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- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
roles in star analysts' performance. In addition, we find that firms that hire star analysts from competitors with better capabilities suffered more extreme negative stock-market reactions than those that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
should hire for curiosity, model inquisitiveness, emphasize learning goals, let workers explore and broaden their interests, and have “Why?” “What if ?” and How might we ?” days. Doing so will help their organizations adapt to uncertain... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
Siegel, Mimi Xi, and Christopher PoliquinHarvard Business School Case 711-408 Can multinationals wield competitive advantage by aggressively hiring talented members of the excluded social group in each market? This is the subject of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
not only a company's numbers but also the systems that produce the numbers. Finally, public accountants will have to evaluate the work of the boards' audit committees that hired them. The bill for the additional external auditors and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
When electronic component distributor Arrow decided it had to be on the Internet, it gave the Arrow.com team terrific new offices, hired young newcomers, and essentially sent a message to mainstay Arrow employees that they were now... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
integrated services. While Barge's new organization is not yet fully in place, he is determined to win the Bank of America business and moves quickly to hire a senior account manager and establish an organizational architecture that will... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
people we might hire, I see three kinds. I have people I know are going to steal me blind no matter what I do. I definitely try not to hire those people. Then I have people who I know will always do the right thing, no matter what. And... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
toward the end of the chain, the "coach" (Reddy) was still struggling with the same issues as the "protégé" (Majmudar). For example, Reddy had not yet solved the problem of how to hire people who would be able to scale... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
restructuring, and the employees and unions that want to hear about investments and hiring more people. Miller: This is a tricky communication exercise no matter what the context is. But it is true that Total, for instance, is perceived... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
motorbikes, which posed a threat to the company's core business. Sourcing the technology for these e-bikes, and hiring and retaining the management and creative talent the company needed, were continuing challenges. The case traces the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
negatively associated with FLSI. These findings suggest that rather than relying on hiring motivated individuals, managers need to support employees' efforts to improve their work systems by (1) creating a work environment where it is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
another potential peril of referral-based hiring. Beyond ending up with a homogenous workforce, managers who hire candidates who already know other employees might have to work harder to get these candidates to collaborate with people... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
the business model is sharpened and the market is better understood. Cultivate outside perspective. A common mistake companies make is to rely on employees from the core organization to staff new ventures. Using these employees is tempting: They are close to the... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
http://www.ftpress.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132779781 Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Publication:Management Science (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go
search process, the company offered the position of CEO to Dick Williams, an industry veteran with twenty-two years of experience at IBM. In the final stages of negotiating his hiring terms, Williams made one final, surprising request:... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
out a report card, but also to help make a good CEO a great CEO.” Corporations can mitigate this issue in a couple of ways, he says. For starters, they can hire an outside recruiter to enlist new board members, so that the board includes... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
still had to justify its existence through profits. He hired the best engineers available, yet expected them to run their areas of responsibility with commercial acumen as "ordinary businessmen." He despised cartels and gained a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
projects the private sector was planning to do on its own. The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933 is perhaps the most famous example of this. Other dollars appear to indirectly crowd out private firms by hiring away employees and the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
be incompatible with the recurring sales model DataXu wanted to implement. Will DataXu need to change its sales organization, pricing approach, or hiring criteria to sell the new products? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
point. To help them establish a commercialization strategy, the Hövding board had prevailed upon the founders to hire a professional CEO. But surrendering management control was an emotional process for Haupt and Alstin, while the CEO... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel