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  • 06 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

of the modern world's greatest Opportunists. Also of this genre, although somewhat lesser known, is Jeffrey Skilling, the Enron CEO who sold off tens of millions of dollars of stock just before Enron filed for bankruptcy, claiming he had... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
  • 29 Aug 2022
  • Op-Ed

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

and stock different kinds of trousers. Ortega offers new answers And so it is with inequality measures as well: In our analyses of data from the United States, we show that the Gini coefficient—while often a decent measure—is not the best... View Details
Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser
  • 04 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

turbulence. There's been change in the stock market; there's an uncertain economy that seems to be recovering—but we're not quite convinced that it's recovering, we're not sure it won't implode again. There's been turbulence in the world... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • October 2013
  • Article

Corporate Venturing

By: Josh Lerner
For decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure to rein in costs and produce results, companies are investing in promising start-ups to gain knowledge and agility. The logic of corporate venturing is... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Knowledge Acquisition; Corporate Strategy; Research and Development; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention
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  • May 2004
  • Article

The Risky Business of Hiring Stars

By: Boris Groysberg, Ashish Nanda and Nitin Nohria
With the battle for the best and brightest people heating up again, you're most likely out there looking for first-rate talent in the ranks of your competitors. Chances are, you're sold on the idea of recruiting from outside your organization, since developing people... View Details
Keywords: Staffing; Employee Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employees; Retention; Competitive Advantage; Human Resources; Performance
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  • Web

HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

loss, and human rights abuses, as well as building out the frameworks for positive impact finance needed to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. He is a UN representative on the Board of the Principles for Responsible Investment and a member of the governing... View Details
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Bloomberg: corporate actions calendar

What kind of information is included in Bloomberg's Corporate Action Calendar? In Bloomberg type CACT and hit GO to get to the Corporate Actions menu. You can search by: Date Corporate action type Country Company name, for details on: Class actions Corporate... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

recalls his father asking. That question stayed with Pete Stavros. There had to be a better way. Early in his career as an investor, Stavros was part of a deal with a company that had an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), an... View Details
Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 20 Dec 2023
  • News

New School

has invested in the foundations of this relationship. He has focused on service to employees and stakeholder communities, increasing the company’s minimum wage to $15 in 2015 and overseeing a historic gift of about $200 million in stock... View Details
  • Web

Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

rising stock markets. As a nation, then, we make a substantial investment in foundation philanthropy that goes well beyond the original gifts of private donors. We should therefore expect foundations to achieve a social impact... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Why Do Firms Use Non-Linear Incentive Schemes? Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Overconfidence

Keywords: by Ian Larkin & Stephen Leider
  • 11 Jun 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game

Keywords: by Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn
  • Research Summary

Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

Part of the fear and misunderstanding of state capitalism in the post-Berlin Wall era stems from the fact that most observers see state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as inefficient soviet companies. In Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and... View Details

Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Development Banks; State Ownership; Development Economics; Management; Energy Industry; Banking Industry; Brazil; China; Europe; Latin America; Asia
  • March 2024 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

Darktrace: Scaling Cybersecurity and AI (A)

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Alexis Lefort
In 2023, Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson was contemplating her growth strategy at a leading U.K.-based cybersecurity venture, launched in 2013 by a group of anti-terror cyber specialists, University of Cambridge mathematicians, and artificial intelligence (AI) experts.... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Talent; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Cybersecurity; Leadership; Business Growth and Maturation; Recruitment; Resignation and Termination; AI and Machine Learning; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Europe; United States
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  • 25 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

GDP, that is, total aggregate output, the market value of all final goods and services produced. In a sense, all that you (as a country) have is the total output that you produce in a year—your GDP. Sometimes people think if everyone owned lots of View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

expected to try to fill up their own vessels with fish on each voyage—to do less would not be in their competitive interest. Yet if every fisherman acts this way, all will lose out as the overall stock becomes depleted. Economists call... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani

it to the top." But this key financial strategist ("When She Talks, Stocks Move" a New York Times headline recently proclaimed) has other things on her mind. "Do you think you could get me the recipe for that spicy tomato cocktail they... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 29 Nov 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

perks like bonuses, commissions, or stock options tied to hitting certain goals. But managers may not realize that these incentives could contribute to employee dissatisfaction, burnout, and personal problems at home. “The more our... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
  • Web

Morgan Hall | About

United States Steel Corporation, the world’s first billion-dollar company. At various times Morgan controlled 70 percent of the country’s steel industry, one-fifth of all corporations trading on the New York Stock Exchange, and the three... View Details
  • 30 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

fraudulent fund, even though many suspected something was strange, since the low-risk fund had defied reality by dramatically outperforming the stock market several years in a row. “We were all aware of this hedge fund that had had great... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman