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- 02 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Applying to the JD/MBA Program
life here over the past few months, the application process remains fresh in their minds. We caught up with the two of them to find out what they wished they’d known about the program while applying, and what advice they have to offer... View Details
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Summer Associates | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
How to Post Your Commitment Why Hire a Summer Associate? HBS students offer exceptional talent, a record of accomplishment, demonstrated leadership potential, cooperative spirit, and a commitment to making a difference. As part of their... View Details
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage
In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
this transition into general management." For new general managers—or just as likely in companies these days, senior functional managers who operate as part of an executive team or who have important cross-functional or cross-organizational responsibilities—their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
“How do I show leadership presence when I’m this exhausted?” Working parents were typically offered platitudes about work-life integration, Dowling realized, which was a shortcoming in talent development that became all the more glaring a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?
encourage companies to set lower salaries, hold firm on initial offers, and prevent expensive renegotiations. By publicly setting pay parameters at the outset, employees “know when you get a job offer, it’s not a negotiable topic,” says... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
their nine-year- old daughter, Justine, and eight-year-old son, David. "Right now, I see my children mostly on weekends," he notes. "I want to change that." His other enduring passion is Fountain House, an innovative rehabilitation program for the emotionally... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
high-performing organizations that cultivate all their employees, and offered advice on improving management skills. ...if you ignore [B players] long enough, they begin to see themselves as low performers.— Thomas J. DeLong It is all too... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
cafeteria. My father’s request was breathtaking and anxiety-producing.” Over the next 35 years, Rosenberg would turn Dunkin’ Donuts into a global icon—which last year sold to Inspire Brands for a stunning $11.3 billion. And in this episode of Skydeck, Rosenberg View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
Companies face a growing yet largely undetected threat to their worker productivity, employee retention and, ultimately, competitive advantage: the needs of employees who are caregivers. The aging population, an increasingly female workforce, and the tightest View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
subscription offer, introduced in fiscal 2019, that enables readers to choose between a digital, digital and print, or premium subscription. The offer helped attract a record monthly average of nearly 12 million visitors to the HBR.org... View Details
- 01 Nov 2019
- What Do You Think?
Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?
commented that, “When a non-compete clause is required it can signal a lack of trust If your ethics are being questioned the time of hire, question the company ethics.” This may help explain why RCD said that, “I have walked away from several View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
influence on whether or not an organization crosses the line from pride to arrogance. (3) It is possible to lead close to the line between pride and arrogance without crossing it; several suggestions were offered for how to do this. Ken... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
heart surgery to repair a mitral valve prolapse. The recovery that followed offered time for reflection. A few months later, on vacation with her husband, Enan sat on the beach in Zanzibar and wrote the plan for what would become Lotus, a... View Details
- 06 Dec 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?
a company for doing the best job they can and succeed?” Others argued that market definition is changing in ways that render United States anti-trust policy outdated in an increasingly global economy. As Craig Parietti & Partners put... View Details
- 24 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors
Black identity. All emails were identical except sometimes, Demarcus specifically referenced his identity (“As a Black man ”), while other times he did not. The researchers found that students were up to 80 percent more likely to offer to... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
South Africa; and M-PESA, an initiative launched by the mobile network operator Safaricom (in conjunction with Vodafone) to offer a new type of financial service to the poor residents of Kenya. Ultimately, the more successful of the two,... View Details
- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
company to create better jobs,” shared Ari Medoff. “We’ve had 30 or 40 years now of growing wage inequality and we have community institutions that have decayed. I think that one of the core factors is the erosion of job quality which... View Details