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- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
an easier time balancing these goals with the ever-constant push for profits. The challenge comes when companies encounter lean times or reach certain tension points when faced with the possibility of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
following a prosocial norm and self-regulation. We tested 433 children between 6 and 13 years of age in two variations of the Dictator Game (DG). Children were asked what they should or would give in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail
a meaty discussion of what the role would really look like day to day.” Renee also noted that company site visits are a recruiting strategy used more commonly by retailers than View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
will emerge. 2. Listen All The Time Science writer Malcolm Gladwell interviewed two Los Angeles policemen who staked their own lives on their ability to read other people's intentions. One of the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
other minorities on corporate boards? A: It's no revelation that US companies are not doing very well in this regard. Even if a company has a woman and an African American on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
reached the executive level at his organization. Why did he make it when so many other minorities plateaued in middle management? First, Williams had the good fortune to be hired by Nathan Barrett, a white manager who continually expanded... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
clarity of vision, time lines, and metrics, to see when you’re on target and when you need to recalibrate. If companies approach this topic with the same strategic resolve they use with any View Details
- 09 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal
much larger piece of the company that he appears to be leading toward ruin. It's true that the value of John's existing holding View Details
Keywords: by Brian Hall
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
While HGO met with some early market success, ultimately its fate would hinge on how other parts of the company viewed it and on how the rest of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
to the specified start dates is very substantial—a conclusion we are able to corroborate with specific quantitative data from both judge and student surveys. The consistent experience of a wide range of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
all of their stakeholders, not just shareholders.” Coupounas spends much of her time counseling entrepreneurs, and she finds they enjoy hearing about other View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
market. Efficient companies should be the ones that maintain their capacity, and the inefficient ones should shrink or be sold. The same principle is involved in new industries. Instead of subsidizing new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
Creativity (Oxford University Press) spells it all out. The Missing Link Higgins became interested in this missing link after watching a young biotech company go through two public offerings in the early 1990s. The observations she made... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment The Earth At Night, 2009: Cities may occupy just 2 percent of the planet’s landmass but they hold half the world’s people and produce much View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Managing Family Assets
generations to come and shares his personal history as an heir to the Carnation fortune. The message of his great-grandfather, E.A. Stuart, the founder of the Carnation Company... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Finding my Passion in the Startup Space
exceptions, working between our New York headquarters and our offices in Athens. Finding your career passion is a trial and error process. People say “follow your passion” but this can be vague. The actual process View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
series: a fictitious but reality-based story about the trials and tribulations of a newly appointed but not-technically-trained Chief Information Officer (CIO) in his first year on the job. Together the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
defined areas of responsibility. I’m staff, and Jim is the boss — I’m real clear about that. I give my opinion, but if he doesn’t follow my advice, I don’t take it personally,” she adds. Flexible hours allow Sharpe to be at home when the... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual
U.S. Court of Appeals; made partner at Latham & Watkins, where he specialized in corporate finance; founded (with his father) a company that published an English version of the... View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
- News
On the Move: Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008)
After nearly nine years in a series of marketing and strategy roles at Samsung—where he logged approximately 2.5 million air miles and earned status as a “permanent resident” of Korea—Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008) made the leap to Electrolux Group Chief Marketing... View Details