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31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

publishes various "top 10" lists in numerous fields, ranked according to how many times the paper has been viewed, downloaded, or cited elsewhere on SSRN. Some scholars paid a lot of attention to the reported download counts of their... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Jan 2020
News

Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67

uplifted those around them. A distinguished scholar, Christensen was one of the most influential business theorists of the last 50 years, according to Forbes, and was twice ranked at the top of the Thinkers 50 list among many other awards... View Details

March 2017 (Revised September 2017)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells and Carole A. Winkler

In January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States in November 2016 had triggered a national storm of protests, and many attributed Trump’s victory to... View Details

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Educators

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10 Apr 2023
News

Leading the Way

Kennedy School, and receiving multiple honors for his leadership, Trejo quickly rose through the ranks at Bank of America. He then spent nearly a decade traveling around the world and working on billion-dollar transactions in the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

02 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize

100 percent excess deaths. On the low end, Japan and Bulgaria had few unexpected deaths. In percentage terms, the US ranked just below the middle of the pack, at 32 out of the 51 countries the researchers examined, with 9.5 percent excess... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

becoming the youngest person in the armed forces to attain that rank at the time. In 1958 he was named the first permanent academic dean of the U.S. Air Force Academy, where his decade of service was characterized byquality and... View Details

18 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been near the top of the technology-hype lists for years. In 2018, Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies ranked IoT platforms as cresting the “peak of inflated expectations” stage and ready to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

whether it's learning algorithms or derivatives or parenting or riding a bicycle." "One of the things we find is that if you ignore [B players] long enough, they begin to see themselves as low performers," DeLong said. Companies That Cultivate B Players... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

men tend to favor competitive settings more than women do, which may contribute to the gender gap in the high-stakes senior ranks of a company. Ideally, sponsorships would result in more women entering the competitive pool, which would... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Web

Industry Information - Alumni

In addition to providing industry insights, the magazine includes several rankings on topics ranging from "Top 25 Consultants," "Best Firms to Work For," “Small Jewels," and "Women in Consulting." Vault Online Career Library In-depth... View Details

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

the people who work for them, especially if they have risen through the ranks of a company so quickly that they fail to realize their influence as role models. Kaplan learned this from personal experience during his tenure at the Goldman... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Aug 2007
What Do You Think?

How Will Millennials Manage?

they will not live their lives that way. There seems to a fixation these days on millennials as employees. But what kind of managers will they make? Given the earlier reflections, one might conclude that they will never make it into the View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

March 2017
Case

Intellectual Ambition at Harvard Business School: Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Amram Migdal

This case, set in the 1920s and 1930s, discusses the contributions of Harvard Business School (HBS) Professors Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger to management research and to the Human Relations Movement in management scholarship. The case focuses on their research... View Details

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Educators

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01 Dec 2015
Blog Post

What is the HBS FIELD Program?

for FIELD 2 & 3. What is FIELD 2? In FIELD 2, first year students travel to an emerging market to work on a short term consulting project for ten days in January. Students rank the 13 to 14 locations, and then are put into groups of... View Details

Web

Harvard Business School

joining MLB, Mariner served as executive vice president and CFO of the Florida Marlins. Stan O'Neal MBA 1978 Stan O'Neal rose through the ranks of corporate America to become the first African American to head a major firm on Wall Street... View Details

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

started at the bottom—"My first assignment was to get a post office box so we could get literature describing the equipment we couldn't afford to buy"—and worked his way up to the rank of one of the master managers in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

it possible that a month before the collapse, rating agencies such as Moody's and Fitch still ranked the country and the bank investment grade credit? What can we learn? Why did real estate perform so differently than expected? Why are... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

19 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

operations leader and former management consultant, specializing in growth strategy and operational efficiency. Gibson and Wilson both served as officers in the US Army culminating at the ranks of colonel and captain, respectively.... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

26 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

million, which Chung points out rivals some professional teams. In fact, the National Basketball Association’s Portland Trail Blazers had $153 million in revenue in 2015 according to a Forbes ranking of NBA teams. One limitation in the... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

Article

Why Schumpeter Was Right: Innovation, Market Power and Creative Destruction in 1920s America

By: Tom Nicholas

Are firms with strong market positions powerful engines of technological progress? Joseph Schumpeter thought so, but his hypothesis has proved difficult to verify empirically. This article highlights Schumpeterian market-power and creative-destruction effects in a... View Details