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- 29 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Will I Stay or Will I Go? How Gender and Race Affect Turnover at ‘Up-or-Out’ Organizations
minority junior professionals don't see senior professionals in their organization who look like them. To want to stay at a firm, women and minorities need to see other women and minorities in senior positions. However, ''peer effects'' have the View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
Johnson say the clauses stifle innovation and hamstring employees. Currently, only three states largely ban noncompetes: California, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. Opposition groups in other states are working on several fronts. If they... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Last Look
pennies. The game (called rayuela in Spanish, Henriquez points out) is a competition to see who can toss a coin closest to a wall or line (in this case, the opposite bricks lining the pathway) without hitting or crossing it. The winner... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
will try to maximize every encounter for themselves, right? The question they ask is, What’s in it for me? whereas givers will ask the opposite question, How can I help this person? Not for any gain but just because it’s the right thing... View Details
- Portrait Project
Joel Segre
absurdly lucky life. I want to harness that good luck, pouring myself into the issues I find most urgent and sharing my good fortune with others around the world. Forget work-life balance. My work and my life will not carry equal and View Details
- 27 May 2020
- News
Prepare to Exit
one of the millions of Americans to lose their job. Tran had been on the opposite side of the table any number of times in his career, working on post-merger integrations and reducing redundancies. In those moments, “I kept telling myself... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
companies. It stood to reason that private firms, which tend to be highly leveraged, would hoard even more cash as a precaution. But according to a first-of-its-kind study by Joan Farre-Mensa an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, the exact... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Audit: War & Peace
QUESTION: “How did you ensure the talks didn’t fail because of internal strife?” —Alexandra Baranowski (MBA 2025) “I had to handle that with a lot of cold blood and not engage the opposition in every argument. I had to maintain the course, explain why we were doing... View Details
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
opposite side is the clear light of right-doing—things which are so generally appealing to the conscience of all that no mistake could be made, no matter how complicated the business. The area of difficulty for business lies in the... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
the opposite direction.” Gore and David Blood (MBA ’85) are founding partners of Generation Investment Management, a firm that makes long-term investments in companies adhering to sustainability principles. Earlier in the day, the pair... View Details
- 08 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Getting Laid Off: An Opportunity for Reinvention
their job. Tran had been on the opposite side of the table any number of times in his career, working on post-merger integrations and reducing redundancies. In those moments, “I kept telling myself it’s nothing personal, we just had to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Editor’s Letter
In 1984, I took my babysitting money to the Sam Goody store at the Short Hills Mall and purchased a copy of Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A., on LP. It was the best-selling album of the year and, for a kid growing up in New Jersey, not owning it was unthinkable.... View Details
- Web
Louis-Philippe, "King of the French" - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
classes. For this reason, contemporary cartoons frequently portray him stealing public funds. Opposition to the monarchy grew, until it culminated with the Revolution of 1848, when Louis-Philippe abdicated and fled to England. He died... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
to a new working paper coauthored by Lecturer Abigail Allen, the opposite is often true. When the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) proposed stricter public pension accounting standards in 2012, many state governments balked.... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
change, NATO, immigration, and energy in direct opposition to what they need to build their companies. As a result, they are stepping up to take the lead on vital global issues. Business leaders have a history of stepping in This is the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
it’s consistent from company to company.” Her new COO role at Code for America, a San Francisco–based nonprofit dedicated to improving civic tech and “strengthening America’s basic social safety net,” has proven this maxim true. “I actually own kind of the View Details
- 20 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting
decipher from public filings. Their proposal, which will likely meet fierce opposition from accountants, lawyers, and managers, is a laudable first step in restoring sanity to U.S. corporate profit reporting. When the corporate tax was... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 28 May 2019
- News
Turning Point: Into the Wild
Then I saw a herd of 40 or 50 zebra grazing under some acacia trees. I knew I was pushing it, but I circled around until I was under the umbrella of trees too. When they’re alarmed, zebras actually bark, which is what the herd leader did next. I thought they would run... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?
designed to fit with the strategy. Q: What were some of the other most intriguing results from the survey? Did any of these results surprise you? A: Perhaps the most surprising result was that the U.S. does not have smaller headquarters than European firms—indeed the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace