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  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

foreign direct investment and for sustainable economic growth? These questions and more are explored in a forthcoming business case coauthored by Alfaro along with HBS professor Rafael M. Di Tella, Executive Director of the HBS Europe... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 25 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

Director of Career Development Programs at Harvard Business School. "Without it we cannot grow, change, and—eventually—live more fully in a larger world," Butler writes in his new book, Getting... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Apr 2021
  • Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

Unless men embrace their role in eliminating gender bias and barriers, organizations and institutions will never leverage the value that women bring to the workplace. “Most positions of power are still held by men,” says Colleen Ammerman, View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz

    Paul A. Gompers

    Paul Gompers, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. Professor Gompers has an appointment in both the View Details
    Keywords: electronics; health care; high technology; information technology industry; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; semiconductor; venture capital industry
    • March 2019 (Revised October 2020)
    • Case

    GENTERA: Facing the Digital Age

    By: Michael Chu and Carla Larangeira
    After long dominating Mexican microfinance, Compartamos Banco faces the emergence of fintech, just as for the first time its loan portfolio and clients have declined. Enrique Majós, CEO of GENTERA, the bank´s parent company, is keenly aware of the profound changes... View Details
    Keywords: Micro Finance; Base Of The Pyramid; Fintech; Microfinance; Disruption; Innovation and Management; Competitive Strategy; North America; Mexico
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    • 03 May 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

    Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne

      Brian J. Hall

      Brian J. Hall is the Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He served as the Unit Head for the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets (NOM) Unit for 14 years. Previously, he was an assistant professor of economics in the... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; consulting; consumer products; executive search; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; management consulting; private equity (LBO funds); restaurant; sports; venture capital industry
      • Program

      Senior Executive Program—Africa

      optimal execution Improve your organization's ability to innovate, including creating new digital processes and offerings Build a sustainable, accountable organization with greater transparency and stronger governance Develop enduring... View Details

        Lauren H. Cohen

        Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

        Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
        • November 29, 2011
        • Article

        The Role of The Board in Creating a Sustainable Strategy

        By: Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
        While conceptually elegant, the belief that a corporation's role is to maximize value for shareholders is under increasing challenge as society's expectations for companies change. An equally elegant new concept that takes account of these dual pressures has yet to... View Details
        Keywords: Value Creation; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Strategy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Expectations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Practices and Processes; Decisions; Risk and Uncertainty; Cost vs Benefits; Information
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          Ray A. Goldberg

          A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952.

          ... View Details

          Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; fast food; food; food processing; forest products; grocery; high technology; information; restaurant; retailing; soft drink; textiles; tobacco; transportation; wholesale; wine
          • December 1998
          • Case

          Pioneer Hi-Bred: Turning Seeds Into Factories

          By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
          The agricultural sector is among the preeminent information technology users in our economy," exclaimed an August 1998 Forbes ASAP survey of the U.S. economy's best and worst users of information technology (IT). The survey designated Pioneer Hi-Bred International,... View Details
          Keywords: Agribusiness; Multinational Firms and Management; Information Management; Infrastructure; Business Strategy; Information Technology; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Iowa
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          • 14 Feb 2018
          • Blog Post

          Meet HBS Leadership Fellows: Verdell Walker, Sesame Workshop

          organization where every employee is truly united and motivated by a singular goal. SW combines fun media with enriching, meticulously crafted curriculum to address children’s critical developmental needs in the U.S. and across the world. My role for the Fellowship... View Details
          Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
          • 21 Apr 2015
          • First Look

          First Look: April 21

          the founder is still in control of the board of directors and/or the CEO position are significantly less valuable than those in which the founder has given up control. On average, each additional level of founder control (i.e.,... View Details
          Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
          • Web

          Organizational Behavior - Doctoral

          of corporate boards of directors Organizational mission and its effect on commitment and effort Psychological tendencies and collaboration with dissimilar others Program Requirements Profiles Justine Murray Organizational Behavior Ryann... View Details

            Rob Markey

            Rob Markey is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Managing Service Operations in the MBA elective curriculum. The course focuses on how to effectively design,... View Details

              Robert J. Dolan

              Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined... View Details

              • March 2025
              • Case

              YouTube: Bidding for NFL Sunday Ticket

              By: Anita Elberse and Crystal Yao
              In December 2022, Erin Teague, a senior director and the global head of sports, movies and shows at YouTube, technology giant Alphabet Inc.’s video- sharing platform, received the news that Sundar Pichai, the chief executive officer of Alphabet and its subsidiary... View Details
              Keywords: General Management; Entertainment; Media; Sports; Marketing; Management; Business Strategy; Bids and Bidding; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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              • Web

              Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

              provide frameworks for critical thinking, with an emphasis on assessing current media articles on complex topics like healthcare, climate change, and education. Participants will explore the distinction between news and opinion and will... View Details
              • July 2024
              • Article

              Demographic 'Stickiness': The Demographic Identity of Departing Group Members Influences Who Is Chosen to Replace Them

              By: Edward H. Chang and Erika Kirgios
              People tasked with replacing a departing group member are disproportionately likely to choose a replacement with the same demographic identity, leading to demographic “stickiness” in group composition. We examine this effect in 2,163 U.S. federal judge appointments... View Details
              Keywords: Loss Aversion; Diversity; Race; Gender; Decisions
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