Long-termism - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Donna Khalife

prepared you for your current role & your long-term career? HBS has taught me that you can create anything that doesn't currently exist through entrepreneurship. Consequently, I am approaching my View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship

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Katie Laidlaw

hope to one day be the leader of a large, nonprofit funding agency that addresses social inequity and supports social enterprise. Upon graduation, my career vision still holds true. At HBS, I gained tactical skills and valuable relationships that will help me work... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

15 Dec 2015
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Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)

for Shell Oil until enrolling at HBS to broaden his skills and career options. “For me,” he says, “HBS was a step toward rebuilding the respect our family had enjoyed in Poland before the devastation of the war.” Makowski’s business ventures reflect both engineering... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Project Aims to Boost US Competitiveness

A cross-disciplinary team of HBS faculty, led by Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, has launched a project on US competitiveness that will feature a special spring 2012 issue of the Harvard Business Review and a long-term research... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

managers to favor short-term profits over long-term gains. The research results suggest that managers of public companies are under much more pressure than their private-firm counterparts to show short-term financial results. Peeking In... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

24 Apr 2014
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Protecting conservation land while turning a profit

acres over the past 15 years. The firm is co-managed by David Hoffer (AB 1990, MBA 1995, JD 1996). Hourdequin is passionate about long-term land stewardship and believes that Lyme’s conservation strategies help to align financial goals... View Details

05 Feb 2019
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Protecting the Power Grid

the second day of the workshop, Popik met Steve Mott, a nuclear engineer who works at the Palo Verde Generating Station, in Arizona, the largest nuclear power complex in the United States. Mott told Popik about a particularly terrifying threat: the View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; terrorism; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

08 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

recent Harvard Business Review article, "How the Quest for Efficiency Corroded the Market," proposes a number of radical remedies including tax breaks for long-term investors, the establishment of an investor's union, and making... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

03 Jun 2020
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Weathering the Storm

Nnamdi Okike (MBA 2007) Nnamdi Okike (MBA 2007) In this special video edition of Skydeck, contributing host Chitra Nawbatt (GMP 6, 2009) speaks with 645 Ventures Cofounder and General Partner Nnamdi Okike (MBA 2007) about near-term and View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

09 Aug 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

Productivity Tips You Probably Haven't Considered Before

Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Long-Term Performance Employees facing increased workloads usually tackle easier tasks first. This study shows that it happens because people feel positive emotions after task completion, yet it could hurt... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

excellence in playing the roles described for them. Select plans and plan administrators based on health results, not administrative convenience Align interests by encouraging long-term relationships between the plan and subscribers... View Details

01 Aug 2014
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A closer look at the industry of beauty

long-term interest in globalization, consumer products, and entrepreneurship. Using the lens of history, he traces the industry's growth from disrepute to worldwide influence and chronicles the entrepreneurs—often social "outsiders"—who... View Details

01 Oct 2020
What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

leadership from all sectors this is about long-term change.” EA Hardin added that “it is far too soon to draw conclusions about whether CEOs can lead us into a reimagined state.” In the meantime, we’re left with the question of who will... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted, investors covered their eyes,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Tyler Todd

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I love my engineering background, but my long-term goals of senior management and running my own company necessitated that I learn how to make sound business decisions. While you can learn... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Energy / Extractive Minerals; Manufacturing

01 Dec 1999
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Ceiling Unlimited

propjet, the $1.4 million Jetcruzer 500. A jet version of the 500, called the Stratocruzer 1250, is in the works and could help the company expand to one thousand employees and some $600 million in revenues. And Chen could even be building satellites again: "If there's... View Details

30 May 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?

China to buy more American goods—gets the publicity. But it’s likely to have less long-term impact than if China would agree to relax Chinese ownership requirements on American firms desiring to do business in that country through... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

01 Sep 2011
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Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit

railroads helped shape modern capitalism. With the Pennsylvania Railroad alone employing over 110,000 workers by 1891, railroads’ sheer size required a new breed of managers who could conduct daily supervision as well as long-term... View Details

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Rail Transportation; Transportation

28 Nov 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

humility." This all suggests that the ideal pay for performance approach should take into account such things as short- and long-term performance, specific individual motivators, effort as well as results, and the context in which... View Details