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- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
Harvard Business School experts how the pandemic might change business practices. Here’s what they had to say. 7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus Leaders managing their organizations through crisis show seven... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- April 2022
- Teaching Note
Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?
By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-066, "Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?" The case traces the history of women in management from the early 20th to early 21st century through analysis of Harvard Business Review's coverage of women and gender. The... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
Child Left Behind Affects the Allocation of School Leaders By: Li, Danielle Abstract—The move toward increased school accountability may substantially affect the career risks that school leaders face without providing commensurate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
full of accounts of those mistakes—that’s one of the really nice features. Because of the status of these individuals and the high degree of respect they command, I think they’ve treated the videos as an opportunity to reflect honestly and candidly on the long arc of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
to stakeholder relationships (i.e., relationships with the government and unions), how the shutdown was used as a platform to change the culture at Anglo American as a whole, the challenges of sustaining such an endeavor, and Carroll's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
difficulty in obtaining further positive results for the class of solvable one-sided assignment problems in line with Sasaki's (1995) characterizations of the core for two-sided assignment problems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-146.pdf CEO and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
growth, voting rules, and media consumption, vs. individual factors, such as race and education. We use individual-level panel data covering the vast majority of the U.S. voting-age population from 2008 to 2014 and track changes in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
since 1980, that company has become more diverse over time, potentially due to improved HR policies, changes in hiring practices, and other efforts to diversify the workforce,” Koning says. “But our economy is not only made up of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
February 2018 Management Science Laboratory Evidence on the Effects of Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women By: Baldiga, Nancy R., and Katherine Baldiga Coffman Abstract—Sponsorship programs have been proposed as one way to promote female... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
Gabarro, an expert on human resources management; Tom DeLong, who studies organizational change and globalization in professional service firms and served as Chief Development Officer of Morgan Stanley Group; Herminia Ibarra, who focuses... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
negative-return activities requires good links with changing market realities. On average, companies spend 10 percent of revenues on selling activities—often much more in many B2B markets, he says. But if executives don’t understand the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
gain to the other and is equivalent to decreasing the dispersion of the latter's values for the items he does not receive without changing their total. One-agent monotonicity requires that such a change... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- September 2022 (Revised April 2023)
- Case
Cesaro e Associati
By: Christina R. Wing and Amram Migdal
This case describes the leadership succession planning process at Cesaro e Associati (Studio Cesaro), founded in 1986 by Franco Cesaro in the northeastern Italian state of Veneto. In 2022, Franco was contemplating retirement and passing leadership of his firm, which... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Family Business; For-Profit Firms; Restructuring; Small Business; Change; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Entrepreneurship; Governance; Leadership; Leading Change; Management; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Ownership; Family Ownership; Private Ownership; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Family and Family Relationships; Consulting Industry; Europe; Italy
Wing, Christina R., and Amram Migdal. "Cesaro e Associati." Harvard Business School Case 623-021, September 2022. (Revised April 2023.)
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
spoke about how glass ceilings don't apply to black women—when they look up, they see a concrete wall. And she argued for another conference on changing academic roles, to combat what she sees as fear among more junior professors to... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
The growth and competiveness of emerging markets is a fundamental reality in global business today. Yet it is often forgotten just how much these countries have changed in a short period of time, how challenging their business... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
And it is changing fast. Its size and importance to human, environmental, and economic health means that no system is viewed with as much suspicion by so many people around the globe. Changing societal... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
organization strategy to enable the different functions to work together to bring products to market more quickly. As Ludwig grappled with a way to jumpstart change at DIS, he began to suspect that people throughout the unit were talking... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
her post-conflict Afghanistan. Nawabi had lived in exile in Europe for three decades and had a successful career in fashion. Explores the challenges facing Nawabi on her return to her native Afghanistan—as a woman pursuing an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent motivation for use of ESG data followed by client demand and product strategy, bringing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
burn cash faster than they make it. But already successful pioneers such as eBay, Amazon, and Yahoo! have transformed industry dynamics, opened new career aspirations, and become emblematic of a new workplace style. The wanna-dots are... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter