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  • 02 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

Think Team Stars don't shine alone. As Harvard Business School's Boris Groysberg and Linda-Eling Lee reveal in new research, it is imperative that top performers as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

Research: Past, Present, and Future by Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy (Stanford Economics View Details
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

developed between analysts and managers by investigating analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed firms. We find that top... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 7

Corporation Ltd.: Driving Change through Internal Communication Boris Groysberg and Michael SlindHarvard Business School Case 411-077 Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL), confronted in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2019
  • Teaching Note

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in Motion

By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Robin Abrahams
Teaching Note for HBS No. 417-049. View Details
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  • October 2017
  • Supplement

Maggie Wilderotter: The Evolution of an Executive: Video Supplement

By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Robin Abrahams
In a career that spanned over 30 years, Maggie Wilderotter served as CEO of two publicly traded companies and served on 32 corporate and nine association and non-profit boards of directors. The case looks at the progression of Wilderotter’s career; the decisions she... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Managing People; Networks; Strategy And Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Social and Collaborative Networks; Gender; Power and Influence; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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  • 21 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Research Focuses on Gender Issues and Fixes

—should business leaders and policymakers do about the gender disparity? Research by Professor Boris Groysberg and... View Details
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • News

Stop Chasing Star Employees. Cultivate Your Own

  • 31 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

Power of Conversational Leadership Published: July 23, 2012 Communication is always a challenge, especially in multinational corporations. Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • March 2024
  • Case

East Rock Capital: 'Talent Is the Best Asset Class'

By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Izzy Yeoh
Adam Shapiro and Graham Duncan launched East Rock Capital, LLC in 2006 with a seed investment from Stuart Miller, executive chairman of Lennar Corporation. East Rock managed long-term assets for high-net-worth families, primarily working with external managers who had... View Details
Keywords: Alternative Assets; Hiring; HNW Products And Services; Recruiting; Hedge Funds; Wealth Management; Asset Management; Private Equity; Financial Institutions; Marketing Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • June 2012 (Revised May 2013)
  • Case

A.P. Møller - Maersk Group: Evaluating Strategic Talent Management Initiatives

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
In 2012, Bill Allen and Maria Pejter, of Maersk Group's Human Resources Department, sat down to consider some key aspects of Maersk's talent management strategy. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Maersk was a global conglomerate with large shipping and oil & gas businesses.... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Development; Human Resource Management; Talent Management; Organizational Change And Transformation; Corporate Culture; Hiring; Employee Training; Strategy; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Retention; Diversity; Denmark
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  • March 2023 (Revised April 2023)
  • Case

Shelly Sun at BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leader

By: Boris Groysberg, Colleen Ammerman and Sarah L. Abbott
Shelly Sun had founded BrightStar Care, a home health care and medical staffing agency, 20 years earlier and had grown the business to over 300 franchised locations and $654 million in annual system-wide sales. Sun had spent years working to get “the right people in... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneur; Family Business; Franchising; Health Care; Women-owned Businesses; Growth And Scaling; Organization; Franchise Ownership; Entrepreneurship; Work-Life Balance; Growth and Development; Health Industry; United States
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  • 03 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 3

"magic"-the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement-that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more executives have discovered in recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

to owners on the brink of ruin. Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness The pandemic has challenged managers as never before, but one powerful leadership strategy is being overlooked, say Boris Groysberg View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

majority, leadership ranks remain male-dominated. The persistence of these inequalities begs the question: Why haven’t we made more progress? In Glass Half Broken, Colleen Ammerman and HBS professor Boris... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 22 Feb 2021
  • Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

typically a lot better: the top 1 percent often outperform average performers in those fields by 125 percent or more. Performance profiles in those areas are (in statistics terminology) a “power distribution curve,” not a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Research Summary

Strategic Human Capital

My research focuses on the links between managerial background, job attributes, organizational/firm characteristics, and firm performance. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how a manager's skills, knowledge, connections, experiences, and other attributes... View Details

  • November 2023 (Revised December 2023)
  • Background Note

Talent Incubator Rankings

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
In 2023, The Official Board surveyed 853 executives on the topic of talent incubators/academy companies. Executives were asked to list the top three academy companies within their function, industry, and country. They were also asked: what practices differentiate these... View Details
Keywords: Talent Development And Retention; Hiring; Performance Management; Human Resource Management; Human Capital; Human Resources; Performance; Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Culture
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  • 17 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 17, 2015

April 5–6, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In its call for the submission of theoretical and empirical papers for the symposium, the NBER noted that the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2012
  • Article

Leadership Is a Conversation

By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
Globalization and new technologies have sharply reduced the efficacy of command-and-control management and its accompanying forms of corporate communication. In the course of a recent research project, the authors concluded that by talking with employees, rather than... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Management Style; Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Cooperation; Partners and Partnerships
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