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- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
most sensitive and talented prospects away? Will work groups be broken into increasingly smaller sizes, typical of the philosophy on which Nucor Steel was built—when a plant reaches a size of roughly two hundred employees, it's time to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
size and structural issues, the bill relies largely upon the judgment and willingness of regulators and politicians to deal with firms that threaten the "system" and make difficult decisions before... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
in Teaching Hospitals By: Huckman, Robert S., Hummy Song, and Jason R. Barro Abstract—We consider the impact of cohort turnover-the planned simultaneous exit of a large number of experienced employees and a similarly sized entry of new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Job requirements at the top of corporations have changed. Companies have come to expect much more from their C-level executives, who need new and different skills to deal with today's business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
new to the firm: A majority of the team are computer programmers and developers, employing sophisticated algorithms to manage more than $275 million in assets. This active model would pit Alpha Architect against big banks, but with an advantage: The banks’ expensive... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
BankBoston in January, is impressed not only by the size of the deal but perhaps even more by what it represents: the crossing of industry lines. "With this merger, universal banking - long the style of... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
Reconcile yourself to the fact that sometimes leaders have to “behave badly” to do good Recognize that leadership situations and the qualities they require are idiosyncratic—one size does not fit all Recognize that leadership is a matter... View Details
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
Summing Up How Transferable is the Google "School of Management"? Responses to this month's column suggest a great deal of respect for what Google's management has been able to achieve, both in terms of a strategy for bringing... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
Pick up most business magazines these days and you'll probably find an article on some venture capital transaction involving millions of dollars. From HBS Associate Professor Benjamin Esty's perspective, however, these deals are small... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
system. They’re just not working. "We do a very poor job of teaching that in the United States—giving people a basic familiarity with digital technology." "The second is that a lot of the shortage of workers is coming in the form of digital natives who can View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
information (street, telephone number, etc.), and batches of filled-in forms were sent to the keypunching center in the basement of Baker Library. Piles of keypunched cards (each somewhat smaller than a size 10 envelope) containing the... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
would intrude ever more deeply and more precisely into consumer lives than broadcast media had been able to. Instead, the transformation is unfolding on a model of consumer empowerment, in which consumers use digital media to communicate with one another and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
tendency, look at the following diagram from Roger Shepard's book Mind Sights: Original Visual Illusions, Ambiguities, and Other Anomalies (W. H. Freeman, 1990): Illustration of two tables © 1990 Roger N. Shepard How do the two tables compare in View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
(iStockphoto/Mladen Zivkovic) Several years ago, my spouse and I turned to concierge medicine. We no longer wanted to deal with a US health care system that often provides basically anonymous, production line diagnosis and treatment... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
Elephant Live Happily Ever After?" focuses on acquisitions of three social icons: Tom's of Maine acquired by Colgate, Stonyfield Farm Yogurt purchased by Danone, and Ben & Jerry's bought by Unilever. (Similar deals include... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
analyses of data covering 69 two-digit SIC industries at two points in time, 1991 and 1999. In both years, approximately half of advertisers of all sizes operated an in-house agency. Across industries, we find that the likelihood of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
PublicationsThe Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: Empirical Evidence Authors:David Collis, David Young, and Michael Goold Publication:Journal of International Management 18, no. 3 (September... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges in Leading Professional Services
New Model for High Performance But lately the challenges for professional service firms (PSFs) have been growing in size and complexity, and the excitement is more the type you need a stomach antacid to control. The dilemma, says HBS... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
Bloomberg during an unparalleled career as an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and three-term mayor of New York City. “I’ve always believed a good deal is where both parties walk away thinking that they didn’t get everything they want, but... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
concept proved successful—nonprofits and for-profit social or environmental impact companies did benefit from access to loans—but the model did not. SITAWI did not see the necessary volume in deals to be sustainable as a lender. So... View Details