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- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated labor markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
difficulty in obtaining further positive results for the class of solvable one-sided assignment problems in line with Sasaki's (1995) characterizations of the core for two-sided assignment problems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-146.pdf View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
“think different,” to borrow a slogan from Apple. And thinking differently leads them to act differently. From our research, consistent patterns emerged that led us to identify five primary discovery skills that underlie innovation:... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
foreign-born financial specialists-immigrants-solved the fiscal crisis and set the United States on a path to long-term economic success. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas K. McCraw analyzes the skills and worldliness of Alexander... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Diego–based chain of more than ninety buffet-style restaurants serving fresh salads, soups, pastas, and breads, CEO Michael Mack has implemented a flexible system that allows hourly employees to change their schedule with as little as one... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
“Professor Desai’s students and alumni who heard him for the first time pointed out his expert skill at communicating complex subjects in a simple and highly accessible way.” A question and answer session followed the November 11 talk,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
that Williams first saw his future in advertising. “It draws on my creative and quantitative abilities, and requires people skills. That’s a perfect fit.” Revelation turned to reality a month later during a campus talk by Ann Fudge (MBA ’77), chairman and View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Off Your Shoes: One Man’s Journey from the Boardroom to Bali and Back by Ben Feder (MBA 1991) Radius Book Group A hard-charging CEO of a large enterprise, Feder discovers that he is losing the very things that sustained him over his years... View Details
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
prosper,” Moreno recalls. He was right, but Moreno, who became part owner and CEO of Nightingale Nurses, could not have predicted the dramatic ups and downs of the industry, from the 2008 economic crisis to the passage of the Affordable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
Is there a particular skill set involved in working with celebrities and professional athletes? You need to do well with ambiguity. It’s not a situation where the CEO has a five-year plan to execute. Most... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This contribution has been rapidly growing over the last three decades. In terms of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-103.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (A) Harvard Business School Case 107-055 In 1996, CEO Fernando Garcia Checa wanted to make customer analytics a part of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
Reenen Abstract—We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
savvy and organizational skills to the man Wall Street loved to hate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as detailed in this excerpt from the chapter “The Long Road Back.” Having tasted politics in 1932 by working for Franklin D. Roosevelt... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
teamwork in decision-making, the challenges of group decision-making, and the strategies for engaging team learning skills and attitudes to improve both the quality of and commitment to group decisions. Purchase the exercise:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
leadership style to “drain the swamp” of the Washington bureaucracy and deliver results for the American people. The United States is not a company, of course, and its citizens are not employees, but voters still were drawn to his promises of a fresh approach to... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
Jack." German entrepreneurs were autocratic and paternalist, but it is by no means clear that they had a particular lock on this sort of behavior. How many American CEOs would like to have labor representatives on their boards? We... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
included her husband. A decade later, in 1986, Claiborne was CEO of her own Fortune 500 company, reaching that milestone faster than any other business up to that point in history. Because the company did not own any of the factories that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About
will need to be resourceful to embrace new opportunities that come your way. I believe that as you look back at your HBS experience a few years from now, you will remember not what you lost , but what you gained : important skills of... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
a function of changes in the way many workers—especially those possessed of the skills most in demand—view their relationship with employers. In responding to COVID, employers publicly and unambiguously elevated their employees’ health... View Details
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