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- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
case:http://hbr.org/search/313001-PDF-ENG MF Global: Changing Stripes Clayton Rose, Yasmin Dahya, and Jenevieve LeeHarvard Business School Case 312-105 Jon Corzine became the CEO of MF Global in March of 2010. Eighteen months later, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
dedicated their careers to unlocking the potential of agriculture in Africa and are engaged in a range of coronavirus responses. They see COVID-19 as a wake-up call. “Many global experts have underscored that this pandemic is a 12-18... View Details
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
into a disruptee. Learning To Chicken-scratch If a technology is to succeed, in theory at least, it should not require people to radically change their behavior. Instead, companies that promote the technology should hope for a gradual... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
work in your lab and expecting her to spend her career there, you now hire more mid-career professionals who bring a deeper, richer human and social capital to your firm. It changes the question of how do I... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
never experienced one like this before. [His career until now] has been up, up and away, and here he is, in his early 30s, all of a sudden confronting something. And the question is, when will he acknowledge that he didn't handle this... View Details
Keywords: Re: Liangzong Ma
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Overall, those who accepted smaller portions did not compensate by ordering more calories in their entrées, and the total calories served to them were, on average, reduced by more than 200. We also found that accepting the downsizing offer did not View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
within the company by ruthless cost-cutting rather than investment. Speaking of investment, the best investment anyone can make at any career stage is to behave honorably and make friends. Graciousness, even in victory, goes a long way to... View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
research tells us about who makes it to the top of the American business ladder, how access to power appears to be widening today, and how the face of leadership might change in the future. Sean Silverthorne: Your research suggests that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
cybersecurity. Revenues declined, criticism grew, and challenges of change remained. Watson businesses were new, unproven, and required change in nearly every aspect of legacy operations and culture. To... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
can't play with my son ever again." He said he resolved, at that point, to hate all white people. Then, his parents said, "No, no. You don't understand. You're a Christian and that's not what Christians do. We love our enemies, we love people, and you must... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
Putin and the Russian Oligarchs This case examines the career of the Russian business oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Berezovsky was one of a small group of business tycoons that became fabulously rich after the collapse of the Soviet Union in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
Publication:Academy of Management Annals Abstract The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields-including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research-and has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
Conant, he taught in a leadership course that he had designed for the company's high-potential managers. In all cases, higher-ambition leaders identified future leaders and developed them—usually through cross-functional and cross-geographic View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
Changes in Ownership and Management of Large West German Family Firms (1960-2008)." Author:Christina Lubinski Publication:Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 55, no. 2 (2010) Abstract Large family firms fall between two... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
new career development and remuneration system. Bhattacharya wonders if attempting to change the culture of a 206-year-old mammoth organization is feasible or a mere pipe dream. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
and rejigger their lives.” How the pandemic has changed lift outs Team moves usually take place in four stages: a pre-hire “courtship” stage and three post-hire phases of integration—leadership, operational, and “full cultural... View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
Gary Kaplan became CEO of the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. The hospital was facing significant challenges: it was losing money for the first time in its history, staff morale had plummeted, and area hospitals presented ardent competition.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
focuses mainly on work related to developing countries. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53305 November 2017 Research Policy The Career Effects of Scandal: Evidence from Scientific Retractions By: Azoulay,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
conformity comes at a steep price for our careers and personal lives. When we mindlessly accept rules and norms rather than questioning and constructively rebelling against them, we ultimately end up stuck and unfulfilled. As leaders, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
well-established firms rather than young ones. Since well-established firms differ from young ones in their availability of resources, adaptability, and stability in the face of changing environments, the findings from those studies are... View Details