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- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
Working Papers Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—CEOs affect the performance of the firms they manage, and family CEOs seem to weaken it. Yet little is known about what top View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
Executives Author:Anette Mikes Periodical:GARP Risk Review, no. 39 (November-December 2007): 12-18 Abstract Senior risk management executives—particularly the chief risk officer—have assumed greater responsibilities in recent years.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
left to round out the team. Then again, there's no point in holding lots of cash with no one worthwhile to spend it on. Conventional negotiation theory doesn't say much about how to craft and execute strategy in such dynamic markets.... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
guys can get in. What you really need to know is, How easy was it? Which systems or programs were compromised or exposed? The answers to those questions depend on how good your operational plans are and how well you are executing them.... View Details
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
in social initiatives. We propose a research agenda that takes these initiatives, these investments, as a starting point, and not as an ultimate policy objective. We suggest a set of questions that focus on how companies make their social investments and View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
follow, observe the authors, since more than a few failed companies have run straight into the tiger's jaws while believing that all they had to do was outrun their competition. Ghoshal and Moran, both of the London Business School, and Bartlett, chairman of HBS View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Why You Might Want to Say Goodbye to the Annual Performance Review | Working Knowledge
managerial roles, since women were under-represented in both the executive team and most technical tracks. Coffman’s coauthor, Bowles, began working with the company as a consultant early in the process to help set up the system, along... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
competition is so intense.” Detroit, by contrast, has hobbled itself, experts say, in two notable ways: Labor agreements, financially generous but tightly circumscribed regarding worker activity, have hindered innovative uses of the workforce, while in the View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
their vast knowledge of disruptive innovation and experience in helping established companies capture game-changing opportunities, consultant Johnson, Harvard Business School professor Christensen, and SAP co-CEO Kagermann set out the tools that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
sculpture of a Native man on horseback wearing a feathered headdress, which was in the collection of railroad executive and mechanical engineer Lewis K. Sillcox (1886–1989) and given to Harvard Business School in 1949. This bronze... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
head of story. He was our editor. He did a lot of different jobs on The Lego Movie. We promoted him on Lego Batman to become the director of the movie. And now he's going to be a producer with me on Lego Ninjago and executive producer on... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
people it affects, the more important it is that the apology be pitch-perfect. Once a company decides that an apology is necessary, it needs to carefully consider the who, what, where, when, and how of executing it. For core violations,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
approach to policy making. In 2005, the Governor of Arizona issued an Executive Order to create a roadmap for the state to achieve statewide electronic health data exchange between various entities in the health care delivery system. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
cleaning solvent formula. However, before deciding to deploy these critical assets in a particular country, multinational executives have a key issue to explore: Does the country where I'm transferring technology have intellectual... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
switch. So I applied to business school.” At HBS, Williams pursued marketing while channeling his restless energy into election as HBS Student Association copresident and regular workouts at Shad Hall. It was during a campus presentation by Sir Martin Sorrell (MBA... View Details
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Oral Histories | Baker Library
order for women to be credible in business or academia or government, you have to sound knowledgeable and confident, and that's the sort of thing that that program gave us. Career At that point in time they [Young & Rubicam] had never had a woman in their View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
discussion (MD&A) section. Changes in language referring to the executive (CEO and CFO) team, or regarding litigation, are especially informative for future returns. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
Pay-for-Performance: Implications for the Strategic Compensation of Employees Authors:Ian Larkin, Lamar Pierce, and F. Gino Abstract Most research linking compensation to strategy relies on agency theory economics and focuses on executive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
press conference in Stockholm on August 10. The news came as a complete surprise.… Then came the shock, the fait accompli. Th[en] … we had to win over shareholders, the public, governments, and unions. By choosing to secretly negotiate with a tiny group of... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
consistently delivers a valuable, innovative product under the pressure of a very firm deadline (opening night, eight o'clock curtain). The product, a play, executes again and again with great precision, incorporating significant... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin