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November 2007
Article

Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders

This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Planning

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01 Sep 2003
News

Dwight Raiford

personal finances. The catalyst for his second career was the intense satisfaction he encountered when he and his wife, Iris, founded the Harlem Little League. Starting the league meant finding fields, getting kids and parents interested,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Finance

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

But when I began to research a broader range of measures including investment, phone calls, tourism, and immigration, I found that, surprisingly, the average extent of globalization is only 10 percent. For example, for every dollar of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Sep 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

without considering whether it is the best platform for their product and/or whether they’ll be able to hire engineers who are skilled in .NET (or want to learn it) to build it at scale. I’ve also seen many startups default to the language of choice for the full stack... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

inability to socialize is more likely to influence late majority and laggard groups to take the vaccine than health-related messages. Similarly, past research about preventing teenagers from smoking cigarettes found that highlighting the... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

Web

Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

to HR to help improve the workplace for everyone.” AGE 38, SOUTH ASIAN, TECHNOLOGY, UNITED STATES 2 ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS Prior research has found that a set of organizational norms known as “masculinity contest culture” are associated... View Details

18 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Relocating to Boston with Your Partner

For my wife (Megan) and me, relocating 3,000 miles across the country from Los Angeles to Boston for HBS was a huge deal. We had lived in California our whole lives, only leaving L.A. for short stints in the San Francisco Bay Area for our undergraduate programs.... View Details

18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

published in the company’s prospectus. The lessons to be found there are classic examples (and warnings to other IPO companies) of how not to frame a public offering. WeWork took advantage of being deemed an “emerging company” under the... View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

22 Feb 2024
News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2009
News

Don’t Mess with His Texas

his ranch land to the state so that it will be protected forever, the San Antonio Express-News reported (June 8, 2009). “You see it, and you just want to take care of it,” said Waters. A Texas native, Waters worked on Wall Street before becoming View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

compiled by Harris Wittels, author of Humblebrag, The Art of False Modesty, and found more than 1 in 10 were about being too busy or “not having a life.” (A typical example: “Hi, I’m 16 and I’m publishing 3 books and an album this year.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

researchers Johnathan Dingel and Brent Neiman of the University of Chicago. They found that the index is strikingly reliable when it comes to predicting the scale of the transition to remote work within a given industry as well as in... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

24 Jul 2017
Blog Post

Transitioning to Product Management at HBS

with engineers, to beta testing, to launching for customers, all in 10 weeks. And I found exactly that during my summer at InsightSquared. Who was crazy enough to hire me? Sam Clemens, the Chief Product Officer there, and a HBS alum. How... View Details

Research Summary

Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration

The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

so interested in strategy and the intricacies of running a business? A: Grove made the transition from technologist to technologist/manager because he had no choice. When Intel was founded in July of 1968, he was employee number three.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

and then as a repo man for a bank. He was soon fired from both jobs. He was outspoken and liked to be left alone: the right temperament for a writer, but not for a business career. One year after graduating from the world’s most prestigious business school, he View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

04 Jun 2018
What Do You Think?

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

issue and a reminder of the possible consequences of a board’s hiring decision. One group found it difficult to identify any conditions under which such a hire might be made. Edward said, “He/she had their chance. I’m prone to stay away... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 2000
News

Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch

man at a welding station. "How's your daughter?" he calls to Jane as she takes a break from her sewing machine. Bullard knows most of the names of the 375 people employed by E.D. Bullard, the privately-held safety equipment company View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 1997
News

High Fives

Comstock: a community service entrepreneur who has founded two inner-city banks and other community organizations in New York and the San Francisco area using his personal credit card. Chuck Knight, who runs Emerson Electric: a master at... View Details

28 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition

solving critical challenges.” Katjana Kammin (MBA 2023) further highlighted the need for more students to focus on impact investing: “Especially in emerging markets, entrepreneurs face critical challenges that require patient capital and creative solutions.” Students... View Details

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