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- 01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking
feeling, so therefore it’s worthy of study. The second thing is figuring out that, when you study it, you get better at it. This is not of theoretical interest; the more you know, the happier you can get. When it turns out there is... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
We all know the importance of mentors and other early career experiences in shaping the kind of leaders we ultimately become. But how important to that development are the particular companies we work for? For Harvard Business School professor Monica Higgins, who has... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
turns out that these research findings hold value not only for football teams, but for any organization that depends on leadership for success. An empirical study of coaching ability In 2009, scholars Tim R. Holcomb, R. Michael Holmes... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
make bad decisions? Using both field and quantitative data from the MGM-Mirage Group, this paper discusses how management controls affect the learning rates of lower-level employees. Research, focusing on hotel casino hosts, was conducted... View Details
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- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
studied the credit ratings industry in the wake of the financial crisis. In a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics, he examined the role of competition between raters. One important distinction, in his view, is between... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
important lessons about competition: “At the end of the day, it is a sport,” he says. “You shake hands, win or lose, and move on.” Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993 MIKITANI: In his Tokyo office. Hiroshi Mikitani barely knew the word “entrepreneur” when he arrived at Soldiers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
traces the experiences of nineteen new managers over the course of their first year on the job. Based on six years of intensive field research and data analysis by HBS professor Linda Hill, the book explores the transformation that takes... View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
clear that the business models that succeed in the Internet sector and e-commerce in emerging markets such as Latin America will resemble those in the United States," says Kennedy. Despite this lag time, the Net is nonetheless causing excitement and optimism in the... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-105.pdf Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author:Sharon P. Katz Abstract This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
world of advertising by transforming the way Americans watched television. BCM had developed a technology to make television "clickable," enabling viewers to interact with the content on their television screens. By April 2009, BCM had conducted consumer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
is reinventing how organizations compete in the digital world. The School welcomed the first cohort of fellows at the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS), bringing together researchers and practitioners to address... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
the outcome of the league's drive for growth, like the outcome of the NFL's slate of games on any given Sunday, is anybody's guess. FAN BASE: Kacyvenski with his children, Isaiah Jr. and Lily, now 10 and 7, respectively. A Source of Power On a rainy, windswept... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
organization, no matter what its age or size. Richard Hamermesh: The theory and concepts about entrepreneurship—the research and the knowledge—have been around HBS for a long time. I would give particular credit to Howard and Bill Sahlman for conceptualizing the View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
father was a Syrian immigrant who would have been precluded. These are legitimate concerns, as casting a narrower net means fewer chances of finding the one-in-a-million genius. One example: Born in Iran, Maryam Mirzakhani came to the United States to View Details
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- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
factors that impact the business landscape (geopolitical forces, demographic shifts, technological breakthroughs, labor policies, social mores, and government intervention). In studying the context in which business leadership emerged, we... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14087 Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author:Sharon Katz Abstract This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their earnings quality and long-term... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Online Dynamic Teaming Course | HBS Online
real challenges of being a leader. I loved the frameworks and the case study model of the course, and I thought the course was very manageable on top of a full-time job." Abby Katz Senior Marketing Manager at Mavrck Effectively lead... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
situations, but I but I try to seek out others points of view rather than jam my own. And I typically won't come in like a field marshal and say, do this, do that, do that, you know, get it all done by the end ... I actually will... View Details
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
networks, product packaging, and financing instruments to meet the needs and requirements of very poor customers. As members of the School's Global Poverty Project (GPP), Kash Rangan, John Quelch, and other faculty members have studied... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons