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Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend This program is... View Details
  • December 2018
  • Case

CIR Group: Passing Wealth through the Generations

By: Lauren Cohen, Christopher J. Malloy and Elena Corsi
Rodolfo, Marco, and Edoardo De Benedetti had received from their father his controlling shares in COFIDE, a publicly listed holding company that held 45.8% of CIR Group, another publicly listed holding. The latter held majority shares in GEDI, Italy’s largest print... View Details
Keywords: Succession Planning; Transferring Shares; Wealth Management; Holding Structures; Family Ownership; Ownership Stake; Management Succession; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Health Industry; Italy
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  • 17 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees

doesn’t have all the measurements that matter.” Don’t squeeze your workers If you squeeze your workers so that they are rewarded (in money and benefits and culture) barely above the amount necessary to attract them, then the job isn’t very sticky, Hall says. And they... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • July 22, 2024
  • Article

Why People Resist Retirement

By: Teresa M. Amabile
Research suggests making the decision to retire means grappling with three psychological issues. First, identity issues can loom large for any deeply engaged professional. Even a small step away from a career can make a person wonder who they are without it. Second,... View Details
Keywords: Retirement; Identity; Leadership; Satisfaction; Relationships; Age
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  • July 2010
  • Article

Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship

By: Ramana Nanda and Jesper B. Sorensen
We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity is related to the prior career experiences of an individual's co-workers, using a unique matched employer-employee panel dataset. We argue that coworkers can increase the likelihood that an individual will... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Perception; Opportunities; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence
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  • 03 Oct 2023
  • News

Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure?

  • Program

Leading Professional Service Firms

achievement Create an intimate, flexible culture that is inclusive, supportive, and collegial Help professionals manage rising expectations, remain productive, and grow throughout their careers Develop leaders at all levels of your... View Details
Keywords: Professional Services; Professional Services

    Stephen A. Greyser

    Stephen A. Greyser is Richard P. Chapman Professor (Marketing/Communications) Emeritus, of the Harvard Business School, specializes in brand marketing, advertising, corporate communications, the business of sports, and nonprofit management.  A... View Details

    Keywords: sports
    • April 2003
    • Case

    Captain Crisis in the United States Army, The

    From 1989 to 1999, the Army watched as captain attrition rose from a planned and acceptable 6.7% to a staggering 10.6%. At the beginning of a new century, the Army leadership is concerned that current and projected staffing levels for junior officers are insufficient... View Details
    Keywords: Human Capital; Retention; Government and Politics; Public Administration Industry
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    • April 1988 (Revised July 1989)
    • Case

    Precista Tools AG (A)

    A young woman manager in a Swiss family firm finds that her role as a managing director becomes bitterly unpleasant once her older brother decides to leave an engineering career and join the family business. That is what the father, who was head of the business had... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Gender Characteristics; Switzerland
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    • 07 Jul 2021
    • News

    These Are the Personality Traits You Need to Lead with Trust

    • 31 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?

    Imagine you’re a consultant and you notice a few eyebrow-raising behaviors, such as a colleague who misuses a client’s meal stipend or an executive who screams inappropriately at his staff. Should you step in and speak up? For consultants, especially those starting... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consulting
    • August 2017
    • Article

    Teaching Versus Living: Managerial Decision Making in the Gray

    By: Eugene F. Soltes
    Preparing students for the consequential ethical decisions that they will face in their careers is among the most difficult tasks of management education. I describe some of these challenges based on my book Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Organizational Culture; Business Education
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    Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring

    By: Christopher Stanton and Catherine Thomas
    Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract with each other directly. Despite this, intermediaries—called outsourcing agencies—have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers... View Details
    Keywords: Marketplace Matching; Agency Theory
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    • February 2009
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    Getting Known by the Company You Keep: Publicizing the Qualifications and Former Associations of Skilled Employees

    By: Peter Roberts and Mukti Khaire
    When product quality cannot be ascertained in advance of purchase, producers must convince relevant audiences that they are worthy of consideration as quality players. We propose that quality-oriented producers will selectively publicize information about their skilled... View Details
    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Employees; Product; Quality; Food and Beverage Industry; Australia
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    • 08 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

    published in American Sociological Review in April, Zhang measured culture, manager quality, and work-life balance based on almost 933,000 employee reviews of 8,800 companies on the career website Indeed.com. The site, which also provides... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 16 Sep 2019
    • Blog Post

    Finding my Passion in the Startup Space

    exceptions, working between our New York headquarters and our offices in Athens. Finding your career passion is a trial and error process. People say “follow your passion” but this can be vague. The actual process of discovering these... View Details
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    HBS Recruiting Homepage

    Employment Data Access Data Regarding HBS Talent Career Choices View and filter employment data by industry, function and location to help inform your organizations unique hiring strategy. Let's Work Together View Details
    • February 2005
    • Article

    Financial Analyst Characteristics and Herding Behavior in Forecasting

    By: Michael B. Clement and Senyo Tse
    This study classifies analysts' earnings forecasts as herding or bold and finds that (1) boldness likelihood increases with the analyst's prior accuracy, brokerage size, and experience and declines with the number of industries the analyst follows, consistent with... View Details
    Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Evaluation; Financial Services Industry
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    • August 2010 (Revised January 2020)
    • Case

    Rupert Murdoch: The Last Tycoon

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Hari Balkrishna
    The case examines the entrepreneurial career of Rupert Murdoch and the growth of News Corporation from a small Australian newspaper to a global media giant. It shows how he expanded geographically to Europe, the United States, and Asia and from newspapers to the film... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Media; Globalized Firms and Management; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Publishing Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Europe; United States; Australia
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