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- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
degrees today) to safe, secure, stimulating indoor jobs that provided the infrastructure for society that was necessary for the Modern Era to come about. For so short a book on medieval history, it pays close attention to the... View Details
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Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
that would allow others to do the same. “A richer understanding of photography,” Adams wrote, “will result in the employee developing an awareness of the significance of his job as a participant in the photographic industry—in addition to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
great career to be an entrepreneur. It's something you do out of necessity if you haven't gotten a job in the other sectors. And that needs to change as a way to continue attracting the best talent, the best entrepreneurs that want to do... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
more comfortable and capable of experimenting at scale and increased its adaptive capacity. That would make me very happy, because who knows what the future will bring. On January 1, you begin a one-year sabbatical. What are your plans after that? Before I became dean,... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
they're getting great results because of leadership. I think it's time for Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg to step up to leadership. Industries do not do a good job of self-regulation, so we have regulatory bodies. We don’t let pharma... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The entrepreneur's business proposition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14
so it could charge transaction fees, but they were reluctant to enter what they considered a regulatory minefield. The recently passed JOBS Act was expected to relax constraints around crowdfunding, and Nivi and Ravikant knew that would... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
guidance for leaders considering these questions and can help them estimate their optimal span of control. The issues explored are ones many senior executives-not just CEOs-should revisit throughout their careers. The best leaders stay mindful of the evolving demands... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
people from Netflix, Google, Amazon, Snapchat, Starbucks, Nike, and Microsoft. There’s a lot of product management oomph there,” she says. And many of them, like Lee, who worked at Sony and Microsoft, left more traditional tech jobs for... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
for the world to tell you what job you're best suited for? What if you had the answers before you started your career? That's the premise of the career-matching firm pymetrics. Series of neuroscience-based games, users can determine their... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
interact in large, contemporary organizations is not well understood. We argue that organizational structures and geography delimit opportunities for interaction such that actors have a greater level of discretion to choose their interaction partners within business... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
against the competition of ostensibly cheap and low-quality “killer tomato paste,” Mehta considered a job offer from a major agricultural company that would secure her financially, but at the cost of her independence and, perhaps, of her... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
or specific job history. Like Shackleton, today’s leaders need team members and other stakeholders who can acknowledge turbulence, embrace its opportunities, and meet its challenges with confidence and effect. Abraham Lincoln When Doing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
choices to more deliberate ownership of how I'm spending my time, or as poet Mary Oliver asked, what am I doing with my "one wild and precious life?" Carliss Baldwin When I was younger, I simply wanted to have a job and support myself. I... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
Harvard Business School Case 909-010 Pat Fili-Krushel has agreed to take on the job of first executive vice president of administration for AOL Time Warner, leading corporate human resources, internal communications, real estate and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
by the head office of a U.S. retail chain) or decentralized hiring (in this study, by the store managers), leads to lower employee turnover. On one hand, a centralized model of hiring can allow a company to ensure enough resources and efforts are invested into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5
Happold developed its first formal internal training programs under the name of "Archimedes Academy." The first two programs were (1) the Job Leader Program, targeted for senior engineers and designed to help them be more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
society. That's built into the mission of HBS. It's not something you do as an afterthought. And it's not something you do after you retire. It's part of the job description. Third, it's not clear that the current system has produced the... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
I love to see if there's something that I care about—a company I've written a case on or an issue that I've covered—and I love to compare the articles and see what they share and what's different. I also really like IR magazine, which is a trade publication but does a... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
allocation. Bower: One consequence of this research is that we have begun to get a picture of just how complex a job it is to manage a large corporation. And in this way, in a sense, we have gained a much better sense of how the corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace