Weaknesses - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

strengths and weaknesses and had the ability to cut bait, as Jobs did, and change course when it mattered. Yoffie and Cusumano express this in their last lesson, "Shape the Organization around Your Personal Anchor," using the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

Article

Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness

By: Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zhiwei Steven Wu

The most prevalent notions of fairness in machine learning are statistical definitions: they fix a small collection of pre-defined groups, and then ask for parity of some statistic of the classifier (like classification rate or false positive rate) across these groups.... View Details

Keywords: Machine Learning; Algorithms; Fairness; Mathematical Methods

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May 2018
Case

Inditex: 2018

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

In 2018, Inditex, based in Spain, was the largest specialist fashion retailer in the world, generating sales of $31.5 billion in 2017 from a portfolio of eight retail brands selling through a total of 7,475 stores located in 96 countries and from websites in 49... View Details

Keywords: Fashion; Succession; IPO; Competition; Initial Public Offering; Multinational Firms and Management; Management Succession; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry

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25 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number

reasoned that a round bid indicated that the bidder wasn’t confident of the appropriate price. Two of the bankers showed a weak preference for the precise option but weren’t sure why; two had no preference. The remaining five preferred... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

November 2007
Article

Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders

By: Joseph L. Bower

This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Planning

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02 May 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Profits and Economic Development

Keywords: by Dan Schwab & Eric Werker

Research Summary

Strategic Human Capital

My research focuses on the links between managerial background, job attributes, organizational/firm characteristics, and firm performance. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how a manager's skills, knowledge, connections, experiences, and other attributes... View Details

18 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'

Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis; Financial Services; Mining

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

publicly. For example, detailed data on the location of employee layoffs in a firm could benefit the firm's competitors by revealing its strengths and weaknesses in specific product and geographic markets. Disclosing such data might also... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

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Professor Sawyer’s research focuses on U.S. political economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, concentrating on the development of competition policy and the administrative state. While the conventional history of U.S. competition policy portrays the... View Details

Profile

Mark McNeill

best of leaders have areas of weakness. The key is that they are aware of these weaknesses and actively look to others to augment them. These highly self-aware leaders we studied also sought frequent feedback from others about their... View Details

01 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

What lessons could the humid shores of the Caribbean, the freezing heights of the Himalayas, or the farthest reaches of Earth's atmosphere hold for your company or organization? Although those places couldn't be more different, all were the scenes of disastrous... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

05 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

what mistakes they made along the way—that will help me avoid those same mistakes.” The humble job applicant This strategy works for job-seekers, too. If you’re asked to describe your greatest weakness in an interview, don’t use the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Payout Policy

Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely & Martin C. Schmalz

10 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India

Keywords: by Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr & Stephen O'Connell

17 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

“When both occur—the CEO is overpaid and the employee is underpaid—that’s when you really see the firm performance suffer,” Rouen says. These firms can feel the backlash in a variety of ways: They may suffer weak corporate governance,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Jun 2021
Op-Ed

When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative

a high-stakes situation, we have a tendency to focus on all the ways we could or should be better. As research has found, this is because we believe our weaknesses are more malleable than our strengths. In fact, we’ve got it backward: We... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

04 Aug 2010
News

A Lonely Crusader

We’ve all read stories about those rare individuals who saw the financial crisis coming and profited handsomely from their contrarian insights. Add to that list of contrarians hedge fund manager Bill Ackman (MBA ’92), whose six-year crusade to expose the financial... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; subprime mortgages; Finance; Real Estate

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Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis

Topics Good for finding… Suggested Resources Company Research Data and background information for stock pitching prep Basic valuation metrics Strength and Weaknesses of the company (SWOT analysis) Lists (screening) and... View Details

August 2021
Technical Note

Brand You: Crafting Your Personal Brand

By: Jill Avery and Rachel Greenwald

Selling oneself is something that we have to do every day in both professional and personal settings. We face it when we apply for a job, advocate for a promotion or a raise, vie for a leadership position, attempt to land a new client, write a dating profile, or meet a... View Details