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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
in strategic job families to the business unit strategy?1 Of course not. One corporation in a Hackett database might report that it spends 0.2 percent of revenue on employee competency development, whereas your company spends 1.0 percent... View Details
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century Charts & Statistics Birthplace Education Gender & Ethnicity Tenure Birthplace of Leaders Foreigners Gain CEO Access After Mid-Century Pre-1950 Founder 73% Family Business 2% Other CEO... View Details
- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The Africa Business Conference at HBS: Reimagining the Road Ahead
support of my family and friends throughout the Conference planning process. Thank you for encouraging my dreams by creatively brainstorming with me, sponsoring the Conference in-kind, buying tickets on the... View Details
- 02 Aug 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?
According to Gallup, those who are engaged are: More than twice as likely to remain on the job as those characterized as disengaged, and more likely to refer friends and family members for employment. These factors lead to lower costs of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
respective roles and how they have been contributing to team goals. Team members should be candid about how the work-from-home format has affected their productivity. Some may need assistance getting familiar with mediating tools. Some may be juggling View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
families and in the asset management industry in general, as well as decline in capital of issuers borrowing from money funds. Incentives for Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Reputations By: Exley, Christine L. Abstract—Do monetary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
an entrepreneur, executive, and women’s advocate were evident in her teens. The oldest of three children in a devout Jewish family in Chicago, she ran a business tutoring Hebrew to boys preparing for their bar mitzvot, participated in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
support. 34 In the first half of the century, wealthy family funds like the Rockefeller Brothers, Inc. (later Venrock) provided the majority of investments for private companies. ARD would be one of the first firms to grant private equity... View Details
- Profile
Melcolm Ruffin
Growing up on the west side of Chicago, Melcolm Ruffin was immersed in three things: "a loving family that nurtured me," an emphasis on education, and a passion for basketball. "I loved sports and was a big basketball... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Graduate's Gift Honors HBS Friend
friends and family members of both men attended a gathering at the School last May. De Rothschild and Anderson offered remarks, as did one of their former professors, George A. von Peterffy, and Dean Kim B. Clark. "Today we're celebrating... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
“shots-in-arms” problem. In the United States, polls suggest that about 40 percent of adults prefer to not take the vaccine. In France, Russia, South Africa, Japan, Italy, Spain, and Germany, between a third and half of adults do not plan... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
was to help Taiwan build a presence in the semiconductor business. Taiwan’s government had set up an economic planning group led by Morris Chang, formerly of Texas Instruments, who conceived of and started what is now Taiwan Semiconductor... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
and kind—and far ahead of where I was at their age.” His love and respect for Judy, his second wife, also brings him great joy. “In marriage, I’ve been lucky twice. This is something to be thankful for.” Nelson grew up in a middle-class View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Director, University Planned Giving, Harvard University Development Office 11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. EDT + More Info – Less Info What are the different dimensions of family wealth? Why is material wealth a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
educational platform. The gift was made through the Lemann Foundation, a nonprofit organization Lemann and his family created in 2002 to enhance the quality of public education in Brazil. "Investing in innovation to promote large-scale... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
home. That was when she decided to apply to HBS. “I was young and had more options,” Enan acknowledges. “It was harder on people with families and responsibilities.” Looking back, she says she’s grateful for the ministry’s supportive... View Details
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
On the first day at HBS, all first-year students meet their sections – a mini 94-student family amidst the larger cohort of 938 students. To get to know one another, we were given a prompt inspired by a bet someone made with Hemingway... View Details
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
Putting together the money for everything from a short-term emergency to retirement is hard enough, a challenge that low- and moderate-income families endure every day. Yet as HBS professor Peter Tufano describes, new and old products... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
conditions and the paramount importance of doing the right thing—some leadership teams have committed themselves to two guiding principles: act now to protect and run the business today, and plan now to retool the business for the... View Details