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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
farmer-turned-salesman termed a “mean caling” [sic] in 1810 today is a respectable profession that employs roughly 12 percent of the U.S. workforce. Relying heavily on material from salesmen’s diaries and journal entries, sales ledgers,...
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- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
margin market? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811047-PDF-ENG Just an MOU or a Real Deal? Lena G. Goldberg and Mary Beth FindlayHarvard Business School Note 312-018 Notwithstanding the professed intention of a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
advice, insight, and perspective, and facilitating a new understanding of things." That definition neatly sums up a profession that's been shaped and populated by HBS alumni since the emerging notion of strategy in the 1960s sparked the...
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- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
rituals mediated the link between use of rituals and reduced grief after losses, and the benefits of rituals accrued not only to individuals who professed a belief in rituals' effectiveness but also those who did not. Although the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
showcase several areas of theoretical development that might benefit from revisiting the taboo. I conclude by reviewing key practical implications of such a shift for our profession and by arguing that organizational scholarship could...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
among the first to respond. "I had to eliminate more than 30 positions in 2014 and eventually volunteered to be laid off myself, so I've thought a lot about this topic and am interested in what the research will show," says DeRienzo. "Increasingly I feel...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
inquiry in such areas. What’s being done to make the profession more representative of the general population? And what are the policy implications of research on topics like the Black-White wealth gap?Welcome to the Managing the Future...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
implications for business. We stand at the cusp of very, very important changes in demography. For instance, more than half the people graduating from U.S. colleges today are women. In professions like law and medicine, half of the new...
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Roger Thompson
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
company plane to fly their girlfriends around, then employees quickly become cynical about management's professed concerns about honesty. Whistleblowers should be protected through use of ombudspersons, anonymous hot lines, and access to...
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by Carla Tishler
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
the revolution in finance in the 1960s and 1970s when the modern approaches to finance were coming into vogue. Consistent with Kuhn's (1996) Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the established profession and the established journals...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
abstract is not available at this time. Read the paper: http://www.francescagino.com/uploads/4/7/4/7/4747506/ayal_gino_chapter.pdf What Business Schools Can Learn from the Medical Profession Author:Nitin Nohria Publication:Harvard...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Abstract The study of leadership suffers intellectual neglect and has yet to be considered a serious academic discipline. And though the mission statements of most business schools profess to "develop leaders who make a difference in...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
leadership education falls at best on the periphery rather than at the center of most schools that profess to educate leaders as their animating purpose. Many of today's most popular leadership courses are delivered by external...
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- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
appropriate systemic connections to effectively distribute solutions. Thus, these challenges cannot be dealt with by one profession or institution acting alone; indeed, effective action most often occurs at the intersections of...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
Business Cycles was Joseph Schumpeter's least successful book when measured by its professed aims and several other yardsticks. Yet the book contains two vital aspects that have largely been overlooked. First, the prodigious research that...
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by Thomas K. McCraw
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
the compensation component. While the 3-30-300 rule of thumb is a generalization and a simplification, the order of magnitude is appropriate and useful. Some professions pay much more. When higher salaries are considered, the impact of...
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- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
networks. If Posse defined its impact as changing the demographic makeup of the leadership of professions such as law, business, medicine, and education, then perhaps it should continue to target only the most selective colleges. The case...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
brokerages are working on repairing the tarnished image of the sell-side analyst profession while at the same time reconfiguring the economics of that function. Up until brokerage commissions were deregulated on May 1, 1975 (known in the...
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- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
continued, suggesting the creation of the equivalent of the National Transportation Safety Board for examining financial crises in a technical, determined way. Finance as a profession does not look bright, he acknowledged. It will be...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
by Andrew Neitlich (MBA 1991) (Atn Associated LLC) Neitlich shows why coaching is one of the fastest-growing professions in the business world today. Leaders and managers use coaching to develop people, solve pressing challenges, and...
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