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- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
external events in the late 1990s, accelerated dramatically with the accounting scandals of the Enron era plus the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, and then continued to change under the pressure of shareholder activism. There's a lot more... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
organization. Its funding was secure through 2006 because of a government-collected licensing fee, but it had lost audience share, experienced declining ratings, and was being outpaced by commercial competitors. Skepticism and cynicism reigned in the company. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Web
1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA
report all of their absences in advance of class into the Student Absence Notification Tool. It is important to note that Immersive Field Course class days are not eligible for excused recruiting absences, and all View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
"shaped" by many things—colleagues and friends, homes, climate, culture, and even our machines and gadgets—as well as our jobs. As he put it, "We are the product of a set of genes and their interaction with a myriad of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
percent of the proposals get NIH funding. A researcher receiving his or her first major NIH grant is over 40 years old, on average. Lab leaders spend a great deal of their energy recruiting the right people for their lab, nurturing a... View Details
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1.18 Field Global Capstone | MBA
important to note that FIELD Global Capstone class days are not eligible for excused recruiting absences, and all recruiting absences on these days will be unexcused. Unexcused absences during the course... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
By the end of his early career, Williams had won additional supporters within the company, including Barrett's boss and several white peers who, when they were promoted to management before Williams, vouched for him with their colleagues and View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
although structure is undoubtedly an impediment to the process, an even bigger barrier is managers' outdated understanding of strategy. At the heart of the problem is a failure to recognize that although the past three decades have brought dramatic changes in both... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
oversee the outcomes. A development plan should be prepared for each person to provide the varied experiences required if they are chosen, with opportunities to shine in different roles and exposure to the external challenges they would... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
design ("what we do") and its identity ("who we are") is often seen as a key to strong performance. But maintaining a tight fit between design and identity is difficult when a profound external shock forces an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
They absolutely do,” Mensah said. “Courageous people do it all the time. They don’t need consultants to teach them. They don’t need training. You do it like you do everything else. You make it a priority. But they don’t want to do it. What you really want to do... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
company in Boston, I was recruited by another speech recognition firm in Silicon Valley. At first I thought I wouldn't be able to take the job given the noncompete agreement I had signed in Boston, but I was nonetheless able to make the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
venture funds with an external focus. These did not prove particularly successful, largely owing to disputes within the firm about appropriate investments. The task force, in member (and future XTV president) Robert Adams's words, rapidly... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
Faculty George F. Baker Professor of Administration Das Narayandas Senior Associate Dean, External Relations and Harvard Business Publishing Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration Dear members of the HBS community, As a... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
so, whether she could attract the means to expand to Atlanta and Newark, where airport lease negotiations were again proceeding. Whatever external resources Rhyne would need to sustain her vision, her 18 months of mostly lonely,... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
on the Web is exactly the same as what you do off-line. Duplicate your traditional business assumptions on-line. (After all, the Internet is just a tool, isn't it?) Insist that an Internet venture meet every corporate standard: cost controls, quarterly earnings, View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
external funding requirements. Is this model typical among business schools? Our approach, together with the research that it enables, is one of HBS’s key differentiators. Our funding model puts us in a position to leverage a breadth and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
is remarkably prescient in other ways as well: Global warming was seen as a potentially game-changing threat; Middle East instability, particularly in Saudi Arabia, was an ever-present danger, with Islamic fundamentalism even hinted at as a possible factor; and the... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
relationship between green business and governments. The struggles of entrepreneurial pioneers have rarely proved profitable, as they were forced to compete with conventional businesses that ignored negative environmental externalities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
differentiate "quality FDI" in several different ways. First, we look at the possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including the average skill intensity and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne