EXECUTIVE Ability (Management) - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2011
News

Capitalism’s False Mantra

was aligned with the interests of shareholders. If the company’s stock did well, executive pay would rise in concert. Thus was born the idea that CEOs should serve to maximize shareholder value, the mantra that has defined the business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management; Management; Management

01 Sep 2005
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Ideas: Books

executives from the aerospace and defense industries, Fortune 500 presidents, general managers in the Boston area, and heads of nonbusiness organizations about their decision-making. Based on his interviews,... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Oct 2001
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David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High

—it's the challenge of leading a major company in the turbulent global economy. A longtime executive at Monsanto and BFGoodrich, Price believes that the turmoil caused by forces such as consolidation, overcapacity, and technological... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll

“International Power 50” list of women executives in 2008, has won praise for combining a conservative financial approach with progressive policies. Raised in New Jersey, Carroll studied geology at Skidmore College, went on to earn a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Management

Article

Are CEOs Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?

By: Brian J. Hall and Jeffrey B. Liebman

Keywords: Management; Executive Compensation

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23 Jul 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action

adds a metric that summarizes customer profitability. The ability to measure profitability at the individual customer level allows companies to consider new customer profitability metrics such as "percentage of unprofitable customers."... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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Anjali Raina to Lead India Research Center

In March, Anjali Raina was appointed executive director of HBS’s India Research Center in Mumbai. She spent the past fifteen years with Citigroup (India). The center was established in 2006 to support faculty research and course... View Details

Keywords: research; world economy; Management

01 Sep 2006
News

East to West

(“Shiggi”) Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired “committee system” for its board of directors — the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a collaborative project undertaken by Professor Lynn Paine and Japan Research Office View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

Career Coach

Matt Spielman

Matt (Columbia ’94, HBS ’99) is the Founder and Managing Partner of Inflection Point Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm dedicated to igniting careers and energizing lives. Matt... View Details

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01 Mar 2016
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Ink

will get you 80 percent of the results, and forget the rest.” —Laurie Stach (MBA 2011), founder and executive director of MIT Launch, an entrepreneurship program for high-school students, discussing startup time View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

HBS Press Books in Brief

The War for Talent, by Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod, presents a strategic view of what managers must do to hire and keep the best employees. Drawing on five years of research, including surveys of thirteen thousand... View Details

Keywords: Management; Management; Management; Management

01 Sep 2004
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Tracking a Turnaround

Levy, CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, if he would serve as the subject for a multimedia case study currently taught in the MBA Program’s General Management elective and in the AMP View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Mar 2003
News

All in a Day's Work

through a day on the job to find out: Mardie Oakes, an HBS Service Leadership Fellow at Boston Community Capital, a community development financial institution, and Paul Sternhell, an entry-level manager at Samsung Electronics. Cookies... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Boston Community Capital; Samsung; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Mar 2007
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Security Chief

Parker Imagine having a conversation with the head of HR that goes something like this: Over the past several years with the company, I’ve helped turn around an ailing division. Now I’d like to try my hand at managing a growth business.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Management; Management

25 Feb 2020
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Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller

is the extensive research conducted for case development and the creation of primers for instruction about the future of work from undergraduate classes to executive education. We’ve also developed the second-year MBA course View Details

21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

BlackBerry Messenger limit his market? Was the decision to release a touch-screen version before the phone with a physical keyboard—a favorite of the business class—a strategic error? Should he have re-focused on enterprise users? Willy Shih, Robert and Jane Cizik... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments

2020 Thomas J. DeLong. All rights reserved. A Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice, Professor DeLong is co-chair of the Executive Education program The Reflective Leader, developed specifically... View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

by Roger Thompson A spate of business scandals — from Enron’s spectacular collapse to stock option backdating — have put business schools on the spot to explain what, if any, responsibility they might have for what’s gone wrong in America’s View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

26 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

The Roman god Janus had two sets of eyes—one pair focusing on what lay behind, the other on what lay ahead. General managers and corporate executives should be able to relate. They, too, must constantly look... View Details

Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

01 Jun 2008
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Faculty Books

The Oxford Handbook of Business History edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford University Press) This handbook surveys research in business history, a broad area of study generating empirical data that have sometimes confirmed and sometimes contested... View Details

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