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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About
Company, where he put together the collaborative team that founded Fairchild Semiconductor. After moving to California in 1961, Rock and investor Tommy Davis formed Davis & Rock, which posted an... View Details
- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
Business School. We asked Professor Bazerman to explore in more depth some of the paper's findings. Sean Silverthorne: So, are you against incentives and goals? Max Bazerman: No, my coauthors and I are not against incentives. We believe in incentives. And each of us... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
Otherwise, it’s time to set your team free to make the right calls for their teams’ needs. At this stage—other than your direct hires—you should only be on-call as needed for key hires. For example, when VMware was nearing 800 employees,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
significantly change that material so that the team can create an entirely new business. This early new business development project, while supported by management, has a looming deadline for proof-of-concept. The deadline has already... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener
listen empathetically, welcome input, and rally the workforce around a common goal, according to a recent study by a team of researchers including Harvard Business School Professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller, who analyzed... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 30 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?
self-match? The research team found self-matching can work to a company’s advantage in three ways: Retailers can raise online prices. While prices online tend to be cheaper, a retailer that self-matches can... View Details
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
how one CEO we’ve talked with builds in multiple perspectives to his decision-making. At his industrial products company, he has established bi-weekly meetings with his senior team focused on two questions: What do we know now that we... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
on employee engagement data, Bastian could see that while talent retention was high at Delta, too many frontline employees felt stuck and unable to gain opportunities to advance professionally at Delta. Despite their best efforts to evolve the talent architecture,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers
associate professor at the University of Chicago. Consumers put on blindfolds The researchers performed dozens of experiments, using products ranging from gummy candy to dictionaries, and testing out labels such as “newer version,” “updated edition,” and “revised... View Details
- 26 Apr 2022
- Book
What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose
Ranjay Gulati Chapter 7: The Purpose-Autonomy-Trust Nexus On one level, the connection between trust and autonomy seems fairly obvious, but analyzing it I found some interesting connections not only between trust and autonomy, but between... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
founding team worthy equity grants and, in earlier stage businesses could be anointed as “co-founder” down the road if the relationship blossoms over time. The cofounder courtship If you’ve decided that you... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 13 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets
they access news through Twitter and other social media platforms. Their analysis, which will be published in a forthcoming issue of Affective Science, suggests that, just as violence on television increases viewership and ratings, news organizations have View Details
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'
Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
2016, Swedish entrepreneurs Carl-Erik Lagercrantz and Peter Carlsson founded an electric battery company called Northvolt with the dual goals of creating a company to address climate change and bringing battery manufacture to Europe.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows
during COVID. She also led the team’s health equity strategy and founded its first DEI program, in partnership with senior hospital leadership. She said, “the Goldsmith Fellowship will be instrumental in helping me achieve my goal of... View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide
descriptions from 10-K filings dynamically, weighting companies across 15 different “TOPICS” and three tiers. The study, published in February, found that long-short equity portfolios designed using the TOPICS classification approach... View Details
- 08 Sep 2022
- Book
Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?
leaders with business celebrities he says never found their True North. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, for instance, has deflected blame for his company’s many scandals, even pushing back against a whistleblower’s accusation that profits... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 07 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay
economic spectrum are creating faux management jobs, pointing to wage cases filed by workers at tech and financial services giants. The team found a five-fold increase in manager titles like “directors of... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis