Managing The Future Of Work - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

resolved it. Since past behavior is the best indicator of future behavior, the board should ask candidates what concrete steps they took in their... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

07 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Innovation in Asia

in the U.S. may soon have as much to fear about losing their jobs to overseas competitors as call center employees do today. Executives debated "The Present and Future of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2007
News

Profiles from the class of 2007

shamrock, it reads: Green with Envy.) “Entrepreneurship is not only a great way to enjoy the work you’re doing as the owner of a business,” says... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

10 Apr 2008
News

The Sum of Our Own Greatness

the opening and closing venue – with morning remarks by Dean Jay Light and Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, and a late-afternoon birthday party. In between came a campus-wide case discussion on the View Details

Keywords: Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

started at the bottom—"My first assignment was to get a post office box so we could get literature describing the equipment we couldn't afford to buy"—and worked his... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

Web

Working with Spaces, Files & Folders - Research Computing Services

We wish to bring to your attention a number of items that will help you work efficiently and prevent you from having future problems: Remember that home folders are not... View Details

15 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2021

surprisingly, the 10 most-read articles on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge reflected the mood swings of another challenging, complex... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

July 2001
Exercise

Working with Your "Shadow Partner": Building a High Tech Investment Portfolio

By: Dwight B. Crane and Richard L. Nolan

Team-based exercise designed to illustrate the use of the Internet directly by executives. Requires going on the Internet to search for information required to construct a high-tech investment portfolio. View Details

Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Groups and Teams; Internet and the Web; Information Management

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Purchase

01 Mar 2005
News

House of Bread on the Rise

the first location, McCann leaves the baking to her staff while she manages a growing enterprise. “I love people, and franchising is basically about relationships with people,”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

21 Dec 2016
Blog Post

The Best Little Secret of the Harvard MBA

groups typically divided work among each of the team members and the mornings were when the students reconvened to... View Details

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Investment Management and Capital Markets - Course Catalog

business. This includes both those targeting careers in asset management and those interested in learning how to manage effectively their personal wealth, current and future. This course aims at... View Details

15 Apr 2024
Book

Struggling With a Big Management Decision? Start by Asking What Really Matters

think that the four questions are yet another of the many lists offered to managers for making decisions. But this badly underestimates their... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Nov 2021
In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

01 Feb 1997
News

Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management

for information. "The whole point of this segment of the course was to say: 'Let's come down from the mountaintop and talk about how real View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

31 Jul 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

onstage during Spring Reunions, McGinnis and I discuss the broad span of these ideas. Namely, how these forces at work in our social lives can also impact our professional... View Details

25 Jan 2016
News

Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home

You wouldn’t know it from most American media, but many sub-Saharan African nations have booming economies. And although the press may have missed the boat on this African success story, many business... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

11 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

shares in a company or part of a company that had been taken private in an initial leveraged buyout. Usually, buyout specialists will hold their portfolio firms for several years, working with existing View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

01 Mar 2015
News

Case Study: The Speed of Light

that maintains and expands your repeatable service/solution yet keeps your employees, managers, and leaders fully engaged. Keys to your future growth are servicing new contracts with your repeatable solution, and View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

13 May 2013
Blog Post

The Social Side of an Internship

there was this: I recently had the privilege of attending a baseball game with other interns at the media company I am interning for this summer. View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

Research Summary

Do Appearances Matter? The Impact of EPS Accretion and Dilution on Stock Prices

There is a widespread concern among practitioners and corporate managers that transactions which result in changes in future earnings-per-share (EPS) have real effects on stock prices, irrespective of whether these changes reflect differences in future cash flows. As... View Details

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