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  • Program

Leading Professional Service Firms

Should Attend Leaders who define and execute strategy for firms and organizations that provide services and who serve in roles such as chief executive officer, general manager,... View Details
Keywords: Professional Services; Professional Services
  • 28 May 2024
  • In Practice

Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

focus your search based on your personal value proposition: What is it that you’re uniquely able to contribute? In periods of oversupply, personal intelligence, drive, and leadership qualities alone will not attract an array of offers.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • November–December 2017
  • Article

Innovation Streams and Executive Leadership

By: Michael Tushman
Incumbent firms face steep challenges in dealing with technological change and associated innovation streams. The firm's senior leadership team, and especially R&D leadership, plays a central role in shaping a firm's ability to both exploit existing capabilities and... View Details
Keywords: Ambidexterity; Exploit Vs. Explore; Dynamic Capabilities; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technology Adoption; Innovation Leadership
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  • 09 Feb 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Executive Compensation and Misconduct: Environmental Harm

Keywords: by Dylan Minor
  • Web

The U.S. Job Search for International Students - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

    Executive Pay and "Independent" Compensation Consultants

    Executive compensation consultants face potential conflicts of interest that can lead to higher recommended levels of CEO pay, including the desires to “cross-sell” services and to secure “repeat business.” We find evidence in both the US and Canada that CEO pay... View Details
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    CEO Personality and Firm Policies

    By: Ian D. Gow, Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina
    Based on two samples of high quality personality data for chief executive officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits:... View Details
    Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Personal Characteristics; Management Teams
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Hunting for Talent: Firm-Driven Labor Market Search in the United States

    By: Rembrand Koning, Sharique Hasan and Ines Black
    This article analyzes the phenomenon of firm-driven labor market search—or outbound recruiting—where recruiters are increasingly “hunting for talent” rather than passively relying on workers to search for and apply to job vacancies. Our research methodology leverages... View Details
    Keywords: Hiring; Referrals; Outbound Recruiting; Labor Markets; Selection and Staffing; Networks; Recruitment; Strategy; United States
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    • 20 Nov 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation

    Keywords: by Claudine Gartenberg & Julie Wulf
    • Article

    Marginality and Problem-Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast Search

    By: Lars Bo Jeppesen and Karim R. Lakhani
    We examine who the winners are in science problem-solving contests characterized by open broadcast of problem information, self-selection of external solvers to discrete problems from the laboratories of large R&D intensive companies, and blind review of solution... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Open Source Distribution; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Markets; Independent Innovation and Invention; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development; Gender; Science
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    • 11 Oct 2012
    • News

    Fatter Paychecks Expected at Tech Firms

    • November 2008 (Revised March 2011)
    • Case

    a-connect: In Search of Talent Partners (A)

    By: Robert G. Eccles and Dilyana Karadzhova
    a-connect was started in 2002 by three former McKinsey partners who wanted to develop an alternative business model consulting firm, which they have positioned as a high-end staffing company. The company has been very successful, growing to revenues of CHF 30 million... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Initial Public Offering; Selection and Staffing; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketplace Matching; Expansion; Consulting Industry
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    • October 2020
    • Article

    IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice

    By: Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou and Christopher J. Malloy
    Using a novel database that tracks web traffic on the SEC’s EDGAR servers between 2004 and 2015, we show that mutual fund managers gather information on a very particular subset of firms and insiders, and their surveillance is very persistent over time. This tracking... View Details
    Keywords: Tracked Trades; Return Predictability; Institutional Trading; Insider Trading; Institutional Investing; Information; Investment Portfolio; Decisions; Management
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    • 18 Jun 2007
    • Op-Ed

    Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

    subcommittee delivered June 5, Desai detailed his view of this "dual-reporting system" and the implications on how executive stock options are treated. The hearing was titled "Executive Stock Options: Should the IRS and... View Details
    Keywords: by Mihir Desai
    • Program

    Senior Executive Leadership Program—Middle East

    who can deliver value in a global context, drive new levels of innovation, and build accountable, high-performance organizations. Key Benefits The Senior Executive Leadership Program—Middle East prepares you to make the bold market moves... View Details
    • 10 Apr 2003 - 11 Apr 2003
    • Lecture

    Defining the Indefinable: Ethical Dimensions of Leadership." Speaker and panelist. "Association of Executive Search Consultants 2003 Annual Conference: Redefining Leadership

    By: Lynn S. Paine
    Keywords: Leadership; Ethics
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    • April 2020
    • Teaching Note

    Executive Compensation at Talent Partners

    By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce G. Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 211-073. Talent Partners, a payroll service firm focused on actors in commercials, hired Paul Muratore to be its CEO in 2002. His compensation package included a fixed salary and a bundle of Stock Appreciation Rights (SAR) that would... View Details
    Keywords: Executive Compensation; Stock Options; Compensation and Benefits
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    • Program

    Designing and Executing Corporate Revitalization

    Summary Given today's turbulent environment, business leaders are seeking a new path to success for their companies. But while many firms talk about transforming themselves around current trends such as digitization and remote work, most... View Details
    • 06 Jun 2016
    • News

    Shareholder Proposals Contested by Firm Management

    • 21 Nov 2011
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms

    challenges that an executive can undertake, requiring mastery of talent management, change management, and ethics. “The business today is much more complex than ten or twenty years ago" —Paul M. Healy "The business today is much... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services