Career Progression - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

percent said that caregivers are perceived as less committed to their careers 55 percent said caregivers are less likely to progress as fast as their peers, even if they put forth the same effort 47 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

history, who continued to practice, focusing on shaving milliseconds off his time. Phelps never stopped improving. Similarly, consider the career of Dirk Nowitzski, the first European player to win an MVP award after moving to the... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

pad, we are seeing people who want to take a pause in their already accomplished careers so that they can develop personalized action plans to take back to their organizations," Simons comments. "It's a highly integrated... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

20 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

she says. "The backstory of organizations is now part of the value proposition for consumers. The lads from Dublin understood that early on and they still understand it." Koehn says the U2 case remains a work in progress and she believes... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

16 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

little progress has been made in reducing cost overruns even though more than 20 reform proposals were launched during this time. "Despite the focus and effort dedicated towards reform in the past fifty years, important systemic... View Details

Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service

30 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

you can't prove who you are.” The scope and scale of the project, and its progress so far in already enrolling 200 million people, make this the largest-scale project of its kind in the world, says Harvard Business School Professor Tarun... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

forthcoming Journal of Accounting & Economics Career Concerns of Banking Analysts By: Horton, Joanne, George Serafeim, and Shan Wu Abstract—We study how career concerns influence banking analysts'... View Details

06 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

growth without undermining the progress achieved in reducing inequality and poverty. Can the Brazilian government reverse inequality and grow at the same time? What development strategy should Lula follow in his second term? Does Brazil... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 27

various parties, from governments to auto manufacturers to consumers. The fledgling company has made good progress in both Israel and Denmark as the first two launch locations but faces a series of decisions on the best course of action... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

the candidate who probably feels like getting board/investor visibility is a strong positive in their career development." —Rob Go, partner, NextView Ventures Marketing, sales & partnerships Table stakes: Introductions to potential... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

17 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

financial return on organizational investments to reduce physician burnout. A model outlining the steps of the typical organization’s journey to address this issue is presented. Critical ingredients to making progress include... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

made up 46.7 percent of the US labor force, and filled more than half of management, professional, and related occupations. If the strategy was to get more women in the workplace and let them naturally ascend to positions of upper management, it seemed the pump was... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

Gawande, who explained one program's progress in a 2013 New Yorker article: "The field workers soon realized that having the mothers make the solution themselves was more effective than just showing them. The workers began looking for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

25 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

racial diversity decreasing across businesses as a whole. “We may be overstating what progress has been made on employment integration,” the authors write. The reason for the step backward? Firm turnover is creating a racial divide. New... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 17

2014' Significant negotiation-related achievements from the career of Ambassador Tommy Koh of Singapore are highlighted in brief form along with elements of his background and career. In light of these accomplishments, Koh was selected as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

differentiator was their sense of being able to make progress in their work. The authors also observed interpersonal events working in tandem with progress events. Praise without real work progress, or at... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?

On Friday, we will celebrate International Women's Day 2019, an annual event to promote the advancement of gender equality and gauge our progress across many domains. In business, researchers tell us, progress is happening but is still... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

task forces' progress at various junctures to IBM's Worldwide Management Council. Gerstner and Childs followed up with the task force sponsors to ensure that the groups were gathering meaningful information and connecting it to the... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

high turnover, waning commitment, missed recruiting goals, and officer retention nightmares. By studying the development of professional identity over time within the Army's career structure, we hoped to identify a conceptual leverage... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2020
What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

(iStock) iStock SUMMING UP Who Will Call the Shots in Stakeholder Capitalism? At one time in my checkered academic career I studied, researched, and published papers about interorganizational management. Specifically, I was interested in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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