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- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
organizational structure has become the norm in several industries, it has received little attention from academics and consultants. Garvin and Levesque set out to fill that gap in management thinking with their research. The authors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
claim." When the global stock market and interest rates began to decline in 2000, many corporations faced a double whammy when returns on pension assets were well below expectations and pension liabilities rose by much more than expected. "At that point, CEOs... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
caps, for instance—"that we never see. Many bottlers are in a supply chain of their own." Action Steps Despite these challenges, there are many ways that companies can take steps to battle HIV and AIDS, summarized Ruggie: Pay more View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
Curriculum that focus our students’ attention on the role that business can, and perhaps should, play in addressing societal challenges. Some of this material is already in the MBA Program—and in the Elective Curriculum and Executive... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
being one third of the human causes of climate change–along with heat-absorbing greenhouse gasses released by fossil fuel combustion and deforestation–it receives less than one percent of attention from the media, funders, governments,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
neighborhoods don't have the potential to succeed or aren't capable. It's much more about decades of underinvestment and a lack of attention to what we say we're all about as a society—namely, that no matter where you come from, you have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
value-added by the MBA degree. Those questions, and the desire for greater attention to organizational realities, global perspectives, and leadership skills, have been getting more vigorous and louder. Second, this is very much a time for... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
topics, even controlling for their country of origin and gender. For example, CEOs who tend to be more expressive devote more attention to topics related to society at large and avoid topics related to the government. By contrast, dour... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
behavior; (3) a top-down or laissez-faire style by the leader, which prevents honest conversation about problems; (4) a lack of coordination across businesses, functions, or regions due to poor organizational design; (5) inadequate leadership time and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
"G" (governance) component of ESG reporting. The governance matters we identify in this paper must be addressed before turning our attention to the broader set of ESG considerations in credit ratings. Failure to put these... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
attention to increase financial inclusion among individuals with historically no access to banking or financial services in countries around the world with large underserved populations. The effort included partnerships with governments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
sustain competitive advantage: learning by doing, learning by exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention on another locus of learning that has received less View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
client and project context. Leading firms recognize this is not effective and so insist on greater staff continuity. While expensive in the near term, the long-term payoff is deemed worthwhile. Leading firms also pay greater attention to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
according to one report, “been positioning (Microsoft) as tech’s moral leader.” The focus of Nadella’s attention was the organization’s culture. With comments such as “The C in CEO stands for culture,” he set about changing the company’s... View Details
- 11 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?
Wheeler hopes. "I can't control whether the person across the table has had a bad day, but if I put my attention on the skills that are tested in the app, that is something positive I can do. As opposed to having negotiation be something... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
tell anyone not to interact with those devices just before doing something that requires any kind of assertiveness," Bos says. "Mostly because people won't listen: They will do it anyway. But if you realize that, 'hmm, I'm pretty quiet during this meeting,' then maybe... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
distance" is extremely low, especially in high-potential ventures. People like Bill Gates and Larry Ellison, who are able to lead their companies for quite a while, get all the attention because they are rare, not because they are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
administration in February proposed phasing out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored enterprises whose collective missteps have cost taxpayers more than $134 billion since being placed in conservatorship in September 2008. With their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
even if consumer finance was still unpopular. While it might have taken a crisis to convince some, we believed for a decade that this was an important sector that raised serious issues and deserved substantially greater attention in... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
in Kuwait against nearly 2,000 other applicants. It was there that Parija came to the attention of two high-level executives who were HBS alumni—Aubyn Hill (MBA 1978) and Amal Wahab (MBA 1987). "I was extremely impressed with these two... View Details