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  • 04 Jun 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

predators and no there is no place for them in positions of power, ever, anywhere.” Janie added, “There is compelling evidence suggesting that many CEOs have strong narcissistic qualities, border on sociopathic tendencies, and often turn workplaces into ‘veritable... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

It's academic. (Not!)

of transition look like, and what can we learn from it? And how will it affect the career paths of individual venture capitalists?" Analyzing this process has put Wasserman hot on the trail of many more areas of inquiry that promise to... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Generation Next

ethos of concentrated ownership—the business group over the individual stock owner. After the "Licence Raj," the period of tight government control of the private sector that ended in 1991, corporate families could finally stretch... View Details
Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe

By: Christian Ketels and Sergiy Protsiv
This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to government policies and actions of individual companies in supporting the emergence of "High Road" strategies that lead to better New Growth Path–related... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Industry Clusters; Globalization; Economic Growth; Europe
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    PRESENCE

    New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller, Washington Post bestseller, Chicago Tribune bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, USA Today bestseller, Amazon "Best Books of December" pick and... View Details

    • 17 Dec 2008
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    ‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

    understanding what is important to the individual when he or she makes a purchasing decision." What Business Are You Really In? Levitt's influence reached well beyond the classroom. "Ted Levitt was the most influential and... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail
    • 05 Sep 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Global Currency Hedging

    Keywords: by John Y. Campbell, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros & Luis M. Viceira; Financial Services
    • 2011
    • Book

    Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar

    By: Chet Huber
    Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details
    Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry
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    • 22 Jul 2019
    • Book

    How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

    switching costs, multihoming is hard, which makes it complicated for firms or individual users to switch from one platform to another. The next criterion we identify is relatively homogenous products and a lack of identifiable niches. The... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • Research Summary

    Models of optimal experience (flow)

    Flow is a state of profound task-absorption, involvement, and intrinsic enjoyment that makes the person feel one with the activity. Csikszentmihalyi's Flow Theory states that flow is more likely to occur in situations in which the person feels that the activity is very... View Details
    • 2008
    • Chapter

    Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model

    By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis
    Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details
    Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior
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    • 03 May 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    What Is the Future of MBA Education?

    degrees, even though it set out each year to hire twice as many. These latter individuals are viewed as essential because the fields of finance and strategy have become increasingly analytical and because leading financial services firms... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
    • Article

    Mission-Driven Governance

    By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson

    The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details

    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation
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    • 02 Jul 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: July 2

    from other religious groups. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45023 Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners? By: Ewens, Michael, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—This paper investigates whether View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • 19 Aug 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution

    Keywords: by N. Gregory Mankiw & Matthew Weinzierl
    • Research Summary

    The Toyota Production System: Rules for Activity, Connection, and Pathway Design and Improvement

    Researchers have established that Toyota enjoys advantages in cost, quality, lead time, and flexibility when compared to its competitors in automobile assembly. Differences in generating value have been attributed to differences between the Toyota Production System... View Details

    • TeachingInterests

    Managing the Future of Work (MBA Education—Elective Curriculum)

    By: Christopher T. Stanton

    The nature and scope of work is changing rapidly, creating massive business challenges in the shadow of broader political and social shifts.  HBS launched a major initiative in 2017 on Managing the Future of Work to define these workplace issues and... View Details

    • Teaching

    Overview

    Laura taught undergraduate Military Leadership and Intro to Sociology for 6 and 4 semesters, respectively, at the United States Military Academy (West Point) from 2013-2016 (see course descriptions and links below). She was promoted from instructor to Assistant... View Details
    • 19 Jul 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic (In)Congruence in the Helping Process within Organizations

    Keywords: by Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer & Teresa M. Amabile
    • TeachingInterests

    Managing Human Capital

    By: Ethan S. Bernstein

    The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future general manager (not just the human resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and her or his own career with optimal... View Details