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  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Conducting Business

In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
Keywords: Michael Farmer (MBA 1971); illustration by Lucinda Rogers; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • Web

Grupo Argos S.A.

Empowering Executives to Lead Collaboratively div class="shim15"/> "It became clear that we couldn't rely solely on capital or acquisition to be successful. We needed to invest in human View Details
  • October 2014
  • Teaching Note

MuMaté

By: Thomas Eisenmann
This teaching note is designed for use with "MuMaté: Funding Growth," "MuMaté (B-1): Confidential for Maxwell," "MuMaté (B-2): Confidential for Cantor," HBS Nos. 814-063, 813-149, 813-150, to help faculty deepen student comprehension of business issues and energize... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Growth Management; Negotiation; Expansion; Valuation; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Business Startups; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 01 May 2020
  • In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) How to Make Furloughs... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

what it takes to build intellectual and human capital and prepared me for the processes we are now engaged in with our own faculty. What are some of the cultural differences between doing business in the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 06 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best

European sales managers whether the results would translate to their area or industry. "My answer is basically yes. The study was conducted in India because that was the specific stage we chose, and it happened to be a firm that wanted to... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

management of the pace of technological substitution by providing insights on complementarities between technologies and horizontally differentiated human capital Download... View Details
  • August 1996
  • Case

ThermoLase

By: William A. Sahlman and Andrew S. Janower
John Hansen, CEO of ThermoLase, must develop a plan of action to exploit the company's new development-stage revolutionary hair removal technology with negligible revenues and a $500 million market capitalization. This nascent public Thermo Electron spin out company... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Plan; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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  • April 2025
  • Technical Note

Skills-First Talent Management: Engagement and Retention

By: Boris Groysberg, Nicole Zelazko, Robin Abrahams and Katherine Connolly Baden
The third in a series, this note describes the significance of employee engagement and retention, explores the relationship between these two pillars and skills-first talent management, and covers the major drivers of engagement and retention. The other two notes are:... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; United States
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  • October 1993 (Revised December 1998)
  • Supplement

Erik Peterson (D)

By: John J. Gabarro
Implicitly raises the question of what Peterson should do to extricate himself from his difficulties. Should he consider resignation, go directly to the company's president to seek relief, or clarify the situation within the company? A redisguised version of an earlier... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Resignation and Termination; Leadership
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  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Core Values Keep Airline Flying High

Amidst Change: A Conversation with Southwest Airlines' Top Management Team," a new working paper written by HBS assistant professor Jody Hoffer Gittell, MIT professor R. John Hansman, and MIT doctoral student Anne E. Dunning. The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • November 2020
  • Case

Truebird—An AlleyCorp Venture

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
In December 2018, Kevin Ryan and Wendy Tsu faced an important decision – to finalize the CEO candidate for Truebird, an innovative, automated coffee café concept. Like many of AlleyCorp and Ryan’s companies, Truebird started with the observation of an unmet need – an... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Hiring; Staffing; Recruiting; Business Startups; Finance; Leadership; Management Skills; Management Teams; Jobs and Positions; Job Interviews; Human Resources; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Technology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • 24 Feb 2014
  • News

The "40-Year-Old Intern" Goes to Wall Street

Keywords: on ramping; back to work; women's issues
  • Fast Answer

Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change

38,000 active international organizations from 300 countries and territories - including intergovernmental (IGOs) and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). Capital IQ - profiles of public and private... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2019
  • News

The 19 Musts of 2019

(MBA 1986), founder of Second Opinion Wealth Management and author of five novels, including The Pell Heist (2018) and Windfall (forthcoming) MUST READ Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (And How to Fix It) by Tomas... View Details
Keywords: podcast; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Shareholders' Value?

today's shareholders aren't quite up to making shareholder capitalism work. —Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at HBS. Justin Fox is editorial director of the HBR Group. The... View Details
  • 15 Apr 2011
  • News

Students Hear Wall St. Critics

did not enroll, appeared on Wednesday at the invitation of HBS students as part of the Leadership and Values Initiative. With HBS lecturer Nicolas Retsinas, an old friend, moderating the discussion, Angelides declared that the crisis was foreseeable, avoidable, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Opening the Door

technologies on the health-care industry. A highly rated teacher, she is also an acclaimed public speaker, board member, and policy adviser whose expertise on health-care management has influenced private- and public-sector... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management; Management; Management; Management; Management
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • News

The Year in Ideas 2015

medical innovations. Jessica Beck and Marcela Sapone (both MBA 2015) launched the automated “personal butler” service Hello Alfred in a crowded on-demand marketplace. The service corrals other on-demand services, offering customers both a single, simple portal and an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White
  • 16 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

have developed a perspective on strategies for the near-term and long-term. But first, before anything else, it’s important to stop the bleeding; that is, deal with crises and pain points. Whether the problems involve financial distress or View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne