Professor Bill George - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)? CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?' Boris Groysberg is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

27 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

Restructuring Work for Your Company (16,149) A bungled corporate restructuring can turn a good idea into disaster. In a book excerpt, Stuart Gilson outlines the keys for a successful corporate makeover. Why Leaders Lose Their Way (12,085) View Details

11 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Fixing Price Tag Confusion

rental charge and a charge for the remote. Do partitioned prices help the consumer make an informed decision or just add to his or her confusion? Do partitioned prices increase demand? Is an online grocer better off presenting a customer with a View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

2015
Book

The Discover Your True North Fieldbook: A Personal Guide to Finding Your Authentic Leadership

By: Nick Craig, Bill George and Scott Snook

Keywords: Leadership

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December 10, 2024
Article

Is Your Company’s Problem Complicated? Or Complex?

By: Nitin Nohria, Bill George and Kayti Stanley

Complicated problems, which can be solved with systematic approaches, are different from complex problems, which require adaptive strategies and continuous learning. Many leaders conflate the two types, have more experience with complicated problems, and therefore may... View Details

Keywords: Complexity; Adaptation; Leadership; Problems and Challenges

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28 Oct 2024
Op-Ed

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

a doctoral student in economics at University of California, Berkeley; Vincent Pons, is the Byron Wein Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; and Jesse M. Shapiro is the George Gund... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro

09 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

engaged in education in ways that are generous, well-intended, effective at alleviating the symptoms of a weak education system, and thoroughly inadequate to help strengthen the system," says Harvard Business School Professor Jan W.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

23 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

Pons discusses what it means for US business leaders in confronting environmental challenges. 4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World In the face of today’s many messy problems, businesses must strive to help find solutions, argues View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

Administration at HBS, and HBS Associate Professor Amy Cuddy. Billed as “Talking the Walk: Possibilities for Change Through Dialogue, Expression, and Narrative,” the symposium focused on communication, as... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

economy, but it uses IT the least." —David Cutler "We're not really in the post-reform era yet," said HBS professor Robert Huckman, faculty co-chair of the HBS Health Care Initiative. He introduced the three panelists:... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

26 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time

A novel approach to repaying debt could help consumers free themselves from crushing credit card balances faster, according to new research. Rather than asking borrowers to make payments toward their total balances, Harvard Business School View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

04 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 4

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-019.pdf Market Interest in Nonfinancial Information Authors:Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus, and George Serafeim An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

forth their theses on how marketing thinking needs to evolve to keep pace with the market reality. This book is dedicated to Professor Jagdish N. Sheth and honours his sustained contribution as a management thinker, scholar, academician,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs

put this information in front of them on a quarterly basis as an integral part of the corporate governance system, it will help CEOs understand how closely they are tied to the firm and its stockholders." Finally, in a recent study with HBS View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

said Harvard Business School Associate Professor of Business Administration Karim R. Lakhani. "The 2016 Faculty Research Symposium also looked ahead to major collaborations between Harvard’s school of business and the school of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

11 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Non-competes Push Talent Away

for instance, a judge in California is not obligated to enforce the contract because it conflicts with California state law. "There's a saying out in California: You never stop hiring someone," says Marx (MBA '05, DBA '09), now an entrepreneurship View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

field of innovation and entrepreneurship," he added. "So those are the five priorities that have emerged," Nohria concluded, and as the School pursues them "we must be guided by what my colleague Bill View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

game is supposed to be quality up and cost down. And this is one where that has not happened. And it's been very slow with the quality movement." Professor Regina Herzlinger, who has studied the health care system for three decades,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

22 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'

credit market dynamics—and investor behavior. HBS Working Knowledge spoke with Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School, about the role markets may play in... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Banking

07 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

Tax strategies used by top executives on their own taxes can also show up in the companies they run. Source: Melpomenem New research shows that top executives who prefer to reduce personal taxes appear to also influence the strategies of their companies, resulting in... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

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