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11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

careers at the Harvard Business School, we discovered that the turnover of CIOs ran at around 30 to 40 percent per year. As a result of our research, we described the driving cause as the rapid change of IT through the operation of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

March 2010 (Revised January 2011)
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Life Journey Profile: Nicole Gardner

Examine the life journey of an HBS 2002 alum, and her perspective on success, in her own words. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Success; Personal Development and Career; Perspective

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March 2024
Case

From “BIG” Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

In the summer of 2023, Eduard (“Eddie”) Croitoru, Vice President (VP) of ICL Group (“ICL”) Corporate Initiatives, was reflecting on ICL’s internal ideation program, the Business Innovation for Growth (BIG) Accelerator. When Raviv Zoller became the CEO of ICL in 2018,... View Details

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19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

Cell Biology at Harvard. Sato oversees the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Sciences Entrepreneurship, which provides a select group of HBS MBA alumni the opportunity to work with top Harvard inventors. The goal: To promote the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

Environmental Management in the Technology and Operations Management Unit, and Faculty Chair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative. Rebecca Henderson: Short-term fears might guide decision-making In the short run, COVID-19... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

entrepreneurial instruction (and inspiration) at HBS and the philosophy that underpins The Entrepreneurial Manager. Highlights from the discussion, moderated by Mike Roberts, executive director of Entrepreneurial Studies, follow. Q: We've... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

June 2018
Teaching Note

Difficult Conversations and Dealing with Challenging Situations at Work

By: Boris Groysberg and Amram Migdal

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 416-031, 416-032, 416-033, 416-034, 416-035, and 416-036. View Details

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14 May 2007
Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

important career matter for individuals as well as for managers who want to inspire, nurture, and recruit stars. A new study by Harvard Business School's Boris Groysberg and Linda-Eling Lee on star knowledge workers, specifically security... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

auto makers have made advances, and Korean manufacturers are focusing on improving their quality and innovating on warranties and assurance programs to remove consumer uncertainty. Much further down the road, competition will come from... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

Business School and a principal of Lax Sebenius LLC, a negotiation strategy firm. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. David A. Lax, a former faculty member at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

themselves from individual liability. Since the Free Software Foundation was founded in 1985, a number of new nonprofit foundations have formed, often around specific technologies, to serve the interests of programmers. HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen is living proof of the adage "If you want to get something done, ask a busy person." Throughout a distinguished career that has included often-overlapping... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

09 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 9

out to learn what HBS graduates had to say about work and family and how their experiences, attitudes, and decisions might shed light on prevailing controversies. What their comprehensive survey revealed suggests that the conventional... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

Research Summary

Growing as a Purposeful Leader

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

Leaders today have to lead in the context of extraordinary changes and challenges. The demands of today's stakeholders have risen significantly, and what is expected of senior leaders is quickly evolving in terms of their mission (more than profit),... View Details

25 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

“occupational sorting,” with men choosing careers that pay higher wages than women do, labor economists say. For example, women represent only 26 percent of US workers employed in computer and math jobs, according to the Department of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 10

Hellman, and Ilkin IlyaszadeHarvard Business School Case 811-100 The case study provides an overview of the angel investment practices and describes government policies towards angel and venture capital investing in British Columbia, Canada. It focuses in particular on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

Six degrees of separation seems to work well for B-list actors—but does it have anything to say about innovation and business? HBS associate professor Lee Fleming believes it does, and his work looks specifically at how ideas and... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

HBS professor emeritus George C. Lodge's idea of a World Development Corporation has been percolating for years—he wrote a seminal article on the proposal in Foreign Affairs in 2002 (reprinted on HBS Working... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

02 Apr 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

sustainability. Narasimhan Gopalan cited "special programs to engage the employees to contribute towards green initiatives at different levels." David Cawlfield stressed the need for "employees (to) identify with the value... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

Life Journey Profile: Nicole Gardner

From “BIG” Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group (A)

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

Difficult Conversations and Dealing with Challenging Situations at Work

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

The Organizational Model for Open Source

How to be Extremely Productive

First Look: December 9

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

Growing as a Purposeful Leader

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

First Look: May 10

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

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