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  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

reached the executive level at his organization. Why did he make it when so many other minorities plateaued in middle management? First, Williams had the good fortune to be hired by Nathan Barrett, a white manager who continually expanded... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
  • November 2019 (Revised December 2019)
  • Case

Marcus by Goldman Sachs

By: Rory McDonald, Samir Junnarkar and David Lane
Five years on from the 2008 financial crisis, Goldman Sachs remained wounded. Revenues at the global investment bank had stagnated below pre-crisis levels, and the firm had yet to rebound from a substantial decline in securities-trading revenues. Marcus by Goldman... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Banks and Banking; Innovation Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Organizational Culture; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 24 Jul 2018
  • News

How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft

A recent Bloomberg profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood (MBA 1999) offers an inside look at how the 16-year company veteran has worked to redefine the tech giant. Hood’s tenure as CFO began with an immediate challenge, as detailed in the... View Details
  • 17 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

to research by Harvard Business School Professor Raffaella Sadun. “A CEO transition is a major organizational event, and communication inside the company is such an important aspect of that transition.” Sadun and colleagues describe how a... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Reversing the Null: Regulation, Deregulation, and the Power of Ideas

Keywords: by David Moss; Banking
  • 07 Jan 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

International Differences in the Size and Roles of Corporate Headquarters: An Empirical Examination

Keywords: by David Collis, David Young & Michael Goold
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

personal responsibility. Evidence of this problem is provided by a study of a large European telecoms company, which revealed that very little learning occurred from a set of large and small failures over a period of twenty years. Instead... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
  • 27 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

understand differences among the groups and find ways to appeal to a broader set of employees and customers," according to HBS professor David A. Thomas. Since then, the number of female executives in the company has grown View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
  • Book Review

Book Review of Foreign Investment and Development in the Southwest Pacific: With Special Reference to Australia and Indonesia, edited by David William Carr

By: Louis T Wells Jr
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Growth and Development; Australia; Indonesia
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  • 13 May 2021
  • News

Investment Management for the Carbon Potential Of Forests: David Brand, New Forests

  • 31 Jan 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior

Keywords: by David F. Drake
  • 04 May 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

An Ounce of Prevention: The Power of Public Risk Management in Stabilizing the Financial System

Keywords: by David A. Moss; Banking; Financial Services
  • 28 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

Back in the early 1990s, managers of U.S. companies were justifiably proud of the well-oiled machines they'd made of their supply chains. Over the previous fifteen to twenty years, they'd wrung costs from the mechanisms and processes by... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

his insights to set the stage. Senior Lecturer Clayton S. Rose, who for 20 years worked at JP Morgan & Company and headed global investment banking and global equity there, discussed the implications of change in commercial and investment banking. Professor and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 27 Feb 2019
  • HBS Seminar

David Robinson, Fuqua School of Business at Duke University

  • 04 Jan 2024
  • News

Great Heights

In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which, at 20,310 feet, is the tallest... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
  • January 2006
  • Book Review

Review of "Icarus in the Boardroom: The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From" by David Skeel. Oxford University Press, 2005

By: A. Zelleke
Keywords: Information; Governance; Business Ventures
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  • 07 Jul 2010
  • News

Rethinking MBA: Exclusive excerpts from book by HBS prof

  • 23 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

In The Strategy-Focused Organization, HBS professor Robert Kaplan and David Norton, president of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, share the results of ten years of research into companies that have implemented the Balanced Scorecard.... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 13 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

unfolded, without the usual biases and distortions that come from 20/20 hindsight. The story of how Levy tilled the soil for change provides lessons for any CEO in a turnaround situation. [...] Reinforcing Good Habits Without a doubt, the toughest challenge faced View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto