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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
Boston-based team or perhaps establishing hybrid clusters in a few hub cities. Beyond the cost-savings of not paying rent, a remote-first approach would allow OnRamp to hire the best talent, wherever they live. That’s significant in a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
that both effects are operative. Instrumental variables analysis indicates that plausibly exogenous changes in payout policy result in shifting institutional ownership patterns. Similarly, exogenous changes in the tax code indicate that as the tax cost of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2020
- News
Keeping Families Connected
When millions of Americans started social distancing due to the spread of coronavirus, Caribu co-founder and CEO Maxeme Tuchman (MBA/MPP 2012) didn’t hesitate to lift the paywall on her company’s interactive video-calling platform, which... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
This separate-yet-connected structure allows leaders to provide freedom to some to blaze a new trail, while protecting the ability of others to stay on the tried-and-true path. "You need to separate out your innovators and let them do crazy and radical... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
Benioff completed a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, paying his way through college with royalties he earned as a teen-age game developer. Nadella studied engineering in India and was awarded an... View Details
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
advisors consider the important perspective of the CEO looking across the whole company. An example is Leading Breakthrough Innovation in Established Companies (Harvard Business School Press), which provides a longer reference set for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
imperative to a matter of value. “Climate is extremely important to understanding the long-term value prospects of individual companies,” said guest speaker Ronald P. O’Hanley (MBA 1986), CEO of State Street, which oversees nearly $32... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
something? Based on my experience as a real estate and construction CEO and my academic research on urbanization, new cities, and the finance of sustainable infrastructure, I propose these simple ABCs (actually A-F) for business leaders... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
grind of nursing after you return to work,” and “You are not your husband’s mother!” Fair Pay, Fair Play: Aligning Executive Performance and Pay by Robin A. Ferracone (MBA ’80) (Jossey-Bass) Using her database of executive View Details
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Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
technology-commercializing, cost-controlling, and consumer-facing. Evaluating Starting Scaling Exiting It is entirely taught through current field-based cases in all aspects of health care—digital, technological, service, and insurance. The View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
governance-related frictions and not driven by plausible alternative theories. Both structural calibration and reduced-form estimates reveal significant negative performance implications from suboptimal peer selection. Compensation Consultants and the Level,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
1991 and served in various managerial capacities before being named president in 2000 and CEO in 2005. Despite the chain’s strong showing in a down economy (with three new stores scheduled to open in March 2010), Schiffer expects he and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Africa. As founder and CEO of Adesemi, Monique Maddy (MBA '93) spoke about her goal to deliver wireless communication - through a system of voicemail, pagers, and pay phones - to underdeveloped areas of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
C-Suite and the CEO what internal and external stakeholders are thinking and how this may affect corporate image in terms of credibility, confidence, trust, relationship, and reputation. In short, the new CCO must understand both the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
Even though Aisha Dozie (MBA 2002) had served on the boards of several private and nonprofit organizations over her career, her two-year search for the directorship of a public board proved to be a “pretty tricky and convoluted” process. The founder and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
commission rates. Strategic planning was the newest and the best management tool. A young HBS professor named Michael Porter was giving fascinating lectures on competitiveness. In those days before the kinder and gentler CEO came into... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
use by examining the relationship between convex pay schemes and overconfidence. In a laboratory experiment, subjects chose between a piece rate and a convex pay scheme. We find that overconfident subjects... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West
leaders who don't develop self-awareness are subject to becoming seduced by external rewards, such as power, money, and recognition. They also have difficulty acknowledging mistakes, an Achilles' heel that has crippled a number of CEOs... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) is cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Panera Bread, the fast-growing bakery-café chain with over six hundred locations in mostly suburban markets across the United States. Panera’s ability to deliver high-quality food... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
capital to pay fixed and variable costs affects choices firms make regarding export entry and operations, and, as a consequence, influence aggregate trade patterns. Financial frictions and the use of internal capital markets shape... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne