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- 04 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
environment more seriously yet rely on it less than male stars do. They look for a firm that will allow them to keep building their successful franchises their own way." Groysberg brings us up to date on his study of the career trajectories of View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
economist herself, delve into the phenomenon in their paper Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies, forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. “Inside tech firms there’s a huge competition for talent right now,” Athey... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
example, how will a would-be entrepreneur know about the prices of various cash crops that might replace otherwise tried-and-true opium production? How can would-be investors, even in a small-scale enterprise, locate suitable talent for... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
orderly introduction of new talent into an organization, perhaps by periodically identifying and letting the lowest performers go, was applauded. One of the comments reflects this view: "What is really important is that companies... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
Brand New also developed the ability to identify ability in others: organizational and strategic talent, as well as commercial imagination. Lauder, Schultz, and Dell—like the three entrepreneurs in the past—shared a willingness to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
The tech industry has thrived by capturing our best students—regardless of origin—and giving them exciting jobs, which helps make America one of the most innovative countries in the world. Restricting the free movement of talent does not... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Jun 2019
- Book
These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway
R. Kerr’s book explores why global talent flows matter to national economic development and security Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- April 2000 (Revised October 2002)
- Background Note
Career Strategies and Tactics in Professional Service Firms
By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong and Scot H. Landry
Presents suggestions for ensuring a good start in a professional services career. View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Performance Expectations; Performance Effectiveness; Customization and Personalization; Practice; Valuation; Performance Evaluation; Business Startups; Competency and Skills; Learning; Talent and Talent Management; Management Skills; Consulting Industry
Nanda, Ashish, Thomas J. DeLong, and Scot H. Landry. "Career Strategies and Tactics in Professional Service Firms." Harvard Business School Background Note 800-375, April 2000. (Revised October 2002.)
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
generation ago. If you are a global entrepreneur, says Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr, "you have to think much earlier and much faster." The new MBA second-year course Launching Global Ventures (LGV), View Details
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
young talent. For starters, companies would be smart to revisit how they structure work, especially when it comes to jobs in areas where competition for talent is especially fierce, such as coding, analytics, and life sciences. Survey... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
apply their talents to the work at hand. This independence frees the leader to expand on his or her talents and thereby become an object to allow subordinates to identify with and to cultivate and apply... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is often lauded for bringing economic growth and know-how to developing countries. The conventional wisdom is not necessarily wrong, but the real story is much more nuanced than is commonly believed, says... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur
for him, Levine said, was that the company's CEO backed the project, and allowed the group to operate outside the usual corporate boundaries. Levine was even able to move the start-up off campus. Once the group had developed its product,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
up on current and past podcast episodes of The Disruptive Voice. I have been a regular listener of the series ever since meeting and working with this talented team. Hearing the voice of the late great Clay Christensen at the start of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
including Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture (1998). A'lelia Bundles, director of talent development for ABC News, and author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madame C. J.... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
During the last 15 years, entrepreneurship has developed from a marginal, struggling field of inquiry to a dynamic centerpiece of many business schools. As the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
initiatives more closely to specific objectives: preventing misconduct, detecting it, or aligning policies with laws and regulations. Then, using careful model design and some creativity, firms can develop better metrics to measure what’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
executives need to figure out how the product, labor, and capital markets work—and don't work—in their target countries. This will help them understand the differences between home markets and those in developing countries. In addition,... View Details
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
on the intensity of the work and did not want it to be different. Even those who wanted more time for their personal lives presumed they had no alternative but to leave the firm to achieve it, and many did, including some of BCG's most View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
their companies. If ever there was a time for leaders to be authentic, this is it. They need to be humble, open, and realistic about the health care and logistical challenges they are facing while using the best scientific and technical View Details