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- 06 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Leaders Lose Their Way
stay connected to them. Often their spouse or partner knows them best. They aren't impressed by titles, prestige, or wealth accumulation; instead, they worry that these outward symbols may be causing the loss of authenticity. Spouses and partners can't carry this...
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by Bill George
- 15 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom
(and less likely to leave) when they have female partners as mentors and role models. McGinn, Castro, and Lingo wondered how nontraditional role models influenced gender inequality at home—both in terms of professional opportunities and...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success
capacity to collaborate with and learn from digital specialists on their teams. To increase digital literacy, some companies are using reverse mentoring programs, with Millennials and Gen Z’ers educating those more senior (because of age...
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- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
what performance metrics are truly important and being consistent in their application. There is no point to encourage senior employees to mentor juniors, for example, but only reward them for time spent with clients. These practices are...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 27 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards
lines or difficulty in finding a store employee for help. Retail operations: An oxymoron The paper adds granularity to Raman's three decades of research into operations management, which includes a focus on retailing. He notes with a laugh that when he first decided...
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- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
the researchers, is intensive mentoring and monitoring of staff. “Because many young companies face both technological and market risks, founders may prioritize dealing with these challenges rather than the more mundane aspects of human...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
buy.” 4. Business leaders strive for inclusivity and gender equality Some of the business leaders featured in the book were among the first generation of women to break through considerable barriers in their professions. One method used to overcome gender bias has been...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
entrepreneurship herself, even applying to the MIT Venture Mentoring Service (MIT VMS)—a program that connects budding entrepreneurs to successful businesspeople to develop their ideas. Whenever an entrepreneur applies to the program, a...
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- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
players beyond the basketball court. Feelings about Knight also follow generational lines. While younger students often see Knight as little more than a bully, older participants tell stories of doing their best work under a mentor with...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
mediate the family's influence on the firm so that neither the financial and employment needs of the family nor family conflicts endanger the long-run viability of the company; and provide helpful mentoring and feedback for family...
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- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
friends and relatives or start small businesses as a new source of fulfillment. One woman who had been mentoring junior workers at her old firm volunteered her coaching services through a community organization. Putting a material stake...
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- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
make your career. I'm going to take a lawyer. I'm going to bring him inside the company. I'm going to give him a job in the business and I'm going to mentor him." And on my best day as CEO, I'm simply channeling what Roy Vagelos taught me...
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- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
decision, but to guide and mentor the team through the decision process. You may interview candidates at this stage, too, but I suggest this be to help a junior manager resolve concerns they have about the candidate or probe more deeply...
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by Julia Austin
- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
teach others! My father called any lesson, even if we failed, “money in the bank.” Take time to reflect on what you learned (above) and how you might be able to mentor others to grow or avoid pitfalls. Not only will this help others...
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by Julia Austin
- 20 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
sound processes in place, selecting and mentoring key people—to create the conditions that will help others make the right choices. At the same time, he must set the tone and define the organization's culture and values through his words...
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- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
wondering what would happenif employees were given extended lunch hours to go mentor children.— C. William Pollard,The ServiceMaster Company "I am a follower of Jesus Christ," began C. William Pollard, Chairman of The...
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- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
gone. This is an opportunity to learn Slack and Zoom and have a mentor teach you how to use these tools. The second thing is, working remotely is very effective if you can also restructure the organizational processes for how...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Apr 2022
- What Do You Think?
As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?
Mentoring? There was negligible response to last month’s column. Either there was little interest in the topic of reverse mentoring or potential respondents may have been discouraged from responding by Stac, whose lone response raised a...
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by James Heskett
- 20 Feb 2020
- Op-Ed
Love in the Office Is Wonderful. Except for CEOs.
relationship with a woman employee, decades his junior, whom he met as a mentor to undergraduate students. She became a strategic planner at one of the organization’s branches , and eventually its chief of staff. Both jobs disappeared...
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by Regina Herzlinger
- March 2015
- Case
BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm
By: William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White
BOLT is a different kind of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.
In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Finance;
Accelerator;
Entrepreneurship;
Finance;
Venture Capital;
Applications and Software;
Information Infrastructure;
Strategy
Sahlman, William A., and Robert F. White. "BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 815-702, March 2015.