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  • 04 Nov 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

leadership," according to Fidel Arcenas. As Ratnaja Gogula put it, " traits (that) make women better contenders for talent portability (include) women's ability to better cope with stress, better communicate and multi-task " View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett

    Edward McFowland III

    Edward McFowland III is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the first-year TOM course in the required curriculum.

    Professor McFowland’s research interests – which lie at the... View Details

    • 30 May 2019
    • What Do You Think?

    Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

    already see that many of the traits you listed for West Coast success are already being copied elsewhere.” Bruce Quinn reminded us that author Tom Wolfe “famously made some East/West comparisons in Esquire... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
    • 30 Jun 2021
    • In Practice

    The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

    What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
    Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
    • September 2010
    • Supplement

    Compass Maritime Services, LLC: Valuing Ships (CW)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen
    Tom Roberts, a founding partner of Compass Maritime Services, a New Jersey-based shipping research and consulting firm, has been asked by a new potential customer in May 2008 for advice on purchasing a capesize bulk carrier. After identifying a suitable ship with his... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Decisions; Microeconomics; Finance; Price; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Market Transactions; Partners and Partnerships; Mathematical Methods; Valuation; Consulting Industry; New Jersey
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    • October 2012 (Revised March 2022)
    • Case

    Kleiner-Perkins and Genentech: When Venture Capital Met Science

    By: Felda Hardymon and Tom Nicholas
    Genentech is a rare success story in the biotechnology industry. Hundreds of billions of dollars of venture capital have been invested without the expected transformational effects. Established in 1976, Genentech was to develop the new science of recombinant DNA into... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Science; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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    • 03 Oct 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    The Box Office Power of Stars

    power. For example, movie studios are probably more confident that a Tom Cruise movie will emerge as the winner of a competitive July 4 opening weekend than a movie with an unknown actor, and will adjust their release strategy... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video
    • 06 May 2015
    • What Do You Think?

    Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

    world of predictive analytics. In it, an innovative technology allows Washington, D.C. to go without a murder for six years by helping Tom Cruise, chief of the Precrime Unit, to identify, arrest, and... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • January 2009
    • Supplement

    Yieldex (B)

    Yieldex CEO Tom Shields was hired by the company's technical founder, Doug Cosman, in October 2007. One of Shields' top priorities is finding a vice president of engineering to manage the company's software development efforts. Shields and Costman disagree about the... View Details
    Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Applications and Software; Engineering; Decision Choices and Conditions; Product Development; Information Technology Industry
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    • 15 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Rethinking E-Leadership

    by transforming" the existing business or creating a new one. An effective e-leader, Hargrove continues, must shift from "being a productivity and efficiency junkie to being an opportunity seeker and innovator who quests for... View Details
    Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
    • 08 Feb 2017
    • News

    How Immigrants Changed the Geography of Innovation

    • 21 Jan 2022
    • News

    A Leader’s Handbook for Managing Culture

    • 11 Sep 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Riding the Internet Fast Track

    such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, E*Trade, and Priceline.com, firms that unflinchingly invest millions of dollars in advertising and promotion each year to rapidly build traffic and revenues. The high-octane fuel that these super trains require is provided View Details
    Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
    • 05 May 2003
    • What Do You Think?

    Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?

    respondents concerned the misuse of such techniques. As Tom Henkel put it, "I'm sure the same companies that wasted time and money on poorly designed surveys and focus groups will engage in similarly misguided neuroscience and... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 03 Dec 2008
    • What Do You Think?

    Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

    Summing Up The current global recession has, judging from responses to this month's column, many origins, among them housing and credit. All, of course, are traceable to human responses to both perceived opportunities and calamities, which in turn have been engineered... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 08 Sep 2011
    • What Do You Think?

    What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?

    Summing Up The first impression I get from respondents to this month's column is that Steve Jobs can't be replaced as CEO of Apple by just one person. Rather the succession must include at least a head of design (according to Yadeed Lobo)... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer
    • 03 Mar 2010
    • What Do You Think?

    To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?

    of identity. Perceptions vary widely on the issue of "identity" and economic performance, particularly as it applies to the U.S. One school of thought is summarized by C. J. Cullinane when he says, "Our identify has... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 09 Jan 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

    underscored the risk and uncertainty inherent to capitalism itself. Sean Silverthorne: Why did you decide to write this book? Walter Friedman: The idea came to me years ago when teaching "Creating Modern Capitalism," a short course that was once required for incoming... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Jan 2013
    • What Do You Think?

    Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?

    importance of measuring the quality of the contribution that individuals make to a team. Tom Dolembo pointed out that "Teamwork isn't about falling backwards into a mattress, it is about a specific skill Unless teaming is approached as a... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 02 Jun 2011
    • What Do You Think?

    Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

    the risks are no longer connected to individuals who possess the incentive, power and capability to take action and manage the risks." Stephen Basikoti agreed, noting that "creditors have already shown themselves incapable of making better decisions View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett