Isle of Man - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2007
News

Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

historians, HBS professor emeritus Thomas McCraw, in his 1988 collection of Chandler essays, The Essential Alfred Chandler, described a man who was universally regarded as both an academic giant and a true... View Details

29 Oct 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Robots in the Boardroom

advantage for companies–if they know how to use it. Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires? Computers make better hiring decisions than managers when filling simpler jobs. Research Papers Some Facts of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

2012
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FollowMe.IntDev.Com: International Development in the Blogosphere

By: Ryann Manning

This article explores online blogs as a new forum for discussing ideas and practices in international development. Based on a qualitative study of conversations that take place across multiple blogs, I conclude that the blogosphere combines features of a public sphere,... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Interpersonal Communication; Knowledge Acquisition; Experience and Expertise; Globalization; Blogs

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04 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

managers. Among the paper’s key points: Women are stuck at the bottom of the ladder Despite the public outrage the pay gap has inspired in recent years, women continue to bring home lighter paychecks. In 2018, a women earned 81 cents for... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2003
News

Dwight Raiford

Raiford Photo courtesy Dwight Raiford Growing up in a North Carolina mill town, W. Dwight Raiford learned from his father, an insurance agent, that a black man can be successful in business and from his uncle, a janitor, to “be View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Finance

Profile

Peggy Mativo-Ochola

As the daughter of two pioneering civil engineers in Kenya, Peggy Mativo-Ochola learned to be ambitious. "I saw my mother as a woman who broke glass ceilings and my father as a man who strove for... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

Source: peterhowell Big data has shifted the ground under every business, enough so that many managers are waking up to the fact that they are already behind in developing a smart data strategy. Data has always been important in business, View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

School Professor Globally by Poets & Quants in 2017. Lauren H. Cohen : Named one of Harvard Business School’s Best Teachers - CNBC, 2017. Lauren H. Cohen : Competitor in the 2017 World's Strongest Man... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Building a Better Brazil

the natural environment," said Dean Nitin Nohria. "I can think of no better way to honor a man who has dedicated his career to ensuring a peaceful coexistence between business and the planet. Erling's... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Portrait Project

Neda Navab

The black and white photo of my grandparents' wedding captures two strangers – a bride, hooked into a stiff corset gown, and a groom, rigid in a starched tuxedo – timidly posing beside each other. They were not in love. Angered by the... View Details

29 Jan 2024
News

On the Road to Recovery

Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) didn’t know much about travel nursing when he met a fellow entrepreneur by chance at a child’s birthday party in 2003. The man was considering starting a new business providing short-term staffing assistance to hospitals around the country.... View Details

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Cash House | About

character.” Cash exemplifies the School’s mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world in every aspect of his personal and professional life. In addition to his extraordinary intellect and... View Details

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

achieved this mission that you set out as a young man to do, right? Do you feel that's true? And if so, how does it still energize you? PP: For me, it feels I have done most of a first step View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Turning Point: Listen to the Music

and my mother was Sri Lankan—a prima ballerina in the national dance company. Like so many of us, I’ve experienced multiple turning points—moments when, looking back, my life took a very particular turn. I attended Portland State... View Details

Keywords: music; film; purpose; career

01 Mar 2004
News

Derek Ferguson

future brings, he wants to make a difference. For now, it’s a matter of figuring out how to do that while serving as right-hand man to one of hip-hop’s most prominent bad boys.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

The details differ slightly, but the story, in its telling, is always the same. Ninety or so MBA students sit nervously awaiting the start of their first Marketing class. At the appointed time—not a minute more or less—a slight View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf

The room lights up when Peter Harf talks about perfume. His enthusiasm is contagious as he discusses a new cosmetics collection. The chairman and CEO of Coty Inc., one of the world's leading fragrance and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

transcended the boundaries of her industry in terms of her social impact” by using – and in doing so risking – her status as an actress in order to fight for change. Working Knowledge A Dedication to... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist

Vincam became ADP TotalSource, and Saladrigas, as CEO, oversees the company's twenty regional offices and over eighty thousand employees. A Man of the Year award from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and an... View Details