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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
entrepreneurs from other candidates. To address that problem, Butler compared the psychological testing results of over 4,000 successful entrepreneurs and of approximately 1,800 business leaders who described themselves as general View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Fast Answer
Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship
Available data includes demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, school performance scores and labor data like unemployment, crime statistics and city crime rates. Explore Census Data provides access to data... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
men led during terrific growth phases are similar in some ways, but very different in others. With $30 billion in revenue, The Koç Group is the largest conglomerate in Turkey, with more than 100 companies and 73,000 employees operating in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
incentives to cooperate in cyberspace. (Maintain your belief that conflict is a healthy spur to higher performance; let the victor get the spoils.) Keep reminding divisions that they are separate businesses because they are different, and that's that. Compare your... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
research, Gino and Ariely surveyed 99 employees across 17 departments at an American advertising agency, where some jobs—copywriting, for example—required much more creativity than others. In the anonymous survey, on a seven-point scale,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
of these, should we, as someone suggested, strip MBA degrees, once awarded, from recipients who later prove unworthy of the designation? What do you think? Original Article New students are arriving on business school campuses for the first fall term since the flood of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club
investors are unaware of the biases that create barriers to actually investing in Black founders. It is no surprise that the rest of the investing world also severely lacks racial diversity. According to Kanyi Maqubela, managing partner... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
Business schools also have to think carefully about their curriculum. We’ve been talking about the need for corporations to adjust to a changing environment, increasing pressures to dial down the single-minded pursuit of profit and to integrate their financial, social,... View Details
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
managers and recruiters are questioning conventional business education. Their concerns? Among other things, MBA programs aren't giving students the heightened cultural awareness and global perspectives they need. Newly minted MBAs lack... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
as a Nonprofit Management Fellow at a UN economic institute in Belgrade in 1990. “And with so many international students at the School, one truly becomes a world citizen through one's HBS friends.” Meanwhile, at the Kennedy School,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
as it passes. It’s probably obvious, but you could just replicate the old model and stamp it out. There are lots of regional micro-fulfillment centers that are closer to customers, all with seven employees on the line. —Casey Taylor (MBA... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB
investors are unaware of the biases that create barriers to actually investing in Black founders. It is no surprise that the rest of the investing world also severely lacks racial diversity. According to Kanyi Maqubela, managing partner... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 05 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction
Long-term investors? Short-term investors? Transient investors? In addition, how are dispersed shareholders to sort out which nominees deserve their "for" votes? In the case of re-nominations, how is an incumbent's past View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey
- 29 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Emerging Into Singapore
umbrella. A team of 15 to 20 ‘Avengers’ sit in Singapore working on the overall strategies from operations to performance enhancement to market expansion. The office has a lively ‘big family’ feel and a great balance of hard work and good... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
Why an MD/MBA from HBS and HMS?
finance, operations, information technology, and management to assume leadership positions in these organizations. Of course, the HBS professors were always engaging, and class with them felt more like a theatrical View Details
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Videos - Advancing Racial Equity
Resources Videos Managing Diversity Speaker Series Professor Jim Cash: Basketball then and now Professor Jim Cash: Basketball then and now 16 Oct 2020 Professor Cash talks about the differences in society’s treatment of Black players like... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Collis and Akiko Kanno “Tokio Marine, Japan's leading insurance company, has spent nearly two decades building a global footprint in different insurance businesses. As the company becomes majority non-domestic it has to make a choice of what organisation structure to... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
(For example, 86 percent of the companies in one recent survey said that housing costs were a serious deterrent to attracting businesses and middle-income employees to New York City.) On the lower end of the wage scale, companies are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
governance in Asia, and measuring performance in nonprofit organizations. As always, there was ample opportunity for networking and socializing with participants and speakers from across the Harvard University community and beyond. The... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
Hugo Uyterhoeven Hugo Uyterhoeven Hugo E.R. Uyterhoeven (MBA 1957, DBA 1963), an expert on general management and a member of the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty for more than 50 years who maintained a steadfast commitment to course... View Details