Publications

29 Jun 2021
Blog Post

DIVERSIFYING OUR CASE PROTAGONISTS: HOW IS HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL DOING A YEAR LATER?

various characteristics of each case. “The new categorization process is not only important for internal teaching purposes, but as educational institutions worldwide look to HBS and Harvard Business Publishing to source business cases,... View Details

01 Jan 2008
News

Meg Whitman, MBA 1979

“Campaigns are a lot like start-ups,” she says with her characteristic enthusiasm. “It’s a chance to apply my previous experience to a new realm and help shape our country’s future.” View Details

30 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Diversifying Our Case Protagonists: How is Harvard Business School Doing a Year Later?

various characteristics of each case. “The new categorization process is not only important for internal teaching purposes, but as educational institutions worldwide look to HBS and Harvard Business Publishing to source business cases,... View Details

14 Sep 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

groups of people lead to individuals being judged by external characteristics such as gender, race, and national origin rather than the authentic person within. As with many complex issues, business leaders must explore these foundational... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

15 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem

Many distinctive aspects of the textile and apparel industries present challenges to implementing electronic commerce. First, and perhaps most important, is the difficulty of accurately characterizing the product online. Many of the View Details

Keywords: by Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

was below average, particularly given the time horizon of the investments (1992-2001). Q: What were some characteristics of social purpose companies that achieved a positive rate of return for investors? A: The big winners were in the... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

27 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

for a period as medical residents turn over in teaching hospitals. Who Drives Digital Innovation? Evidence from the US Medical Device IndustryDoes large-scale technological change characteristic of an industrywide digital transformation... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

22 Feb 2018
Blog Post

Five Steps to Jump Start Your MBA Recruiting at HBS

Whether this is your first time recruiting at HBS, or you are a returning recruiting partner, we have five tips for getting your recruiting efforts at HBS off to a great start. 1. Determine Your Ideal Candidate – Identify the View Details

Keywords: All Industries

January 2021 (Revised July 2022)
Case

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun

This case describes the rise of Dwight (Ike) Eisenhower from a small town in Kansas to the pinnacle of power on the world stage. During his life, Eisenhower was leader of the Allied Forces in World War II, president of Columbia University, head of NATO, and president... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Development; Leadership; Values and Beliefs; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Success; Work-Life Balance; Power and Influence

Educators

May 2018
Teaching Note

Maggie Wilderotter: Evolution of an Executive

By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

Teaching Note for HBS No. 417-091. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Networks; Gender; Power and Influence; Telecommunications Industry; United States

February 2018
Article

Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk

By: Robert Bushman, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey and Abbie Smith

We investigate how the prevalence of materialistic bank CEOs has evolved over time and how risk management policies, non-CEO executives’ behavior, and tail risk vary with CEO materialism. We document that the proportion of banks run by materialistic CEOs increased... View Details

Keywords: Management; Personal Characteristics; Behavior; Risk Management; Organizational Culture; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

2002
Book

Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

By: Rakesh Khurana

Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected... View Details

Keywords: Managerial Roles; Selection and Staffing; Personal Characteristics; Experience and Expertise; Investment Activism; Corporate Strategy

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Connecting With Nonprofits

2 provides additional characteristics of the relationships in each of the three stages. The evolution of these various dimensions does not necessarily take place simultaneously. Consequently, a particular relationship might have some... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

04 Jan 2021
Blog Post

The First Alumni of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

chats” during courses like Technology Ventures Immersion and Launch Lab. Given the engineering backgrounds of the cohort, the questions and discussion center around the deeper technical problems characteristic of ambitious technology or... View Details

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

While many characteristics that mark a successful entrepreneur are gender blind, being a woman does make a difference, and recognizing and utilizing those differences is an equally important quality to cultivate when building a new... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Feb 1998
News

Short Takes

Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. In a 1997 working paper... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

February 2001
Article

The Portfolio Flows of International Investors

By: K. A. Froot, P. O'Connell and M. Seasholes

Keywords: Asset Pricing; Equity Investment; Forecasting and Prediction; Behavioral Finance; Stocks; Investment Return; Market Transactions; Performance Expectations; Personal Characteristics; Financial Services Industry

December 2007
Article

The Malleability of Environmentalism

By: Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni, Min Li, Leigh L. Thompson and Max Bazerman

In this paper, we predict and find that self-perceptions of environmentalism are changed by subtle manipulations of context and, in turn, affect environmental behavior. In Study 1, we found that people exhibit greater positive assessments of their environmental... View Details

Keywords: Research; Environmental Sustainability; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Identity; Perception; Personal Characteristics

June 2010
Article

Are You a High Potential?

By: Douglas A. Ready, Jay A. Conger and Linda A. Hill

Some employees are more talented than others, and nearly every company has its method for identifying their high-potential managers. So how can you get on your company's high-potential list? Douglas A. Ready, of the talent-management research center ICEDR; Jay A.... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Employees; Leadership Development; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics