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  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

in the future? By examining hundreds of job profiles developed by executive-search firm Heidrick & Struggles and interviewing numerous senior managers, the authors have identified some clear trends. One strikingly consistent finding is that today, technical and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer

By: Anette Mikes
This paper tracks the evolution of the role of two chief risk officers (CROs), and the tools and processes they have implemented in their respective organizations. While the companies are from very different industries (one is a power company, the other is a toy... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Managerial Roles
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  • 2022
  • Article

Pills in a World of Activism and ESG

By: Guhan Subramanian and Caley Petrucci
Easterbrook and Fischel’s The Economic Structure of Corporate Law advances their now famous passivity thesis, which posits that managers should remain passive in the face of an unsolicited tender offer for the company’s shares. Consistent with the broader... View Details
Keywords: Investment Activism; Governance Controls; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

explore the effect of adding a functional alibi in a variety of marketing contexts, and we examine various consumer populations representing diverse demographics. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51829 Fall... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2018
  • Blog Post

Reading Between the Lines: How to Spot the Skills You Need Among the Resumes You Get

surface the underlying skills. “Ideally,” says Kristen Fitzpatrick, Managing Director, HBS Career & Professional Development, “applicants would articulate their accomplishments by broader functional... View Details
Keywords: All Industries

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • September 2002 (Revised October 2002)
    • Case

    Oklahoma VISION Project

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Susan Saltrick
    Describes the two-year-old pilot phase of a public/private initiative in Oklahoma called the Virtual Internet School in Oklahoma Network (VISION) project. VISION was a first-of-its-kind, standards-based, vendor-neutral technology infrastructure developed to enable... View Details
    Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Internet and the Web; Performance Evaluation; Technological Innovation; Partners and Partnerships; Service Delivery; Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Education; Information Technology Industry; Education Industry; Oklahoma; Western United States
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    • 29 Jul 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

    onto the exec team.” "When there's more scarcity and higher demand, that puts a premium on the type of person and on your willingness to pay." That push for gender diversity in senior management could spell an opportunity for women to... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases

    By: Richard L. Nolan

    This working paper reports on a major Harvard Business School project designed to enhance MBA and practicing executives in case learning. The work is built on the foundation of HBS field cases employing the monomyth "hero's journey" classic story structure along... View Details

    Keywords: Innovation; CIO; CEO; Hero's Journey; Monomyth; Management; Practice; Cases; Theory; Innovation and Invention
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    • 11 Mar 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Return Migration and Geography of Innovation in MNEs: A Natural Experiment of On-the-Job Learning of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants

    Keywords: by Prithwiraj Choudhury; Technology
    • October 2022
    • Case

    Sustainable Finance at Itau BBA

    By: George Serafeim, Maria Loumioti and Benjamin Maletta
    As of August 2022, the Itau BBA had structured dozens of sustainability linked bonds, which made future interest payments a function of the borrower meeting a target for a sustainability metric, and had solidified its reputation as a pioneer of sustainable finance in... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainable Finance; Corporate Social Responsibility; Environmental Sustainability; Growth Strategy; Debt Contracting; Performance Metrics; Risk Assessment; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Financial Instruments; Risk Management; Debt Securities; Measurement and Metrics; Banking Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Latin America
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    • February 2009 (Revised April 2011)
    • Case

    Mistry Architects (A)

    By: Amy C. Edmondson, Robert G. Eccles and Mona Sinha
    Describes an architecture firm founded and run by a husband and wife team, Sharukh and Renu Mistry, that emphasizes "green" building. The firm presents an unusual mix of projects-spanning the spectrum from larger corporate projects to small private homes. The mix also... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Customer Focus and Relationships; Design; Housing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Nonprofit Organizations; Conflict and Resolution
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    • August 2008
    • Case

    Sloan & Harrison: Non-Equity Partner Discontent

    By: Boris Groysberg and Eliot Sherman
    The law firm, Sloan & Harrison, was dealing with some discontent among its junior non-equity partners. These partners were concerned with the transparency of the advancement process, their ability to position themselves as both leaders within the firm and rainmakers,... View Details
    Keywords: Employees; Human Resources; Leadership Development; Management Style; Performance; Work-Life Balance; Legal Services Industry
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    • July 1999 (Revised January 2000)
    • Case

    Yahoo!: Business on Internet Time

    By: Jan W. Rivkin and Jay R. Girotto
    In the wake of major competitive moves, CEO Tim Koogle and his senior team at Yahoo!, an Internet portal, must decide whether and how to adjust their strategy. Following deals between AOL and Netscape, Excite and @Home, Infoseek and Disney, and Snap and NBS, Yahoo!... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Industry Structures; Internet and the Web; Risk Management; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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    • 2008
    • Book

    Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant

    By: Michel Anteby
    Anyone who has been employed by an organization knows not every official workplace regulation must be followed. When management consistently overlooks such breaches, spaces emerge in which both workers and supervisors engage in officially prohibited, yet tolerated... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Moral Sensibility; Governance Controls; Production; Organizational Culture; Practice; France
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    • 10 May 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Flattened Firm—Not as Advertised

    Keywords: by Julie Wulf
    • Web

    Employment Data

    3% Entertainment / Media 3% Health Care 6% Investment Banking 5% Investment Management / Hedge Fund 6% Manufacturing 5% Nonprofit / Government 5% Other Financial Services 4% Private Equity 19% Retail 2% Services 3% Technology 16% Venture... View Details
    • 25 May 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: May 25

    stay with the old technology as a rational, proactive choice rather than as a mark of managerial and organizational failure. We then consider the distinctive challenges and organizational dynamics that arise in technology retreats and their implications for the ways in... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • December 16, 2019
    • Article

    Why Your Startup Won't Last

    By: Ranjay Gulati and Vasundhara Sawhney
    Why do some startups that have crossed the threshold of “product-market fit” and have a viable business model still fail? This article begins by exploring the argument that most startups need more professionalization to thrive. Founders resist putting in place... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Organizational Structure; Growth and Development Strategy
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    • June 2020
    • Case

    In-housing Digital Marketing at Sprint Corp.

    By: David E. Bell, Rajiv Lal and Olivia Hull
    In the fall of 2019, Sprint’s Chief Digital Officer Rob Roy reflected on the telecom’s efforts to improve the effectiveness of its digital marketing campaigns. Digital media buying had long been handled by an outside agency, but in 2017, Sprint brought those functions... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising; Digital Marketing; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Telecommunications Industry; Electronics Industry; Web Services Industry; United States
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