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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Style Check
run at a particularly glamorous assignment: managing the Benetton Group’s Formula 1 racing team. Named deputy chairman of the company last spring, Benetton has now been charged with revitalizing the firm’s line View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
best innovations: Find and fill an important unmet customer need. Plan for profitability. Strive for sustainability. Establish credibility. Gather necessary resources. Lead and View Details
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
"Is talent management portable?" That's the question asked and answered in a recent Harvard Business Review article discussing issues surrounding how top managers can... View Details
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
2016 Echoing Green Fellow Christine Su is co-founder and CEO of PastureMap. The for-profit software company helps sustainable ranchers record their grazing practices on mobile devices. (Photo courtesy of Echoing Green.) A division of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
managers-firms with the greatest information frictions prior to the rule change. We report three changes related to compensation after 1992 for division managers. First, within firms with dispersed managers, division View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
entrepreneurship especially, it is essential to perceive opportunities that others have not, and to pursue them in novel yet appropriate ways at every stage of the game. Such creative solutions will be necessary for View Details
- 11 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
EC? RC? Aldrich? What’s an Aldrich? Every organization has their own acronyms and jargon and HBS is no exception. Here are some of the terms used at HBS that relate to... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
shareholders' meeting in 2004 in Leipzig. While rival carmakers such as Ferrari, Aston Martin, Alfa Romeo, and Lamborghini have been happy to locate where labor costs are cheaper, Porsche wanted to ensure... View Details
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
The House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement met recently to hash out concerns related to the H-1B program, one of the most controversial of foreign visa topics in the United States. At issue... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
explains how management challenges differ for proprietary and shared platform during subsequent life-cycle stages: network mobilization and platform maturity. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2015
- Op-Ed
The Real Duty of the Board of Directors
material. All we are asking for is transparency about the board’s view of the role of its corporation in society. About the authors: Robert G. Eccles is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
intensive companies, and blind review of solution submissions. We find that technical and social marginality, being a source of different perspectives and heuristics, plays an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
have shown that entrepreneurs generally score higher on this measure. "A classic extroverted person is always sharing stories and anecdotes." The other measure tested, extroversion, relates to how... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
cubicles—is often treated as an afterthought at immature IT organizations, says HBS professor Robert Austin. Yet this attitude is unwise, because the sooner bugs are caught, the easier and cheaper they are to correct. But who is best... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Balancing the Ideal with the Real: Conveying Corporate Culture to Candidates
relate to and recognize, not just one, but several examples of MBAs at RBI, and how different each journey can be.” Saeed speaks from her own experience. After just six months... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
different versions of their applications for each social networking site. Facebook's managers had to decide how to respond to OpenSocial. Should they join the initiative or keep Facebook Platform proprietary View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- January 2025
- Case
Cyber Oversight: SolarWinds Board of Directors
By: Lynn S. Paine
In 2020, just two years after its IPO, information technology company SolarWinds discovered that it was the victim of an attack on its information systems by Russian hackers. The incident, known as the Sunburst attack, was costly for the company, and certain... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Cybersecurity; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk Management; Information Technology Industry; United States; Texas; Delaware
Paine, Lynn S. "Cyber Oversight: SolarWinds Board of Directors." Harvard Business School Case 325-080, January 2025.