by Richard Bierck - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2020
News

Harvard Business School Announces 2020 Goldsmith Fellows

06 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2024 recipients of the Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1988 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (MBA 1959), a former... View Details

June 2004 (Revised November 2004)
Case

Restoring Trust at WorldCom

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Ashley Robertson

Examines the changes in corporate governance at WorldCom/MCI as proposed by the company's court-appointed corporate monitor, Richard Breeden. Following the largest bankruptcy ever and the downfall of the company, Breeden wrote "Restoring Trust," a report comprised of... View Details

Keywords: Change; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Trust

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21 Oct 2016
News

The Type of Purpose That Makes Companies More Profitable

01 Apr 2009
News

New Book Looks at the Life of a CIO

30 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

(the) future going to come from? Which schools, if any, business or otherwise, are teaching these skills?” One way to respond to his questions is to look into the educational backgrounds of those cited as potential candidates by other... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; Financial Services

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein, which describes the complicity of the federal government in redlining policies that confined Black people in segregated neighborhoods... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

17 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

Values, and Damages Great Companies Performance hacking means overzealous advocacy of positive interpretations to the point of detachment from actuals. In business as in research there are strong incentives for it, but if behaviors are not checked, a crash becomes... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2016
News

In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)

and in September 2013 was named Australia’s first female Minister for Foreign Affairs, both positions she continued to hold after a sudden leadership shift in September 2015. Bishop’s diplomacy and savviness in negotiating this change was widely noted and admired View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma

04 Aug 2003
What Do You Think?

Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?

Summing Up "Good attitudes supercharge organizational performance beyond what the skill/talent level would indicate," according to Perry Miles. "Attitude is one of the strongest determinants of performance," added View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Mar 2012
Article

Macroeconomic Policy and U.S. Competitiveness

government deficits put upward pressure on the cost of borrowing for companies. The authors propose a plan--they call it "20/21 by 2021"--to reduce the deficit from 3.8% of GDP (the Congressional Budget Office's most likely... View Details

07 Apr 2011
What Do You Think?

When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?

Summing Up The variety of responses stimulated by this month's column may help explain why our public institutions are so often perceived as responding slowly to natural or man-made "meltdowns." First, as Ravindra Edirisooriya... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

"spiritual anchors for the new millennium." Clearly, something of a nonmaterial nature is stirring in the corporate temple. But questions abound. Just what does it mean to bring spirituality into the workplace? Is this an appropriate way to help people feel... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

ironic, given that in 2008 and 2009, they were given a hard time for issuing excessively positive ratings of structured products based on home mortgages that turned sour. Whatever they do, someone gets mad. That said, the mistakes on structured products were a historic... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

05 Feb 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

potential use of power, and motives. As Matthew Tuttle suggested, "Many of the traits are ... difficult to see in an interview." One answer to the challenge was suggested by Kirk Richardson: "There is only one true way to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

15 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

If one thing has been made clear by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is this: The health care system in the United States (and most other nations) is not set up to respond to a large-scale medical emergency that affects tens of thousands of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

03 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize

relevant, one should identify it, try to activate it, and then leverage it," says Greyser, Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. "All brands have a history, many brands have a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Royce G. Yudkoff

Royce Yudkoff is the MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice of Entrepreneurial Management at the Harvard Business School and a General Partner and co-founder of ABRY Partners, LLC in Boston, MA. Alongside Professor Richard Ruback, Royce currently... View Details

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

Their Organizations, by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind, explores how companies’ outreach strategies evolved from top-down, command-centric communiques to something more informal, immediate, and personal—from a C-suite monologue to a... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

discussion from one point to the next—are remembered often by the legions of MBA students, doctoral candidates, and faculty members Christensen taught during an HBS career that spanned half a century, from the 1940s until his death in... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

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