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- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
firm's future value, the firm reports more negative discretionary accruals. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are moderated when firm-level uncertainty is high, consistent with performance being attributed more to luck rather than skill and effort, which can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
case study in 1994 when Fahey was CEO of Time Life, ironically facing many of the same challenges with earlier generations of media and technology. Fifteen years later it was an opportunity to observe an... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
and make time for family life, believe in hard work, and support their communities. The family recently established a fund to create the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professorship of Business Administration at HBS. In announcing the chair,... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
the education networks. Our results suggest that social networks may be an important mechanism for information flow into asset prices. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-055.pdf Embracing Commitment and Performance: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
oil industry. I came full circle with both of those cases, having spent my career in the oil industry and as CEO of a company involved in the Macondo well disaster in 2010. Going through the Macondo crisis and looking back on the... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
bores you, and which the world does not need—this life is hell. —W.E.B. Du Bois In the organizational context, the four-drive theory implies that every person, from the CEO to the most junior employee will bring a predictable set of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
closets over the last year: the retired styles, outgrown sizes, anything you let go because it was no longer sparking joy. Now estimate how many clothes you’ve bought secondhand. “If you’re like most people, the first number is far greater than the second,” says Bolon,... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
persuade lower-skilled groups that thousands of new support jobs and training opportunities would be forthcoming along with the $100,000+ job bonanza for high-skilled workers. Community groups looking for improved parks, sidewalks, and... View Details
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
BusinessWeek , July 6, 2001, featuring Lehman Brothers Inc. CEO Richard S. Fuld Jr. Lehman Brothers Records, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Used with permission of Bloomberg L.P. Copyright ©2017. All rights reserved. Lower... View Details
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Leading The Cleveland Clinic's Transformation to Value by Dr. Toby Cosgrove A protagonist video of former Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove who discusses how he led the transformation of the Cleveland Clinic to become a value-based... View Details
- 03 Jan 2023
- Book
Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action
Despite calls for making the workplace more equitable, women, particularly Black women, continue to get the short end of the stick at work. Only 6 percent of the top 3,000 companies in the US are led by a woman. In 2022, only two Black women served as View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
Although CEOs hold positions of power, many can feel powerless in certain ways—particularly when it comes to influencing the behaviors and performance of their employees. Yet perhaps they aren’t taking the time to understand what drives... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
Halfpoint In the worlds of economic theory and conservative political orthodoxy, corporate tax cuts, such as the 2017 tax reform in the United States, should create benefits beyond businesses. As the thinking goes, middle class workers... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
so big this has a huge impact on the rest of the global food system. What happens in China, what Chinese people eat, impacts what you and I pay for food." What happened in China with Yum! Brands, and with KFC in particular, had a lot to do with China division... View Details
- 15 Feb 2024
- News
Startup Shepherds
tapped to launch Martha Stewart Living’s first online business; in the process, he discovered the need for an internet strategy firm focused on media and publishing. Sherman set off on his own as founder and CEO of WestEnd New Media in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Publications The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Harvard Business Press Books, 2012 Abstract Innovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
build a culture of innovation? What does that culture look like? How does it evolve and grow? How are teams most effectively created and then nurtured in this context? What is a leader's role in this culture? This little book is a roadmap... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
spend some or all of their bonuses on others—thereby creating what the authors call a "prosocial" workplace—are happier as a result. Managers can enhance that effect by providing opportunities to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
to discourage dishonesty: signing at the beginning rather than at the end of a self-report, thereby reversing the order of the current practice. Using lab and field experiments, we find that signing before rather than after the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
unprepared boards and CEOs from responsibility so their companies won’t be sued.” “In the corporate sector, the continuing effort to brand the COVID-19 pandemic as a Black Swan is a retroactive attempt to protect unprepared boards and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett