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- May 2004
- Article
The Risky Business of Hiring Stars
With the battle for the best and brightest people heating up again, you're most likely out there looking for first-rate talent in the ranks of your competitors. Chances are, you're sold on the idea of recruiting from outside your organization, since developing people...
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Keywords:
Staffing;
Employee Retention;
Selection and Staffing;
Employees;
Retention;
Competitive Advantage;
Human Resources;
Performance
Groysberg, Boris, Ashish Nanda, and Nitin Nohria. "The Risky Business of Hiring Stars." Harvard Business Review 82, no. 5 (May 2004): 92–100.
Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It
The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
Failure to get that pricing right inevitably leads to decline. You can see examples in businesses like ridesharing. The first player in the space was a company called Sidecar that never was able to figure out the right pricing to drive...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
as I tried to take notes. My sectionmates happened to be in the same row and had no problems distracting her and playing with her. Everyone else in the class, outside of my section, didn't mind her noises and found her amusing more than annoying. The person View Details
- 19 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Company Loyalty
their own professional goals and the company's goals. When people understand the larger business context in which the company is operating, they can more easily define ways to advance their own careers." Of course, frank and frequent dialogue about careers can...
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by Lauren Keller Johnson
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
rewarding and promoting people who can team, and actively work across the marketing/sales boundary leads to a cadre of more balanced managers. These same companies also often explicitly punish salespeople and marketing executives who...
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by Benson Shapiro
- June 2015 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
High Liner Foods, 2015
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2015, Canadian-based High Liner Foods Ltd was one of North America's largest frozen fish processors with extensive shares of both the food service and retail channels in Canada, the USA and Mexico. With over C$1 billion in revenues, the company had grown four fold...
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The Heart of Business—Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism
How to unleash “human magic" and achieve improbable results.
Having recently stepped down as Chairman and CEO of Best Buy, Joly shares the leadership principles – illustrated by multiple vivid and concrete stories -- that underpinned... View Details
Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire
The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are teachers. Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes...
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- 25 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Standard-Essential Patents
- 07 Jun 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
How Short-Termism Invites Corruption--And What to Do About It
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by Malcolm S. Salter
- 08 Mar 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices
- June 2014 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
Focus Financial Partners and the U.S. RIA Industry in 2014
By: Luis Viceira and Emily A. Chien
In the Spring of 2014, Rudy Adolf, CEO and founder of Focus Financial, and the two other co-founders of the firm are considering alternative growth strategies to solidify Focus Financial's position as a leading aggregator of independent wealth management firms in the...
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Keywords:
Financial Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Model;
Financial Services Industry
Viceira, Luis, and Emily A. Chien. "Focus Financial Partners and the U.S. RIA Industry in 2014." Harvard Business School Case 214-103, June 2014. (Revised January 2017.)
- February 2008
- Supplement
Avaya (C): Implementing Demand Generation in Brazil
Avaya's top management wants to improve demand generation. This requires an improvement in the relationship between Sales and Marketing. This case series (Avaya (A)-(D)) walks the student through each phase of this process. The (A) case begins with background on the...
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Godes, David B. "Avaya (C): Implementing Demand Generation in Brazil." Harvard Business School Supplement 508-050, February 2008.
- February 2008
- Supplement
Avaya (B)
Avaya's top management wants to improve demand generation. This requires an improvement in the relationship between Sales and Marketing. This case series (Avaya (A)-(D)) walks the student through each phase of this process. The (A) case begins with background on the...
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Godes, David B. "Avaya (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 508-049, February 2008.
Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance
Get to better, more effective strategy.
In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is their secret? In "Better, Simpler Strategy," Harvard... View Details
In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is their secret? In "Better, Simpler Strategy," Harvard... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
partner played in college such as tennis and squash, which are played by predominantly white athletes, compared to basketball or football, to see if exposure to diverse teammates leads VCs to hire more underrepresented minorities....
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
it really special for me. I've learned so much from everyone in the program." Volleyball isn't a big part of her life anymore, but it did lead Ton to one other momentous change. When she first arrived at Soldiers Field, she looked for a...
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- 26 Jul 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Accountability of Independent Directors-Evidence from Firms Subject to Securities Litigation
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by Francois Brochet & Suraj Srinivasan
- 04 Oct 2011
- Working Paper Summaries