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01 Jan 2011
News

Peter Harf, MBA 1974

detergent part of Benckiser public. Subsequently, in 1999, this company merged with Reckitt & Colman, forming Reckitt Benckiser. The new firm thrived, reaching a total shareholder return of 16.5 percent per year over a period of 10 years.... View Details

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

reputations, and capabilities of big firms. Many organizations were already employing virtual hiring tools in some form as a way to reach a broader candidate pool in a cost-effective way. According to a... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

30 Aug 2016
First Look

August 30, 2016

variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson heterogeneity by using a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

that flourished and those that failed, they describe the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer pragmatic advice. The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle... View Details

29 Apr 2008
Research Event

Venture Capital

strategies? How are opportunities for VC changing with globalization? How should VC firms organize to take advantage of new opportunities in their home counties and abroad? Those attending the Conference represented the leaders of the... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

Profile

Matt Thurmond

he left Mississippi State, he engaged in two formative adventures: leading his fraternity in a turnaround from near-bankruptcy to winning the "overall excellence award" on campus; and leading a group of fifty fellow students on... View Details

30 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Reflecting on AASU50: Advancing African American Business Leadership

Frederick Douglass. “In line with AASU’s mission, our personal vision for the 2017-2018 academic year has been driven by the goal of strengthening the bonds within the community by investing further in the connections among AASU members, with other Harvard View Details

07 May 2020
News

Ensuring Student Equity

and deprivation, NCCP is distributing about 500 learning resource kits and 300 emergency food bags to some 400 families each week. Considered an essential operation, NCCP is allowed to have its employees deliver these resources to families directly. The View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

09 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020

across business, finance, tech, entrepreneurship, and policy joined panels spanning an array of topics from energy policy and circular economy to breakthrough innovations and investing. Industry expert Ted Wiley, Co-Founder, President, & COO of View Details

01 Mar 2007
News

Private Equity under Investigation

collaborative practices constituted an anticompetitive conspiracy. The judge observed that activities the government depicted as nefarious were “nothing more nor less than a gradual, natural, and normal growth or evolution by which an ancient View Details

Keywords: Josh Lerner; syndication; antitrust enforcement; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Jun 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

available to nonprofits, such as greater transparency and disclosure, performance assessment, industry self-regulation, and adaptive learning. But leaders must adapt any such mechanisms to suit their organization. The greatest payoffs rest with strategy-driven View Details

Keywords: by Staff

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

When Protestors Knock at Your Door

As globalization trends increase, so does the ability of non-governmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam International, and the World Wildlife Fund to shape public and corporate policy on everything from human rights to labor... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Sep 2003
News

Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives

passionate teaching, the building of intellectual capital, and the broad communication of ideas, we are advancing knowledge of how organizations and institutions can perform more effectively and, ultimately, benefit people in every sphere... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Profile

Stephanie Tilenius

infancy as a business medium, Stephanie “and a handful of us from the West Coast” formed the Computing, Media and Communications Club, HBS’ first student organization focused on emerging, Web-based... View Details

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Who Are We Looking For? | MBA

Being business-minded is about the interest to help organizations succeed, whether in the private, public, or non-profit sector. This business inclination can be found in individuals with a variety of professional and educational... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience

district work well, and it still hasn't been done. That's a real tragedy." His most recent school-related job ended in 1995, when he left his position as president of the organization responsible for fundraising and support of the Boston... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

25 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

occupational licensing, personal/psychological costs, and economic costs. He is currently studying productivity effects of new forms of remote work, such as “work from anywhere” and “all-remote work” arrangements on individuals,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

fourth-generation Stuart-they have come to form the core of his life quest. "The real question that has fascinated me is, How do you develop those two values within an organization at the end of the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

29 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 29

Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many investors View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

American-based scholars with European ties, we decided to examine the impact of Organization Studies in North American academia with the objective of understanding what, if anything, makes some Organization... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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