Global Talent Flows - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2007
News

A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968

years and turned into the global leader in the home medical product industry. Spotting a shiny red three-wheel motorized scooter, he sits down to demonstrate its mobility. "Our products aren't just about illness," he says. "They're about... View Details

18 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

endeavors where you need to mobilize such diverse talent at a global scale and climate change is one of those challenges. In terms of internal HBS resources, connecting with career coaches at CPD, especially... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Diversifying HBS's Case Collection

students said, ‘If I can’t see it, it’s hard for me to be it.’ And we fail our other students because we don’t show them the many sources of amazing talent in the world. We put them at risk of overlooking talent.” “When our cases don’t... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

10 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 10

SheenHarvard Business School Case 210-058 After booming for more than five years, the global shipping (maritime) industry experienced a dramatic crash in late 2008 as the global financial system froze and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

multicultural global contexts. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-127.pdf The Three Foundations of a Great Life, Great Leadership, and a Great Organization Authors: Michael C. Jensen Abstract I argue here that the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 15

competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2017
News

Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award

entrepreneurship, research, and academia. They also share a trait we can probably all relate to—more than a few had no idea they would end up where they did. Extreme Talent “The Atlantic was founded in 1857, and it had a fantastic 19th... View Details

26 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

evidence to challenge a common misperception about internalization theory. The theory has often been criticized for maintaining that it assumes a hierarchically organized MNE based on knowledge flowing from the home country. This is not... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Dec 2022
News

The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

classmates, alumni, professors, and business leaders. It's the only place in the world where I could spend time with investors, former US senators, CEOs of global companies, and classmates from every walk of life–all in one day! It's a... View Details

28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

When the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue and cash flow with few long-term consequences. Below it, managing earnings can tip the firm into a vicious cycle of accelerating decline. Our results have... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

because he wanted to emphasize the economic ebb and flow that defines capitalism. "Cycles," he writes in his preface, "are not, like tonsils, separable things that might be treated by themselves, but are, like the beat of... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

stocks held by these funds have lower volatility, and flows out of these funds have smaller spillover effects on other funds holding the same securities. Our results provide evidence of meaningful fire sale externalities in the mutual... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

Fútbol By: Elberse, Anita Abstract—Markets for soccer players are winner-take-all markets in which a select few top players earn extremely high rewards. The search for effective talent strategies in these conditions has led clubs to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

within markets: When sentiment is high, future returns are low on relatively difficult to arbitrage and difficult to value stocks. Private capital flows appear to be one mechanism by which sentiment spreads across markets and forms View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2002
News

Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

In a break from tradition, the Civic Commitment Award , usually given to an alumnus, was presented to HBS professor emeritus James L. Heskett for his role in creating the Summer Venture Management Program (SVMP). Founded sixteen years ago, the SVMP, a weeklong session... View Details

Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

new plant, because one encounters very different problems in starting up a new plant than in running a well-tuned one. When a slowly growing firm's leaders decide they need to launch a new-growth business to restore their company's vitality, who should they tap to head... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

01 May 2015
News

Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

out the opportunities in America’s transportation and infrastructure challenges. And at events in China, Japan, and India, attendees heard from Professors Benjamin Esty and Shawn Cole about the latest thinking on global business... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Mar 2003
News

Inside the Revolution

the School’s Global Research Centers in helping faculty work on cases and find research opportunities. The LSP builds contacts, compiles databases, organizes seminars, and encourages and supports case writing across units to raise... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Jan 2014
What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

democracy may be a requirement of mandatory service-social service, infrastructure construction, teaching/mentoring or military according to individual talents and interests A couple years contributed in the late teens or early twenties... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Jul 2004
What Do You Think?

Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

of work is going to ... increase morale." Faisal Shaheen takes the matter one step further by asserting that "If not supported and recharged, households will not be able to add productive talent to the future labor force."... View Details