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  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

bureaucrats. High-skilled bureaucrats face less frequent political transfers and lower variability in the importance of their posts. We find evidence of two alternative paths to career success: officers of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 30

  Publications 2006 Harvard Business Review Press What You're Really Meant to Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential By: Kaplan, Robert Steven Abstract—How do you create your own definition of success-and reach your unique potential? Building a fulfilling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

consumption paths and then into a net effect on social welfare. I calibrate that framework using recently produced data on Social Security beneficiaries by lifetime income decile and both existing and new survey evidence on the normative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

behavior and practices led Enron down the path from truly innovative to fraudulent management? How could Enron’s board of directors have failed to detect the business, ethical, and legal risks embedded in the company’s aggressive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

example, those with a talented director or well-known actor) also receive more advertising. In this study, we use data on a movie's stock price as it trades on the Hollywood Stock Exchange, a popular online market simulation, to study the impact of movie advertising.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

because they sensed this problem. Kenny: It seems like the US is starting to move in that direction, and this Facebook incident may have been the catalyst that moves the US down this path more quickly than they would have otherwise.... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
  • 10 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

A: In business, preparation means thinking something through and establishing a plan. The execution phase is then managing to the plan. That's not remotely how the quartet prepared. Early in their career together they, especially Paul,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
  • 08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8

alternative paths to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in skill, but caste affinity to the politician's party base also helps secure important positions. Download... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Nov 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

identify and choose career paths been explored Using brain scan results to guide careers and to recommend those who have the requisite neural structure likely to enable them to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

case challenges students to identify the best path forward. How can the progress achieved from 2004 to 2007 be sustained? AREVA T&D hopes to surpass ABB and Siemens in sales and profitability by focusing on superior product offerings,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course

wishes he had taken the entrepreneurial plunge sooner. Students also study the case of major league All-Star pitcher Curt Schilling, who, as his pitching career winds down, decides to switch gears by founding a video-game company called... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

to use credit to build assets and finance consumption. Moving Forward explores what caused the crisis and, more important, focuses on the path ahead. The challenge remains the same as ever: protect consumers, ensure fairness, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Mar 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

famous." After graduation, Huber didn't expect their career paths to cross again. But several years later, Christensen would realize that the OnStar story was a great example of navigating innovation... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

Changes in Ownership and Management of Large West German Family Firms (1960-2008)." Author:Christina Lubinski Publication:Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 55, no. 2 (2010) Abstract Large family firms fall between two theoretical accounts. They neither follow... View Details
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

ship” career ladder Holmes pursued, Sandberg’s career path took on the shape of a “jungle gym” that she described in Lean In. “I could never have connected the dots from where... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

Tornquist: Making a Fortune on the Pampas Harvard Business School Case 807-155 Examines the career of Ernesto Tornquist, a cosmopolitan financier considered to be the most significant entrepreneur in Argentina at the end of the 19th... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

revolutionary functionality. We explore a second path to entry that does not rely on Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. By leveraging shared user relationships and common components, one platform provider can move into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

company had returned to a healthy financial position, diversified its holdings, and made investments in diverse industries to determine how to grow the company, since renamed FJ Management. In 2015, Maggelet now wants to set a clear path... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

firms will have a new CEO within the next four years; your company could very well be next. Senior executives know that a CEO transition means they're in for a round of firings, organizational reshuffles, and other unwelcome career... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

share the same ethnic, educational, or career background are more likely to syndicate with each other. This homophily reduces the probability of investment success, and the detrimental effect is most prominent for early-stage investments.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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