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- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51553 September 2016 Harvard Business Review The Scandal Effect By: Groysberg, Boris, Eric Lin, George Serafeim, and Robin Abrahams Abstract—Executives with scandal-tainted companies on their résumés View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
brilliant book, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, about successful executives hitting points of friction as they grow, requiring changes in their behavior in order to continue to succeed. I often coach my entrepreneurs to assess... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
facials a year. Those services provide the company with a paying focus group from which it can gather feedback on its products. "Our customers are paying us $200 [a facial]; you better believe they give... View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
time-driven ABC projects pay back in less than a year. It's quite impressive to take companies with millions of transactions and customers, and be able to prepare detailed and accurate profit and loss statements, at various levels of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
It is a classic leadership challenge of the early twenty-first century: How do you steer your business and motivate your people to pursue breakthrough growth while giving proper attention to executing the here and now with the utmost care... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
As is clear to anyone who pays medical insurance premiums or has undergone any kind of medical procedure, the business of health care is an expensive one. The technology is expensive. The research is expensive. The services are expensive.... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
are saying, how do we get it right first? Before we're paying for $60 million in advertising, let's make sure we can deliver the product," he said. Stevenson (HBS MBA '65, DBA '69), who holds the School's Sarofim-Rock Chair in... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
first-time CEO, or other member of the C-suite. I’ve seen investors coach leaders on everything from how to lead their teams and handle challenging employees to how to run a great board meeting. I’ve also seen investors support and sometimes even View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
rather than what they want? Is it reasonable for employers to be allowed a tax benefit for paying for health insurance benefits, but not their employees, when the insurance is primarily funded through reductions in employee income? Must... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
top executives "to get rich no matter what happens to the shareholders." Options should be indexed options. These options pay for performance, not for volatility in the markets. Pervasive conflicts... View Details
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
"expatriate" from the United States and reincorporate in tax havens in the Caribbean several years ago to avoid the U.S. tax system, their chief executives were labeled "Benedict Arnold CEOs." As such, this topic has... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
taking risks." Click to watch. Eleven years later, that bet is more than paying off. As chief strategy and knowledge officer, Fenton is part of an executive team that has seen NLNS expand from training 13... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
Get What You Pay Them Case: Lincoln Electric Company Written: 1975 Copies Sold: 284,826 With a tradition of innovation and technological leadership, the Lincoln Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was the world's largest manufacturer of... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
deforestation campaign in order to make its supply chain more socially and environmentally responsible. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=907414 Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd.: An IPO in India Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
work to do, the best tools, and a feeling that they'll be successful. Help them learn, and they will want to work in your company. Secondly, membership. Make people feel like members of the community, not cogs in the wheel. Respect their individuality, View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
Citing corporate scandals of the past ten years, Andrew MacLennan said that " in the last 10 years there has been a growing recognition of the need to balance great ideas with concern for execution " Debra Farquharson commented... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
run-ups on venture-capital foundings between 1984 and 2011. The results pinpoint the aspects of the social environment that most heavily influence entrepreneurial activity and the dynamics of organizational sectors. How Should We Pay for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Moreover, we discuss, through a series of case studies, what constitutes an effective integrated report (Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company) and the role of regulation in integrated reporting (Anglo-American). Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
collaborations. Another characteristic shared by this group of businesses was that they were all multinational corporations, a fact that helps us to understand many of their decisions. Sample cases show that subsidiaries' top executives... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=gray%20rand%20et%20al.pdf August 2013 PLoS ONE Give What You Get: Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) and 4-year-old Children Pay Forward Positive and Negative Outcomes to Conspecifics By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne