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- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
"magic"-the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement-that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more executives have discovered in recent years, the answer to this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc
VisiCalc is long gone—but the tech industry has embraced lessons learned by its experience that continue to shape strategy and decision-making of engineers and executives alike. Among those lessons: First, new empires take shape at the... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
ability to benefit from private information. Consistent with these expectations, we find that abnormal returns to insider purchases-used to proxy for private information-are reduced following IFRS adoption. Similar results are derived... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
the pop star's manager, Troy Carter, who faced the daunting and sudden task of launching the performer's first major solo concert tour in 2009. Elberse developed the case based on extensive interviews with Carter and several other View Details
- 23 May 2024
- News
HBS After October 7
questions to the panel based on the themes expressed in the more than 300 questions participants had submitted in advance. The conversation featured updates and insights from Jana Pompadur Kierstead, Executive Director, MBA and Doctoral... View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
co-branding opportunities that they deserve. Two examples come to mind, the American Red Cross's use of 9/11 funds and the United Way executive scandals. Both of these events eroded consumer trust in these organizations and had a direct... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
the size and diversity of the faculty is a strategic priority for the School. These efforts enhance the strength of our MBA and Doctoral Programs; fuel the growth of HBP, Executive Education, and HBS Online; and expand our View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
international trade and investment. Insights about differences in the development of financial institutions across countries, the role of financial constraints, and the use of internal capital markets are proving central in understanding international economics. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Growing on the Job - Alumni
improve or acquire new skills. The fundamentals of these reviews, and their variety, should be familiar to any jobseeker or employee. The key is to not assess yourself in isolation, but with the input of managers and/or peers who can give you external perspectives.... View Details
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
is necessary to transform and develop the next course of action. The performance of the process of innovation is constrained by the capacities of the artifacts and the ability of the actors to create and use artifacts to drive this cycle.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
decisions to voluntarily submit to regulation. We study individuals' decisions to avoid monitoring or regulation and thus enhance their ability to engage in unethical conduct. We conduct a laboratory experiment in which participants... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
capital firm Polaris Partners, and former executive at Pfizer, Schulman has worked in some 90 countries around the world. "The key to creating collaborative teams within diverse environments, is to find strategies that increase the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
same. This is in the face of research findings that organizations with significant minority representation are stronger than their peers. A McKinsey & Company study in May of top executive teams in more than a thousand organizations... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
Summing Up Is Good Timing in Management Primarily a Function of Strategy or Culture? Timing in executing change is an important responsibility of leadership. Responses to this month’s column suggest that if timing is the result of one... View Details
- 08 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students
How do you think learning through the case method will help you in your future endeavors?The case method was one of the main reasons why I wanted to attend HBS. I knew the case method would help sharpen my ability to think fast while... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
skills, values, and abilities who can build a strong leadership team. If a family member has the right mix of strengths, having a family leader is usually the better choice. If not, find a nonfamily View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
psychological biases and errors that reduce the accuracy of human perception, sense making, estimation, and attribution.1 These can hinder the human ability to analyze failure effectively. People tend to be more comfortable attending to... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
is concentrated in CEOs, firms, and periods where such incentives are likely to be strongest: (1) where CEO wealth is sensitive to change in the share price, (2) where announced earnings are particularly likely to be an important source of information about managerial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Ignacio Lartirigoyen
executives and the board. "It gave me a lot of exposure to senior management and helped me learn how to communicate agribusiness in financial terms," he says. In 2016, he shifted once again to an Argentine agribusiness jointly... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
required three kinds of specialists: business managers, country managers, and functional managers, with a group of senior executives to coordinate the efforts of the specialists. In 2003, as globalization has become a much more pressing... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell