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01 Sep 2009
News

Remembering “Mr. Harvard”

he acquired the struggling firm of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Thus began Gordon’s 65-year career at Kidder, which he helped lead to prominence as one of the top underwriting and M&A firms in the world, while also... View Details

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

not minimizing the next periods wage expense. Firms will be seduced into focusing on artifices for minimizing turnover in their highly skilled, white-collar workforce. That’s the wrong issue. COVID has caused many such workers to... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

01 Mar 2018
News

‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

something other than just recruitment activities would be necessary to create the kind of progressive change needed at HBS. At UC Berkeley he and I agreed that we would combine our efforts to usher in an organization to be our collective... View Details

23 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Status: When and Why It Matters

the venture capital industry between 1995 and 2009 to determine how firms can create a distinct identity by setting themselves apart from high-status organizations within their industry. Specifically, he... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability I began my HBS admissions application essay with the following sentence: “I aspire to help build organizations that are advancing sustainability and addressing the... View Details

09 Nov 2017
News

Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress

create a $30 million fund to provide strategic national support to a surge of younger veterans running for Congress in the 2018 elections. The organization focuses on what Barcott calls “next-generation” veterans—military personnel who... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

conflicts of interest. For example, the change in the commission structure in 1974 created a whole new dynamic that influenced the role of research by investment banks. And the growing importance of consulting at public accounting firms... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

16 Oct 2017
News

Take Time to Serve Others

Rena Clark (MBA 1990) found success by following her heart. A managing partner at Laurel Oak Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in the lower-middle industrial market, Clark forged a nonlinear career path that... View Details

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Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion Course Number 1412 Professor Lauren Cohen Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 12 sessions Project “Investment firms of the ultra-wealthy spend as much as 72% of their... View Details

17 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 17

demonstrate their impact on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework premised on an organization's operational mission, scale, and scope. Not all View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

When to Network Bridge Chicken-or-Egg and Growth at Picabuu Show Hide Details Concepts Chicken-or-Egg Problem Disintermediation Network Bridging Featured Exercises Describe ways platforms can reduce users’ adoption costs Determine how a View Details

Charles C. Spaulding

Joining his uncle’s firm in 1898, Spaulding rose to director of North Carolina Mutual. Under Spaulding, the company grew to be the largest black-owned business of the time and had amassed assets of over $37 million by the time of... View Details

Keywords: Finance

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act

For want of a better idea, many companies often rely on a tried-and-true success formula. And why not? What worked before to pull their organization into profitability will surely work again, right? Not so, according to Donald Sull,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Disability Pride Month | Baker Library

Disability Pride Month Explore Baker Library resources with a connection to disability and business. Want to stay up-to-date on relevant topics? Consider subscribing to our monthly Inclusion & Belonging Newsletter . Quick Research Resources Use GuideStar Pro to locate... View Details

01 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

enable you to overcome it? Finally, the fact that there are more than 100 U.S. newspapers with average daily print circulation above 100,000 meant that there were a number of large organizations experiencing this issue almost... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

06 Feb 2006
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?

this exposure." Shiva Rajgopal, who has investigated firms that stop giving guidance, shared some of his findings and those of his colleagues: " . . . firms that stop guiding have poor trailing... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

20 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

demonstrating how the company can actually benefit from achieving higher-ambition goals. One payoff might come in the form of greater motivation and commitment on the part of employees galvanized by a common mission. "People within an View Details