executive search firms - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Oct 2018
Blog Post

The Energy & Environment Club

Green Bank to operations at Tesla. The 40+ first-year MBA students in attendance were eager to learn what to expect from the internship search cycle, from generating a list of target companies to nailing the interview and accepting the... View Details

18 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 18

balanced scorecard data from a convenience store chain, Store24, during the implementation of an innovative, but ultimately unsuccessful, strategy. Quarterly strategic reviews, based in part on the firm's balanced scorecard, led View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

understanding of how consumers adopt innovations with how firms effectively acquire, serve, and retain customers. The result is a lens through which to view the commercial potential of innovations and a powerful vehicle for placing a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Recipient of the Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Contributions to the HBS community in 2019 and 2021. Victoria Ivashina : Winner of the 2021 Journal of Financial Intermediation Best Paper Award for "Large Banks and Small Firm... View Details

15 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 15

governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank-are no more likely, on average, to get a negative quality rating than other projects. When aid is given to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

other, and whether he could open as many offices as the firm needed. "When I looked at my watch and realized that it was 10:00 p.m. and that I had been sitting on the bench for two hours, I knew something had to give," he... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

15 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 15

"co-search" algorithm to Internet traffic at the SEC's EDGAR website, we develop a novel method for identifying economically-related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Feb 2021
News

Investing in Entrepreneurship

leadership, modesty, and service to business and society,” added Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), who has served as the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs since early 2020. “His support will be instrumental... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

Business School and a principal of Lax Sebenius LLC, a negotiation strategy firm. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. David A. Lax, a former faculty member at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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V.G. Narayanan | About

V.G. Narayanan Senior Associate Dean, Executive Education; Senior Associate Dean, HBS Online Unit Accounting and Management Contact Phone Bio Professor Narayanan is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and... View Details

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

funds to support them. As these students search for role models, they would do well to look to their benefactor, who worked his way up from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the business world. Ann M. Fudge (MBA '77) View Details

01 Sep 2021
What Do You Think?

Can We Train for Trust?

that 80 percent of executives around the world rated employee experience (including trust) important or very important. Employee experience drives engagement. And yet in the Deloitte study, only 22 percent of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

recent evidence suggests that high-powered incentives also provide managers with incentives to manipulate the firm's reported earnings. The previous literature has focused primarily on Chief Executive Officers, but managers further down... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

and installed Unix and 3rd party software. This includes (but is not limited to) commands like mv , cp , and the system python . Anything outside of these locations must be referenced by a full pathname to execute the program. If you wish... View Details

11 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 11, 2006

the following century. Firms employed marketing and marketing strategies to diffuse products and brands internationally despite business, economic, and cultural obstacles to globalization. The process was difficult and complex. The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First... View Details

18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

innovation and entrepreneurship in renewable energy. Using data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, we first show that patenting in renewable energy remains highly concentrated in a few large energy firms. In 2009, the top 20 firms... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

institutions. It explores as well new efforts to understand the micro mechanisms and channels by which host countries can benefit from multinational activity, within and between firm productivity increases. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

of goods or services. We view the primary function of these markets as making it easy for buyers to find sellers and engage in convenient, trustworthy transactions. We discuss elements of market design that make this possible, including View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2017
Case

Cantel Medical

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Cantel Medical Corporation provided infection prevention and control products and services for patients, caregivers, and other healthcare providers. In 2016, Cantel generated sales of $665 million and net profits of $60 million, double the levels of five years earlier.... View Details