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  • 04 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

interest in developing social entrepreneurship courses, and last but not least, practitioners themselves, who are seeking to achieve mission impact as effectively, efficiently, and sustainably as possible. Q: What do you mean by social... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2025
  • Case

Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters: Vickers Oils and Resolving Family Conflict over Generations

By: Lauren Cohen, Octavian Graf Pilati and Sophia Pan
Will Vickers, a seventh-generation (G7) member of the Vickers Family, grappled with a pressing challenge: how to re-integrate family members into the firm to recover lost talent. His father, Peter Vickers, was the lone leader of the Vickers Oils—despite having stepped... View Details
Keywords: Shareholder; Involvement; Family Office; Family Firms; Family Business; Business Growth and Maturation; Experience and Expertise; Retention; Leadership Development; Business or Company Management; Management Succession; Organizational Structure; Family Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Diversification; Conflict and Resolution; Consumer Products Industry; United Kingdom
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  • October 2019
  • Case

Engaging the Nationwide Workforce

By: Ethan S. Bernstein, Jessica Gover and Sarah Mehta
Nationwide is “on your side,” but did employees feel that way? CAO Gale King and CEO Steve Rasmussen, starting in 2008, invested heavily in a human capital strategy centered around “engagement” at the Ohio-based Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. Set in 2014, this... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Insurance; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Human Capital; Leadership; Leadership Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social Psychology; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; United States; Ohio
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  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

alternative collaborative modes should be driven by a number of factors including characteristics of the technology, the capabilities of the firm, and the distribution of competences in the environment. We develop a set of guidelines for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

development model. They are keen to build a model village that integrates components of shelter, education, skill development and livelihood creation and affords residents a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 19, 2016

three-time increase in cov-lite issuance compared to a previous peak in 2007. We evaluate whether this development can be attributed to market overheating, increased borrower demand for cov-lite loans, or a rise in creditor coordination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 20

but that some children fail to follow that norm in the actual game. The gap between norm and behavior was correlated with self-regulation skills on a parent-report individual differences measure. Specifically, we show that failure to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 25

environments. We find that candidates benefiting from favorable situations are more likely to be admitted and promoted than their equivalently skilled peers. The results suggest that decision-makers take high nominal performance as... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

ability, even when experience and academic research have shown that link to be tenuous. Other circumstances such as market conditions and the skills and experience of the company's senior management team can have a profound impact. All... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment
  • 29 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

on the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and growth in host countries, particularly developing countries. It provides a broad overview, with a focus on two elements that have recently become particularly important, (1)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

Your Skills: Managing Teams The ability to lead teams is fast becoming a critical skill for all managers in the 21st century. Here are four HBS Working Knowledge stories from the archives that address everything from how teams learn to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 03 Oct 2018
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?

This curiosity needs to start with our existing team. Who is in our team and how can we map their skills to see the gaps? Then how can we approach the process of finding new people with a view of filling these gaps ?” NickC addressed the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

team.) Team members could click on each occupation ("Architectural Drafters," for example) to review information from a database developed for the U.S. Department of Labor. The database, O*NET, describes hundreds of occupations and breaks... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

asserted, "more highly skilled individuals will have to work even harder to make sense of all the material now available to them. And even though e-commerce, IT, and the Internet bring with them great opportunities, the advantages... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 08 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

efforts often look to address bigger problems in society, including climate change, water management, and obesity. Study findings imply that in this stage ultimate responsibility for sustainability shifts from CEO to CSO. The CSO's main responsibility is to help View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: What's the best way to report nonfinancial metrics? How can nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 24 Jun 2015
  • HBS Case

Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality

allowing schools to free up teachers to focus on teaching. Personalized learning is also becoming increasingly important, and AltSchool's technological capabilities allow students to develop at their own pace, with like-minded peers, and... View Details
Keywords: Re: John Jong-Hyun Kim; Education
  • 04 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 4

Marquis, Jianjun Zhang, and Yanhua Zhou Publication:California Management Review (forthcoming) Abstract We develop a framework to analyze the closing gap between regulation and enforcement of environmental protection in China and present... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49873 forthcoming Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Economic Development U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence By: Kerr,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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