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- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
to carry on the tradition of the firm in changed circumstances. Perhaps the competition was more intense than it had been. In some cases the business was really challenged. In other cases the firm had become global and they had to figure... View Details
Keywords: by 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
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
California, headquarters to learn how he turned a struggling Bay Area ice-cream business into the nation’s leading producer. Today, as chairman and CEO of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Rogers, 63, presides over a $2 billion global... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
up on current and past podcast episodes of The Disruptive Voice. I have been a regular listener of the series ever since meeting and working with this talented team. Hearing the voice of the late great Clay Christensen at the start of... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
lifelong employer due to global competition and downsizing; rapid turnover of executives and employees; growing concern about the environment; and the crumbling of institutions such as schools and the family. "We're searching for new... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
disparity, wealth disparity, gender disparities, racial disparities. When we're in a moment when democracy is in decline, authoritarianism is on the rise around the world and where many people in this country and beyond are fearful and dissatisfied with our national... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
seemed the government's Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies were only enriching a few. In 1997, Surve and three of his comrades founded Sekunjalo, an investment holding company that sought to offer "a gentler capitalism" that stressed putting people... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
organization to a new level. And at home, rebels are more engaged partners, parents, and friends. Packed with strategies for embracing rebellion at work and in life as well as illuminating case studies from a wide range of industries, Rebel View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
trust, employee commitment, and "ownership" behaviors of both employees and clients-could explain and be used to predict up to half of the difference in operating income between agency offices of a global service provider. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
marketing at Merrill became one of our first major investors and has invested in every single one of our funds since. So there’s a silver lining to most things. JH: In his second year at HBS, John Rice (MBA 1992) conducted a field study showing that many View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
national changes in migration flows across ethnic groups with pre-existing immigrants’ enclaves across U.S. cities, we find that immigration raised marriage rates and the probability of having children for young native men and women. We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
tech companies at the earliest stages, often when products and business models are still experimental. The firm’s partners are pleased with their preliminary returns and the deal flow they’ve been able to cultivate, in part by empowering... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
What is keeping you awake at night during this global pandemic? Over the past few weeks, we asked 600 CEOs that very question. Their responses were touching and instructive, but also daunting about the challenges leaders face at this... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
attractive to alumni who want to do more in their communities, have an impact, and pay it forward. “What they lack is a clear path on how to make that happen inside a hectic life of work and personal commitments,” he says. “Community Partners can be the bridge that... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
system more frequently and in stores with fewer same-company nearby stores. It also improved creative work and job engagement in stores in divergent markets, where customers needed more customization. We found weak evidence of better financial results where salespeople... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
talent pool. Now in 266 schools across 13 states and in 28 countries, P-TECH started 10 years ago as a pilot program in a Brooklyn high school, offering students of color from underprivileged backgrounds the chance to stay in high school... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
to focus in order to improve this crucial dimension of talent acquisition. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50539 December 15, 2015 Harvard Business Review Don't Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
company, and the government had responded by loaning AIG $182 billion in exchange for 79.9% of the company, because it feared that AIG's failure could trigger the collapse of the entire global financial system. Several months into his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
car-sharing service that is now a publicly traded, global business. Women are great entrepreneurs, and it takes an entrepreneurial mindset to transform an organization, an industry, and a society. Do you think today's women MBA students... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
involved along the way, and did you ever have any doubts that you would get there? I will say from a global perspective that the horse racing business is really based on hopes and dreams. Hanna: Yeah. Finley: And everybody knows that. You... View Details
Keywords: horse racing