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  • 20 Aug 2020
  • Book

From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 2024
  • Article

Crucibles, Multiple Sensitive Periods, and Career Progression

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sunasir Dutta, Hise O. Gibson and Eric Lin
We study the effects of crucible experiences along multiple sensitive periods on career progression. While prior literature has hinted that individuals can be imprinted during multiple sensitive periods, not just during the early career, there has been scant attention... View Details
Keywords: Military Service; Personal Development and Career; Transformation; Power and Influence; Learning; Human Capital
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    Tom Nicholas

    Tom Nicholas is William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is British and holds a doctorate from Oxford University. His research focuses on the history of entrepreneurship, innovation and finance. His book (VC: An... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; high technology
    • March 1993 (Revised March 1994)
    • Case

    Sierra On-Line, Inc. (A)

    Sierra On-Line, a fast growing software developer, is criticized by a Forbes journalist for excessively capitalizing software development costs. In contrast to most other software developers that typically capitalize about 20% of R&D costs, Sierra capitalizes 80%.... View Details
    Keywords: Applications and Software; Financial Statements; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry
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    Overview

    By: Hise O. Gibson
    Professor Gibson's primary research interests encompass inclusive leadership, operational effectiveness, human capital development, leadership, leader development, leading change, and risk management especially during crisis. As part of his broader work to... View Details
    • August 2023
    • Case

    Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

    By: Boris Groysberg, Alexis Lefort, Susan Pinckney and Carolina Bartunek
    Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it's growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management industry View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Customers; Nationality; Learning; Entrepreneurship; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Values and Beliefs; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Analytics and Data Science; Applications and Software; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Job Offer; Job Search; Job Design and Levels; Employment; Human Capital; Europe; United Kingdom; United States
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    • 2014
    • Chapter

    Business History and the Impact of MNEs on Host Economies

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    Business history has long been recognized as providing an important dimension in international business studies. Much of this historical work has focused on mapping historical growth patterns of multinationals and exploring the determinants of their growth. However,... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational; International Business; Business History; Culture; Globalization; History; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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    • 06 Jun 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

    and the title of a second-year course he teaches at HBS. "At the foundation of finance is the idea that investors and managers act rationally, so that capital market prices reflect fundamentals and managers respond to incentives in... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 03 Dec 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

    temporary salary cut and that Aon’s country leaders had worked together “to determine the most equitable way to apply a temporary salary reduction to our broader colleague base and developed a tailored approach based on a set of criteria,... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

      Nitin Nohria

      Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

      As Dean, building on... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; arts; biotechnology; emerging market private equity; energy; executive search; financial services; green technology; health care; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; infrastructure industry; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; manufacturing; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; professional services
      • 06 Oct 2018
      • News

      The cycle of debt among vendors in India and the Philippines

      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      No Revenge for Nerds? Evaluating the Careers of Ivy League Athletes

      By: Natee Amornsiripanitch, Paul A. Gompers, George Hu, Will Levinson and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
      This paper compares the careers of Ivy League athletes to those of their non-athlete classmates. Combining team-level information on all Ivy League athletes from 1970 to 2021 with resume data for all Ivy League graduates, we examine both post-graduate education and... View Details
      Keywords: Outcome or Result; Higher Education; Personal Development and Career; Human Capital
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      • 2014
      • Working Paper

      The New Empirical Economics of Management

      By: Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen
      Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review... View Details
      Keywords: Management; Organization; Productivity; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Microeconomics
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      • February 2000 (Revised September 2001)
      • Case

      edocs, Inc. (A)

      By: Paul A. Gompers
      Describes the development of edocs, an Internet company aimed at revolutionizing the on-line bill presentment market. Kevin Laracey must negotiate a venture capital investment with Jonathon Guerster, an associate at Charles River Ventures. Can be used as a role-playing... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Growth and Development; Negotiation Deal; Internet; Information Technology Industry
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      • December 1997 (Revised February 2000)
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      Hewlett Packard: Creating, Running, and Growing an Enduring Company

      By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
      Traces the development of Hewlett-Packard Co. from a small start-up company in 1938 to a world-class manufacturer of electronic instruments and computer products. Examines the challenges of starting and running a small company, including financing, human resources... View Details
      Keywords: Business or Company Management; Product Positioning; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Brands and Branding; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry
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      • September 2013
      • Case

      Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
      After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz sought to reduce obesity and improve health outcomes. Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and interpretable... View Details
      Keywords: Management; Startup; Leadership; Leadership Style; Leadership Skills; Nutrition Database; Nutritionist In Your Pocket; Nutritional Educational Platform; Shazam Of Food; Weight Loss; Iphone; Android; Applications; App Development; Nutrition Labeling; Nutritional Information; Obesity; Epidemic; Applications and Software; Nutrition; Business Startups; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; Boston; Massachusetts
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      Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners?

      By: Michael Ewens and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
      This paper investigates whether individual venture capitalists have repeatable investment skill and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset that tracks the performance of individual venture capitalists'... View Details
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        Josh Lerner

        Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor at Harvard Business School and Co-Director of the HBS Private Capital Project.  Much of his research focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations.  (This research is summarized in his books The Money of... View Details

        Keywords: venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry
        • 08 Nov 2024
        • Op-Ed

        How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

        area’s peace, stability, and national security. And the situation is getting progressively worse, partly due to people migrating out of suddenly unlivable situations. “Governments and development finance institutions clearly don’t have... View Details
        Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy
        • Research Summary

        Current Research Interests

      • Employment Contract, Collective Bargaining, and Human Capital Investment
      • American Welfare Capitalists, 1910-1940
      • Political Economy of New Deal Labor Legislation
      • A Comparative Historical Analysis of Wartime Labor Regulation during W.W.II in the U.S.... View Details