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  • 11 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

research agenda for the future." But the choice to study South Korea first was methodical. The researchers deliberately sought out a country in which the decision to hire a woman would be truly... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women’s Student Association (WSA)

work tirelessly to make sure that HBS women are supported in their professional endeavors. The WSA has become known for their “final review sessions,” where RC (first-year) women take the stage in Klarman Hall and present the content... View Details
  • 30 Sep 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

Keywords: by William R. Kerr; Technology
  • 24 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Trailblazing Success with Global Reach and Impact: Scott Wallinger (AMP 82, 1979)

Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development I didn’t have any formal business training when I came to Harvard Business School’s Advanced... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Boutique workouts brought to the busiest people, at home

As a former investment banking analyst and private equity associate, Prita Kumar (MBA 2014) knows what it means to be busy—so busy, in fact, that it was nearly impossible to incorporate the boutique fitness... View Details
  • 27 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

sight of the big picture and the goals." In those cases, Kanter says, it's up to the employees to keep each other on track. Working Around A Bad-boss Roadblock In situations where the boss is obviously... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • November 1992
  • Case

PPG: Developing a Self-Directed Work Force (A)

By: David A. Garvin and Norman Klein
PPG has built a state-of-the-art glass plant in Berea, Kentucky. The plant is pursuing the goal of a "self-directed workforce." The case describes the progress to date and the unresolved issues faced by management. These include questions about shift rotation,... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Culture; Managerial Roles; Management Style
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  • 01 Feb 2017
  • Blog Post

How to Partner With a Student Club: Join a Club Panel

to engage in Q&A with students and see what sector specific questions they have and how they are hoping to make an impact in that space. Employers can also network with View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
  • Case

Hubei Lantian (A)

By: David F. Hawkins, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Nancy Hua Dai
Emily Wang, an analyst with Future Securities, a Shanghai-based investment firm, is given the task of making stock purchase recommendations to her supervisor from a number of Chinese common stocks. One stock in particular, Hubei Lantian Co., Ltd. (Hubei Lantian),... View Details
Keywords: Financial Analysis; Ratio Analysis
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  • 12 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

peer group of founders who are all working on innovative solutions to tackle climate change. The Climate Circle is run by the Harvard Innovation Labs i-lab along with Harvard Alumni for Climate and the... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Bring your authentic self to work: Advice from HBS alumni

outcomes with diverse perspectives and lived experiences. HBS students and alumni advise their peers to own what they uniquely bring to the table – from both your professional... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • November 2019
  • Case

Chief: Role for Lindsay Kaplan

By: Katherine B. Coffman, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Kathleen L. McGinn, Julia Kelley and Katherine Chen
In 2018, Lindsay Kaplan is preparing to meet with Carolyn Childers about the possibility of co-founding Chief, a New York-based peer network for women executives. Kaplan is currently the vice president of communications and brand engagement at a successful mattress... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; North and Central America; United States; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
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  • Research Summary

Non-Financial Incentives

My research shows how firms combine many facets of internal governance to motivate managers. A perspective that underlies much of my research is that managers are not motivated by financial rewards alone: “it’s not just about the... View Details

  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Is Hybrid Work the Best of Both Worlds? Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Christos A. Makridis and Kyle Schirmann
This paper reports causal evidence on how the extent of hybrid work—the number of days worked from home relative to days worked from office—affects employee attitudes and performance. Workers who spent around two days in the office each week on average self-reported... View Details
Keywords: Attitudes; Performance Consistency; Employees; Work-Life Balance
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  • February 2011
  • Article

Understanding Analysts’ Use and Under-use of Stock Returns and Other Analysts’ Forecasts when Forecasting Earnings

By: Michael B. Clement, Jeffrey Hales and Yanfeng Xue
We investigate analysts' use of stock returns and other analysts' forecast revisions in revising their own forecasts after an earnings announcement. We find that analysts respond more strongly to these signals when the signals are more informative about future earnings... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Evaluation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Financial Services Industry
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  • Research Summary

The Talent at the Table: Business Expertise and Share Ownership in Fortune 500 Boardrooms

This paper examines the relationship between corporate value and "vestige" directors, defined as directors who own sizeable shareholdings but lack salient business experience relative to their peers on Fortune 500 boards.  These people come to serve on... View Details
  • October 2019 (Revised August 2022)
  • Case

Nehemiah Mfg. Co.: Providing a Second Chance

By: Michael Chu, Brian Trelstad and John Masko
In 2009, Dan Meyer and Richard Palmer, two veterans of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, founded Nehemiah Manufacturing to build FMCG brands while providing jobs to Cincinnati, Ohio’s beleaguered urban core. Two years later, the pair made their first... View Details
Keywords: Fast Moving Consumer Goods; Social Entrepreneurship; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Human Capital; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Social Marketing; Mission and Purpose; Prejudice and Bias; City; Urban Scope; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Ohio; United States
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  • 21 Oct 2021
  • News

Four Leadership Principles That Reflect the True Heart of Business

  • April 2014
  • Teaching Note

Jiangxi Agribusiness: (TN)

By: David F. Hawkins
[TN for 114-039] Emily Wang, an analyst with Future Securities, a Shanghai-based investment firm, is given the task of making stock purchase recommendations to her supervisor from a number of Chinese common stocks. One stock in particular, Jiangxi Agribusiness... View Details
Keywords: Financial Analysis; Ratio Analysis
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  • Article

How Real Sales Learning Happens: In the Flow of Work

By: Yuchun Lee, Mark Magnacca and Frank V. Cespedes
Most learning in sales is through peer learning in task-specific contexts, and the effects are cumulative because modeling behavior is a big driver of how salespeople develop. This is very different from the experience in most training seminars, especially if the... View Details
Keywords: Sales; Learning; Training; Performance
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