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10 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

diverse urban charter school were at first frustrated in their attempts to connect with and socialize students, but learned valuable lessons about asking questions and sharing information about themselves to break down barriers. View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

05 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

Companies vying to fill entry-level roles should take a page from AT&T and American Express and offer aggressive advancement opportunities to workers without college degrees to help expand the talent pool, says a new report. According... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

12 Feb 2021
News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Courtesy Bob Rosenberg Courtesy Bob Rosenberg Dan Morrell: In 1963, Bob Rosenberg’s (MBA 1963) father asked him to become CEO of Universal Food Systems—which included a... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

30 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The Life and Role of a CEO

The Conductor, who orchestrates the organization to fulfill its mission While the CEOs do have ultimate power and responsibility, the success of... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

The School of Life

major executive education program for over a thousand senior leaders from a variety of companies, I asked participants what percentage of the people they hired or promoted turned out to be a superb choice.... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

16 Jan 2020
News

Hitting the High Notes

his talk at the HBS Club of Chicago's NSIG Breakfast Club. Human Capital Management expert Kevin Sheridan (MBA 1988) (far right, standing) enjoys a light moment during his talk at View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

14 Dec 2021
Op-Ed

To Change Your Company's Culture, Don't Start by Trying to Change the Culture

intervention in meetings. Twitter is a perfect example. Concerned that Twitter’s “nice culture” held back innovation, Dantley Davis, the new vice-president of design, asked employees in a meeting to critique... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer

October 2021
Article

Judgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry

By: Hong Luo, Jeffrey T. Macher and Michael Wahlen

We study a novel, low-cost approach to aggregating judgment from a large number of industry experts on ideas that they encounter in their normal course of business. Our context is the movie industry, in which customer appeal is difficult to predict and investment costs... View Details

Keywords: Judgment Aggregation; Quality Uncertainty; Creative Industry; Project Evaluation And Selection; Creativity; Film Entertainment; Judgments; Motion Pictures and Video Industry

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29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

being an historian is the perspective provided by the passage of time. You have a frame in which you can place events. The historian is willing to sacrifice, for that priceless... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

31 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

The HBS Business and Environment Initiative launched the Climate Rising podcast in 2019 to elicit insights from leaders working at the intersection of business and climate... View Details

22 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Hedge Fund as Activist

they keep a larger fraction of the gains that they produce by keeping watch over management. "Shareholder activism" refers to the practice of holding managers accountable for View Details

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services

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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

Italian government, successfully resisted a hostile takeover, and implemented new governance structures to guide the company's future. The case study asks students what is left... View Details

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Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020) - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

01 Aug 2023
What Do You Think?

As Leaders, Why Do We Continue to Reward A, While Hoping for B?

so-called “operative level.” So, politicians are rewarded for campaigning on low-quality goals and avoiding the details. Then, as citizens, we complain about the quality of elected officials when View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

stable demand and pricing for both restaurants and the supply chain. Voices of hope The restaurant industry has been long marked by creativity and resiliency, intrinsic to restaurant operators’ DNA.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

01 Feb 1998
News

Women at the Top

global business executive's most common ailment-jet lag-she was determined to glean as much as possible from this high-powered gathering of management experts and peer leaders. At 4 p.m. sharp on Sunday, November 9, Bourneuf, Busch,... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

commitments, makes the numbers, but doesn't share the values." In 1992, Welch made the dramatic announcement at a companywide meeting that four out of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Aug 2018
News

The Value of Valleys

not I was cut out to be in business. So when we pulled up in the summer and realized that we had to do another reduction in force I went to our Chief Operating Officer and asked if I could take a package. My... View Details

2015
Working Paper

The Impact of Funds: An Evaluation of CDC 2004-12

By: Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, Steve Dew and Dong Ik Lee

CDC was founded in 1948 as part of the U.K. government's efforts to develop the economic resources of Britain's remaining colonies. Since then, CDC has pursued a series of strategies to "do good without losing money," as its original mission was phrased. Its approach... View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Great Britain