a dozen or so members of PRIDE, including myself, volunteered to share our personal coming out stories alongside our... View Details

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

However, this project was a failure. As one former securities analyst noted, "None of this stuff worked the way it was supposed to." 76 This history seems especially relevant given GM's current attempts to create yet another... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing

31 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

creditors for quality reporting. In contrast, the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis posits that public equity firms, because their managers have a greater incentive to manage earnings, have lower... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2020
News

Meal Plan

Holdings, a $300 million fund with investments in several restaurant concepts including Tatte Bakery, CAVA, Life Alive, BJ’s Restaurants and Clover Food Labs. Christian, can you walk me through how the management team at Inspire Brands... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

17 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 17

solutions in the form of software and hardware platforms, Intel Corporation, a leading semiconductor manufacturer in the United States, introduces a pilot project in India for testing a new platform that allows monitoring and demand View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

times," he observes. Richard C. Whiteley (MBA '68), a management consultant and author who is writing a book titled "ReSpiriting Work," notes, "Another important factor is the aging of the American population. The baby... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

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