Succession Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

plans they have presented with a 5 percent cutback still doesn't get us to cash-flow positive. This is one of the points, too, that came out of both projects which is, you have to be aware of the receptors in people's minds, their... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 13

argue the authors of Higher Ambition. In fact, as global competition stiffens and enterprises face increasing public scrutiny, successful leaders must win on all fronts-with their people, their customers, their communities, and their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

traditional ways of getting work done, and organizations where “lines and boxes” still define how people are managed. As work and organizations have become more fluid and business strategy is no longer about planning years ahead but about... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11

dictates that success often derives from predictable patterns so that people know how to plan and where to follow. But twenty years after sitting through her class that morning, I can confidently say that... View Details

08 Mar 2019
Blog Post

“There’s no quick shortcut to success:” Zorpads takes off

company. However, they and their partners were ready, and they have plans to further expand to other retailers in addition to selling from their own site. They're also still working out the logistics of Barkley's endorsement. After seeing... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Four Professors to Retire

1968 and named the first Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration in 1973. He was appointed to the Royal Little chair in 1980. In retirement, Christenson plans to complete work on a book he began years ago on... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

05 Dec 2016
News

The Dragon’s Tale

company started out in 1984 making teapot polish in western China, and through a succession of acquisitions, it is now the 234th-largest company in the world. ChemChina recently spent $43 billion to acquire the Swiss seed giant Syngenta,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

on the enormous success of the event, last summer the Dean's Office invited Dobron to work full-time to refine and implement suggestions for improving campus life that were generated during the case discussions. "Our efforts were mainly... View Details

10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

some advice for leading a successful honest conversation: Focus the conversation on the question that matters. What do you want to learn? Make it safe to share the whole truth. A task force of eight or so trusted leaders commissioned by... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

19 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

conservatism. Competitive Advantage and the Value Network Configuration: Making Decisions at a Swedish Life Insurance Company Authors:Øystein D. Fjeldstad and Christian H.M. Ketels Periodical:Long Range Planning Journal 39, no. 2 (April... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2021
News

Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity

in the world, we don’t want people to be constrained by financial barriers that would prevent them from accessing the School or being successful in the MBA Program or thereafter. So, we think about this as a journey through three time... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

08 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

succession planning processes are very important in leveraging great executives and managers. It pays for firms to invest in hiring and developing great managers. Second, a given year’s winning percentage is... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

can call busy, successful people whom I don't know personally and have them return my calls—I think is a recognition that it's not just me, that it is just the etiquette of the game." One doesn't become a guild member without... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

15 Nov 2024
News

Driving Change

Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details

24 Aug 2017
News

Unlocking Potential

in order to make it to the next day. That doesn’t translate to successful job performance in a business environment, however. From their first day in the program, Reset participants (or students, in Reset’s vocabulary) work in a... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services

13 Jul 2020
News

The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)

teams think about their target audience, core user benefits, and which features to build to deliver real value to users—to work that looks more like content programming, where we inform what content we should bring to the platform; to more traditional go-to-market... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Letters

but it has a detailed plan for public- and private- sector efforts to end extreme global poverty. Business alone cannot do the job because, as the IGD plan points out, it is necessary to invest in good... View Details

12 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

Moskowitz, and Annette Vissing-Jørgensen Abstract We provide new evidence on the success of long-run risks in asset pricing by focusing on the risks borne by stockholders. Exploiting micro-level household consumption data, we show that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

membership. Some of these businesses have tried an advertising-based model with very limited success. However, these businesses have not fully explored the power of their members to influence each other's behavior. This potential viral or social effect can have... View Details