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- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
divest Fiat's core automobile business; when that was rejected by creditors and shareholders, he resigned in 2003. Consider, too, John Trani, who in 1997 left a long career at GE Plastics for toolmaker and hardware manufacturer Stanley... View Details
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
was seized by the urge to pitch it out the window. Good ideas take on a life on their own, she said, and inspiration is a natural process that can't really be stoked. The best careers are those that kind of weave and bend.— Lynda... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
difficulty in obtaining further positive results for the class of solvable one-sided assignment problems in line with Sasaki's (1995) characterizations of the core for two-sided assignment problems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-146.pdf CEO and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- January 2021
- Case
The FIRE Savings Calculator
By: Michael Parzen and Paul Hamilton
This case follows Carol Muñoz, a member of the Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) lifestyle movement. At the age of 45, Carol is considering retiring and living off the $1 million she has accumulated. Using Monte Carlo simulation, Carol forecasts the... View Details
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
Michael Morris and Paul Ingram at Columbia Business School, we surveyed Executive MBA students in Beijing, Shanghai, and New York, asking them detailed questions about their professional networks. These executives first identified individuals they considered to be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Stereotypes and Belief Updating
- July 2002 (Revised December 2002)
- Case
Mercer Management Consulting (A)
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Michael Echenberg
Insurance giant Marsh & McLennan acquires management consulting firms Temple, Barker & Sloane (TBS) in 1987 and Strategic Planning Associates (SPA) in 1990 and sets out to merge the two. The merger proceeds slowly and painfully. Following the February 1990 merger,... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Horizontal Integration; Consulting Industry
DeLong, Thomas J., and Michael Echenberg. "Mercer Management Consulting (A)." Harvard Business School Case 403-009, July 2002. (Revised December 2002.)
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
with the agency. Despite that admiration, the case ends at a provocative decision point: Bezos and Blue Origin must decide whether to follow the productive NASA partnership into a third, more complicated phase of CCDev, or strike out on... View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
processes to provide managers throughout P&G with direct access to up-to-date data and advanced analytics. In addition, GBS has embedded analysts within the business units to work alongside leaders and managers in driving real-time information-based View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
In a Harvard Business School classroom, students in the Dynamic Markets class may have one minute to make a decision in a pressure cooker one called "the most stress I've experienced in ten years." It's margin call time in a... View Details
- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
signature insight which established his reputation permanently. To be brief: John Lintner—the capital asset pricing model. Howard Raiffa—Bayesian decision theory. Georges Doriot—venture capital. Theodore Levitt—marketing myopia. C. Roland... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
change in the information set for employees when the incentives and decision rights remain unchanged. Also examines the tradeoffs front-line employees face as they divide their efforts between reaching new customers and increasing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
industry are human talent and alignment. The work of professional service firms depends exclusively on the talent and intelligence of the people delivering it. Good firms hire the absolute best people and develop them, motivate them, and build View Details
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
market opportunity or of a critical personal relationship," Wasserman says. In this section of the course, students study cases that deal with both early- and late-career founders. First they consider the case of HBS student Humphrey Chen (MBA '96), who struggles... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
has perhaps skewed its enrollment more toward international, minority, and women students, who perceive opportunities to start new businesses in underserved communities earlier in their careers than ever before. Her course has evolved... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
technique. While Dulji Sum opined that "we are not anywhere close to using brain scans for hiring," he suggested that "this could be quite an interesting tool for career guidance." Debra Feldman elaborated on this... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
board accountability through greater transparency in decision making, more representative vote allocation, or better parliamentary scrutiny. In other words, although civil society efforts have led to some gains in accountability with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
be avoided by using a more deliberative, analytical decision-making process. In this paper, we describe joint evaluation as an effective tool to help decision makers manage their emotional assessments of morality. Bounded Ethicality in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2022 (Revised October 2022)
- Case
John F. Kennedy: Changing the World
By: Robert Simons and Max Saffer
This case traces the rise of John F. Kennedy from a wealthy family in Boston to president of the United States. The case describes how Kennedy, as a young man, lived a privileged life in the shadow of his older brother, Joe. When Joe was killed in World War II, Jack... View Details
Keywords: Politics; Business And Government; Legacy; Leadership Development; Personal Characteristics; Business and Government Relations; Success; Power and Influence; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; United States
Simons, Robert, and Max Saffer. "John F. Kennedy: Changing the World." Harvard Business School Case 122-088, March 2022. (Revised October 2022.)
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
25-year business career that included 10 years in fashion retailing; 12 years in mutual fund and brokerage financial services; serving as a director on nonprofit and corporate boards; and chairing the Better Business Bureau here in... View Details