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- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
Black Experience, co-edited by Mayo, University of Virginia Professor Laura Morgan Roberts, who is a visiting scholar at HBS, and David A. Thomas, president of Morehouse College and a former professor at HBS. “These African American... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Mar 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a Field Experiment
- 01 May 2024
- What Do You Think?
Have You Had Enough?
(Illustration created using image generated by Midjourney, an artificial intelligence tool.) Last month, I posted a column in HBS Working Knowledge titled, “What’s Enough to Make Us Happy?” Over the last few months, I’ve been asking... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Nov 2017
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?
control, questionable organizational (particularly human resource management) practices, and human behavior traits in general. As “Former Employee” put it, “much of the language in the Visions and Values about caring for team members and customers is just words and not... View Details
- 8 AM – 5:30 PM GMT, 29 Apr 2016
HBS MBA Alumni Career Reboot Camp in London
Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move forward towards a career with more satisfaction View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
information about large stock trades to their best, most lucrative clients. When a savvy activist investor submits a trading order through a brokerage firm, for example, the brokers will exploit this information by telling their favorite... View Details
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 8 AM – 5 PM PDT, 31 Mar 2016
Career Reboot Camp in San Francisco
Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move forward towards a career with more satisfaction View Details
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
executives who helped compensate for their own weaknesses. Gates, for example, knew his strength was not in operations, so he brought in an outside COO to run the day-to-day operations. In the same vein, Jobs nearly destroyed Apple in the early 1980s View Details
- 07 Jul 2011
- What Do You Think?
So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?
have a guide to the subject, appropriately titled Adapt, written by Tim Harford. Its subtitle is Why Success Always Starts with Failure, immediately raising my suspicions about any assertion that contains... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
in-office and remote, and we’ve entered a gray zone in which people are asking, ‘What will permanent look like?’ It’s comfortable to think of our remote work environment as temporary; it’s much more difficult to think about what long term... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
of the question in which “Apple CEO Tim Cook” was replaced by “Indiana-based Angie’s List [then-] CEO Bill Oesterle,” or the “mayor of Indianapolis.” Others received a version in which they were simply told... View Details
- 29 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Global Change in the Built Environment
itself in recent years among institutional investors, partly because of the collapse of the stock market in 2001 and partly because of the high returns for over a decade relative to stocks and bonds. Because of graying populations in the... View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
ship, the Endurance, became hopelessly trapped in pack ice, Shackleton abandoned one cherished goal and shouldered another that was forced on him by circumstance. Through extraordinary hardships that lasted almost two more years, he... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
issue, managers at buyers and suppliers are faced with hundreds of different supply chain programs—from labeling schemes like Fair Trade and organics, to industry association programs like Responsible Care and Sustainable Slopes, to a variety of programs developed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 8 AM – 5 PM PDT, 19 Mar 2019
- Career Events
HBS Career Reboot Camp in San Francisco
Career Reboot Camp is coming to San Francisco! Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their key career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move... View Details
- 8 AM – 5 PM EDT, 26 Oct 2018
- Career Events
HBS Career Reboot Camp in New York
Career Reboot Camp is coming to New York! Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their key career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move forward... View Details
- 8 AM – 5 PM EDT, 15 Mar 2018
- Career Events
Career Reboot Camp in Silicon Valley
Career Reboot Camp is coming to Silicon Valley! Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their key career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move... View Details
- 8 AM – 5 PM EST, 25 Jan 2018
- HBS Alumni Events
Career Reboot Camp in New York City
Career Reboot Camp is coming to New York! Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their key career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move forward... View Details
- 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM EST, 09 Jan 2015
Career Reboot Camp in New York City
Career Reboot Camp is coming to New York! Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their key career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move forward... View Details