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- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
co-wrote with Lynn Pyun of MIT and B.Y. Cheon of Hanshin University and the Korea Labor Institute. Focusing on South Korea, the team interviewed scores of multinational and local executives to find out whether a firm could raise its... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
Summing Up Why Not Turn "No Surprises Management" On Its Head? If "managing up" with a "no surprises management" (NSM) philosophy is popular, "managing down" with NSM makes just as much sense, according View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
analyzing that data and designing strategy around it. That’s one reason eight HBS professors pooled resources in June to launch the Competing on Business Analytics and Big Data Executive Education program.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
needed while some are not. How to change the organization and management teams to create new competencies without changing your essence and core values?” Skills needed now:... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 2011
- Working Paper
CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them
By: Kevin J. Murphy and Michael C. Jensen
Almost all CEO and executive bonus plans have serious design flaws that limit their benefits dramatically. Such poorly designed executive bonus plans destroy value by providing incentives to manipulate the timing of earnings, mislead the board about organizational... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Competency and Skills; Cost of Capital; Executive Compensation; Risk Management; Performance Evaluation; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Value
Murphy, Kevin J., and Michael C. Jensen. "CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-022, October 2011.
- 2020
- Book
Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear But Are Rarely Told
By: David G. Fubini
Hidden Truths delivers profound and rarely discussed insights about C-suite jobs that provide aspiring leaders with practical, new skills that will equip them for the immense challenges of their desired jobs. Through 14 illuminating chapters, accomplished... View Details
Fubini, David G. Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear But Are Rarely Told. Wiley, 2020.
- 28 Dec 2016
- News
Harvard’s New Online Negotiation Course
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
will eventually find themselves spending more and more energy fighting for a dwindling supply of resources—and the market will win anyway. Norton and Westinghouse, for example, two companies that lived by the sword—with managers who were... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- March 18, 2014
- Article
The Seven Skills You Need to Thrive in the C-Suite
By: Boris Groysberg
What executive skills are most prized by companies today? How has that array of skills changed in the last decade, and how is it likely to change in the next ten years? To find out, I surveyed senior consultants in 2010 at a top-five global executive-search firm.... View Details
Groysberg, Boris. "The Seven Skills You Need to Thrive in the C-Suite." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (March 18, 2014).
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
many of its funds as mid-size. Shifting to a majority mid-sized fund designation might confuse the investment community that now associated Brown Capital with its winning small-company strategy. What’s more,... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
that audience. In TV, I can’t do that,” Gupta says. “When I reach out to my target audience and convey my message, if it’s only to 10,000 people, that might be more effective than reaching 10 million people... View Details
- January 2008
- Supplement
Procter & Gamble Brazil (B): Turning to Success
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew Bird
Supplements with the (A) Case. View Details
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Matthew Bird. "Procter & Gamble Brazil (B): Turning to Success." Harvard Business School Supplement 308-083, January 2008.
- March 12, 2021
- Article
Is Your C-Suite Equipped to Lead a Digital Transformation?
By: J. Yo-Jud Cheng, Cassandra Frangos and Boris Groysberg
The pandemic has rapidly accelerated many companies’ digital efforts, but do they have the right executives in place to lead this sort of transformation? To answer this question, the authors analyzed more than 100 search specifications for C-suite positions in Fortune... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Information Technology; Transformation; Competency and Skills; Digital Transformation
Cheng, J. Yo-Jud, Cassandra Frangos, and Boris Groysberg. "Is Your C-Suite Equipped to Lead a Digital Transformation?" Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (March 12, 2021).
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
“If you have a concept to communicate that is 20 minutes long, you will be competing with other instances of 20-minute content,” Greenstein says. “Don’t expect households to... View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- News
Ten Reasons Winners Keep Winning, Aside from Skill
- February 2025
- Case
Hyperscaling Dreams: Ualá's Path from Startup to Fintech Champion
By: Juan Alcácer and Manuel Franck
Ualá, a fintech startup founded in Argentina in 2017 by Pierpaolo Barbieri, aimed to increase financial inclusion in Latin America through a digital platform linked to a prepaid card. After rapid success in Argentina, it expanded into Mexico and Colombia, acquiring... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Leadership; Venture Capital; Talent and Talent Management; Strategy; Credit; Business Startups; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Banking Industry; Argentina; Mexico; Colombia; Latin America
Alcácer, Juan, and Manuel Franck. "Hyperscaling Dreams: Ualá's Path from Startup to Fintech Champion." Harvard Business School Case 725-408, February 2025.
- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR
By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane, Susan Pinckney and Alexis Lefort
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 424-004. Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management... View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Business Plan; Disruption; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Decisions; Diversity; Ethnicity; Gender; Nationality; Race; Residency; Higher Education; Learning; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Growth and Development; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Platforms; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Job Offer; Job Search; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Product; Mission and Purpose; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Corporate Strategy; Equality and Inequality; Valuation; Value Creation; Employment Industry; United Kingdom
- July 2025
- Teaching Note
Hyperscaling Dreams: Ualá's Path from Startup to Fintech Champion
By: Juan Alcacer and Manuel Franck
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 725-408. Ualá, a fintech startup founded in Argentina in 2017 by Pierpaolo Barbieri, aimed to increase financial inclusion in Latin America through a digital platform linked to a prepaid card. After rapid success in Argentina, it expanded... View Details