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- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
firm." In order to test whether this was true, the researchers enlisted 94 CEOs of major Italian corporations who agreed to put their lives under the microscope for a period of a week at a time. The CEO's personal assistant was asked to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
(MBA 2013) In All Honesty My first job was in the college promotions department at Warner Bros. Records. I called the college radio stations to make sure they’d received the records I’d sent. When they asked for my opinion about them, I... View Details
- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
data, combined with the voter registration records of 3,786 top executives working at 941 firms in the S&P 1500 between 2008 and 2020. They pulled documents from states that share records and track voter... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
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Baker resources for HBS Alumni
including help creating a target list and preparing for an interview. Alumni Research Portal: Online access to a collection of information resources for personal and professional development. HBS email address is required. For email... View Details
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Sarah McConville | About
advertising sales. As Group Publisher, she established a subscriber-focused product and analytics strategy that has driven record subscription and circulation growth for HBR. Earlier in her career at Publishing, Sarah was Publisher of HBR... View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?
His research probes the ways race and racism are built into markets, business systems, and technology. Damon Phillips: Hiring people with criminal records benefits companies and society We should more explicitly support people with... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
general competencies into company- and job-specific expertise, develop relationships, and make a contribution to organizational performance in relatively short order. Once they begin to make a contribution to organizational performance (perhaps in a limited way at... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
Advertisement for DuPont Cellophane from The Saturday Evening Post, 1950. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Advertising Department records (Accession 1803), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington,... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
4 Things You Need to Know about the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Class of 2020. 2. The program does have application prerequisites To gain admission to the program, students must: Hold an undergraduate degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field, with a View Details
- 07 Mar 2016
- HBS Seminar
Scott Stern, MIT Sloan School of Management
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
think? Original Article The week that I write this, I needed help programming a television set for recording purposes. Before being connected with the cable company service representative, I agreed to provide telephonic feedback about the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
appeals to a great many managers. What I have found by studying the record is that acquisitions come in several distinct flavors, and that each type presents managers with a different set of challenges. The recommendation here is simple.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
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Why HBS? - Doctoral
administration, and region-based field support. And, the collections of Baker Library – one of the world’s largest and most respected business libraries – are available at the center of the HBS campus. Record of Placement Harvard Business... View Details
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
of intuition. Organizations that preclude intuition from their decision-making will never be, or cease to be, transformative." Others had a more expansive view of the role of judgment. As Donald Shaw put it, "Just because we have the technology to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
records some of the industrial feats performed by United States Steel Corporation and the steel industry, operating under the American system of free private enterprise, in the greatest war of all time—a war fought with weapons and... View Details
- 15 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Promises and Limitations of Big Data
How Will the Age of Big Data Affect Management? How do we avoid losing useful knowledge in a seemingly endless flood of data? Jim Heskett's readers offer some wise suggestions. Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
January to August using court records through the federal Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) and the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) databases. PACER records... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
opportunity to cheat. But unbeknownst to the participants, the researchers were able to record the outcome of each coin toss and thus could tell who lied about the results. Two weeks later the researchers asked the participants to recall... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
wake-up call from a small but loyal group of purists: mechanical watch collectors. "When things looked really bad for the mechanical watch industry, when the industry seemed on the verge of collapse, watch collectors started buying mechanical watches at auction at... View Details
- 30 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?
adaptability of the organization over time. As he put it, "By focusing too strongly on financial records (and audit committee work), we lose sight of the fact that departments like operations and human resources are very important... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett