Span Of Control - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Sep 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

and control is often an illusion. Connecting with friends and with nature, Suchors discovers a source of spiritual nourishment, spaces powerful enough to absorb her grief, and joy in the persistence View Details

17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

Clubs News Clubs News “Awesome” Author Helps Toronto Club Cultivate Calm; Cleveland Clinic Gives Updates As the COVID-19 quarantine extends through the spring and summer, the HBS Club of Toronto is producing webinars to keep alumni... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2007
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Letters

Andy Grove was first introduced to HBS. I joined Intel from DEC in Boston in late 1978 as a senior group controller based in Santa Clara, California. Working with the HR department, I created the first recruitment effort for all View Details

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

Is there a single best investment allocation strategy for the long-term investor? Some theories favor a one-portfolio-for-all investors approach, emphasizing a best-mix-of-assets program. The more traditional approach, which developed out View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017

Financials Supplemental Financial Information 3ms page 2 of 2 Expenses The School’s total operating expenses for fiscal 2017 were $731 million, up by $27 million, or nearly 4 percent, from $704 million for the prior year. The largest... View Details

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

School in 1963 I have been trying to find ways to teach about the political, social, economic, and cultural environment of business, the context that shapes corporate purpose, provides corporate legitimacy, and in many ways View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2017

Behavioral Research Services and lab for experimental research. Observing human behavior in a controlled setting has developed into one of the faculty’s mainstream research methodologies. We expect our... View Details

19 Jun 2017
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How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe

league that started failed miserably, because they couldn't control salaries. And when some superstars develop, they ask for a lot of money. Things start to collapse. Well, the WNBA has a system where for... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

growth — exceeding 9 percent for the past three years — China sends a clear message to the world of progress and power. The country’s singular focus on economic development has been shaped by top-down government View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

adjustment I had to make was getting used to the case method. The quick pace and fluid discussion of case-based teaching was very different from lecturing. As some of the senior historians here at HBS had... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

According to Andrew S. Grove, chairman and co-founder of Intel, when a company's understanding of itself shifts, when it changes its strategic paradigm, it sets out on a journey akin to moving from one... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology

26 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

results. Once we controlled for gender, the results were clean. I was surprised because we were very clear about the power manipulations. These people knew the other party had a really good alternative or a really bad alternative. And the... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

Companies need to have smart technicians who stay abreast of emerging digital threats and defenses, of course, but the technicians shouldn't be calling the shots. General managers need to take the lead in... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby

07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

the best person to lead us out of this." And I think in the span of maybe 15 days or 30 days or two months during that time period, you know, I started to feel renewal and a... View Details

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

individuals who control household investments do to make sure their holdings are in financial alignment with their goals, and who can they turn to for advice? Are traditional investment advisers equipped to handle these kinds View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

American bison that had once roamed the Plains were intentionally slaughtered by westward-moving Americans. In the span of just three decades, almost forty million buffalo were destroyed—over ninety percent... View Details

02 Aug 2018
News

Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

didn't plan for those to be control areas on our survey work, but that's what they've become. And the results are dramatically different in those geographic areas where we never ran any ads, where we never did anything. Hanna: Jim, as... View Details

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

Often overlooked in essays on leadership is the role of the organization's measurement and management system. Effective leaders, however, know that measurement and management systems play a critical role in communication; in establishing... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

users control of other computers remotely is priced as low as $20. And business is booming. A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey found that global security incidents rose 38 percent in 2015—the biggest jump in... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

but rather as a portfolio of flexible and interlinked roles and relationships." While the outmoded top-down management structure of corporate divisions gave managers tight View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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