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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
once-in-a-lifetime chance to be part of the Olympics - as among their reasons for taking on the ACOG challenge. "Along with the sense of pride and place," says Frazier, an Atlanta native who returned home after nine years at the First National Bank of Chicago, "the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
proven approach to analyzing and solving challenges and provides a common language anyone can understand. Teams That Work: The Six Characteristics of High Performing Teams by Cliff Chirls (MBA 1979), George Myers, and Tom Champoux... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
nature of the process when he said, "To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."8 For him, innovation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
resources -- what we call social capital." Organizational behaviorists have known for years that third-party endorsements are critical to a young firm's success. Higgins and Gulati wanted to understand the origins and nature of these... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 06 Aug 2014
- What Do You Think?
What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?
as the father of leadership." In an extended remembrance that Bill sent to me, he went on to say that "It was Warren who first said leadership is not a set of genetic characteristics, but rather the result of the lifelong View Details
- 20 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management
resource management. Water resource management stands out as a critical priority, aiming to enhance water-use efficiency, implement sustainable flood management, and safeguard natural water bodies to mitigate climate-related stresses.... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
Hall, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo Abstract In this study, we examine transformations in the influence of risk managers in two large UK banks over a period of six years. Our analysis highlights that a process we term toolmaking, whereby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
independent social rating agency and avoids selection issues by taking advantage of a natural experiment that arose when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. We find empirical support for our hypotheses and present implications... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
its influence on team processes and performance are discussed. What Drives Sell-Side Analyst Compensation at High-Status Investment Banks? Authors:Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy, and David A. Maber Publication:Journal of Accounting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
processes of production and distribution. This was a massive innovation over the older model of a single owner who tried to oversee everything. Under managerial capitalism, ownership became dispersed, but control remained concentrated in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
today, Levitt’s article caused a minor sensation when it first appeared. Apart from its insightful specifics, its language (“globalization” was a novel term) and expansive vision offered a hopeful alternative to the grim reality of a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
“establishing a sense of urgency” — is told by a middle manager who sought to spur change in his company's purchasing process by highlighting its inefficiencies.The manager hired a summer intern to catalogue all the types of gloves being... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
market leader. If you look at many of the great companies in the world they’ve gone through this process of transformation: Nintendo began as a playing-card company. American Express was a package-delivery company. Nokia was a paper mill.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- Web
Judith Prior Lawrie Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
(HRPBA 1957) Judith Prior Lawrie (HBRPA 1958) "I've always said, having gone to the Business School, I knew the jargon. I mean literally I spoke the same language from day one. And so I tended to be accepted intellectually by young... View Details
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
processes and well-treated people can be a natural fit rather than some kind of painful tradeoff." Not For The Shortsighted Ton acknowledges that the model could be difficult to implement for companies... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
focuses on scaling a venture's sales process and provides a methodology for identifying core customers and some implications for governance criteria and potential product changes as well as sales management. Paper: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
sites might be beautiful, intuitive, mobile-optimized, and written with simple, straightforward language. And just like TurboTax is upfront that the process might seem like a slog but, don’t worry, we’ll get through it together, one step... View Details
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
limit and we naturally shift away from System 2 thought toward System 1 thought. Clearly, a complete System 2 thought process is not necessary for every managerial decision or for every small negotiation you... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
which is the ability of computer systems to learn from a language as it is spoken, in all its idioms, colloquialisms, and technical-ese, and without having to be explicitly programmed to learn these things. The IBM computers answered... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
capital is often related to a lack of those other resources.” Coming up short Wu and his coauthors identified three areas in which most entrepreneurs come up short in the process of developing a new business venture: searching for... View Details