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16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

among NFL coaches now support this idea. We examined this link between tenure and job performance among business managers, finding that some are able to maintain job performance by adapting and staying... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

14 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Growing CEOs from the Inside

who somehow have maintained enough detachment from the local traditions, ideologies, and shibboleths that they have retained the objectivity of an outsider," Bower writes. Think Anne Mulcahy, CEO of Xerox, who started out as a sales rep for the company in 1976 and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Employment

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

to conveniently and easily accomplish an important job for themselves, they typically have to hire someone else to do the job for them or they have to cobble together a less-than-adequate solution.... View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

offerings that people truly want to buy, firms instead need to home in on the job the customer is trying to get done. Some jobs are little (pass the time); some are big (find a more fulfilling career). When... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission

users. Not only does it teach a skill set (coding) that is increasingly in demand in the job market, but its users are so loyal and engaged that they have provided the bulk of the learning content themselves at no cost. Codecademy's... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jeffrey J. Bussgang; Technology

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

IT-savvy business executive—either a CEO or a top manager who has overseen the use of IT to gain strategic advantage in another organization. The expert's job is to challenge entrenched in-house thinking. In any case, at least one person... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain

executives to provide on-the-scene examples of how the organization's values are lived on the job is important. This invariably requires a larger-than-normal travel and communication budget, incentives for top management executives to... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

the intrapreneurial effort fails, you'll still have a job tomorrow, said HBS assistant professor Clark Gilbert, who served as moderator. And for managers of the start-up, a corporate benefactor can make starting a new organizational life... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

Conversely, I’ve heard investors say they wish the leaders of their portfolio companies would be more transparent about challenges they are facing and ask for help. As one investor said to me, “They already sold me on the business and have our money. It’s now our... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How Relationships are Building Biotech

wrote. Higgins and Gulati discovered that the top executives' connections established in their previous jobs had a large, and positive, effect on biotech companies in terms of securing resources. Together Higgins and Gulati gathered the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

entrepreneurs. Designed for entrepreneurial and international business courses. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807075 Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Harvard Business School Case 407-028 Bill... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Nov 2016
First Look

November 22, 2016

résumé audit study, we examine racial minorities’ attempts to avoid anticipated discrimination in labor markets by concealing or downplaying racial cues in job applications, a practice known as "résumé whitening." Interviews with racial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2003
What Do You Think?

Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?

investor, I feel powerless to control or even understand how my mutual funds operate." Anupam Bordia comments, "the mutual fund scandal will shift public trust towards index funds." There is also a suggestion that the job... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

Without leaving the hallways of their public high school, dozens of students from the economically distressed city of Newburgh, New York, have earned associate’s degrees in cybersecurity, arming them with in-demand skills and preparing them for View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

21 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

LinkedIn allowed individual members to post a profile on the LinkedIn site and then to use the site's tools to search for job opportunities; to recruit job candidates; to find suppliers, partners, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

that jobs virtually dried up. "Real estate development companies were rescinding offers to classmates of mine." When the job market for commercial real estate tanked, so did MBA student interest.... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

managers allow so-called support function employees to become catalysts for change. Key concepts include: Marketers, human resources managers, finance managers, and other so-called support function employees often have trouble defining their worth because their View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

20 May 2013
Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

collaborative," Menino said. "This approach delivered results for our city. It will also deliver results to our country." The mayor cited development of the South Boston waterfront and the creation of summer jobs for youth.... View Details

Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette

October 2018
Case

American Family Insurance and the Artificial Intelligence Opportunity

By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson

Citation

Educators

08 Jan 2014
What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

while creating new jobs more or less commensurate with the skills of the displaced workers. But things have changed since the technology is now able to think as well as perform tasks It is not easy to convert today's manual laborers to... View Details