Time Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jan 2017
News

The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee

offices. Burwick managed all of this, the article notes, while guiding the company through a transition from public entity to private ownership. Before joining Peet’s, Burwick worked at PepsiCo and as president of Weight Watchers North... View Details

22 Jul 2015
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Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs

them really became a full-time career.” This was in the 1990s, when Gould had a management position in marketing and strategy at Reuters and before family-friendly HR policies, such as job-sharing, had caught on with many companies. She... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Goldman Sachs; Reuters; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

17 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions

from its balance sheet, and Prudential got to take a piece of the pension business away from the asset management companies that have traditionally handled those investments. "Even though [defined benefit plans] are dying elephants,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Aerospace; Financial Services

01 Dec 2020
News

Hit Pause

daily output to pause and reflect, says Professor Joe Badaracco. In interviews with more than 100 time-strapped managers, Badaracco found that those who made the space for reflection did so in a manner that was realistic, given existing demands on their View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Leadership on a Global Stage

lost all five fingers on his left hand while trying to protect his men from a defective distraction grenade that exploded prematurely. Jefferson was hospitalized for months and then well for the first time in years, he didn’t know what... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

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Does Your Startup Set Employees Up to Fail? | Working Knowledge

approach will likely permeate across the organization. Better than nothing Founders struggling with poor performers often say things like, “I’d rather have an employee who’s good enough for now than go through the hassle of performance View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

A Silent Workplace Crisis

pharmaceuticals, the gap between the medical and the mental health systems, and the time required to find community resources and quality home care. My previous experience as a pharmaceutical executive and View Details

Keywords: Janet Simpson Benvenuti; caregiving; aging; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Health, Social Assistance

19 Oct 2021
News

In the Contest for Content

to other major buyers like BMG and Hipgnosis Songs Fund, which has spent about $2 billion on the catalogs of Neil Young and Shakira. Clarke Soares, the former CEO of Tempo Music Investments and a managing director at Morgan Stanley before... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Profile

Shantanu Rege

public markets. I wrote to all of them; at least sixty or seventy wrote back. Even busy managers and directors are eager to spend a half-hour to help a student figure out his career path." For his own path, Shantanu wants to spend... View Details

14 Nov 2012
News

Remembering His Roots

having spent the first 16 years of his life alongside his family, moving from Mexico up and down the West Coast of the United States to harvest peaches, olives, cherries, and plums. He managed to graduate from high school in California in... View Details

Keywords: farmworkers

01 Sep 2006
News

Does My Résumé Work?

fail to close deals when they are clear and passionate about their objective.” I’ve exhausted my personal network, and the alumni database isn’t working for me. When using the alumni database, approach people you would describe as peers. E-mail your résumé and set up a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; jobs; interviews; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

14 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Growing CEOs from the Inside

leadership, to draw on his 40 years of research and teaching experience at Harvard Business School to discuss the issues surrounding CEO succession. Sean Silverthorne: What's wrong with the way most companies today pick CEOs? Joseph Bower: For most companies,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Employment

01 Oct 2002
News

Books

1996 international bestseller, Leading Change. This time around, Kotter and coauthor Dan Cohen of Deloitte Consulting bring to life the principles of successful change with stories culled from hundreds of interviews with people from... View Details

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