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- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
good at it. They don't put enough effort into the task. They subcontract much of the hard work, at least the most difficult job of winnowing candidates down to several, to headhunters. They often favor those applicants they know... View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
inaccurate and increasingly troublesome. Management is a set of well-known processes that help organizations produce reliable, efficient, and predictable results. Really good management helps us do well what we more or less know how to do... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
finding is that societies that depend heavily on oil, and perhaps natural resources more generally, will experience a heavier demand for government intervention. We argue that this is one aspect that the good design of policies on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
frequently entails short-terms risks in order to create societal value. "Our analysis suggests that most companies rarely coordinate among the three theatres, let alone recognize the contributions of each to societal well-being," write... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
earning Klarman entry into the Alpha magazine Hedge Fund Hall of Fame. The firm has grown from 3 to 100 employees. A consummate team player, Klarman rarely uses his private office, choosing instead to sit at the trading desk where he... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
after assuming office, Mitsotakis is taking meetings at Maximos Mansion, the official seat of the prime minister, in central Athens. He and his wife, Mareva Grabowski Mitsotakis (MBA 1996), are fresh off a series of state visits and looking forward to a View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
is that bad guys have so much data that they just haven’t gotten to yours,” says Thomas. It’s easy to steal your credit card. “The only hard part is using it without tipping anybody off.” There is evidence of the relative ease of these crimes in the prices that the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Fabio Consoli Whatever your summer plans might look like this year—whether you’re traveling to a faraway beach or enjoying downtime much closer to home—nothing has the power to transport us quite like a View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health of MBA programs but on balance were, in the words of one HBS... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
Choudhury says. "If an indigenous society has discovered medicinal uses of an herb, and if a Western firm can go in there and share the rents with the society, the patent might be a good thing. As a member of the indigenous society,... View Details
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
distribution of public goods to their intended recipients. Fans hope that it will do much more, skeptics worry that it might be overhyped. "Aadhaar was created to guarantee only identity, not benefits or entitlements, yet the UIDAI... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
delayed, expense budgets overrun, all with no direct consequences for the individuals in charge. The organization tended to diffuse responsibility for performance, making it difficult to find out who was responsible. When individuals failed, they were View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
research-based approaches to increase competitiveness in the digital economy. Networking: Coffee Not Cocktails by Janet Shaner (MBA 1989) Lulu.com A good network can bring new ideas, access to resources, funds, clients, and help build... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
decided to honor her by creating the Ellerin Achievement Award to recognize outstanding contributions to the health care field. “That was very humbling,” she says. The HBSHAA Annual Conference is known among alumni and industry leaders for its intimate size, making it... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1998) St. Martin’s Essentials When we’re moving at 115 MPH, we rarely see the wall coming. But it comes for all of us and when it does, we grasp for lessons, meaning, and purpose. Each moment (good or bad) and every win or loss... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
Most organizations already have at least some of these processes in place, but they rarely develop and manage them in a coherent, consistent way. Here are eight things that your company should be working on. Identify your company's... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
weighing the morality of an action based on its consequences, might see AI as an improvement over the status quo of 40,000 annual motor vehicle deaths. AVs are good at avoiding mistakes, and most of their crashes are caused by human error... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
in governance. In spite of all the checks and balances, failures occurred with boards of directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
Philippines. Some may say this scattered love is sad, disjointed, and incomplete but I say the opposite! I am insanely blessed to have and find love in so many places. Ryan Flamerich (MBA 2021 When people ask how Daniel and I met, we often chuckle and say through... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
and faculty. People really care deeply about HBS and are committed to its ongoing excellence. The good news is, the School is in great shape. Looking ahead, what are some of the big issues facing the School? I think the biggest issue and... View Details