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- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
develop strategies for managing their own emotions, as well as those of the people on the receiving end, in order to facilitate successful task performance. Watching others, role-playing with a colleague, doing a dry-run in front of a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
contribution is tax-deductible in the contribution year, but both principal and investment earnings are taxed upon withdrawal. Using administrative data from 11 companies that added a Roth contribution option to their existing 401(k) plan... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
portable, but with inferior performance characteristics, the Montague folding bicycle has the look, feel, and performance of a standard bicycle. However, while the firm has experienced notable success since its founding, it has yet to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
take many years to design and build and then have decades of useful life. This means that it needs to understand now what sorts of missions it may be required to perform in 10, 20, or 30 years and what assets and infrastructure it will need to carry them out. Put... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
You're a successful senior executive with 20, 25 years of experience under your belt. You've made your mark and stand just 1 or 2 rungs from the position of CEO. Now what? As faculty chair of Harvard Business School's Advanced Management... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
Companies need to have smart technicians who stay abreast of emerging digital threats and defenses, of course, but the technicians shouldn't be calling the shots. General managers need to take the lead in building processes that will lessen the likelihood of a View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Administration after World War II. This episode illustrates the increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business education and the growing appeal of "scientific" approaches to... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609039 Miles Davis: Kind of Blue Harvard Business School Case 609-050 Examines how successful companies can "jump to the next S-curve" through an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
describes the events that took place in the run-up to the 2018 Annual General Meeting, the voting outcome, key perspectives on success factors, and the challenges that The Weir Group faced in the near future. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow draws on hours of in-depth interviews with Grove, other key Intel employees, and numerous high-technology entrepreneurs to craft a revealing, instructive portrait of a man and the company he built into one of Silicon Valley’s biggest... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
breakfast, so the daily 8 a.m. staff meeting had been canceled, and Lhota was planning on catching up on some paperwork. He sat in the quiet of his first-floor office, whose tall, west-facing windows looked out on the morning's golden... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
Willums' plane was flying along the Greenland coastline on his way back to Norway after intense discussions with several prominent U.S. venture capital investors, among them Kleiner Perkins and Rockport Capital Partners, about investing in a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
deeply interests me in this space. But let’s talk about pricing. Snigdha, the price point you chose was about $3.99 a month, correct? SS: Yes, if you’re on the annual plan it’s a little less than $1 a week. BA: And Michael, yours is $5.99... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
underlying framework that compels such partnerships as between a food bank in Mexico and a supermarket in the United States, providing insights into the DNA of a successful collaboration that are broadly applicable. Our excerpt from the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
brother-in-law. Gordon works with partners like Benedetti and the Kempinski to plan events and conferences at the hotel; today, they are discussing a joint US road show to sell Cuba as a travel destination to luxury and corporate travel... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
Immelt had spent his second year at HBS reflecting on his career path, and he decided that he was more interested in being an operator than an investor, accepting a position with a lower salary at GE. Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) His initial View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
in the planning room one day when a US Navy SEAL walked in the door, and asked me if I've heard of Operation Red Wings. So we talked for a little bit, we opened up a map, and he pointed to a place in Northeastern Afghanistan called the... View Details
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
to deter weaker players by disrupting or delaying their plans or imposing burdensome penalties. Delay is often a valuable side effect of government involvement in value-net games. Global Crossing, a small player in the telecommunications... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
influential historical figures were articulate in expressing strong religious convictions. The paper concludes that by the 1990s it was evident that the success of entrepreneurial pioneers in building the market for green products created... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne