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- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
nine member team. Workers assigned to better bosses are less likely to leave the firm. A separate normalization implies that the average boss is about 1.75 times as productive as the average worker. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49806... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
from a franchise on the brink of leaving town in 1992 to toast of the town in 2010 is the stuff of Hollywood scripts. And indeed, when the lanky, loquacious executive talks about his lifelong history with the team, his reminiscences are captivating. Baer’s career in... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
of the study, Alvin Silk, Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus, and Joel Weissman, associate professor, department of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School. The Physicians Report ran in the April issue of the... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
colleagues on the Harvard Business School faculty, legendary teacher and thinker Tony Athos. In an organization with a culture of long hours and FILO (first in last out) norms (borrowing from David Physick's comment), Tony liked to sit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
“Crush it!” I was test-driving a Tesla Model S 75D under the watchful eye of Kristin, the “owner-advisor” tasked with accompanying me while I took one of Elon Musk’s battery-powered luxury cars for a spin on the Far West Side of Manhattan. Among their many virtues,... View Details
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
firms-partly thanks to changes in labor regulations that made labor markets more flexible. Reforms were also effective at cutting red tape that prevented entrepreneurs from starting businesses. The number of days to start a business... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
Philanthropy in US Communities, which was published in the March issue of Administrative Science Quarterly. The study adds to a growing line of academic research highlighting the importance of a firm's main location, even in an era of globalization. "In the 1990s... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
crowd…." As Dean Robb put it, "... the use of the term 'crowd' is inappropriate, because crowds generally fail the test of independence from each other's decisions." Others saw the findings strongly affirming the role... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Terrance McGuire
through those experiences were as powerful as the courses themselves,&rdquo he said. During the summer after his first year, McGuire worked at ARD, the iconic venture capital firm founded in the 1940s by famed HBS professor Georges Doriot. View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor
what an “ideal VC” is. When I first told my team I was applying to business school, the immediate response I received was a bewildered “What! Why?” “What! Why?” indeed. I was at a fast-growing tech company with an amazing culture,... View Details
- 06 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
A Letter from the Women in Investing Club
organization and be consistently ranked as one of the clubs people value the most at HBS. With our generous sponsors, we were able to host over 700 registrants for our annual Summit in Klarman Hall, featuring fantastic keynote speeches... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
— a common experience that might bind the entrepreneurs I wrote about and give the reader some focus. Serendipitously, I came across an article from Fortune, written in 1999 at the height of the Internet bubble. “For new MBAs at Harvard View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
“The events of Tuesday have touched everyone deeply in some way, and we are all struggling to find hope in the face of despair.” —Dean Kim B. Clark As it has so often on important occasions in Harvard Business School's 93-year history,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
What motivates entrepreneurs? Money? Control? In truth, some entrepreneurs are expecting to get rich. Others want to grow and control a new venture. But most would probably answer: "both." The problem, as Harvard Business School... View Details
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
agricultural pressures, and the effects those impacts have on business, society, and global food production. "Like all good cases it's a good story, and like all good cases it also tells you something more general about important... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
today's breakneck world, who has the time for such things?" Several cited the difficulty of selecting a new CEO, particularly from within, given the changing nature of the needs of a modern corporation. As Veronica Serrano put it, "it is easier to get from... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
exploding. "Over the next 20 years, we have to generate 80 million jobs," Masha says. "That's the population of Germany, the world's fourth-largest economy." But endemic corruption has scared off many foreign companies. "Nigeria is a... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
exchange. Study 3 demonstrated that sarcasm's effect on creativity for both parties was mediated by abstract thinking and generalizes across different forms of sarcasm. Finally, Study 4 found when participants expressed sarcasm toward or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
Women-owned businesses are just as financially strong and creditworthy as the average U.S. firm, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Women's Business Research. Yet women struggle more than men... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
has had a storied business career. In the 1980s, she became the first female partner at Booz, Allen and helped build the consulting firm’s pharmaceutical practice. In the early 1990s, she was a deputy commissioner at the Food & Drug... View Details