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- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
history to the future improvement of business management, HBS on Thursday announced the creation of the Business History Initiative, a multidisciplinary research and teaching effort that will take its place alongside five other... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
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Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell
productively engage customers in the creation of value. The alignment of our interests and our complementary experiences in financial services—Michelle’s as a practitioner and mine as a researcher—make us a great team. Introduction... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
of expansion of the business; their jobs expanded, but their work habits remained the same. These characteristics, residing deep in the culture, affected customer responsiveness, fiscal discipline, quality of managers, and interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
success. So You Want to Be a CEO: The Path from Middle Management to the Top Job by Thomas F. Faught Jr. (MBA 1953) (Fortis Publishing) Based on over 40 years of global management experience, including more than a decade as a CEO, Faugh... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
vehicle charging stations: repairing and maintaining those stations. She is building an army of green technicians, the majority of whom are Black and Brown. “We are a sustainable people!” – ChargerHelp! CEO Kameale C. Terry Centers Her Green View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
difficult decisions regarding risk-taking incentives, leverage, and vesting since the goal of equity plans is to motivate long-run value creation in a cost-effective way. “The problem with equity-based pay is generally not that it fails... View Details
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
this point before. But we want to review the key differences briefly from the perspective of the CEO because the implications are crucial: for how the job of the senior leader is defined, and for what successful performance in the View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Tom Vogl (MBA 1998) was named CEO of the Mountaineers, an 11,000-member outdoor community in the Pacific Northwest, in February 2016. A lifelong climber, the job gave Vogl... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
contrast, the sum of gross job creation and destruction at target firms exceeds that of controls by 13% of employment over two years. In short, private equity buyouts catalyze the creative destruction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
trucks to EVs. As an EV researcher, advocate, and educator at a leading NGO dedicated to driving systemic change, Erika’s job is daunting. Transportation makes up 25% of the world’s CO2 emissions, yet so far, EV adoption has barely made a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
or job descriptions. Every day, new opportunities are coming up at Serena Ventures; we’re thinking of multiple timelines and different lines of business. I might get a text from Serena about a deal we haven’t talked about in a while, but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
March, about a Kabul student whose business created jobs and hope for women in her neighborhood during the Taliban years. Growing up in Maryland, Lemmon was exposed to news and politics by her mother, who was active in local politics.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
California, Boston, sometimes London,” recalls Gotsch. “Nobody was looking locally.” Gotsch is president and CEO of the Partnership Fund for New York City, which invests in local ventures to create jobs and grow the Big Apple’s economy.... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
companies to look at products the way customers do: as a way to get a job done. Are You a Level-Six Leader? (23,834) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6752.html Published: July 6, 2011 Asking the question, whom do you serve? is a powerful vector... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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variety of disciplines (education, economics, information science, journalism, librarianship, management, statistics, etc.) focused on supporting Harvard Business School (HBS)’s mission by enabling the creation and exchange of ideas,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
with every link in the chain benefiting with endless opportunities for continuous innovation and improvements. That, of course, translates into job creation and retention. Without this, we all stagnate and... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
classes gave me some subject matter expertise on the industries in which North Island invests. The general management and negotiations classes gave me a toolkit to manage people and processes while executing deals and implementing value View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA (LIFE) - Course Catalog
especially take care of my mental health? How do I build my capacity for resilience? How do I develop relationships that will sustain me – both at work and in life? How do I think about making a “difference” in the world? In what ways can I craft my life and my View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
forthcoming Harvard Business Review Press Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—Part of a manager's job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
traded off careers with my husband, who is a neurosurgeon. After I was at P&G for two years, he got a post in San Francisco, so I took a job at Bain. When Disney offered me a job, the kids and I moved to LA, and he commuted. Then he got... View Details