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- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
original proposed stratospheric valuation, its byzantine corporate structure, its woeful (or nonexistent) corporate governance, and most of all its flamboyant founder, Adam Neumann. So perhaps it was not a surprise when WeWork, given the...
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- 18 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?
compensation packages look so similar to each other? “Many of them stated that the design of the CEO compensation package was heavily reliant on the proposals produced by the compensation consultant” That’s the main question Susanna...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
author Alexander Mirza proposes a solution to the human capital challenges faced by service industries amidst unprecedented labor shortages, and technological and geopolitical shifts, and offers a framework View Details
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- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
informational cues it provides. We propose that it is this very stability that provides a springboard for firms to reorient resources in order to adapt to a changing environment. View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 2010
- Book
The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal
By: Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was officially opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a...
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Political History;
For-Profit Firms;
Development Economics;
Infrastructure;
State Ownership;
Ship Transportation;
Panama;
United States
Maurer, Noel, and Carlos Yu. The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal. Princeton University Press, 2010.
- Research Summary
Dissertation: Is the Ideal Worker Still Real? Sources and Consequences of Men's Professional Identities
My dissertation examines the implications of men's changing lives for their work identities and for gender inequality in organizations. Current theories of workplace gender inequality hinge upon the widely-shared cultural image of an "ideal worker,"... View Details
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Models of optimal experience (flow)
Flow is a state of profound task-absorption, involvement, and intrinsic enjoyment that makes the person feel one with the activity. Csikszentmihalyi's Flow Theory states that flow is more likely to occur in situations in which the person feels that the activity is very...
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- 26 Jun 2013
- News
How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case
Bob Reiss Photo courtesy of Bob Reiss It was 1983, and Bob Reiss (MBA 1956) was looking for a new game to play. A Brooklyn native and former basketball star at Columbia University who had become a successful entrepreneur in the...
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- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
policy and has put out a formal request for information to help guide that decision-making process, to which Trichakis, Bertsimas, and Farias are contributing. Their key idea is to View Details
- January 2024
- Supplement
Winning Business at Russell Reynolds
By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and...
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Restructuring;
Talent and Talent Management;
Compensation and Benefits;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Evaluation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Consulting Industry
Bernstein, Ethan, and Cara Mazzucco. "Winning Business at Russell Reynolds." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 424-704, January 2024.
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RCS Cheat Sheet - Research Computing Services
Help RCS Cheat Sheet 4ms Check out the links below to quickly get started with our statistical/data services, high-throughput compute cluster, research software, and training. For additional assistance, please see our help page....
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- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
manager, but it was a good thing for me to brush up on while managing a diverse team. —Alterrell Mills (MBA 2016) Back to top “Fenchel Lampshade Co.” Steven Rogers (MBA 1985) and Michele Rogers (MBA 1986) View Details
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and expertise with this advanced certificate. Need Help? Frequently Asked Questions Get answers to your questions about admissions, grading, and more. Request More Information Learn more about specific programs, or sign up View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
mainframe computer, and made the requested transactions. Playing a small role in the front lines of money management was the perfect introduction for her career leading one of the nation’s top investment...
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Susan Young
- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
After providing information about its business and goals, a company sponsors a tournament of successive rounds where designers submit proposals to capture the winner-take-all award. Following each round, designers can modify their...
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- 2017
- Other Book
Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices
By: Matthew Taylor, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent
I was not the only person appointed to the Review. My fellow Review team members, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent have not only been an important source of ideas and wisdom throughout the process but have led in engaging with key groups of...
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Future Of Work;
Labor Relations;
Marketplaces;
Employment;
Labor and Management Relations;
Labor;
Markets
Taylor, Matthew, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol, and Paul Broadbent. Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices. London: Great Britain, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, 2017. Electronic.
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Socioeconomic Inclusion - MBA
insights and recommendations for cultivating a more economically diverse and inclusive community at HBS. Student Profiles Joshua Mbanusi MBA 2021 As the youngest of five siblings, Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021) grew up watching his single...
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
to do intense, focused work for short periods of time (up to a few days) and subsequently exit the software, choosing multiple cores is fine. But if you plan to run an interactive session over the course of the day or two, please select...
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- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
through a process of valuation. Is the proposed investment justified? How much should you pay? But after an acquisition, it’s fairly common for the stock of the acquirer to fall, indicating that it likely...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in...
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