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01 Jun 1998
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Simmons Family Endows Professorship

coordinating the schedule for our one bathtub was a full-time job," jokes L.E. Ñ Tibby devoted much time to working with young members of the Mormon Church. She also played a major role in the restoration of... View Details

15 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

Over the past few decades, information technology jobs worked their way into the popular imagination as among the most stable, fast-rising, and lucrative ways to make a living, bolstered in the 1990s by the dot-com boom. What astronauts... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

07 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams

Zou. Including others also boosted retention, according to the research. Employees working with a CEO willing to share credit were significantly less likely to leave the firm the following year. The team found that female managers were... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Online Management Course | HBS Online

management processes within each—what worked and what didn't—provided a unique method of learning, and incomparable to other course offerings available. Monica Higgins Account Director at Hollywood Agency Elevate your management skills by... View Details

31 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

and large retailers including Walmart and Target. Osher had taken for granted from the start that SpinBrush would be copied quickly by other companies. As a result of that planning he had designed Dr. John's to work on a View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products

12 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

pursuit of financial gain and pay closer attention to their impact on employees, customers, communities, and the environment. But changing an organization’s DNA may require upending the existing business model and lowering profitability, at least in the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

strategy and operations (or tactics) are both important but they are different. The normal course of events is for companies to focus on day-to-day operations and short-term problem solving. Management meetings focus on fighting fires and fixing problems. Often little... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

from Wiley Publishing for Lazy Prices (Journal of Finance, June 2020) with Christopher Malloy and Quoc Nguyen. Shawn A. Cole : Winner of the 2021 Teaching Recognition Award for Excellence in Sustainable Finance Education from the Financial View Details

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Virtual Job Search Teams - Alumni

change?* Where are you in the search process?* Please indicate what weekdays and/or times work best with your schedule. Note that the team meets for two hours weekly over the course of four weeks (i.e.... View Details

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Bobby Tuohy

A native of Kentucky, Bobby Tuohy “always worked with my hands and built things growing up.” He was naturally attracted to engineering, and like many young people, he dreamed of becoming an astronaut: unlike most young people, however, he... View Details

24 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

Working PapersManaging Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson Abstract To date, little research has been done on managing the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

One meeting each year should be a joint board-management retreat mid-way in the company's planning cycle to plan next year's activities. Additional time between meetings is typically required of board members to View Details

26 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor

have to work together to invest in HBS startups and support these companies as they progress through the Rock Accelerator. As part of the program, Jeff also generously extends his time and network to help... View Details

23 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

immiseration of a kind not known before, to stagnation in situ, without—as had been the case during the Republican era the possibility of outmigration. If the urban working class of the Republican period was constantly reconstituted by... View Details

Keywords: by William C. Kirby

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

She recently discussed their findings with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: You're an expert on creativity who has examined it deeply for many years. What inspired you this time to look at it through... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

even while students learn enduring and timeless concepts, they’re also engaging in leading-edge thinking. For example, MBA students will experience the work we’re doing in BiGS and D^3 in the form of a new View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

17 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet

generates economic activity that takes place elsewhere in the economy. Using the same multiplier as for employment, 1.54, then the advertising-supported Internet creates annual value of $444 billion. Time value. At View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising; Publishing

01 Dec 2023
News

Engaging Students More Deeply

Students at Success Academy stay more focused on the dot rug. Photo courtesy HBS Multimedia Development To tell the compelling stories of a developer working to revitalize Miami Beach, a Maine lobsterman confronting the economic risks of... View Details

Keywords: April White

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

"Because they lacked sufficient information," he says, "these managers were making highly disruptive decisions about work allocation and subsequently had to spend much of their time quelling... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details

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