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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
(PMD 41, 1981) (F.X. Biasi Jr.) This novel tells a story of illegal drugs, murder, and a 150-year-old rivalry between two of North Coast California’s most powerful and affluent family dynasties. Dragons: 10 Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
practices; yet, tighter coupling is more likely in suppliers with certain types of managerial structures (certified management system and unions). We also find important interactions between these organizational structures: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Racial Diversity Pays Off
and in other instances not at all," Gabarro said, "despite the fact that in the last thirty years women have joined both managerial and professional ranks in unprecedented numbers, as have American minorities. Yet neither group... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
the New England power industry, where he played a key role in building a start-up company into a $300 million energy marketing enterprise. Seeds of Success When he rejoined Outward Bound full time at Thompson Island in 2005, Pearson... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
Business School provided him with the managerial know-how and business contacts to begin to turn that dream into a reality. "When I came to Harvard, I was keenly interested in leadership and in what the best companies were doing to make... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
then his HBS colleague, was already working on a concept he called “predictable surprises,” the collaboration that led to their widely read book by the same title was launched. A distinguished expert on managerial decision-making,... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
often, grand declarations about innovation are followed by mediocre execution that produces anemic results, and innovation groups are quietly disbanded in cost-cutting drives. Each managerial generation embarks on the same enthusiastic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
Python and Git knowledge to get started and create projects independently. Appreciation of data science: The relevance of data science and power of models are transforming businesses, and the projects helped me to appreciate exactly how... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
the trusted ones. When physicians are aware of these breaches, yet remain silent, we are in the midst of a moral gray zone. Two broader implications can be drawn from this example. First, leniencies are part of the managerial toolkit.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307081 Endesa Chile: Raising the Ralco Dam (A) Harvard Business School Case 906-014 Endesa Chile, the largest electricity generation company in Chile, is building a major View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
unrelated to managerial performance, we document that a significant subset of firms, who choose index-based rTSR-benchmarks in lieu of specific peers, do not adequately achieve this objective. Structural estimates reveal that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
African Managerial Leadership Chalsty Fellowship Will Help Black South Africans Attend HBS From Wildlife to Winetasting READ MORE Mandela in Triumph at Harvard New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50422 forthcoming Ethical Innovation in Business and the Economy Managerial Responsibility and the Purpose of Business: Doing One's Job Well By: Hsieh, Nien-hê Abstract—Business managers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Commencement 2017 Address | About
can fulfill your responsibility by behaving ethically, and by showing concern for interests other than your own. You can fulfill it by living by a managerial version of the Hippocratic Oath taken by the students graduating across the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
know what I was talking about — I wanted to change that. I also wanted to understand business, one of the most powerful institutions in society, and learn about leadership and how to galvanize resources, human and otherwise.” As is the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
1977) (Logos Press) By focusing on three areas—vision, process, and output—managers can improve their performance and satisfaction within their businesses and in their personal lives. This book brackets management insights with a fictional story to illustrate the View Details
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
highly local. This means that industrial commons can have a local character as well. As a result, companies located in some places have advantages over others by virtue of their access to the appropriate set of workers, engineers, View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
into a very powerful motivating force. In a tough economic environment, when there is little money for bonuses and a lot of concern about layoffs, Katzenbach says it becomes even more important to communicate with employees about the... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 01 Oct 2009
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?
leader needs to be very comfortable with who he is as a person." Brian Woodward put it this way: "The most important and powerful conversations occur between the individual leader and his/her leader's mask." Questions... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
targeted firms. These results suggest a need to check the power of NPEs through changes in U.S. IP policy, in particular to screen out trolling early in the litigation process. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel