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30 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Candidates Seeking Opportunities After Graduation: Lessons Learned

working – for. As is the right candidate. Whether your organization is able to recruit students months in advance, or you are more focused on just-in-time hiring, there are HBS students who can meet you where you are in your process. Read... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2008
News

Letters to the Editor

I never took the General’s course. That I had avoided him all that time is one of the significant mistakes of my lifetime. Richard Chapin (MBA ’49) Georgetown, ME HBS Should Probe Capitalism’s Troubles I read with keen interest the report... View Details

05 Dec 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

should not however be slaves to the plan or the prediction they are following and must ask how firm-wide competencies can be developed to handle changes in predictions." And there are situations in which predictions can be very... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

scholars, and business historians. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/gjones/papers/Jones%20%20Friedman%20Flyer.pdf The Future of Boards Author:Jay W. Lorsch ed. Publication:Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming This... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

Chicago's difficult decision recently to close a number of schools, given that there were too many facilities for too few students. The goal is for the remaining students to thrive with more resources per capita, with a focus on View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

14 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

leading producer of floor cleaning equipment, must determine the business model to use for its new chemical-free cleaning technology. In 2005, Tennant Company had developed an innovative, environmentally friendly cleaning technology that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2014
News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

Khoja (AMP 156, 1999) could feel his heart beating as he verified that the money had been deposited correctly. It had. And each officer had received a text message to that effect. But none of the men had been able to read the message or... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

early-twentieth-century social scientists is what we call "the meaning and organization problem." One of the main trends of modern society was the rise of large formal work organizations. Capitalists and managers encouraged the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

Deshpandé: It’s been 40 years since I lived in India, so I’d seen some of her earlier movies, when she was just becoming a star. She was very, very good. Then I heard about her work over the years. One has this stereotype about actors being very good at View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

Capital's Mike Schuh underscores the value of mentor capitalists as filters: "Of the hundreds of things that I look at every week, if it's got one of those [mentor's] names on it, I don't even bother reading further. I just make the... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

16 Feb 2023
Blog Post

The Rituals of Case Method Teaching

particular practice that he developed early in his 25-year HBS teaching career, he deems essential: memorizing one thing about each student. A week before a new course starts, Rivkin fills out a spreadsheet with each student’s name and... View Details

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

company was its values. But employees also said that the worst thing about the company was that the CEO had been, from their point of view, breaching the values that he himself had developed for the company. Unwittingly, even a committed... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

fat contracts to players long past their prime. Each transaction altered the overall negotiation landscape. In rapidly changing marketplaces, you can't provide for every contingency. But you can take a page from Marine Corps practice and View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports

13 Feb 2020
News

Not Throwing Away My Shot

didn’t have a few months prior. One had lost her star software developer to a rival. This, Schultz thought, was the perfect framing: Take all of the historical entrepreneurs he was focusing on for his book and put them in a bar. Let them... View Details

23 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)

says McAfee. Another reason the governance structure works, adds Lakhani, is that it is transparent—everyone's edits can be read and commented upon by anyone else. But the real basis of Wikipedia governance is a collection of policies and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

03 Oct 2012
What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

think most of management is willing to take the long view." These last comments provided a good lead-in to the question posed by Jay Somasundaram: "What types of leadership do we want most?" Where do we find such leaders? How do we View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

08 Jan 2014
What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

growth. One respondent turned the topic on its head, posing a more interesting question of whether equality fosters productivity. Several felt that innovation and productivity increases are leading to inequality. As Donald Shaw put it, "Technology View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

data?'" That's Paul Nicholas' reaction after reading most of the responses to this month's column. It's not a bad "sense of the meeting," in which many contributors offered suggestions to managers wishing to get the most out of so-called... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

20 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

usual methodology of studying organizations in a particular industry or geography, Zhang went wide and deep. He developed a longitudinal sample of 1,069 leading public firms in 35 countries and 24 industries. His chief finding: The social... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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