Employees - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2013
News

Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

'They Feel Good,' yet the employees were wearing Reeboks," she recounts. "So I established new rules—don't bring a shoe in for a line review unless it feels good to the consumer, meaning comfortable, and feels good to shareholders,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

25 Aug 2014
News

Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983

Partners 1999 Begins office expansion to EU and Asia 2008 Providence expands into credit business 2014 Providence has 275 employees and $40 billion under management Founder and CEO, Providence Equity Partners, LLC As a partner at... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

September 2017 (Revised March 2018)
Case

Chai Point: Disrupting Chai

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Ramana Nanda and Rachna Tahilyani

Chai Point is India’s largest organized chai retailer. It has missed its target for retail store openings by approximately 25%, goals that are very important to its investors who are also board members. However, it has developed an exciting new internet-based tea... View Details

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05 Sep 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

the right expectations (with yourself, your company, and your investors) that a ramp in hiring will likely slow things down until new teams settle into new norms. If the ramp is constant, by the way, your teams will never settle into a groove, leading to View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology

02 Aug 2007
What Do You Think?

How Will Millennials Manage?

thus invigorate their teams and provide cultures that are profitable not because they are forced to, but because they want to." David Mullings added, "We will in fact treat our employees the way we expect to be treated."... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

31 Jul 2015
Blog Post

Transitioning From the Military to Business School

do you make responsible decisions at the top to ensure each of your employees is excited to come to work, has the opportunity to build a meaningful career, and feels like their contributions are being recognized and rewarded? And how do... View Details

Research Summary

The New Social Contract: Contractors, Firms, and Agencies

The emergence of a 'new social contract' linking employees and organizations - perhaps most notable for the absence of a promise of lifelong job security - has been widely remarked. A related trend, less noted but potentially important, has been the emergence of a... View Details

22 Feb 2024
News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

Dave Cotter, founder and CEO of Stealth Startup; Matt Oppenheimer, cofounder and CEO of Remitly; and Anthony Diamond, PhD, New Ventures Lead for Pioneer Square Labs. HBSAAA Board Member Beverly Anderson (MBA 1997), president and CEO of the event’s co-sponsor, BECU... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

26 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

consider whether football players at Northwestern University could unionize. Proponents of paying college athletes say that since they are what people buy tickets to see, they should take a piece of the pie. Supporters also argue that if these players are treated as de... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

Web

Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Delecourt, and David Holtz. 2023 Zoe B. Cullen : Recipient of a 2023 National Science Foundation Research Grant ($368,490) for "What's My Employee Worth? Information Frictions, Pay, and Pay Equity" with Ricardo Perez-Truglia. Ranjay... View Details

25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

natural, conversational manner." One of the biggest challenges Stack and Burton faced was training Tate's hundreds of employees to produce digital content. They started with a dedicated digital crew, who worked with curators and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

innovative ideas?'" Firms don’t need to necessarily fund their own research, but they should think about hiring some employees well-versed in their field’s scientific landscape to help source, read, and understand the scientific... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

29 Aug 2023
News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

01 Jan 2002
News

Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

the list, he points out fervently. Beyond that, the top executive's tool kit includes motivational skills that can inspire employees at all levels of an organization, the ability to communicate and cooperate with others, and a talent for... View Details

12 Mar 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO

Successful family CEOs often have the values, vision, passion for the business and abilities to build loyalty with key owners, customers, suppliers, and the employees that make them the right leaders of their companies, even if they lack... View Details

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

cumulative loss of $12.7 million.21 While the radial investment served the interests of long-standing customers, it could hardly be expected to earn an acceptable return. The investment in radials also supported Firestone's relationships with View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

01 Mar 2014
News

Generation Next

"performance-oriented culture" to the 117-year-old firm. "No one," she says, "wants to take on people who've worked [at the company] for 25 years." Why Nisa could challenge entrenched employees and the historical norms at Godrej... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million

The Sales Acceleration Formula provides a scalable, predictable approach to growing revenue and building a winning sales team. Everyone wants to build the next $100 million business and author Mark Roberge has actually done it using a unique methodology... View Details

22 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Launching the Women in Tech Initiative at HBS

evidenced by several industry-wide statistics: Women represent 47% of employees across all US job sectors, but the five largest tech companies (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft) only have 34.4% women in their workforce... View Details

05 May 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln; Technology

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