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- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
twentieth century was a learning century, then the twenty-first century is a performance century." In considering whether job performance is a matter of each person's... View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
violations,” says Luca. In other words, cities could be much more efficient with existing resources—producing the same results with less money, or improving their performance without additional expenditures. The researchers are currently... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
control and involvement and argue that its impact on business performance will be positive. They offer a road map to help CEOs and directors better balance board oversight with the firm's daily operations and to give directors a better... View Details
- 09 Aug 2017
- News
Finding a Path Out of Poverty
his community. “Education was the bridge to a better life for me,” says Magwegwe, whose own dreams of going to college in the early 1990s were, at first, dimmed by a series of tough breaks. It would take encounters with a produce vendor who gave him a View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
portfolio firms, attend board meetings, and provide strategic guidance, just like independent venture capitalists. In some respects, their job may be easier: typically, the corporation provides all the funds, sparing them from having to... View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
Summing Up "Good attitudes supercharge organizational performance beyond what the skill/talent level would indicate," according to Perry Miles. "Attitude is one of the strongest determinants of performance," added... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
team, how to measure progress, and more. The Virtual Manager: Cutting-Edge Solutions for Hiring, Managing, Motivating, and Engaging Mobile Employees by Kevin Sheridan (MBA 1988) (Career Press) As more and more jobs can be View Details
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
install these cameras to look for racism, but it turns out those incentives really matter to umpires," Parsons concludes. When an umpire's job was on the line depending on how accurately he called strikes, then he was more likely to... View Details
- 17 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
My Summer as a Venture Capitalist
table, helping define the economics of the investment, and performing due diligence. I had no prior experience, but they gave me a shot, and I learned on the fly. It was empowering to be included in everything I had hoped to see. Later... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
to landfill waste. What’s worse, each of the 27 million diapers that are tossed every year will take four or five centuries to decompose, due to their petroleum-based materials. Between the lack of performance in the sustainable brands... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
answer that question, the researchers compared the performance of companies that had undergone some level of digital transformation with those that didn’t. They found that: Expanding IT budgets increased hiring by 11 percent and sales by... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
whose job is growing accounts with a lot of potential and farmers whose job is to maintain strong and broad-based relationships. CRLs must walk a fine line between being close to the client, even considered... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
the description? So are CEOs who are new to the role. Just when an executive feels he has reached the pinnacle of his career, capturing the coveted goal for which he has so long been striving, he begins to realize that the CEO's job is... View Details
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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
venture capital company Venrock Associates and its founding family, the Rockefellers, compiled by founding partner Peter O. Crisp (HBS MBA '60). It includes information on Venrock's investments, investment performance and analysis, and... View Details
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
while creating new jobs more or less commensurate with the skills of the displaced workers. But things have changed since the technology is now able to think as well as perform tasks It is not easy to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
on Wall Street. And W.R. Grace's Peter Grace told us he wouldn't invest in Third World countries unless he had over 50 percent ownership. What would he say today? Verbosity ruled. Classroom performances were supplemented by mutterings... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
job Let the numbers fall where they may. You may find that people achieving their dreams has no link with gender equality.” For others, “having the best people doing the job” may have been seen as having a subjective quality to it, based... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
significantly reduces dishonesty. When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of Leader Power on Team Performance Authors:L.P. Tost, F. Gino, and R. Larrick Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
manufactured its products in the US, and even built its own factory. But today, iPhones, iPads, and other Apple products are made overseas, largely because a country like China is able to get the job done without the time and expense that... View Details
- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
Corporations could do a good job of running corrupt Third World governments. Corruption rules in too many of the world's democratically elected governments. From Achocalla, Bolivia, to Mayuge, Uganda, voters pick their leaders through the... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker