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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
time and energy from one category to another, in much the same way that one shifts from one image to another when looking through a kaleidoscope. The key to doing so is the ability to define “enough” and then employ it to pursue... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
hard to imagine being the only woman in a room of 350 people, but that’s what many of us experienced.” The founding CEO of AltaVista, Ilene Lang (MBA 1973) was a pioneering IT executive at companies including Symbolics and Lotus... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
LPV models derived using common valuation anchors such as earnings or sales also exhibit predictive ability. LPV ERPs based on the book value of equity and sales subsume the predictive ability of all other ERPs we examine. Collectively,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
made by its Board of Executive Directors. However, in any given year the majority of the Bank's member countries do not get a chance to serve on this powerful body. In this paper, we empirically investigate whether board membership leads... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
http://ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2013.837889?nosfx=y August 2013 Harvard Business Review The Price of Wall Street's Power By: Mukunda, Gautam Abstract—Over and over again, executives make... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
outcomes of an organization’s immediate interventions or the ability to affect system-wide change. By graphing the two levels of scale against the two levels of impact, we have constructed a four-quadrant framework. Quadrant #1 focuses on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA
emergency room visit that raises serious concerns about the student’s health or well-being; or (ii) other circumstances that raise serious concerns about the student’s health or well-being and reasonably call into question their ability... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
beta mode and back. He put the integrity of the institution above his own CEO ego. Executives are not baboons. But sometimes they act like 800-pound gorillas, throwing their weight around. And sometimes they stumble and get crushed under... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
systems evolve in different ways—in some, the core is stable, whereas in others, it grows in proportion to the system, challenging the ability of an architect to understand all possible component interactions. Our findings represent a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
Will the real Robert Kinloch Massie (DBA '89) please stand up? Priest. Politician. University lecturer. Medical marvel. Social activist. Prize-winning historian. Environmentalist. Executive. While Bob Massie is justified in rising to acknowledge any of these... View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
Within his first few months, Kaplan had rallied the organization around a new strategic direction: to become the quality leader in health care. What Kaplan and his administrators lacked was an effective tool to execute their strategy.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
did you focus on those people who carry out "necessary evils" in the workplace? Joshua Margolis and Andrew Molinsky: We became interested in necessary evils because students in our undergraduate, MBA, and executive education... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
WMS site also features individual policy reports for manufacturing, education, health-care, and retail organizations, providing a management benchmark for executives in any of those fields. On average, based on the evaluation tool, the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
payroll). Today, we have almost 50 people working at Flatiron School. One of the great benefits of working with an incredible team is that your job isn’t necessarily to manage them, as much as it is to make sure they have what they need to View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
E. Ricart Publication:Harvard Business Review 89 Abstract Most executives believe that competing through business models is critical for success, but few have come to grips with how best to do so. One common mistake, the authors' studies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
more importantly, the lessons she learned, which have honed her ability to lead. Alongside her classroom experience, Ramirez sought hands-on learning at MLT partner Danaher through a pre-MBA internship and summer internship between her RC... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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What Google, Lego, and Other Brands Know About the Promise and Peril of AI | Working Knowledge
would affect attitudes toward their brands—often ended up with failed AI initiatives. “Companies often jump on the AI bandwagon pretty quickly,” says De Freitas, an assistant professor in the Marketing Unit. “One of the reasons is, there’s a lot of pressure from... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
years, but there continues to be a wasted opportunity to think about workplace design more strategically. I see executives fall into two patterns: The first is the older generation of executives who are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
Bridges (a capstone at the end of the two years), and several entirely new Executive Education courses. In our doctoral programs, we launched PRIMO, a summer program that connects undergraduates with our faculty to learn about management... View Details
- 21 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish
poverty line. And yet, more than a trillion dollars has been spent by bilateral and multilateral organizations since World War II to try to alleviate this problem. The funds that were supposed to help improve people's lives have often been lost to governments that lack... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson