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  • 15 Feb 2012
  • News

Social Innovation Challenge

  • 23 May 2018
  • News

The Bad First Job's Lingering Impact

  • 19 Jan 2018
  • News

Jana’s Jab at Apple May Be a Route to Reverse Its Shrinking Assets

  • 23 Sep 2021
  • News

AI Use in Hiring Means Women with Employment Gaps Get Overlooked

  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

foreign direct investment and for sustainable economic growth? These questions and more are explored in a forthcoming business case coauthored by Alfaro along with HBS professor Rafael M. Di Tella, Executive Director of the HBS Europe... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Nov 2021
  • News

Why Millions of Job Seekers Aren’t Getting Hired in this Hot Job Market

  • 15 May 2018
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Why some companies are dropping degree requirements in hiring

  • 20 Sep 2021
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Why Everybody’s Hiring but Nobody’s Getting Hired

  • 10 Nov 2010
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Choose tomorrow's leader today

  • 06 May 2019
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Forget Socialism. The U.S. Needs Responsible Capitalism

  • 20 Sep 2013
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Is this the era of the 'quiet leader?'

  • 08 Jul 2020
  • News

We Have an Unemployment Crisis. Now What?

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The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership

By: Joseph L. Bower and Lynn S. Paine
Agency theory, a new model of governance promulgated by academic economists in the 1970s, is behind the idea that corporate managers should make shareholder value their primary concern and that boards should ensure they do. The theory regards shareholders as owners of... View Details
Keywords: Agency Theory; Business and Shareholder Relations; Leadership; Corporate Governance
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Bower, Joseph L., and Lynn S. Paine. "The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 3 (May–June 2017): 50–60. (Reprinted in HBR’s 10 Must Reads: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review 2019, Boston, Mass: Harvard Business Review Press, 2019, pp. 165-192.)
  • 26 Oct 2020
  • News

Great promise but potential for peril

  • 01 Jan 2007
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Strategy + Business Magazine's Best Management Book

  • 26 Aug 2020
  • News

The Care Economy

  • 11 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

a vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemic is Moderna, a Cambridge company with an immigrant co-founder and an immigrant CEO. Another firm already conducting vaccine trials is Inovio Pharmaceuticals of Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, led by... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
  • 20 Jul 2021
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Rewriting the Social Contract

  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

Estée Lauder in 1930. Photograph courtesy of Estée Lauder Companies. The daughter of immigrant merchants in Queens, New York, Estée Lauder, born Josephine Esther Mentzer, began selling skin cream to women in New York City beauty parlors in the late 1920s. In 1946, she... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 31 Jan 2021
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Tips on Going Freelance During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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