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- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Aaron…
sustaining a Human Resources function that brings value to the business. One of these values will come through better management and analysis of data that connect the human... View Details
- Article
Isolating the Symbolic Implications of Employee Mobility: Price Increases after Hiring Winemakers from Prominent Wineries
By: Peter W. Roberts, Mukti Khaire and Christopher I. Rider
When a skilled employee moves from one organization to another, the effects on the hiring organization can be substantive (i.e., changes in actual outcomes) and symbolic (i.e., changes in expectations or valuations and therefore prices). We theorize that strong or even... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Organizations; Performance Expectations; Price; Competency and Skills; Quality; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Selection and Staffing; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry
Roberts, Peter W., Mukti Khaire, and Christopher I. Rider. "Isolating the Symbolic Implications of Employee Mobility: Price Increases after Hiring Winemakers from Prominent Wineries." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 101, no. 3 (May 2011): 147–151.
- August 2008
- Case
Sloan & Harrison: The Associate Challenge
By: Boris Groysberg and Eliot Sherman
The law firm, Sloan & Harrison, was confronting issues pertaining to morale and turnover among its associate ranks. Annual surveys of associates revealed increasing dissatisfaction, particularly with respect to partner communication, work-life balance, and mentorship.... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Employees; Human Resources; Leadership Development; Management Style; Performance; Work-Life Balance; Conflict Management; Legal Services Industry
Groysberg, Boris, and Eliot Sherman. "Sloan & Harrison: The Associate Challenge." Harvard Business School Case 409-032, August 2008.
- 2004
- Article
Executive Compensation In Entrepreneurial Teams: The Founder Gap, Board Membership, & Pay For Milestones
By: Noam Wasserman
Wasserman, Noam. "Executive Compensation In Entrepreneurial Teams: The Founder Gap, Board Membership, & Pay For Milestones." Academy of Management Conference Proceedings (2004).
- Web
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2025 | Working Knowledge
short stories, perfect to unwind. Willy Shih: Looking to the ocean and the skies One of the books I am reading this summer is Ocean Ecology: Marine Life in the Age of Humans by J. Emmett Duffy. I bought it a few months ago, and I am... View Details
- December 2009 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
Lyondell Chemical Company
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah Abbott
Hit with an industry recession and the global financial crisis of 2008, in January 2009 LyondellBasell Industries AF S.C.A., one of the world's largest internationally diversified chemical companies headquartered in The Netherlands, placed its U.S. operations and a... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; International Finance; Crisis Management; Chemical Industry; Netherlands; United States
Gilson, Stuart C., and Sarah Abbott. "Lyondell Chemical Company." Harvard Business School Case 210-001, December 2009. (Revised April 2022.)
- 04 Feb 2021
- News
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
- 08 Apr 2016
- News
How to Hire a Millennial
- 08 Jan 2021
- News
Good Leadership Is About Asking Good Questions
- Fast Answer
Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry
private companies; information on investment firms and capital transactions; For a multimedia learning module on Capital IQ check out our View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
speculation—and then, hopefully, sell it? “One of the top questions screenwriters talk about in their online communities is whether to pitch or to spec,” says Luo. In her paper published by Management Science, When to Sell Your Idea:... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”
technologies,” he says, “but maybe, too often, we overlook human behavior.” Upon graduation, Bracaglia’s internship at Google segued into a full-time position working within YouTube. “Google is the world’s largest machine learning... View Details
- 2011
- Working Paper
What Do CEOs Do?
By: Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun
We develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs' time use. The idea-sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up-is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm's priorities as well as the presence of governance... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Employee Relationship Management; Managerial Roles; Time Management; Performance Productivity; Italy
Bandiera, Oriana, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun. "What Do CEOs Do?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-081, February 2011. (Media: The Economist, May 5th 2011.)
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
Through its use of Harvard’s innovative Green Campus Loan Fund, HBS has cut energy expenditures and provided a model for conservation-minded schools around the University to follow. The loan fund provides capital for projects that reduce... View Details
- 2013
- Chapter
Who Chooses Board Members?
By: Ali Akyol and Lauren Cohen
We exploit a recent regulation passed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to explore the nomination of board members to US publicly traded firms. In particular, we focus on firms’ use of executive search firms versus allowing internal members (often... View Details
Keywords: Boards; Boards Of Directors; Executive Search Firms; Governance; SEC Regulation; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Succession; Executive Compensation
Akyol, Ali, and Lauren Cohen. "Who Chooses Board Members?" In Advances in Financial Economics, Vol. 16, edited by Kose John, Anil K. Makhija, and Stephen P. Ferris, 43–77. Emerald Group Publishing, 2013.
- April 2000
- Case
Professionals' Quandaries
By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong and Scot H. Landry
Presents five situations in which professionals face ethical dilemmas. View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Personal Development and Career; Human Resources; Management Practices and Processes; Situation or Environment
Nanda, Ashish, Thomas J. DeLong, and Scot H. Landry. "Professionals' Quandaries." Harvard Business School Case 800-371, April 2000.
- 21 Jan 2021
- News
7 Strategies to Build a More Resilient Team
- 01 Jun 2021
- What Do You Think?
Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?
talent that we know is on the way. A personal experience, however anecdotal it is, may provide food for thought. Last month, a female acquaintance with a long work record, a positive attitude, a high level of motivation, and familiarity with View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship
priorities." The task of organizing the chair's endowment was a first-time collaboration for Corbett, managing partner for Internet Partners at Zephyr Management, a private equity venture capital firm;... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry