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- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
researchers gave a large group of executives financial and industry information about one company negotiating to acquire another. The executive subjects were randomly assigned to the negotiating roles of... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
largely by scale alone." Several respondents offered an explanation for these phenomena. Typical was Rahul Sharma's comment: " . . . these high executive compensation packages are . . . necessitated by the reduced 'lifespans' of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
line of upcycled drinking glasses. To acquire the raw materials, the founders identified a partner in the Houston area that had relationships with local bars and restaurants. Now, instead of tossing empties in the municipal recycling bin—a service for which the... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
Edify has assisted 1,100 private faith-based schools, loaning each a minimum $5,000. Founded and run largely by locals who grew up in these disadvantaged communities, these schools use the money for improvements (such as a computer lab) or expansion, and are able to... View Details
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
the pandemic’s suddenness caught many without sufficient ready cash. A real estate CEO noted: “We had ongoing construction and needed to pay our contractors but were not sure that we would receive payments as planned from our customers... View Details
- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
to compete they need to innovate. But finding sources of innovation while still paying attention to the current business can be a struggle. The good news, says HBS professor Lynda Applegate, is that one of the forces that threatens... View Details
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IFC: Silicon Valley; Disrupting Silicon Valley with AI - Course Catalog
potential implications. We will conclude the research phase of the course in early January and travel to Silicon Valley to present our findings to executives from these companies and meet with AI thought leaders in the region. Past guests... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
parties) have issued executive orders requiring federal agencies to use environmentally preferable products and services whenever possible, as has the European Commission. These procurement policies are specifically aimed to "spur private... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
Lang Related Links “It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t”: New research by HBS associate professor Jordan Siegel finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female... View Details
- Web
Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
crime 2,000 Union Army troops arrive in Galveston, Texas to announce an executive decree that freed the 250,000 African American laborers still held in bondage by the Confederacy after the Civil War. The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
East Coast finance industry pay scales, you have to pay what the market will bear if you want the talent-yada, yada, blah, blah, yada, yada, blah, blah.Yeah, I get all that. But here's what I'm wondering... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
the best market data. But not anymore, says Dubrowski. Overpricing, not overbuilding, is the market's biggest problem. Today, his twenty-two-person firm pays upward of $400,000 a year for subscription data services, the same services that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
providers should support equal access to all content and applications (such as data-heavy files of online video) regardless of the source or how much bandwidth it requires. Instead, industry executives contend, consumers should View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- Web
Policy - Business & Environment
ice cap, a rise in sea levels, warming of the oceans ” Industry internal document 1968 American Petroleum Institute [10] 1970s - 1980s In a 1978 presentation to Exxon executives and scientists, James Black of Exxon’s Products Research... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Gita's medical history and her symptoms suggest a heart problem, MeraDoctor ultimately recommends that she get an echocardiogram (for which she has to pay at a private facility because the government one is too crowded). The test reveals... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
framework—that lets executives map the institutional contexts of any country. Economics 101 tells us that companies buy inputs in the product, labor, and capital markets and sell their outputs in the products (raw materials and finished... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
find that paying above-market wages, per se, does not have an effect on effort relative to paying market wages. However, structuring a portion of the wage as a clear and unexpected gift (by hiring at a given... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
driver of performance in these organizations, regardless of nationality. Eager to determine whether this finding would also hold true among developing economies, Deshpandé and Farley have expanded their study to include information they gathered from five hundred View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
business functions helped me build a strong foundation for navigating the complex challenges of executive leadership. I learned the importance of balancing strategy with execution, and how to navigate unanticipated challenges. I learned... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
on digital photography would inevitably distract the mainstream managers. Fund in stages. Establishing a freestanding venture is a good first step, but it's no guarantee that the people in charge will manage the business as an independent opportunity. Top View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower