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- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
manufacturing firms, asking whether they would be willing to take part in a study of how CEOs spend their time. Some 356 CEOs agreed to participate. Some family CEOs spend less time at work than professional CEOs, especially during major... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
major executive education program for over a thousand senior leaders from a variety of companies, I asked participants what percentage of the people they hired or promoted turned out to be a superb choice. By their own reckoning, about a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
Crawford. “I’m proud that 50,000 of the President’s supporters voted for me,” Edwards says. Moreover, he’s the only Democrat to survive a 2003 redrawing of Texas congressional districts by state GOP legislators and orchestrated by former House View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
It's not a thing that he tolerates. It's a thing of mutual respect, and that makes all the difference in the world. And thirdly, he talks about this with our boys. Our children don't think this is abnormal. There are many, many, baseball games, View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
alter interactions between functions, in ways that hold major implications for organizational structure. Intense, ongoing coordination becomes necessary across multiple functions, including design, operations, sales, service, and IT.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
backseat of his father’s 1969 red Camaro convertible while Levitt zigzagged the car through the streets of Belmont. “That was part of who he was and his hardscrabble life growing up,” notes Levitt. “The idea of kids wearing helmets to play View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
grades in school. Thomas Yao - MBA ‘19 “You’re pretty good for an Asian kid!” As a Chinese boy growing up in Germany, I learned to deal with acts of everyday racism. I had always been a passionate soccer player and assumed that at some... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
the product! Class Secretary Major Albert C. Riggs, Jr. (MBA '50) August 1974 Up to my ears raising kids, plus skiing at Sun Valley and fly-fishing in Montana and Idaho; working has been interfering something terrible! William B. Webber... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
adjustment for older faculty who had taught only in a single-sex classroom. "One senior professor was always hesitant to call on me until I spoke to him about it," says Wilkinson. "We got that settled." It was a new experience for many of the male students, too, in a... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
Hamermesh, Faculty Chair of the Harvard Business Healthcare Initiative, discuss the barriers to personalized medicine and suggest ways to overcome them. The blockbuster model for developing drugs, the authors point out, is still what most View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
major highway system, the North-South East-West corridor (NS-EW). Improvements for portions of the NS-EW system were planned to occur at the same time as GQ but were subsequently delayed. Additional tests show that the GQ project's effect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Contractibility and Contract Design in Strategic Alliances Authors: Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier Publication: American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze how variations in contractibility affect the design of contracts in the context of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
international leagues, especially the English Premier League (all of whose matches are on NBC platforms) as well as the major U.S. professional sports and college sports. Bundesliga’s CEO believed its... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Americans, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Ivy League alums, high-school grads, and parents offers coping strategies to help ordinary people turn challenges into extraordinary opportunities for action. College Sports Traditions: Before,... View Details
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Art Nature Business
his career in photography in 1932, working for the New York Film and Photo League on a range of documentary and social reform projects. In the 1940 she started searching for a new kind of image, and shifted toward abstraction. Siskind... View Details
- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
person in my family to leave Puerto Rico to attend an Ivy League school. I ask myself: “Do I belong here? Can I actually succeed? Why do I deserve this opportunity?” Fast forward to August 2019. Ten years have passed and now I’m standing... View Details
- Web
2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
sector can play a major role in building a more sustainable economy, focusing particularly on the relationships between organizational purpose and innovation and productivity. She teaches “Reimagining Capitalism: Business & the Big... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
advancement more difficult. A 2013 survey of HBS alumni explored this question in greater detail, finding that a majority of both men and women had made at least one accommodation to integrate their professional and family lives,... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
But the interesting thing about the model, if you compare your happiness with the person you're closest with, is that a middle third for us is actually one of us is happy and one of us isn't. And in those moments, which is a very large percentage for the View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
sites quickly become choked with low-quality content. While clicks rise, customer satisfaction plummets. The glitches, say the authors, are not in the algorithms but in the way we interact with them. Managers need to recognize their two View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne