executive search firms - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

The result would be improved deal process design in MBOs and improved capital formation in the economy overall. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50980 Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

As a result, we have not been surprised by the biases that we observe in demand planning. We've found evidence of individual biases such as optimism, recency, search for supportive evidence, and illusory correlations—all well-documented... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

How can a company from an emerging economy manage to make waves in global business? Ask Embraer. The Brazilian firm also known as Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A. is the fourth largest commercial aircraft manufacturer in the world,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Cohen : Winner of the 2018 Crowell Memorial Prize For the Best Paper on Quantitative Investing from PanAgora Asset Management for “IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice” (with Huaizhi Chen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou, and... View Details

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

As the COVID-19 virus pandemic began to sweep across the world, Doug McMillon and his team at Walmart watched in horror. Suddenly, they realized, tomorrow would be nothing like “business as usual” and everything in the company’s marketing plan, from retail View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

01 Mar 2014
News

Generation Next

"performance-oriented culture" to the 117-year-old firm. "No one," she says, "wants to take on people who've worked [at the company] for 25 years." Why Nisa could challenge entrenched employees and the historical norms at Godrej underscores the unique situation facing... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

healthcare. After eight years in leadership roles at the Hospital for Special Surgery, Rentas joined the New York State Executive Chamber as Assistant Director of Health in 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. She has since returned to... View Details

29 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise

by co-directing and moderating the fintech and financial inclusion panel for the 2024 Africa Business Conference. With my co-director, we drafted the objectives and summary of the panel based on trends in the field and sourced senior View Details

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

describe them at our Wednesday-morning staff meeting and ask, 'Who has the interest and time to tackle this?'" says Garry Curtis, executive vice president at Washington, D.C.-based public relations firm... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

modern-day sales management. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity: Kristen Senz: What shifts in sales should managers and executives be aware of right now? Frank Cespedes: Prospects are now online and offline throughout... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

performance during a recovery” A search for leaders who have taken alternative approaches to managing their workforce during economic downturns led us to Honeywell CEO Dave Cote, and drives the narrative of our new case study, Honeywell... View Details

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

09 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

society—from healthcare to homebuying. In the wake of Floyd's murder, five executives felt compelled to confront these disparities. They formed a new organization, OneTen, to confront two of the most profound inequities: access to... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

large and small. She bolstered her own technical knowledge of how to probe more deeply into the causes of failure in hospitals by attending the Executive Sessions on Medical Errors and Patient Safety at Harvard University, which... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

04 Nov 2015
What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

answer is obvious. "Women executives have to be at least twice as good as their male counterparts to get to that level.” And Hugh Quick asked the possibly rhetorical question, “Could it be that some women are good at running things?”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

on intangible capabilities, such as the ability to assess the value of the knowledge and skills that are already present within the firm and in some instances within its broader ecosystem; to rapidly understand how to redeploy them in new... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

02 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 2

medical schools continue to focus on the basic sciences, to the exclusion of such managerial topics as running effective teams. The approach to executing reform appears to assume that practice managers and entrepreneurs can undertake the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Nov 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

stars, Groysberg says the evidence "strongly suggests the wisdom of hiring from firms with similar orientations and lesser or equivalent quality" that are less "resource-rich" than one's own, with every effort made to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

the key risk factors have developed from a pressure to enhance productivity, eliminate waste, remove supply chain duplication, and drive for cost improvement," says William L. Michels, CEO of consulting firm ADR North America, Ann... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

17 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 17

relationship between changes in the structure of the executive team, firm diversification, and IT investments-which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through corporate-wide coordination by... View Details