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- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
Editor's note: How does an organization hold on to its wealth of accumulated knowledge when the knowledge-holders depart? It's a very real dilemma made even more critical as Baby Boomers begin their mass exit into retirement. The new book Critical Knowledge Transfer:... View Details
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Nathalie du Preez
management role. I chose Colgate for its global focus (less than 20% of its revenues come from the U.S.), its strong presence in emerging markets, its fundamental brand management training, and its... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- Career Coach
Scott Renner
Scott (Wharton ’94) is an Associate Director in HBS Career Professional Development, where he manages the MBA and Alumni Career Coaching program, and serves as Sector Manager for General... View Details
- 27 Apr 2022
- News
Following the Flow of Aid
provide food, shelter, and services to people crossing the border from Ukraine. But the experience also underscored for McKenna some of the “uncomfortable truths of aid work,” according to an April article in SeattleMet. “You’d see people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager It’s not lonely at the top anymore. Today’s CEO has an average of 10 direct reports, according to new research by Associate Professor Julie Wulf, Maria... View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
crossed with small financial incentives (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open bank savings accounts. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings account in the full sample, but do... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
business unit structures in management thinking, except that healthcare is still stuck in the functional model. These forms of competition and organization have also been institutionalized in medical... View Details
Shirish Nimgaonkar
Shirish is the co-founder of an AI enabled predictive automation software company. and a Natural Language Processing company focused on enhancing customer experience through AI. In the past, he has been a part of the senior management... View Details
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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
lifestyle , Tom Eisenmann How Will You Measure Your Life , Clay Christensen Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur , Brad Feld & Amy Batchelor The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship , Jessica Bruder View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
Hoffer and Hourdequin: Managing Directors at the Lyme Timber Company in Hanover, New Hampshire. Photo courtesy of the Lyme Timber Company LP It can be difficult to craft a business model that enables both investors and society as a whole... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
senior executives specializing in everything except sales. “The number of executives reporting to the CEO in the average S&P 500 company has doubled in the last 20 years,” says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Adding Corporate Social Responsibility to the Mix | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Adding Corporate Social Responsibility to the Mix Tanya Levy-Odom has always been involved in her community. As a teen, she taught first aid to children as a Red Cross volunteer. A native New Yorker, she now serves on the boards of the... View Details
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Juan Camargo
When the 2014 Cadillac ELR—the carmaker's new electric luxury vehicle—rolled onstage at the Detroit auto show earlier this year, Juan Camargo (MBA 2012) sat in the fourth row, beaming. And it wasn't just because, as assistant marketing View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections
sent to a friend who owed him money—in this homemade account book from 1673 to 1693. The book, bound in rawhide and sewn with linen thread, chronicles the family’s activity in farming and household management as well as shoemaking. Jacob... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
moral leadership, it needs to carefully examine and discuss issues that cross the line from legal to immoral. Microsoft needs to show its employees that it takes the issue of separation ( of families by ICE) seriously. How it does that... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
negotiation has become a key part of daily management. "Instead of being an important skill for special occasions - making deals and managing disputes - negotiation is increasingly a way of life for managers," notes James K. Sebenius, the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
A wave of mergers is sweeping the country, activity that recalls the 1980s, the 1960s, and even, some say, the empire-building of a century ago. In the following article, nine HBS professors comment on the current M&As; phenomenon and how M&As; in general affect View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 04 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should You Outsource Your Marketing?
benefit considerably by outsourcing, for example, analytical functions to qualified suppliers if those skills are lacking in-house. But some aspects of marketing are less amenable to outsourcing—those that directly drive marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin
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Peggy Yu
Peggy (Northwestern '02, HBS '07) loves working with students and alumni interested in working at startups as well as those interested in launching their own venture. Formerly the Interim Director and Associate Director at the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, she has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad
Considering an international assignment? Working abroad can be a pivotal juncture in one’s career. Yet making a successful transition to another country isn’t just a question of adjusting to a new culture — it’s also about personal transformation. Expats View Details