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- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
for the multi-stakeholder approach. In 2011, he told shareholders, “My job is not to serve shareholders, but to serve Unilever’s customers and consumers.” He then suspended quarterly earnings reporting, enabling executives to concentrate... View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
difficult times. Authentic leaders are constantly growing. They do not have a rigid view of themselves and their leadership. Becoming authentic is a developmental state that enables leaders to progress through multiple roles, as they learn and grow from their... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
companies would see positive performance results by emphasizing employee individuality from day one, testing their hypothesis through a series of field and lab experiments. For starters, they conducted a field study at Wipro, a major... View Details
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
producers, and writers whose jobs are affected by COVID—making Netflix the likely preferred destination for future work by creatives. Walmart is paying suppliers more quickly. Costco, Whole Foods, and Dollar General introduced shopping... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
accelerate growth. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509049 The Jenner Situation Harvard Business School Case 809-070 Dr. Bill Lemont is the new chief medical officer of a large academic medical center. During his first week... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
actions on performance. However, standard regression models estimate only the average effects of these actions across firms. Our paper discusses how random coefficient models (RCMs) may generate new insights about firm heterogeneity and its effects on View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
policy for company debt. The board's job is to see that these policy statements are carefully designed, are internally consistent, and help to achieve the goals of the company and its shareholders. Reviewing The View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
you want an engineer, accountant, finance person, or programmer, you can find people who majored in those subjects, but few schools have sales programs or even a sales course. Also, research consistently shows that managers overestimate their ability to predict View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 25 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout
sign up for the job to stare at a screen. They are doing this to provide care for people,” says one of the study’s co-authors, Joel Goh, a visiting scholar in the Technology & Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. “It... View Details
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Negotiating - Alumni
than money! Evaluate all aspects of an offer and prioritize those that are most important to you. These include: Organizational culture and values Paid vacation time Maternity/paternity leave Growth opportunities Career progression flexibility Frequency of View Details
- 08 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder
francescoch Learning that a co-worker earns more than you can decrease your job performance while increasing the likelihood of you searching for a new job, according to a new research study. On the other... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 22 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance
Employers looking to fill critical job vacancies may want to turn to a largely untapped pool of willing workers: people with criminal records. Employers are often wary of hiring workers with past convictions, leading to double-digit... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
it's supposed to." Bower continues: "Theoretically, when an industry has excess capacity, prices fall and the least efficient producers can't survive." But, Bower adds, that doesn't always happen. "In many countries, for all sorts of economic and political reasons -... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
business and civic leaders helped the city clean up its act, but by the early 1980s, most of the smokestacks had shut down anyway, as manufacturing jobs moved out of the area. People left in droves. Visitors today see a different... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
brothers returned to the United States, she argued, they somehow would find a way to make it work. Money, by necessity, became an obsession. Throughout his first year at HBS, Sityodtong sent $10 each week to his mother in Thailand, money earned by odd View Details
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Eligibility | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
eligible for this program. You may be eligible for assistance if: You are an HBS graduate within ten years of graduation who demonstrates financial need and who has received need-based financial aid during your enrollment. (See "Loans" below.) You have accepted a View Details
- 01 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself
about how to do “engineering” projects, about my ability to work with others to get things done, and about what it felt like to make good money and to be in an position to support myself. I performed well that summer and got a return... View Details
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
job has been the most difficult of all." These questions are perhaps made more significant by the fact that the leadership of both Harvard Business School and the Yale School of Management will change soon. Why are questions... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
both could be very direct as well. Hesselbein, according to one account, once lectured a class of retiring CEOs that included Alan Mulally, who was out of a job at Boeing prior to becoming CEO of Ford, to stop “whining” about what they... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett