Filter Results:
(7,997)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(7,997)
- People (15)
- News (2,456)
- Research (3,569)
- Events (18)
- Multimedia (151)
- Faculty Publications (2,366)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(7,997)
- People (15)
- News (2,456)
- Research (3,569)
- Events (18)
- Multimedia (151)
- Faculty Publications (2,366)
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
writes about extensively, including numerous books, articles, and business cases. He's also the former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic, and he's the author of this really wonderful case that we're going to discuss today.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
Corporate Performance By: Brochet, Francois, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using conference call transcripts to measure the time horizon that senior executives emphasize when they communicate with investors, we develop a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
In her new book SuperCorp, Rosabeth Moss Kanter argues that capitalism is near a crossroads. The old ways of doing business no longer work. Traditional leadership roles are breaking down. And the public is fed up with greedy executives... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
and return unused capital to his investors. With the passing of each venture, he has learned about forming founding teams, splitting equity with his co-founders, hiring executives to work for him, and when to take outside funding. Now,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
Marx—who holds six patents—spent ten years as an inventor and executive in the field of speech recognition. In this e-mail interview, he discusses the impact of noncompetes for inventors and those who would tie their hands. Martha Lagace:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
to recruit, hire and develop minority executives at MTN, a South African telecommunications company, Charnley attempts to bring a gentler capitalism to post-apartheid South Africa. Like her other colleagues on the Black Economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
to be published by Princeton University Press. In this recent interview conducted by e-mail, Lodge is hopeful that the World Development Corporation will be formed. He explains why nonprofits aren't the answer to ending poverty and asks that View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
case has been interesting, Berg notes. Once, during an MBA class attended by Lincoln's president, a student declared that he had high regard for Lincoln but he preferred three-piece suits and executive dining halls to eating in a company... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
of employees, entire organizations vanish. The vanishing act cannot be blamed solely on competitive forces. Most organizations that self-destruct experience failure because employees were not committed to the mission and direction of the organization . Third, leaders... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
hope the School’s researchers will make a record of the number of MBAs from HBS and other leading business schools at each level of the companies and government agencies that have played a role in the demise of our financial system. How many HBS alumni have served on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
interesting, Berg notes. Once, during an MBA class attended by Lincoln’s president, a student declared that he had high regard for Lincoln but he preferred three-piece suits and executive dining halls to eating in a company cafeteria. A... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
Design. With extensive background experience in digital content, most recently as executive vice president of product and technology at the New York Times, Kinsey Wilson, currently a visiting fellow at the Shorenstein Center, had a... View Details
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
election, the first election on which Fox News would have an impact, as a uniquely clear-cut situation. This would be one time, they theorized, that executives at firms that had donated to the Democratic Party, knowing their firms were... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
planning shouldn't be so contrived and serious. "The corporate culture is such that line executives don't want to get playful," Deighton says. "As soon as you try to come up with your positioning line and try to translate that into... View Details
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
in a truck. The company's main products continued to be tomato-based, including a 40% share in the tomato paste and diced tomato market in 2013. Different from traditional manufacturing companies, Morning Star relied on self-management to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Gautam Mukunda leads off his new book, Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, with the results of social science research that executives may wish not to consider: individual leaders rarely... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
parties in Wiwa v. Royal Dutch/Shell jointly announced that the four U.S. lawsuits stemming from the execution of the Ogoni Nine in 1995 had been settled. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310038-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Their paper, "The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales," caused a ruckus in the music industry not seen since the British invasion of the Beatles. Many recording executives were not singing "Yeah,... View Details
- Web
Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile Industry Caterpillar... View Details
- Web
Women on Boards: How Lara Druyan and Ann Lucena Are Shaping the Future of Corporate Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
for prospective board members Effective board leadership involves being a strategic thought partner to CEOs and executive teams, providing insights, guidance, and constructive questioning to facilitate critical decisions. “You want to be... View Details