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- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
senior advisor at Steuben Glass in New York who operates her own consultancy. "It's a great art to define what relevancy means for your brand while keeping its heritage alive. It's a matter of catering to existing clients while... View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
supporting them. Then please shop for the right advisors to help you at the right price. 5. Develop New Context Awareness. Value-building families also take this opportunity to consider how greater wealth or more liquid wealth will affect... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
weigh advice from experts and experienced advisors more heavily than advice from novices, but individuals experiencing high levels of power discount both novice and expert advice. Experiments 3 and 4 demonstrate that this tendency of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
Times, July 26, 2020, p. BU. Bronagh Ward, Vittoria Bufalari, Mark Tulay, Sara E. Murphy, Richa Joshi, Nick Cohn Martin, COVID-19 and Inequality: A Test of Corporate Purpose , KKS Advisors and The Test of Corporate Purpose, September 23,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
business practices, allowed businesses to connect with students at the individual level. At the same time, the creation of platforms for business-education learning brought system-level improvements. In particular, MCBRE's board of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
studies from my ongoing research program on the evolution of the role of the CRO. I outline and illustrate four major roles that senior risk officers may fulfill: compliance champion, modeling expert, strategic controller, and strategic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
a reasonable request and deliver it with a smile, hopefully you can keep the other person in the room and see what happens next." Mohan—former managing director and now senior advisor of $15 billion VC and private equity firm Summit... View Details
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
the adoption of U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and not IFRS. The case positions the student as an advisor to an important local politician. Based on cultural, economic, and political information available in 2005,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
advisor to Liberian president and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a 1971 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School, wrote the policy memorandum at the request of the Liberian government, which seeks fast growth of its own. To... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
solve a problem or achieve a set of goals. “Companies aren’t hiring to fill a role,” says Ng, who is also a career coach and advisor at Harvard College. “Companies are hiring to solve a problem or achieve a set of goals. And if they are... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
concentrated in hedge funds but is not present for investment advisors or pension funds. Overall, our results suggest that private meetings help a select group of investors make more informed trading decisions. Working Papers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
CalPERS' external fund managers, Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA), and a service provider to DFA and CalPERS, KLD Research & Analytics. One question facing CalPERS with this new approach is whether to invest in PetroChina, which had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
(most literature focuses on the August Thyssen-Hütte, the largest firm), suddenly I ended up in the headquarters of the Thyssen-Konzern. As my advisor once said: If you go into the archives and find just what you are looking for, you've... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
Sharapova," consisting of Sharapova and her advisors at IMG, a leading sports, media, and entertainment agency. Contains rich data on the way in which IMG structures its sales process, and can serve to illustrate best practices and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
senior advisor to Intel, but beyond that, what is he doing? A: Right now he's a man with a mission in healthcare. He believes that technology can do an enormous amount to cut healthcare costs. He believes there are technological... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
paper details the results of nine studies showing that advisors not only get offended when their guidance is disregarded, but they may punish those colleagues by denigrating them, distancing themselves—and in some cases, even severing the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
judgment accuracy; little is known about the interpersonal consequences of the advice-seeking process. In this paper, we investigate the interpersonal consequences when an advisor believes his or her advice will be ignored. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
customer experience is so poor across the health care industry. "Employers do. So there's no real driver for quality." Hsiang (HBS MBA 2010), a health data advisor for the White House's US Digital Service and the Office of Science and... View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
replaced financial advisors with robo-advisors, which use big data and algorithms to determine the best places to put clients’ money—and appeal to a whole new generation of investors. Technology replaces the financial View Details
- 12 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Break the Rules of How Business is Done
it’s the best way to do business and it certainly won’t set you apart from your competitors. Many entrepreneurs are getting advice from old-school investors and advisors who saw it done a certain way that worked in their day, but that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin