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- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
live your daily life. "We have better theories about how you formed a group with your immediate coworkers, friends, and neighbors than we do for those connections that are outside the circle." Spanning Ties Yet those "spanning ties," as Stuart View Details
- February 2013 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Agero: Enhancing Capabilities for Customers
By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
This case illustrates the importance of choosing a primary customer as the basis for organization design. Cross Country Group managers adjusted resource allocation, organization design and performance measures over time to transform Cross Country Group from an... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Gap; Entrepreneurship; Auto Industry; Insurance; Performance Management; Performance Measurement; Performance Measures; Performance Pressure; Decisions; Family Business; Resource Allocation; Organizational Design; Customer Focus and Relationships; Performance Evaluation; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry
Simons, Robert, and Natalie Kindred. "Agero: Enhancing Capabilities for Customers." Harvard Business School Case 113-001, February 2013. (Revised March 2013.)
- 14 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections
individual employee relationships at 7,715 public US companies representing 19 industries. The researchers found that companies whose real-world employee connections put them at the center of their professional communities performed... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
by calling attention to Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli's compensation package and the company's poor performance. The AFL-CIO Office of Investments advocates for improved corporate governance at public companies, focusing on the problems... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2024
- What Do You Think?
Do People Want to Work Anymore?
published an article that laid out two human resource strategies that we labeled the “cycle of success” and the “cycle of failure.” Our late colleague at HBS, Christopher Lovelock, wisely suggested we later consider the term “cycle of mediocrity.” The “cycle of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Jun 2024
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024
As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 30 Nov 2016
- HBS Seminar
Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein, Stanford University
- 26 Apr 2024
- HBS Case
Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory
organizations to move forward.” Gibson cowrote the case with Nicole Gilmore, director of talent development at MITRE; and Alicia Dadlani, director of the Mid-US Research Center at HBS. Sanders plays in Super Bowl and World Series Even... View Details
- Web
Podcast - Business & Environment
through growth equity. He describes how he started the Drawdown Fund with Paul Hawken, editor of the New York Times best-selling book on climate solutions called Drawdown, and the strategic choices that set their fund operations apart... View Details
- Program
Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual
pioneered the case study method, we also built the first live online classroom in 2014 and have been refining and optimizing our virtual program experience ever since. In a world that is now centered around virtual connection, our... View Details
- Program
Ascending the Peak: Finding the Leader Within—Virtual
centered around virtual connection, our programs reflect the input and experience of tens of thousands of participants. When you participate in a virtual HBS Executive Education program, you benefit from a powerful learning experience... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-024.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Center for Creative Leadership Harvard Business School Case 308-013 The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) was founded in 1970... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Faculty & Research - MBA
case discussion. Professors are dedicated to providing the best for their students by investing in extensive training, requesting and utilizing feedback on their teaching, and taking advantage of resources offered by the Christensen View Details
- Web
Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
September 11, 2001, Kates was working in the World Trade Center as a senior managing director at Cantor Fitzgerald. He was able to call his family and tell them he loved them before the tower fell. His... View Details
- Web
Ways to Give Today - Alumni
(01) 42 25 73 73 Fax: 33 (01) 42 25 15 45 For wire transfer instructions, please call the Center at the number above or email Filomena Berreby at fberreby@hbs.edu . GERMANY Harvard Business School Foundation... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
center of it all. And whether that faith is in organized religion or whether it is in whatever you call a higher power or nature or the divine or what whatever it is, just knowing that you are not the View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 13 Dec 2022
- HBS Seminar
Christine Beckman, USC Price School of Public Policy
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. I show that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2022
- Book
Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence
Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
future might unfold. They realize and accept the limits of their knowledge and actively seek out the views of people with different lived experiences and perspectives. Explorers adopt what one executive calls a "software mindset,"... View Details