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- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability includes personal development exercises. Students discuss examples from their own past when they failed to rise to a moral challenge, as well as examples when someone led them to be... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Investment Consulting Cloaked Trading By: Cohen, Lauren, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—Using a novel, proprietary database of micro-level trading activities by asset managers, we show strong evidence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
quickly move to Europe?" or "Who is this key person in Europe we can transfer to Japan to drive this initiative?" So they've got to be the pollinators, the cross-fertilizers, very much in touch with their expertise and with... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
personal caregiving obligations is an approach employers almost entirely overlook as a mechanism for maximizing employee productivity and minimizing turnover,” the authors write in the study, which was released Wednesday. With almost... View Details
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
In many developing countries it's common for a person to have a mobile phone but not a bank account. In fact, more than 1 billion people fit this description, and the number is only likely to increase. To that end, many companies are... View Details
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
of their teams ” David Wittenberg would have YouTube look to its users for a solution to the dilemma. As he put it, ‘My preferred solution errs on the side of personal liberty and adds the element of information. I'd institute a rating... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
substantial amount of investment or even management attention. Asymmetric motivation shields companies from competitive response, because their potential challengers are just not interested in fighting. Even if they fight, their hearts... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
is on Commercial space ventures have received more than $18.4 billion of investment since 2000, according to the Start-Up Space 2018 report from research firm Bryce Space and Technology. Weinzierl says recent progress by two of the most... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
or what their personal incentives might be for listing it. (Oftentimes by the time scripts are listed, they’ve already been sold to studios, who might want to list their own scripts in order to attract top actors and directors.) “If you... View Details
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
Mythical Person Month” OR “Nine women can’t make a baby in one month” just sayin’.) There are also many blog posts explaining why full stack engineers are unicorns. Yet, when I did my latest poll on Twitter on top hiring priorities this... View Details
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
as foundational skills, critical business functions, strategy formulation and implementation, and personal leadership. For the organization, according to Sasser and Narayandas, talent is key to competitive advantage. And for the talented... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
spurred concerns about its potential impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where private equity funds have View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
information on where each person went to school from LinkedIn. Birds of a feather invest together The information showed that the venture capital world is incredibly homogenous, consisting mostly of white... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
hiring (in this study, by the head office of a U.S. retail chain) or decentralized hiring (by store managers) leads to higher quality employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout
one study, more than half of all doctors in the US report feeling at least one symptom of burnout: emotional exhaustion, a feeling of detachment, or a diminished sense of personal accomplishment—twice the rate of the general working... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
Business. At its core, the new system compares a fund manager's investments with those of other successful fund managers, making past performance less important in the rating scheme. In short, funds are rated by the company they keep.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Shibusawa lived almost twice as long as Hamilton, and after working in the public sector he was able to contribute substantially to the private sector, too. He was involved with the launch of nearly 500 companies over his lifetime. The industries in which he View Details
- 11 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Perfecting the Project Pitch
Everyone has a good idea for the next hot start-up or the next great invention. Everyone. Just turn to the person next to you on the subway and ask her; she'll almost certainly detail a can't-miss opportunity. Developing the idea often is... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
reduced the temptation governments face to intervene in the operation of large strategic enterprises. In the Leviathan as a minority shareholder mode, governments have small equity ownership in corporations and in general do not intervene in management. We find... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Nov 2019
- What Do You Think?
Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?
use should be further restricted or they should be redesigned. But just how to redesign them poses a further question. In a nutshell, that’s one reading of reader responses to this month’s column. Russell Beck commented that “based on both View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett