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Sekou Calliste
particular." The head of Sekou's investment banking group, Richard W Thaler, Jr., was an HBS alum. And the full-time employee who took him under her wing, Tiffany Craig-Herring, preceded him into HBS by one year. Sold on leadership... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
the social objective function, tagging generates costs that must be weighed against the benefits it generates through conventional channels. Only tags that are sufficiently predictive of ability, such as disability status, will be used.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Director’s Foreword | Baker Library
companies of the twentieth century. Founded in 1937 under the visionary leadership of Edwin H. Land, Polaroid was celebrated for its groundbreaking product development. An inspiring leader, Land pioneered a management approach that prioritized View Details
- September 2021
- Case
Brown Capital Management
By: Luis M. Viceira, Emily R. McComb and Sarah Mehta
Set in July 2021, this case looks at several growth strategies under consideration at Brown Capital, the second-oldest Black-owned asset management firm in the U.S. Since its 1983 founding, Baltimore-based Brown Capital has specialized in small company growth... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Diversity; Race; Finance; Equity; Public Equity; Stocks; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employee Ownership; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United States; Maryland; Baltimore
Viceira, Luis M., Emily R. McComb, and Sarah Mehta. "Brown Capital Management." Harvard Business School Case 222-002, September 2021.
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
competency and its ability to move up the value chain that will allow it to share the positive gains. If labor tries the old tactic of strikes, management will just outsource the staff from somewhere else ... " Globally organized labor may View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
agency is also feeling growing pains. Its 9,000 employees and $1.95 billion budget are straining to meet the demands of technological and global change. It has lost key senior managers, and low morale is a growing problem. Can the FDA... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
should your employees be to helping each other? Are they sharing responsibility for your company's success? (7) What strategic uncertainties keep you awake at night? How are you riveting everyone's attention on those uncertainties? These... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
that had little impact on productivity. Even today, one can argue that the internet gives and takes away productivity (in terms of mind-numbing activities that contribute little to productivity). However, like the space program, we have undoubtedly View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
the nature of technological discovery. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-038_54e189cf-0289-4cfc-b0da-e29552016f3b.pdf Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing By: Weinzierl, Matthew... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
anticipated benefits and efficiencies never materialized," explains Wruck. "Once deals are completed, disappointing outcomes can occur because perceived premerger synergies, such as product-line complementarities, are often elusive."... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
valuable networking benefits through networked incubators. The first is Brainshark.com, a year-old company that got started in a Boston-based incubator called Reach Internet Incubator. A year ago, founders Joe Gustafson and Mark Yacovone... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
any student support for the employees, and the employees themselves were thrilled.” Twenty-five years later, he frequently testifies before Congress on behalf of labor’s agenda. Between staff phone calls, an unflappable Silvers weighed in... View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Bringing the Lessons of 2020 into 2021
Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to do Their Part Enhance Virtual Recruiting and Remote Work Practices Virtual was our reality in 2020, and there have been many benefits to organizations and individuals... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Remembering “Mr. Harvard”
When it came to his wise counsel and support, however, no institution likely benefited more than Harvard University, which awarded Gordon an honorary doctorate in 1977. At HBS, just one of the Harvard schools he helped, Gordon served on... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
co-producing knowledge with those who will most benefit from it: the residents of the communities they study. "The common process of thinking is that from over here in our ivory tower at Harvard, we are supposed to find the knowledge,... View Details
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
that some of the hardest leadership decisions are the ones that have moral or ethical stakes. For example, while on the board of a nonprofit, I was approached by an employee—a whistleblower—who accused the program director of manipulating the organization's books. The... View Details
- November 2003 (Revised November 2004)
- Case
Ottawa Devices, Inc. (B)
By: Henry B. Reiling and Harry Clegg Midgley IV
The Rollins family assembly was meeting to discuss and decide which one or combination from among an estate freeze, installment sale of stock, ESOP (employee stock ownership plan), leveraged capitalization, annual gifts of stock, one-time outright gift of stock, or... View Details
Keywords: Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Property; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Stocks; Business Exit or Shutdown; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Family Business; Human Needs; Financial Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
Reiling, Henry B., and Harry Clegg Midgley IV. "Ottawa Devices, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 204-102, November 2003. (Revised November 2004.)
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Trust Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Alisa Yu, Justin M. Berg, and Julian Zlatev “People often respond to others’ emotions using verbal acknowledgment (e.g., “You seem upset”). Yet, little is known about the relational View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
Professor Ryan Buell and doctoral student Moon Soo Choi caught my eye recently. Their study of a credit card offering to almost 400,000 customers of Commonwealth Bank, Australia’s largest, found that a typical promotion mentioning only the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
themselves, Kahawa 1893 cuts out some of the traditional middlemen in the industry. The company works directly with Kenyan coffee cooperatives to source coffee beans that Kahawa roasts in San Francisco. Kahawa originally sold its beans to Bay Area offices, but when... View Details