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- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
facilitated by Enron's bankers and advisors and largely missed by its board of directors and other watchdogs. Here are some "high level" details: Jeffrey Skilling had begun working with Enron in 1986 as a consultant with... View Details
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Professor Sawyer’s research focuses on U.S. political economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, concentrating on the development of competition policy and the administrative state. While the conventional history of U.S. competition policy portrays the... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Abstract—The most important of Lenin’s writings was, arguably, Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism. That work shifted the focus from workers’ struggles within one country to the dynamics of capitalism as a global system. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
essentially are both managers and leaders." COMMUNICATION IS KEY "Communication is the real work of leadership," says HBS professor Nitin Nohria, who documented the importance of persuasion in his 1992 book Beyond the Hype: Rediscovering... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 31 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 31
various disciplines. Recent work has begun to focus on a previously overlooked factor predicting dishonest behavior: the beneficiary or victim of dishonest acts. In two laboratory experiments, we manipulate the level of resources... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Our Team - Impact Investments
received her BS and BA degrees in Finance and Mathematics from the Wharton School/University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University. Marcus Sander Research Associate Marcus Sander is a Research Associate for Professor Shawn Cole and... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring Bryan Guerra...
chapter take you? Through my experience at HBX, I've found that I really love working on projects that have a significant impact on people's lives. For the next 5 years, my hope is to both continue View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details
- April 2012
- Article
Coming Through When It Matters Most
By: Heidi K. Gardner
All teams would like to think they do their best work when the stakes are highest-when the company's future or their own rests on the outcome of their projects. But too often something else happens. In extensive studies of teams at professional service firms, I have... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Projects; Performance Expectations; Failure; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Sharing
Gardner, Heidi K. "Coming Through When It Matters Most." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012).
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FAQs - Doctoral
part of the Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Village. This program has been designed to enable motivated undergraduates to pursue summer business research in a defined project and also participate in a social network that will... View Details
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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting
US and unique collaborations with impact investing peers and graduate schools, their mission remains central to their work. Over the past three years, three interns from HBS have joined teams within Bridges Fund Management, working in new... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
projects that are critical to their organization's success. Although building teams from individuals with varied prior experience is increasingly necessary, prior work fails to find a consistent effect of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance
Along with colleagues Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University, and John Van Reenen, London School of Economics, Sadun challenges this view in a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, Management as a Technology? They argue... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast
scorecard’s authors. “All employers are not created equal in terms of the type of springboard they provide for advancement,” says Fuller, who co-leads the Managing the Future of Work project at HBS. “And... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 26 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing
established brands are facing a loss of credibility as they are being disrupted by direct-to-consumer brands,” says Vettese, whose research project was guided by HBS professor Geoffrey Jones, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History.... View Details
- 21 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?
in Phase 3 studies, and the company’s stock nosedived, costing a staggering $21 billion in market value, according to the study. “One of the projects I’m working on now is trying to understand how the... View Details
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
Her Gender Shades project with Joy Buolamwini found that facial recognition services offered by IBM, Microsoft, and other companies misidentified Black women as much as 35 percent of the time while performing nearly perfectly with white... View Details
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Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial markets. Her book manuscript and working papers shed light on the evolution of securities markets and the relationship between finance, governance, and society. Some of the topics she pursues include:... View Details
- June 2020
- Supplement
RBC: Transforming Transformation (B)
By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Aldo Sesia
In 2017, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a Canadian financial icon, mandated a swat team of “enablers of collaboration” (their job description) to support the personal and commercial bank in the enterprise-wide RBC Cultural Transformation initiative. Historically,... View Details
Keywords: Service Delivery; Information Technology; Transformation; Change Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Decision Making; Human Resources; Management Systems; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Management Teams; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Canada
Bernstein, Ethan, Francesca Gino, and Aldo Sesia. "RBC: Transforming Transformation (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 920-045, June 2020.
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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
spanning the academic year. During this time, groups of students complete a strategic consulting project (4 hours per month per student) for their partner organization under the mentorship of the organization’s executive staff or Board... View Details