career experience - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

best predictors of success for at least one class of Harvard MBAs was whether or not a parent of the applicant had had a career in management. An implication that one might draw from this finding is that the presence in a household of a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Sep 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Branding Yoga

understanding that you needed legal protection for your branding." The Stiles Approach Tara Stiles, meanwhile, found success in yoga her own way. She had studied ballet before launching a brief modeling career with the Ford Agency.... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

07 Nov 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

the heart of his long-run success” Ferguson's career indeed is an impressive feat. Look around for leading executives in any industry who have managed to succeed with the same firm at the highest levels for nearly three decades.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

acquire after spending the early part of their career in manufacturing at GE's Aircraft Engine division in Lynn, MA. Their offer of $1.1 million, or 6.9x times 2011 EBITDA of $159,292, was a pleasant surprise, but Owen was not interested... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jul 2008
What Do You Think?

Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

followership dynamics are really one and the same. Those who lead in one instance may follow in another." As C. J. Cullinane put it, "... to be a great leader you first have to be at some time in your career a great... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

18 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

recommend called “role-clarifying prospection”—thoughts about the tasks they’d like to accomplish during their upcoming role at work. In one study, the researchers conducted a four-week-long field experiment in which 443 participants... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

since little of the upside tends to flow back onto corporate balance sheets. To that end, Nagle says, “Can we design systems and regulations to allow a company to get some of those benefits?” One model for the future: Free and open source software Drawing on his... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

19 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 19

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912003-PDF-ENG Peace, Non-Aligned: The Pragmatic Optimism of Lakhdar Brahimi James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. GreenHarvard Business School Case 912-028 Describes the background and career of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

risk not only doing too much themselves but also losing these valuable employees, who can become frustrated that they aren't being challenged to build their skills and careers at the company. If You Had To Design Your Company Today With A... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

rather than burying them in fine print, makes them less likely to be broken; 4) Should we make our algorithms discrimination aware? To ensure fairness, designers need to track how race or gender affects the user experience and set... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

Review of Economics and Statistics The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-being Data By: De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, George Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

If you look at some of the principles by which he ran that company, you can see that in an upside-down way, he learned them in Hungary. Everything Intel was, Grove's experience in Hungary was not. Here are a couple of examples.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

Drawing upon his business research, he offered a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He used examples from his own experiences to explain how high achievers can all too often fall into traps that lead to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Sep 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

discovery—talking with customers and understanding what you need to get to product market fit or grow adoption—then these priorities set the hiring agenda. For example, if you’re realizing that your onboarding process is too complicated, then hiring a User View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries. In his lifetime, he produced a range of books, edited collections, and articles covering railways, management, global competition, anthracite coal, the career of Alfred P. Sloan, the nature of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

to experiment to see what works best for them. Datar: We also believe that it is important for schools to broaden the types of research that faculty conduct at business schools. The discipline-based research of the last 50 years has... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

the crisis to emerge stronger than others in our industry?” “How can the organization learn through this experience to win in a new world?” Saenz and O’Keeffe explain: “To guide the decisions and actions that will answer those... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

04 Jun 2018
What Do You Think?

Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

over for partner and left the firm. “He, the protected rainmaker, went on to make sexual advances to many other female associates and 15 years later is still employed in a cushy job at the firm.” Assuming that this situation is not unique and that those with View Details