by Bill George - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Jul 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie Chen

05 May 2022
HBS Case

College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need

retention practices, notes that the new HBS note comes at a time of ongoing racial reckoning sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, whose death two years ago shined a light on numerous inequities... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

27 Sep 2016
News

Don't know a company that will bring back jobs like Trump wants

14 Mar 2016
News

Even A Company Known For Overworking People Is Embracing Sleep

10 Dec 2015
News

Becoming a More Authentic Leader

22 Jun 2011
News

Measurement: Tracking social impact catches up with resource issues

14 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

How did you first become interested in PRT systems? Ben Edelman: As a longtime user of public transportation, I often wish for more widespread transit links, more frequent services, and faster journeys. Yet I'm shocked by the costs of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

13 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

sector's tilt toward short-term financing was merely the industry responding to a lack of available government debt instruments, such as short-term risk-free Treasuries, that were much in demand by investors during the global savings... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

bill got passed, what the law contains, how its provisions connect to other climate-related laws, and how it seeks to accelerate the country’s deployment of clean energy and other efforts to address climate change. Google’s AI Approach to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

05 Mar 2015
News

Cramer’s stocks to watch: Exxon’s 15-year plan

06 Dec 2016
News

Trump will be an 'activist president'

27 Nov 2015
News

Three retail CEOs squeezed

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

Publications: GM and the World We Have Lost June 3, 2009 - Boston Globe Richard Tedlow and David Ruben comment on the profound American loss that is the collapse of General Motors. How GM Wasted 'a Good Crisis' June 2, 2009 - Wall Street Journal View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

however, support for the bill fell to 40 percent—about the same amount of decline following a politician’s opposition. This was somewhat eye-opening. Although one might expect policy to be influenced on political issues View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Oct 2015
News

Valeant... there's a 'lot of smoke'

21 May 2014
News

Target Will Recover as It Keeps Customers

16 Sep 2016
News

The Morning Risk Report: Better Performance Follows ESG Proposals

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

"confounding questions, inane comments, and verbal bullets." This excerpt looks at attack strategies used by naysayers: fear mongering, delay, confusion, ridicule. For more information, read Kotter's HBR.org blog post, Know Your... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

09 Feb 2017
News

Pro: Risky for CEOs to take political stances

09 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

world through television and print publications, as they had for decades. There was, however, one big media game changer: the Fox News Channel (FNC). Founded in 1996 by Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch, FNC was an unusual newcomer... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting

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