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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

commensurate with their needs and goals. Consider the following: Define “enough” When a person’s definition of success remains open ended, that openness can lead to pursuits without end. Money, accomplishment, status – ultimately, what is... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

Science Quarterly, a research team finds that shifting the focus to an employee's personal identity leads to an increase in both employee retention and customer satisfaction. "Organizations will talk about... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications
  • Web

Judges - Alumni

mindfulness, therapy, nutrition, and sleep, all included in one subscription. A champion of wellbeing, he is one of millions of employees who use Wellhub to move, eat, sleep, and feel better, leading to better engagement and productivity... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Bridging the Gap

says HBS professor Jan Rivkin, who developed and leads YALP alongside faculty members Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Karen Mills, and Mitch Weiss; as well as Program Director Manjari Raman. “When we dove into the data, what came screaming back at... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

challenges of a platform landscape that includes significantly varying installed device base sizes, growth rates, application distribution models, and hardware device profiles. Focusing on Apple's market leading iOS platform and "App... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

investors as well as trustees of leading nonprofits had expressed uncertainty about whether MRIs were compatible with a board’s fiduciary duties. Darren wondered if his board held the same view. This case will explore the process and... View Details
  • Web

Health Care Curriculum - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health Care Curriculum Health Care Curriculum Value-Based Health Care Delivery (VBHCD) is a distinctive curriculum developed at Harvard Business School by Professor Michael Porter and a team of colleagues. The VBHCD curriculum, designed... View Details
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

of 145 globally distributed members of nine project teams of an organization, we found that uneven proficiency in English, the lingua franca, disrupted collaboration for both native and non-native speakers. Although all View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 23, 2016

experiences alter their responses. Moreover, although individual and other experience act as substitutes prior to negative news, we find that this substitution curtails significantly following the negative announcement. Finally, we find that experience View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

related to improved project performance in some cases. Our results highlight a need for more nuanced approaches to leveraging experience in team management. Deed, Clear Conscience: When Cheating Leads to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2000 (Revised November 2000)
  • Case

IBM Corporation Turnaround

By: Robert D. Austin and Richard L. Nolan
Describes the details of IBM's dramatic corporate turnaround in the early 1990s led by CEO Louis V. Gerstner. Accounts of events are from interviews with IBM executives. Covers the factors that led to the company's decline and actions taken to recover. View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Restructuring; Management Teams; Management Practices and Processes; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

as profit. I owe [thanks] to Professor Kash [Rangan] for passionately leading us through a fruitful and impactful discussion. —Senthilkumar Rajendran (SELP 4, 2019) Back to top “Chrysler and BMW: Tritec Engine Joint Venture” A gifted... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • October 2010 (Revised May 2017)
  • Case

Building a Developmental Culture: The Birth of Deloitte University

By: Boris Groysberg, Maureen Gibbons and Joshua Bronstein
It is October 2009 and Barry Salzberg, CEO of Deloitte LLP, has just returned from the groundbreaking of Deloitte University. When completed, Deloitte University would be a world class learning and development center owned by, and for the exclusive use by the employees... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Problems and Challenges; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Teams; Competency and Skills; Training; Employees; Values and Beliefs; Education Industry; Consulting Industry; United States
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  • 29 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

gained higher levels of education and workforce integration, leading analysts to blame ingrained bias and “occupational sorting” for the difference. Occupational sorting occurs when people select jobs based on their demographics. For... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 18 Dec 2013
  • HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

had been swirling around the cyclist for years. And yet, there was still something shocking about the admission. At the peak of his career, Armstrong was one of the most celebrated athletes in the world, earning $28 million a year from View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

Consistent with predictions, results reveal that portfolios of level 3 financial assets have higher implied betas and lead to larger bid-ask spreads relative to those designated as level 1 or level 2 assets. Both results are consistent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

managed for the long term." The research team was interested in several issues: Do short-term companies attract a particular kind of investor? Is investing in these firms riskier than investing in companies with longer-term time horizons?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 27 May 2022
  • Blog Post

Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

Force Academy; History major Military experience: US Air Force Intelligence Officer; current US Air Force Reserve Intelligence Officer What do you think helped you stand out during the application process? As an Intelligence Officer, I had the opportunity to View Details
  • 01 Jan 2012
  • News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

devastates Kobe 1997 Founds Rakuten 2000 Rakuten IPO 2010 Institutes “Englishnization” at Rakuten 2012 Rakuten leads $100 million Pinterest investment In 1995, the city of Kobe, where Hiroshi Mikitani grew up, was devastated by what was... View Details
  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

more than 250,000 invitees, resulting in 150 research ideas and hypotheses. The goal of opening up idea generation and disaggregating the different stages of the research process was to expand the number and range of people who might participate. Today, seven View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne