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  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Faculty Research Online

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success? Call them next-generation driverless taxis or people movers, the age of personal rapid transport is just around the bend. Could PRT change the face of public transportation in cities and... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 12 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

with a joint appointment at Harvard Business School and co-director of the Business and Environment Initiative. The seminar series is being sponsored by the Division of Research and Faculty Development at Harvard Business School. View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • October 2013 (Revised October 2013)
  • Supplement

Henkel's CEO Kasper Rorsted: On Building a Winning Culture

By: Robert L. Simons
Keywords: Performance Measurement; Performance Appraisals; Human Resource Management; Work/life Balance; Strategy Execution; Values; Organizational Transformations; Pay For Performance; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Values and Beliefs; Work-Life Balance; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits
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  • September 2008 (Revised September 2018)
  • Case

Traversing a Career Path: Pat Fili-Krushel (A)

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Deborah M. Kolb and Cailin B. Hammer
Pat Fili-Krushel, CEO and president of WebMD and past president of ABC Network, contemplates accepting Richard Parson's offer to become the first executive vice president of administration at AOL Time Warner. Accepting this position would be a move back into mainstream... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Job Offer; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Tactics; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • 2022
  • White Paper

The Options Multiplier: Decoding the CareerWise Youth Apprentice Journey

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Rachel Lipson, Farah Mallah, Girish Pendse and Rachel Snyder
As more Americans question the appeal of costly higher education programs, earn-and-learn models, like apprenticeship, are attracting increasing attention from policymakers and employers alike. While apprenticeship is widespread in many parts of Europe,... View Details
Keywords: Apprenticeship; Higher Education; Training; Personal Development and Career; Cost vs Benefits; Success; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 23 May 2022

Discover HBS on the West Coast: a Moderated Chat with West Coast Alums

Moving to the West Coast from the East Coast can come with many changes and questions, but it can also come with a wealth of opportunities! Hear about our vibrant West Coast community and learn from recent alumni about their two years at HBS and how it helped them... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

What’s Next

potential to be a vibrant academic and enterprise zone where HBS, Harvard, and the Allston community intersect in ways that will unleash innovation. One especially exciting early development is the plan for the School of Engineering and... View Details
Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 15 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

that they're going to be replaced. Typically, early in the life of a company—when it is developing its first product or service—the founder who conceived of the idea and began developing it is the perfect... View Details
  • 14 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

herself on the path to CEO. Her mentors were chief operating officers and chief administrative officers. She imagined a similar career—until, that is, she took a job as senior vice president for strategy and corporate development at... View Details
  • 24 Feb 2016
  • News

Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?

and remarkably prescient.” Now 89, Alden is again in the PRT—personal rapid transit—business: ”After decades away from PRT, he reunited with a group of other transportation experts to build a new system called Airport Personal Transport,... View Details
  • June 2013 (Revised October 2013)
  • Case

Tim Blanchard at Jones Mendel & Co. (Abridged)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and John Gabarro
Tim Blanchard struggles to balance all the demands facing him as a partner of a consulting firm. He must decide how to serve clients, mentor his people, provide strategy and direction to the high-tech group, and spend time with family. View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Management Style; Partners and Partnerships; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges; Management Teams; Consulting Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Innovation Takes Center Stage

the front of the stage, Nohria used his first reunion address to broadly outline five priorities that will shape the agenda for the School during his tenure: curriculum innovation, intellectual ambition, internationalization, inclusion, and closer ties to the... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
  • 26 Nov 2019
  • News

Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation

leaders have to unleash the “slice of genius” each person has, which represents their talent and passion, says Hill. Once it is unleashed, it has to be harnessed or leveraged to make it useful. This requires leaders to amplify the... View Details
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Managing Through Organizational Change: Employee Alignment in the Presence of Unexpected Career Concerns

By: Ohchan Kwon and Jee-Eun Shin
This study examines performance consequences due to unexpected career concerns – layoff risks due to institutional reasons. Exploiting a company-wide announcement of a merger decision by management as a trigger event for unexpected career concerns, we examine employee... View Details
Keywords: Career Changes; Performance Measures; Incentives; M＆A; Employees; Personal Development and Career; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance; Motivation and Incentives
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  • April 2011
  • Article

Behavioral Economics Perspectives on Public Sector Pension Plans

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We describe the pension plan features of the states and the largest cities and counties in the U.S. Unlike in the private sector, defined benefit (DB) pensions are still the norm in the public sector. However, a few jurisdictions have shifted towards defined... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Public Sector; Retirement; Private Sector; Compensation and Benefits; United States
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  • Web

Privacy - HBS Working Knowledge

About Us Linking Policy Privacy Policy Harvard Business School and HBS Working Knowledge understand that the privacy of its users is important. To that end, we have adopted the following policy with regard to the collection, use, and dissemination of View Details
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

Faculty Books

How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth (MBA 2010), and Karen Dillon (HarperBusiness) At a time of intense personal reflection, Christensen, the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, began... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

    Michael A. Volkema

    Volkema was devoted to turning the office furniture company into a profitable enterprise. Developing an extensive 12 person Executive Leadership team, Volkema redesigned HM’s core value system, launching the... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
    • 01 Sep 2004
    • News

    Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)

    Raised in a small town in Ohio, Nancy Hall came to HBS as a partner when her husband entered the MBA Program. When they separated a few years later, she applied to the School “on a lark” and got in. The first day of kindergarten for her daughter, Lara, was Hall’s first... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young; Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services
    • Profile

    Lisa Cousins

    of autonomy and I really value knowing that they trust me to do the right thing and learn from my successes and mistakes, but are also there for me when I need them. Of course it’s not only about leaders, but also having a great team. Each View Details
    Keywords: Services; Entertainment / Media