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- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
Monday, after this interview took place, waded into the discussion by opposing how the proposal would change the treatment of certain retirement funds.) Weinzierl: I don't see anything particularly that bears his fingerprints.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Change: The Expansion of Primary Education in India By: Mangla, Akshay Abstract—This article analyzes India’s recent enactment of universal primary education. This programmatic policy change is puzzling given the clientelistic features of Indian democracy. Drawing on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
people-oriented industry, attrition has special import. DeLong and Gabarro, of Harvard Business School, along with former Morgan Stanley and Ernst & Young executive Lees, argue that a PSF can gain a much-needed competitive edge by renewing its focus on mentoring.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
content, Kate’s finding suggests that the interviewer might infer that you’re shallow that you do not like intellectual programming, for example.” Finally, the research findings provide a weapon against self-doubt. John recalls a recent... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
Harvard Business School professor Stuart Gilson fielded some questions regarding his new book in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean SilverthorneSilverthorne: When should a company consider a major restructuring? Are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
of those companies. We interviewed the people in the companies twice, once in the year 2000, and then we came back approximately a year later. Then we interviewed about thirty-two informants, people who were... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
Graves for the Education of Physicians in Early Nineteenth Century America. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. Steiner, Philippe. 2006. "Le Don d'Organe : Une Typologie Analytique." Revue Française de Sociologie 47:479-506. -. 2009. "Economic Sociology... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
masculine workplaces, making their platforms an ideal site for investigating alternative processes of masculine identity-construction at work. Q: Tell us about your experience on the oil platforms. What was it like to visit and interview... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
hospital recruits an outside star to lead a clinical program, academic department, or division. Within months it is clear to almost everyone that the marriage is a failure. To better understand the question of why newly recruited leaders fail, I View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
consist of action research and interviews with managers and artists involved in innovation and processes of creation, and our intention is to explore the following questions: How do business innovators know when to keep things open and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608038 Excerpts from Interview with Jim Triandiflou, Founder of Ockham Technologies Harvard Business School Case 808-088 Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
through until you acknowledge your own culpability. If you fire me from my job, I have to look myself in the mirror and ask, "What role did I have in getting fired?" In a CNN interview that I showed in class, Mark puts all the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
theories we argue that they have been based on an inadequate and insufficiently specified concept of ERM. Based on a ten-year field project, over 250 interviews with senior risk officers, and three detailed case studies in high... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
Lawrence Summers had presided over the final interviews of world-renowned architects being considered for the science complex planned for Harvard's expanded campus in Allston. The selection process had absorbed nine months in 2005 and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
How will my children learn via Zoom? We interviewed 10 CEOs in July about how they are managing the unprecedented stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic, and then checked in with them again at the end of 2020. The interviewees hail from... View Details
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
than forty high-profile moves and interviewed team leaders in multiple industries and countries to examine the risks and opportunities that lift outs present. They concluded that, regardless of industry, nationality, or size of the team,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
he calls a brand genealogy. He overlays the trajectory of the brand's allegories over history—through analysis of ads supported by archival documents and interviews with managers—with American cultural history, focusing particularly on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
able to reallocate resources and reconfigure assets to simultaneously explore and exploit. Using interviews and qualitative case studies from thirteen organizations, this article explores the actions senior managers took to implement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
informal “water cooler” conversations could go a long way in promoting belonging. Concrete tips I have heard from interviews include scheduling five to 10 minutes before a formal meeting for casual conversation, asking each other silly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
boards themselves, agreed to interview five directors each. We decided to focus on two broad questions: How well did these boards function before the recession? And, what aspects of the board's way of functioning troubled members as they... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna