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- 20 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
behave. Second, he must recognize that his position does not confer the right to lead, nor does it guarantee the organization's loyalty. He must perpetually earn and maintain the moral mandate to lead. CEOs... View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
inclusion among "tax expenditures" and occasional calls for its repeal. This paper analyzes the extent to which tax deferral and other policies inefficiently subsidize U.S. direct investment abroad. Investments are dynamically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years
great gifts, the biggest of which is creating leaders of tomorrow who will move us into entirely new ways of community building. Building a community online - the VCPE conference was online this year #2 Impostor syndrome is real, but your... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
U.S. Census Bureau. We find STEM career adjustments during periods of abnormally high immigration into the firm to be more difficult on several dimensions compared to non-STEM workers. Most notably, STEM workers do not acquire a new job as quickly as non-STEM workers;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education
Building on the Legacy Thought Leadership Andrew F. Brimmer James I. Cash Jr. Linda A. Hill David A. Thomas HBS Faculty Members HBS Doctoral Students Alumni Profiles Research Links Essay on HBS Thought Leadership Early AASU documents Newspaper Articles AASU View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
everybody does? My colleague Professor Raffaella Sadun has wonderful research that shows just how slowly even key managerial practices diffuse. All of a sudden, being a good manager confers a lasting competitive advantage. Kost: You end... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps
years as a call to action for consumers to take charge and switch to a 100% electric platform as a pathway to decarbonization. Electric heat pumps are appliances that use an electrical input to move heat between the air inside and outside... View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
investor relations. A study is conducted of the language used by executives in conference calls discussing earnings with investors and financial analysts. A correlation was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment
one-time loan reduction that typically ranges from $5,000 – $15,000. Award availability is determined based on an applicant's earnings and need-based debt, as well as employment and job fit criteria. Funds awarded can be used only to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
running throughout—you have to page back to an earlier chapter of Dixon’s life, in 2017. That’s when the bottom dropped out. That fall, she was raising money for a tech/beauty startup called EverythingDid, designed to help women and girls... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
conference call. One laid-off worker turned to Twitter to vent. “Sephora ruined our lives. Lol. Point blank period. Great conference call guys! Thanks for hanging up and not... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
it works." On the other hand, Kamal Gupta cited problems regarding pay transparency in observing that, "Indian law had mandated public sharing of employee compensation for all those drawing above a certain limit employees resented this (the old saying, never... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
publicly signal this position. These cloaked trades earn an abnormal return of 370 basis points in the following month, or over 36% per year. We further show that the same managers do not engage in such information-rich cloaked trading... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
to retain these New York advantages? What are the broader lessons for those facing similarly challenging negotiations? Building sufficient consensus The goal should be to build “sufficient consensus” for a “winning coalition” in spite of potential blockers. This means... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
manufacturing industries has been identified by some observers as a key factor in the current economic crisis in that region, a collapse that has been called the greatest threat to the world's economic stability in fifty years.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
authentic. Authentic Leadership was intended as a clarion call to the new generation to learn from negative examples like Enron, WorldCom and Tyco. In it, I defined authentic leaders as genuine, moral and character-based leaders:... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
engineering, and eventually, management. Dahod describes HBS’s case method as “a shock to my system,” and remembers a dark day in Aldrich Hall during his first year when he was called to open all three case discussions. View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit
after undergrad. But Gupta also spent several years at the Pratham Education Foundation, one of India’s largest educational nonprofits—work that earned him a Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship for social enterprise leadership at HBS. Mahajan,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
A Happier Ending In an "alternate ending" to the story, Kate apologizes for how the negotiation has gotten out of control, and asks if they can start over. She shares her own anxieties and frustrations about an important View Details