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- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
consumers’ clarion call with compassion and solution-based action that creates real value have a tremendous opportunity to reinforce trust and engender loyalty as they help to save the world. This is the... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
sitting on a rare opportunity, and they must be systematic in how they take advantage of it if they want to make positive changes," says George, a Professor of Management Practice at HBS and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
truth. It turns business decisions into elaborate exercises in gaming. It sets colleague against colleague, creating distrust and ill will. And it distorts incentives, motivating people to act in ways that run counter to the best... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
stages and managers feel the pressure of deadlines and the rush to close, they often compromise or adjust the criteria they originally created for judging the appropriateness of the deal. Dissent and Debate. David Hume, the great Scottish... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
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Connell House | About
leadership. The Connell family’s philanthropy has also had a significant impact on innovations in the MBA Program. About the Name William F. Connell (1938-2001) was a visionary business leader, known for his strategic skills, ethical standards, modesty, and... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
light beers. It’s similar to the process that Anheuser-Busch has been using at several of its breweries since 1990, when it introduced O’Doul’s, the original NA beer. “O’Doul’s really created the category when it arrived and became... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53371 What Else Do Shareholders Want? Shareholder Proposals Contested by Firm Management By: Soltes, Eugene F., Suraj Srinivasan, and Rajesh Vijayaraghavan Abstract—Shareholder proposals provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
opportunity that's right for you. Entering StartUpLand will guide you as you seek your ideal entry point into this popular, cutting-edge organizational paradigm. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53337 2017... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Physicians Off the Beaten Path
professionals to know about the world beyond the hospital’s walls. “A lot of them are interested, but there is no formal avenue. All existing resources assume a certain level of knowledge, but our colleagues need us to start from the ground up.” They knew they wanted... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
entire network distributed globally, it is tough to regulate.” Hamad Sheikh asked, “the greater question should be, how will we regulate it and who will pay for its regulation?” How will digital currencies be regulated? What do you think? ORIGINAL COLUMN Jamie Dimon,... View Details
- 25 Jan 2023
- News
The Road to the C-Suite, with Citi CFO Mark Mason
In January, Mark Mason (MBA 1995) was named to the 2022 Forbes CEO Next list, an annual list of 50 executives who are likely to lead some of America’s largest companies. Mason sat down for an interview with Diane Brady for an installment... View Details
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
objective observer? At Zappos, CEO Tony Hsieh became enamored with several concepts around the innovative idea of replacing managers (except himself) with “circles,” some 300 groups of self-selected employees assigned to make decisions... View Details
- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
their families, neighborhoods, or social clubs. “The same trend showing up in the workplace is worrisome because it means we have even fewer opportunities to interact across partisan lines,” she says. “It could accelerate the growing... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
The company launched surveys to help identify issues and prepare targeted measures. The CEO created a solidarity fund to which many leaders, as well as investors, have contributed. Similarly, the owners and... View Details
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John H. McArthur | About
assignment as a Trustee in Bankruptcy of the Penn Central Transportation Company. For much of that decade, he fielded a team that included future Secretary of State Warren Christopher and future IBM CEO Lou Gerstner to resolve the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
(PhDOB 2019) has studied the issues facing local papers from multiple angles. Now, as cofounder and CEO of the National Trust for Local News, she has developed a first-of-its-kind model to preserve local news as a public good. The premise... View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
in press Journal of Systems and Software Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity By: MacCormack, Alan, and Daniel J. Sturtevant Abstract—Technical debt is created when design decisions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
offices, kitchen tables, and bedrooms. Parents suddenly needed to juggle homeschooling while learning how to be effective remote workers. Working from home during a global pandemic has introduced new formats, patterns, challenges, and even View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
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Research
The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
of the most successful companies in the world where the CEO is openly gay, and no one cared a bit. I wrote Tim Cook a letter the next day to share my experience. He was as moved as I was. —Paul Donaher (MBA 1981) I remember the first time... View Details