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- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
Corporations could do a good job of running corrupt Third World governments. Corruption rules in too many of the world's democratically elected governments. From Achocalla, Bolivia, to Mayuge, Uganda, voters pick their leaders through the... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Bloomberg’s Gift to Boost Cities
“Running a city is one of the most complex jobs on the planet. A mayor is responsible for overseeing unwieldy bureaucracies, managing budgets, making policy, implementing programs, bringing legislators together, harnessing technology,... View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
Direct employment in the US Internet ecosystem has doubled in those four years, with 1 million new jobs added to the million that already existed in 2007, according to a recent study commissioned by the Interactive Advertising Bureau,... View Details
- August 2011 (Revised November 2012)
- Case
Ramesh Patel at Aragon Entertainment Limited
By: Anthony J. Mayo and Joshua D. Margolis
Ramesh Patel, a high potential employee, was excited to be named to the company's New Horizons Board, a select team responsible for producing recommendations for new products or line extensions for Aragon Entertainment. Patel's co-worker and friend, Jeremy Gibson was... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Interpersonal Communication; Spoken Communication; Communication Intention and Meaning; Jobs and Positions; Performance; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Mayo, Anthony J., and Joshua D. Margolis. "Ramesh Patel at Aragon Entertainment Limited." Harvard Business School Case 412-042, August 2011. (Revised November 2012.)
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
presentation or job interview? Holding one's body in "high-power" poses for short time periods can summon an extra surge of power and sense of well-being when it's needed, according to Amy J.C. Cuddy. Why Unqualified Candidates... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Web
2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
flash talk entitled "The "of Color" Is Black" at the 2022 Gender and Work Symposium: The Master's Tools: Exposing, Rejecting, & Appropriating Elizabeth Johnson presents at the 2022 Gender and Work Symposium Elizabeth Johnson presents a flash talk, entitled "What... View Details
- 13 May 2002
- Book
Bringing the Master Passions to Work
If passions are the masters of reason—as David Hume (1960) believed—then they have done a remarkable job at getting us to believe in their benign nature—their outright subservience to reason. Deception and self-deception are as critical... View Details
Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria
- Web
Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) - Course Catalog
financial ones. Furthermore, many do a poor job applying finance frameworks and reach incorrect conclusions. Other leaders often focus on different issues like delighting customers, developing talent, or innovating. These other leaders... View Details
- Portrait Project
Matthew Naunheim
cures too little and costs too much. As a surgeon, it will be my job to perform microscopic procedures to eradicate cancer, restore hearing, and reanimate faces marred by disease. But technical skill and... View Details
- September 2019
- Case
Shell: A Company of Opportunity?
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Emer Moloney
The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as “Opportunity Owners” and employees, or “Opportunity Seekers,” to browse these statements of need and engage when they had... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Energy; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Human Resources; Employees; Retention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Labor; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Strategic Planning; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Business Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks; Technology Platform; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Netherlands
Fuller, Joseph B., and Emer Moloney. "Shell: A Company of Opportunity?" Harvard Business School Case 320-025, September 2019.
- 18 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up
without retail experience? Julia encouraged them to get relevant summer experience, like her internship at New Balance. She jumped on an e-commerce project there, and did related independent work during her 2nd year that definitely helped her sell herself to PopSugar... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
help boost America's performance in the global economy. The May event was part of a series of city-specific "Paths Forward" programs held across the country that brought together expert panels to weigh in on how the national business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Talent: The Best Employee Perk?
“[Just] as organizations that invested financial capital more wisely than their rivals performed better in the past, the companies that do the best job of managing time, talent, and energy are the ones that... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Positive impact that hits home
religious heritage. Not least among these is the belief that “you can be a highly performing business executive and also be a very religious person,” observes Seck Mercier. “Those two things can go together without any issue.” She is... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
themselves. The findings contribute to theory by showing that perceptions of competence can positively color morality judgments, even when the competence displayed stems from committing an unethical act. The findings are the first to show that people are judged as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
in Mexico City and a gold medal in the men's 4x200 meter freestyle relay in the 1972 Olympics in Munich. More information here. Brian Job (MBA 1977D) won a bronze medal for the US in the 200 meter breaststroke at the 1968 Olympics in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
day. That seemed like a wonderful way to make a living. " By high school, the Brooklyn-born Kingdon was already authoring an investment newsletter. After attending Columbia College in New York City and then HBS, Kingdon decided to take his first View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
while creating new jobs more or less commensurate with the skills of the displaced workers. But things have changed since the technology is now able to think as well as perform tasks It is not easy to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
think it just produces an enormous amount of stress.” Steps toward gender equality In Glass Half-Broken, Ammerman and Groysberg recommend a series of best practices along seven critical dimensions to organizations that want to work toward parity, not for cosmetic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
increased expectations for hard, measurable results. Which seems only fair, right? The problem: Nonprofits can lose sight of their mission if a major funder's performance measurement priorities don't align with the necessary actions to... View Details