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- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
for you.” I’m not sure how I made it through the last exam, having realized that I needed to start my job search all over again. I called him to tell him my decision, and he said to come over so that we could discuss what I did want to... View Details
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Ruzwana Bashir
Economics at Oxford and became the first British Asian woman to become president of the Oxford Union, the famed debate society that spawned a long line of notable British political figures. “At Oxford, I didn’t have a firm idea on... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing
companies don’t post their roles and instead will wait for students to find the posting on their websites. However, posting the position at HBS targets HBS students specifically and reaches an audience of students who have set specific View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
competition and downsizing; rapid turnover of executives and employees; growing concern about the environment; and the crumbling of institutions such as schools and the family. "We're searching for new ways of grounding to sustain us... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
past. Now the big strikes lie elsewhere. The wildcatters of today travel the globe from Angola to Kazakhstan to the deep waters off the coast of Brazil in search of "elephant fields" with flow rates measuring in the thousands of barrels... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
deficits, taxes, and transfer payments, depend on one's reference point/reporting procedure/language/labels. As such, they, too, represent numbers in search of concepts that provide the illusion of meaning where none exists. This paper,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
welfare-enhancing reforms, on the ability of firms and households to write contracts, and on the ability of citizens to enforce their basic rights. How Does Investor Sentiment Affect the Cross Section of Returns Authors:Malcolm Baker,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
We suspect that the mistakes happen when firms choose managers at any level—from CEO to business unit head to project manager—based on what we call "right stuff" thinking, borrowing the term from Tom Wolfe's famous book and the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- Web
Harvard Business School
we now call diversity . . . certainly African American issues were just a small part of the agenda, if any part of the agenda." 14 Of that era, Lewis said, "We felt particularly emboldened—that we had nothing to lose." 15 Lewis worked in a number of executive View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her mother’s white blood in her identity. Later, as a Harvard-educated business executive feeling too far from her black roots, she View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
take Lisle’s business know-how—she had led revenue generation and growth opportunities in the private sector at companies like Oracle, Zefer, and Wellbourne International—and apply it to nonprofits rooted in the social services. The chance to do that came when a View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
This case investigates both micro and macro issues around strategic human capital development. First, it explores how Egon Zehnder, a leading global search and advisory firm, assesses talent in the firms for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
in performance that persisted for at least five years. This decline was most pronounced among star analysts who moved to firms with lesser capabilities and those who moved solo, without other team members. Star analysts who moved between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
dynamic occurs because an organization's problem-solving routines and normal patterns of communication tend to constrain the space of designs within which it searches for new solutions. Such a link, if confirmed empirically, would be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
http://www.ftpress.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132779781 Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We provide evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop Their Next Leaders by Allan Cohen (MBA 1961) and Pramodita Sharma (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Companies owned and run by families need to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills just like any other, but family... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
manage them properly. This frenetic activity was more than a game of corporate musical chairs. More fundamentally, it was a story of a search for identity by an industry whose borders were still unclear. It was also a View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Abstract As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, novel government programs are encouraging firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
have to get there. And there actually is a very clear framework that senior management teams and the executive search firms that advise them and help them with talent, that they use to evaluate candidates... View Details