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12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

imperative that we engage immediately with each of these challenges—individually and collectively. The decisions we make about how to manage our investments, our business operations, our supply chains, our people, and our corporate View Details

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

development/coaching needs. He was someone who knew the company and its culture and thoroughly enjoyed the critical tasks the job called for. He was very effective, and this created more room for the CEO to focus on the essential tasks at... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Sep 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

first prototype and then let that language dictate future work as their product gets market fit and scales. This rarely works out, unless that first engineer is a ringer, and most of the time the reality of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology

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John H. McArthur | About

football, and worked part time in a local saw mill. After graduating from high school, McArthur enrolled at the University of British Columbia, earning a bachelor’s degree in forestry in 1957. McArthur was a star athlete in college. He... View Details

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

by seeing the world as it really is, rather than in idealized terms." Ghemawat explained more via e-mail with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: The subtitle of your book is "Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

The Real Cost of Bribery

takers who had dealt with corruption worked for firms based in countries infamous for rampant bribery, including Russia, Ukraine, and South Africa. But there were also on-the-take reports from firms based in Australia, the United Kingdom,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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HBS - The year in Review

and build and manage new systems. Throughout, the HBS community worked together to overcome the complexities inherent in this hybrid approach. Students Arrive More than 9,300 applicants sought a place in the MBA Program and nearly 800... View Details

02 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

would be interesting , he continued, to examine sectors other than technology “for their natural tendencies and what drives such culture and procedural traits.” Joe noted that some of the principles of experiment design provide “a piece... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

Americans are working longer hours than ever before, with the office increasingly stealing our leisure time. But according to new research by Anat Keinan, this hectic way of life is, for many of us, far from an unmitigated negative. In... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

“The more similar you are to someone, the more likely you are to work with them.” That homogeneity, however, came with a penalty: a clear lack in financial performance. Partners who came from the same school achieved an 11.5 percent lower... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

01 Jan 2002
News

Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

Zehnder utters these words with considerable passion, since he created the unique corporate culture in which these qualities are so fundamental. In 1976, as Egon Zehnder International continued to grow and prosper, he decided to give up... View Details

20 Sep 2016
First Look

September 20, 2016

to Jewish organizational life. Inspired by 30 years of pioneering work by retail giant Leslie Wexner’s philanthropic focus on Jewish leadership, More Than Managing brings together diverse and remarkable thinkers to address challenges... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

Working PapersCompetition in Modular Clusters Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard Abstract The last twenty years have witnessed the rise of disaggregated "clusters," "networks," or "ecosystems"... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

your prospects for developing innovative products and services. Rosabeth Moss Kanter How Do You Create a Culture of Innovation? Have you noticed the courage buried in the word encourage? To create a culture... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

of the mainline business of the nonprofit." In a talk on "Networks for Social Impact," Wei-Skillern discussed her findings with other professors and researchers on May 3 at the HBS Social Enterprise Faculty Seminar. Her latest View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

in banking while being a top analyst, being pregnant, and applying to business school! I was the youngest woman to ever have a child in banking at age 24. I learned a lot about my own aspirations and what kind of mother and citizen I want to be. Summer Internship:... View Details

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The de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room | About

Inc., into a major media and communications company. Nan-b, a former psychologist at Montreal Children’s Hospital and faculty member at the Université de Montréal, was a key player in the rise of Telemedia, and is credited with setting up a unique human resources View Details

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

that had left the company in a compromised state. Over the next six years, Cote worked to turn Honeywell around through implementing a series of improvements in the company’s operating systems, forming a single View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

Introduction to Power and Influence for Positive Impact ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Power and Influence for Positive Impact $1,850 Next 6-week session starts March 12th Enroll Now Understand how power really... View Details

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Accidental Innovator

do. In their recent working paper "Accident, Innovation, and Expectation in Innovation Process," authors Robert D. Austin and Lee Devin explore the concept of accidental innovation, how it works or... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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