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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
increase in pay of senior executives and superstars in other fields has been a major source of the rising inequality of wages in the United States. Rising income inequality is political dynamite and damages the reputation of American... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
research will make a difference for everyone from the young superstar basketball player to older people struggling with mobility issues. “Everything that we’re learning that applies to athletes also applies to the whole world and can... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
and superstar scientists on collective evaluations can thus result in substantial bias toward ‘their’ applicants,” the paper states, potentially leaving proposals that could yield significant scientific contributions going unnoticed and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
former, Groysberg argues. "Even the best and the brightest can benefit from a nurturing environment," he says. "You can turn a talented person into a superstar if you combine nature and nurture." That said, he adds, in... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management?
to an intolerable level." Erik Holmberg questions the spotlight that disclosure would place only on grades when he says: "I know many people who were academic superstars who are also the worst managers I have ever met . . .... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
with the University of Illinois and Carnegie Mellon, the University of Dundee and Imperial College in Great Britain, and Sweden's Karolinska Institute. And he is attracting superstar scientists from around the world such as Dr. Edison... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
shifts into opportunities for even greater success. In 1985, Martin Sorrell was ready for a change. He had spent nine years at Saatchi & Saatchi, helping the London-based advertising firm reach superstar status with his strategic and... View Details
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
Association and an MBA candidate in the class of 2015 at Harvard Business School. The event was moderated by Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, whose research focuses on marketing strategies for firms and... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51714 Harvard Business School Case 517-035 Dwyane Wade In July 2016, while on his annual China tour to help promote the sportswear brand Li-Ning, basketball superstar Dwyane Wade and his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
over a course of a career or in the flash of an eye—just ask Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, who was a top endorsement target of clients such as Coca-Cola until he was disgraced earlier this year in a dogfighting scandal. View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Harvard Business School Case 518-041 The ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament Should the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament gamble most of its player budget on superstar player Rafael Nadal, even after the event’s previous two editions saw... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
the world, PennApps, takes place. Fang was an undergrad who participated in and eventually helped to organize the hackathon, seeing firsthand how participants shared information with one another—whether it was a superstar developer... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’
payrolls as they negotiate with superstars and journeymen. Or if you're in sports, pay attention to the foreign news and watch how diplomats forge alliances. Look especially for examples of other people using provocative competence to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
After resigning last fall, Gorgas joined the board of an accounting software and services company and is now considering other board opportunities. “I was introduced to the talented female CEO of the company by another superstar woman... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
better service experience,” she relates, “that’s the path to all-around excellence.” A central premise of Uncommon Service is that to achieve service excellence, you may need to make some tradeoffs. Is that a hard sell for some managers who are motivated to excel in... View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
century, but it did not start out as a superstar paper or at head of the pack.” Since there were thousands of articles to choose from (more than 150 years' worth!) I needed to decide on the thematic building blocks of the book—of the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
spins or physical sales.” HarbourView, which launched in 2021 through a strategic relationship with finance giant Apollo Global Management, uses that data to drive decision-making. The firm announced its first major deal in early 2022 when it purchased the entire... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
productivity and the ripple effect that toxic workers have on their peers. Finally, we find that avoiding a toxic worker (or converting him to an average worker) enhances performance to a much greater extent than replacing an average worker with a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
Superstars from all over the world come to play in this tournament." To gauge the effect of monsoons, the researchers looked at a sample week in which 192 CEOs in the study (118 family CEOs and 74 professional CEOs) experienced at least... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
negatively to an increase in the number of superstars than non-superstars. We also find that the most negative reactions come from a particular subgroup of competitors: those that are highly skilled, but whose abilities put them near to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne