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- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
she has espoused. Charismatic leadership has been defined in various ways, but a common thread across definitions is that charismatic leaders motivate people by creating a vision that revolves around some set of meaningful higher ideals... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
reasons why the leadership literature has been recast so that it is solely focused on economic performance, but we believe probably the most important thing is that the obsession with shareholder value beginning in the 1980s led... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
has a positive effect on current hours. As we show, the model also has reasonable implications for stock prices. We estimate our model for data post-1984 and show that the innovations shock accounts for nearly a third of the variation in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
research with 1,200 executives at 500 companies concludes founder pay is on average $30,000 less than that of non-founder executives. (The pay discrepancy disappears as the business matures.) What's the reason for such founder discounts?... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
authors, HBS professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, found reason for hope, arguing that continued erosion of US competitiveness is not inevitable. While there's much that government can and should do, they strongly believe that the... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- News
Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
CrossBoundary Advisory as we graduated business school, five years ago. Frontier markets are the next tier beyond emerging markets, places such as Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Nigeria, Ghana––a lot of these markets that are just on the cusp of emerging into a more... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Building the Future: An HBS Alumna’s Journey in Sustainable Infrastructure Investment
Business Club and Black Investment Club. Could you describe your professional journey before attending Harvard Business School, and what motivated you to pursue an MBA at HBS? Before HBS, my academic and professional journey was in... View Details
- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
Tips for Applying to Business School
to think about why an MBA, and why now Molly: I was advised to think critically and objectively about the reason I was pursuing an MBA and how earning an MBA would support my short and long-term goals. The ability to communicate your... View Details
- Profile
David Soled
Coming to HBS is like... Trying to be an EGOT winner having only worked in finance. So many of us leave what we know to pursue our real passions, often without any prior experience or a set path. But along the way, we meet sherpas who guide us, make new friends who... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Investing in Scalable Impact on K-12 Education
really want to learn and giving them access to high-quality education. I realized that I felt very motivated to make sure that was something that was possible. “I now have launched and am running a new education impact-venture-investing... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
Well-intentioned people often start the new calendar year with a long list of personal resolutions, only to abandon most of them before Valentine’s Day. Alas, it’s a lot easier to make New Year’s resolutions than to keep them. That’s one good View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
bit. However, if I tell you it has to run on a gallon of gas for five hundred miles, you have to start over.” This kind of goal deserves the “super stretch” label. Increasingly, it is being cited as a reason behind the success of one... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
As an MBA student, Leng Lim (MBA 2001) found his motives and goals were questioned more than most. “People say, ‘You’re a priest? You’ve abandoned God for money?’ My response is, ‘Why is it OK for you to make money, but not OK for me to... View Details
- 15 Mar 2019
- News
A Model of Drive and Impact
Pablo Fernandez Alvarez (GMP 17, 2014) is cofounder of Clicars, an e-commerce platform in Spain that allows users to buy and finance refurbished cars hassle-free. In this interview, Fernandez explains the business model, the reasons... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
Criticisms of CEO pay have two related themes: It is too high, and is not closely related to company performance. These problems persist for complex reasons even as directors worry about them. The most significant View Details
- Web
Latin America - Global Activities 2020
conversation with them about the problems they face. One stream of work is thinking about how they manage their internal organization—understanding how changing the ways that they reward their loan officers can motivate them to better... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Becoming an Ethical Negotiator
at the Georgetown Law Center in Washington, D.C., and associate editor of Negotiation Journal. Wheeler agreed to take some questions from HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: Some cynical people might say that "ethical negotiation" is an oxymoron. What View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Cheers to the American Consumer
litany of reasons why America spawns so many entrepreneurs. There is barely an acknowledgment of what Amar Bhide (HBS MBA '79) has appealingly termed "the venturesome consumer." Yet this willingness to adopt new products, new... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- Profile
Lindsay Ullman
Lindsay Ullman, MBA 2015, openly admits that her reasons for coming to HBS "seem clearer after the fact." During stints at Google and Google Ventures, Lindsay came to realize that while she loved being an investor, she wanted to... View Details
Keywords: Tech
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace
safety as “a climate in which people are comfortable expressing and being themselves.” In practice, this looks like creating a work environment in which employees feel secure in speaking their minds without fear of retribution or embarrassment. There are obvious View Details
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