executive search firms - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Dec 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

strength of the country, is increasingly failing to provide stable policy decisions addressing the issues Sweden is facing. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53584 October 2017 Review of Economics and Statistics A Field Experiment on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2023
News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

marriage license or death certificate. “It’s a sense of euphoria,” he says. As he constructed a family tree that stretched back to the early 18th century, Diamond also began to think about how the process could be improved. His own search... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

adoption of feed-in tariffs, subsidies, and tax credits in the 1980s. However the poor technological capabilities of U.S.-based firms meant that it was Danish and other foreign companies that benefitted most. Subsequently the combination... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

Most companies fail. It's an unsettling fact for bright-eyed entrepreneurs, but old news to start-up veterans. But here's the good news: Experienced entrepreneurs know that running a company that eventually fails can actually help a career, but only if the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Middle East & North Africa - Global

Turkey, North Africa, and Central Asia. Support for faculty research, student programming, Executive Education, and Harvard Business Publishing are enabled by these HBS locations. Locations Middle East and North Africa Research Center:... View Details

What You Don't Know About Making Decisions

Most executives think of decision making as a singular event that occurs at a particular point in time. In reality, though, decision making is a process fraught with power plays, politics, personal nuances, and institutional history. Leaders who recognize this make... View Details

07 Mar 2023
HBS Case

ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

technology in the case “Timnit Gebru: ‘Silenced No More’ on AI Bias and the Harms of Large Language Models.” The case study examines the efforts by the pioneering Gebru to warn Google’s executive suite. Born in Addis Ababa to Eritrean... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology

14 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Growing CEOs from the Inside

leaders. Q: What happens when your firm has not done proper succession planning, and needs to find a new CEO quickly? A: Well, inevitably you bring in a search firm to help... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Employment

08 Dec 2015
First Look

December 8, 2015

of Psychological Science Advisers' By: Teachman, Bethany A., Michael I. Norton, and Barbara A. Spellman Abstract—On September 15, 2015, President Obama issued an Executive Order recommending that executive... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Becoming a Board Member - Alumni

HBS Alumni Resume Book who have relevant board experience Identify and contact executive search firms (see list below) Increase Your Visibility Sell yourself as an expert - get... View Details

05 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Virtual Tours Still Worth It in Real Estate? Evidence from 75,000 Home Sales

served by smaller real estate firms and in less sought-after neighborhoods, virtual tools may help sellers. That’s because if a listing comes with a virtual tour, chances are the rest of the listing is higher-quality, too, Troncoso says.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Real Estate

16 Nov 2021
HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

defendants were also ordered to pay about 3 million euros in damages to victims. What could the firm have done differently? When Montgomery teaches the cases in executive education classes at HBS, her... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

Technology & Innovation Technology & Innovation December 2014 Article The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization By: Nicholas Bloom, Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen... View Details

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

Minneapolis. “It was a big decision to stay in Silicon Valley,” Datar says. “The demand for data-science professionals is through the roof, so you have to go where the experts are. Desai credits the success of data science at Target to this team.” Experiment and View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

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About - Business & Environment

the School’s ten units. We catalyze research and share insights with business leaders. We encourage faculty and students to address climate change and environmental sustainability in MBA classrooms. We host academic and executive... View Details

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About the Project - Managing the Future of Work

outdated workforce development models and human resource practices. Instead, they will need to embrace new ideas, create new institutions, and forge new alliances with external stakeholders—in ways that build competitive advantage for the View Details

28 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

dynamic occurs because an organization's problem-solving routines and normal patterns of communication tend to constrain the space of designs within which it searches for new solutions. Such a link, if confirmed empirically, would be... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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California - Global

study writing on West Coast companies, with an emphasis on California, specifically the San Francisco Bay Area. Since its opening, the CRC has helped develop more than 250 cases, which are used in all academic units within the School's MBA and View Details

29 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

student Cirrus Foroughi and Barbara Larson, executive professor of management at Northeastern University. While digital technology has made workers more efficient and accessible than ever before, many companies have been slow to let... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

November 2003 (Revised March 2006)
Case

Dow Chemical's Bid for the Privatization of PBB in Argentina

By: Mihir A. Desai and Alexandra de Royere

What price should Dow Chemical bid for PBB, a petrochemical complex that is being privatized by the Argentine government? To answer this question, students are forced to consider the role of country risk, the underlying currency exposure of the business, and how to... View Details