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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
which require full and fair disclosure of the financial performance of companies and of the risks associated with their business. This attitude is reminiscent of the Roaring Twenties when, according to Representative (and later Speaker of the House) Sam Rayburn,... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
candidates looking for executive positions to join in before finally short-listing them for the interview." Surprisingly, relatively few suggested that the shortage of attitude might be addressed through formal education. Stever... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
high-status people who have gained a wide-ranging knowledge of the business based on long, varied experience across clients and even industries, as well as their formal training and education. Customer-specific experts know their client... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
you can’t regulate your way to strong leadership or good character any more than you can legislate morality. Companies and their shareholders have to want to change their boards — and to help make board members perform better. Formal... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
Sebenius, James K. Abstract—Many negotiators have constituencies that must formally or informally approve an agreement. Traditionally, it is the responsibility of each negotiator to manage the internal conflicts and constituencies on his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
identities can shape team members' side conversations in ways that create shared interests and information among those with similar identities, even before the team begins its formal meetings. Originality/value-By identifying new routes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
writing “another journalism movie,” Singer soon realized The Post was more about making a decision than getting the story. “It’s a straight-up B-School case,” he says. “You inherit a business for which you have no formal training. Just... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
"paternalistic" culture here that didn't fit well with my style. I was very committed to teaching but really couldn't pull off the strong, formal control that my male colleagues—especially senior male colleagues—had in the classroom.... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
models, not just incremental adjustments or extensions. Institutional economics can help prospective and established managers recognize the role of formal and informal institutions and enable them to work around the "institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
understanding the impact that branding activity (the audio-visual representation of brands) and consumers' dispersion of attention have on their moment-to-moment avoidance decisions during television advertising. It formalizes this in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
countries. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-073.pdf Open vs. Integrated Innovation: A Model of Discovery and Confinement Authors:Esteve Almirall and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell Abstract We present a simple formal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Energy
sense to travel for events, and that is perfectly fine. Instead, email students from the resume book whose interests and profiles are a match for your company. Connect those students with MBAs currently working in your company by providing their email addresses. This... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 17 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream Series: Marty
importance of these breaks, combined with their relative rarity, drove DJ to investigate further. He partnered with Professor Matt Bloom’s Well Being at Work Initiative at the University of Notre Dame to formally study when and why... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
breeze about a trendy new third-party tool over a game of Super Smash Bros. in the breakroom. “In most software hackathons, the formal competition aspect is really just a façade to put everyone in a time-bound and high-energy environment.... View Details
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
job of a manager. In fact, they devote more attention to hiring than they give to strategy. Another important task of leadership is that of maintaining a culture designed to retain that talent. A long discussion of the organization's culture is centered around ideas... View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
Here then are our most-read stories in 2006. Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win? Using formal economic modelling, professors Pankaj Ghemawat and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell consider the competitive dynamics of the software wars between... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
business administration and sociology. A four-and-a-half-year battle with tuberculosis cut short his formal university training, however, and required Andresen to be hospitalized for over two years. Still not completely recovered, in 1963... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
(MBA ’76) closed out the formal program with a plenary speech on the future of securities regulation. Like Cox, other speakers and panelists included HBS alumni whose careers have encompassed both private- and public-sector service. As it... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
formal internship program based on the success of summer 2020. Dzodan and his colleagues are also ready and waiting to have Westphal join the team again should a move to Brazil be in his future. Dzodan said with a hopeful grin, “Eric is... View Details
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
instructors and students to build a framework of analysis that enables them to understand the challenges of international trade and investment and master the opportunities they represent. This framework is based on a systematic evaluation of the informal and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace