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- September 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
Cathy Benko: WINning at Deloitte (A)
By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Deborah M. Kolb and Cailin B. Hammer
Jim Quigley, CEO of Deloitte and Touche's consulting practice, asks senior partner Cathy Benko to lead Deloitte & Touche's much publicized Initiative for the Retention and Advancement of Women (WIN). Benko, already the Lead Client Service Partner on one of Deloitte's... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Leadership Development; Talent and Talent Management; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Consulting Industry; United States
McGinn, Kathleen L., Deborah M. Kolb, and Cailin B. Hammer. "Cathy Benko: WINning at Deloitte (A)." Harvard Business School Case 907-026, September 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
“Howard is the fiercest man I have ever known — fiercely interested in the world and its people, fiercely loyal to family and friends. Of course, he is also fiercely honest.” — HBS professor Myra Hart “Howard cares so much about HBS and everyone here. That’s why it was... View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
reacting to similar challenges. As trendy financial dot-coms with huge technology and advertising budgets emerge offering everyone an equal—and inexpensive—chance to trade stock, apply for a loan, buy insurance, or pay a bill, traditional financial firms are... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
compete in this brave new world. The transformation ignited by the Internet is creating a new paradigm in the financial services industry, characterized by surprising business structures. "The competitive landscape is changing... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
Rooting out Racism
opportunity. An organization cannot be a meritocracy when the small number of black employees spend a significant percentage of their mental bandwidth wondering, “Why aren’t there more people like me? Am I being treated differently?” These questions detract from a... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
consists of (1) two firms competing in a vertically differentiated market in which product quality is a mix of public and private components and (2) a market for developers that firms hire after observing signals of their contributions to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Bazerman Abstract People often experience tension over certain choices (e.g., they should reduce their gas consumption or increase their savings, but they do not want to). Some posit that this tension arises from the competing interests... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- October 2023
- Supplement
Making Progress at Progress Software (B)
By: Katherine Coffman, Hannah Riley Bowles and Alexis Lefort
In this case, the Human Capital team at Progress Software has identified that some employees have a hard time understanding how to advance within Progress. This realization leads the team to develop several major people-process innovations: the introduction of... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Negotiation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Prejudice and Bias; Talent and Talent Management; Employees; Technology Industry; United States; Bulgaria
Coffman, Katherine, Hannah Riley Bowles, and Alexis Lefort. "Making Progress at Progress Software (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 924-011, October 2023.
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
What Happened to Leadership?
IMMELT: A prescription to fix failures at the top. Sgt. Vincent Fusco/Usma For a speech on “Reviving American Leadership,” General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82) chose a discerning audience: the corps of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy. Citing the military as a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
Image by John Ritter On March 8, in the early days of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Stack Overflow, the world’s largest online community for software developers and technologists, announced that its nearly 250-employee workforce would be going all-remote. It was a... View Details
- 03 Nov 2010
- News
He's Back to Baseball Cards
- 15 Feb 2011
- News
Placing Your Company in Historical Context
- 18 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Applying HBS Lessons in an African Context
team spent several days in Casablanca interviewing local consumers about their furniture shopping experience and helped the client create a strategy to compete against IKEA in Morocco. This experience allowed me to learn about the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
companies will have no alternative but to confront the language issue as they extend their global reach. “If they don’t have a language strategy, they’ll regret it,” she says. “One of the most powerful ways to compete globally is to make... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
seeking cheaper labor, at home and abroad, is corporate America shooting itself in the foot? Never before has America competed on the basis of having a low-paid workforce. American workers' purchasing power is now lower than that of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
achieve the company's goals at the same time they are competing to enhance their careers. In a working paper titled "Cloaking Self-Interest with High-Minded Principle," HBS doctoral student Justine Fenwick and Assistant Professor Robert... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
and to the institutional excellence to which Harvard aspires; to provide advice to the Corporation; to give formal consent to major initiatives as referred by the Corporation and to appointments; and to bring a long-range perspective to Harvard affairs through the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
2004. “When it comes to services, a fundamental question is whether you are competing with a new idea or building a better mousetrap,” Frei says. “Magazine Luiza is indeed a better mousetrap.” The store sells a mix of furniture, consumer... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
motive, pure and simple,” she notes. “At the museum, it's more complicated. There's a legacy to think about, multiple constituencies, and competing priorities. Everything has an impact on everything else. They have to work in an... View Details
- 24 May 2018
- Blog Post
Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris
says. On the other hand, interviewers will be watching your behavior. "Humility goes a long way," says Norris. "Demonstrate it by not talking all the time. If you find that you're dominating the conversation, stop and listen. They don't want to feel they'll be View Details