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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
HICKS Illustration by Joe Ciardiello Jeff Hicks (MBA ’97) arrived at HBS with ten years of experience as an advertising executive at Leo Burnett in Chicago. Disillusioned with the trend toward “unbundling” agencies into different View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
stakeholders)." It challenges them to be as explicit as possible in a cause-and-effect sense of how good outcomes on a particular aspect of ESG lead to good outcomes on a particular financial metric. Ideally, the lag times and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
new service offering for the company’s clients by drawing on the special talents of people with autism. The company has deployed “pods” organized around 8 or 9 employees with autism, to function as high-performance mini-ecosystems, which... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
The demand in the market right now is functionally infinite. DM: One of the big movers in the space is the Frontier Fund, a group led by Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta, and McKinsey that committed just short of a billion dollars to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
clients while attracting new customers.” At Steuben, Haupt says that there’s an ongoing assessment of the appropriate balance between a product’s form and function and how that fits with the way people live today. In the past, she notes,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
to traditional causal inference methods, ML methods make far fewer a priori assumptions about the functional form of the underlying model that best represents the data. Given this, researchers could use such methods to explore novel and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
Q: What are the root causes of these differences in negotiation success? Riley Bowles: What some studies do is look at salary and control for a whole bunch of things: How many years of experience the subjects had, what program they were from, what industry they went... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
management itself, the times seem ripe for reopening the question of what exactly this institution is for, what functions we as a society want it to perform, and how well it is performing them. Great Depression Rekindles the Drive for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
eliminated zippers, pockets, heavy buttons, and other embellishments that can add up to extra pounds. The company’s apparel and gear stand out for their simple but functional designs, brilliant colors, and, of course, light weight. Soon... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
step-by-step, room-by-room guidance on how to create a welcoming and functioning space that expresses your unique individuality. Breaking Through: Leadership Disciplines from Top Performing Staffing Firms by Mike Cleland and Barry Asin... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
contributions to brokerage-wide commission payments. Overall, our results suggest that broker votes function as the nexus for a set of implicit contractual relationships between sell-side brokers, their affiliated analysts, and their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
coupled with regular meetings of the independent directors is critical to the independent directors' ability to function effectively as a counterweight to management. When interviewing candidates for CEO, the board needs to ask probing... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
task. And you can't divorce it from that, which is why it's not a purely HR function or shouldn't be a once-a-year kind of evaluation; it really needs to be an ongoing evaluation. SS: Who in a corporation these days should be responsible... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
contain thousands of them. SEEQC is attempting to replace all that room-temperature equipment with digital control chips that measure one centimeter on a side and function at the same unimaginably low temperatures as the company’s quantum... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Appalachian settlement schools that functioned as both educational institutions and community centers. After serving as an elementary school, a boarding school, and a public school, Pine Mountain transitioned in the 1970s to a center for... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
terrifying and morale-destroying experience. In addition to maintaining physical health, diet has a strong effect on intellectual and emotional functioning (as anyone who has seen a toddler melt down from too much sugar understands). The... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
lack “vision” compared to men. Meanwhile, the secretaries, as they were then called, were a support system, and I saw that those support functions were self-perpetuating. For instance, one thing I noticed was praise addiction. As a... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
proposes that team reflexivity-a deliberate process of discussing team goals, processes, or outcomes-can function as an antidote to team-level biases and errors in decision making. We build on prior work conceptualizing teams as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
shareholders of Turkcell, and how its management vied against increasing regulatory intervention and market competition in the absence of a fully functioning board. The battle for control of the Turkish telecom giant led to several years... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
Pixar's approach. Without the interplay and collaborative contributions of large numbers of people, it could not make a CG movie. One of Pixar's unusual features as a studio was that all three functions of the organization—art,... View Details