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- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
succession planning processes are very important in leveraging great executives and managers. It pays for firms to invest in hiring and developing great managers. Second, a given year’s winning percentage is not affected by the previous... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
cuts in all parts of the business. They face choices in whether to employ layoffs or furloughs (unpaid leaves) for any needed workforce reductions, and whether to enact hiring freezes and other cost-saving changes to employee and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
development of Kvadrat's retail sales operations, the implementation of new Human Resources practices, and the execution of a new organizational design. Was such an extensive growth, turnaround, and internal development agenda feasible?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
and "In re CNX Gas" and provides commentary on current developments, such as "Say on Pay," proxy access and the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010. A new chapter on executive compensation appears. The fourth edition provides... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
Assistant Professor William R. Kerr teaches the required first-year MBA course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, in addition to Executive Education courses at Harvard Business School. One of his core research areas is the role of immigrant... View Details
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
effectively ward off a predictable surprise." What's a veil of ignorance and how can it help executives avoid predictable surprises? A: American philosopher John Rawls developed the concept of a veil of ignorance to encourage us to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
founder and former CEO of Software Publishing, suggested that the ActivePhoto team members violate the rule when they needed to explore more than one market — but he cautioned them to experiment in no more than two. Specific Directives Ken Coleman, an View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
Northern California, to help Reset create employer partnerships and engage corporate support. Elaine MacDonald (MBA 1998), executive director of HBS Community Partners for Northern California, says the project benefitted both the... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
examples from their own experience and their clients', the authors walk readers through each of the five patterns and how to apply them. They also provide advice and questions that will help executives get started on their own searches.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
new community was faced with how best to construct the vertical and attract a sufficiently large audience. While the model seemed highly scalable because each vertical used the same core technology, every sector had its unique features. In the fall of 2007, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107052 BBC Worldwide: Global Strategy Harvard Business School Case 507-034 In January 2007, John Smith, chief executive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
Agency for International Development, LAAD has helped establish and promote hundreds of agribusiness enterprises throughout Latin America—fighting poverty regionally in the way the WDC would do on a global scale. John Browne, chief View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
hope with The Innovator’s DNA, that we could articulate how innovative people think. So over a period of years, we interviewed hundreds of innovators and almost 5,000 executives to identify ways of thinking that distinguish innovative... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
off that there was never a true rematch to go into Cuba and take out Fidel Castro. There were grown men who are trained by the CIA in the 1960s waiting every day to go back and take out Fidel Castro and execute the guy and take back their... View Details
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
program for training pediatricians was also ranked number one in the country. Madeline Bell, who had been President and Chief Operating Officer, was named Chief Executive Officer in 2015. A pediatric nurse who became a hospital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs." Warren Buffett, America's most celebrated investor, has religiously invested in companies with strong brand names such as Coca-Cola and American Express. To this day, the proportion of company... View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
Publication:Harvard Business Review 86, no. 4 (April 2008): 104-111 Abstract These days, boards are working overtime to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley and other governance requirements meant to protect shareholders from executive wrongdoing.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
with only thirty-four firms that announced stock splits between 1995 and 1998! My research shows that on average, firms that executed stock splits during this time went up by over 30 percent more than the market. About half of these... View Details
- Profile
Mike Maples Jr.
grown up working on one of the original IBM PCs and writing video game software in high school. He went to Stanford and became even more involved with computers. His father, Mike Maples, Sr., was a successful IBM executive and a... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
question. When you’re so aligned with what’s important, you can quiet the noise, and your experiments can be structured and executed with a greater degree of success.” View Details
Keywords: All Industries