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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator F rom 1926 to 1966, Doriot taught nearly 7,000 students at HBS. "Doriot showed a singular capacity to...draw his experience into his teaching and to practice what he preached. Unlike most teachers, he had a View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
fighter-pilot tests. But if finding the right stuff is a good way to identify top talent, why is it so common to see executives with a successful track record in one company coming into another company with great fanfare, only to be... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
Staff Stories. Recorded in our remote studio on December 15, 2020. Hi, my name is Srikant Datar and I have just started as Dean of the Harvard Business School on January the 1st. It was very nicely put by [Executive Dean for... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
Mahek A. Shah, and Kevin A. Schulman Abstract—The federal government mandated adoption of certified electronic health record systems (EHR), at least in part, to reduce administrative costs for physicians. This study used time-driven... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
self-control. We focus on children aged between 5 and 15 as the literature suggests that self-control develops within such age range. We ask each child to toss a fair coin in private and to record the outcome (white or black) on a paper... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Abstract This paper presents evidence of performance persistence in entrepreneurship. We show that entrepreneurs with a track record of success are much more likely to succeed than first-time entrepreneurs and those who have previously... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
knowledge you have, the more connections you can make.” This certainly seems to make sense in a football context when considering the most successful coach of all: 67-year-old Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots. Despite an uncharacteristic playoff loss this... View Details
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
market," says Parsons. Then they recorded how the stock market performed on the days following each article's appearance. As it turned out, the market consistently dropped by several points after a bearish columnist wrote, and... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
myself. I'm cautious when investing because we need to build sustainable businesses and create a competitive track record for the country, if we're going to improve opportunities for the next generation." [music] Targeted efforts like... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
inform his unborn child about how to live a happy life. In this special live Skydeck episode, recorded during spring reunions, Neil talks about his book with the Bulletin's associate editor, April White. And takes questions from the... View Details
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
utilizes data from households across the country that install a set-top box alongside their television that analyzes second by second what family members watch. At the same time, Kantar records everything that is shown on every station,... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
radio—featuring recordings of actual calls for help. Whereas individual car makes and models were usually marketed separately, Huber's team wanted OnStar to have its own distinct brand across the fleet. "The car brands in the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
Kerr says. Patent Effects To determine whether an increase in H-1B visas led to an increase in innovation, the researchers looked at data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, examining patent applications and grants through May 2009. While patent View Details
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
consumer." The Personal Book software program is one tool that helps Nordstrom's sales staff do this. In it, they can record personal information about their customers, including size and color preferences, birthdays and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
by the businesses, in my view. Instead, it was a measurement error, resulting from the inevitable uncertainties of assessing early-stage technologies. Nevertheless, having three out of thirty-five projects turn out to be "positives" is not a bad track View Details
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information, we may rely on the legal bases of “performance of contract” in order to fulfill our contract with you to provide Services and on “compliance with legal obligation” in order to comply with tax laws in the maintenance of financial View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
explain how we have arrived at this point, he says: Businesses everywhere are short staffed, and call volumes are at record levels, so the human-to-call ratio doesn’t work in the customer’s favor. Plus, with wages as high as they are,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
for a successful exit from the working world—and a few more like Teeling, who chafe at the very notion. And while this episode of Skydeck was notably recorded in pre-pandemic times, we think the advice offered here remains relevant. READ... View Details
- 06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008
handset business made up increasingly large shares of its operations. In early 2008, on the strength of sky-rocketing sales in those areas and by resurgent sales of Macintosh products, Apple's revenues and its stock price reached record... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
large and successful companies with good track records in their own countries experiencing acute problems with U.S. affiliates, which are sometimes fatal. The U.S. market might be seen as an "American dream," to cite the name of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace