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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Europe just 18 months before as vice president, investor relations, but sees herself as a fine executive. Thus, she is undecided about taking a senior staff position. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
time. We examined a radical change in a recently acquired subsidiary of a U.S.-based global organization over a two-year period. With the aim to standardize communication across borders, the subsidiary changed its native working language from Spanish to English....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
patterns of behavior, not the other way around," writes Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti, an expert on innovation, entrepreneurship, and operations. “The planning process we describe is going to surprise many...
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- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2011. For the smaller US Airways, it was a chance to bulk up to compete on an equal footing with the big domestic carriers on the tarmac, United and Delta. In their articles below, Harvard Business School Professor Stuart...
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- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
performance, even after controlling for current performance, and that this relation is driven by the perceptions of middle management and professional staff rather than senior executives, hourly, or commissioned workers. Taken together,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
executives in the core businesses, rather than ambitious young MBAs, should be assigned to growth initiatives; 3) Assembling the wrong team and staffing up prematurely. CEOs should focus on capabilities, not who's available, and staff up...
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Anna Secino
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
person (who holds very little wealth) and at the median dollar (which is held by a rich person). Third, the survey is remarkably consistent across years, allowing meaningful comparisons between 2001 and 1989. Finally, the Federal Reserve Board View Details
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by Ann Cullen
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
fallen prey to skyrocketing rates of opioid abuse. “Every single one of my staff members has been affected in one way or another,” Marietta says of the opioid epidemic. “It’s wiped out an entire generation of people aged 20 to 45.” By...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
joined Bridgespan as temporary externs, permanent staff, and board members. Of the current staff of 170, spread over offices in Boston, New York, and San Francisco, 22 arrived from Bain. Bridgespan also maintains close ties to HBS....
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
management expert L. Paul (“Jerry”) Bremer III (MBA ’66) was named Administrator of Iraq’s Coalition Provisional Authority last May. His responsibilities include overseeing virtually every detail of life in Iraq except military...
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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
Research Symposium, an annual event that allows HBS faculty members to highlight a variety of research findings to an audience of doctoral students, staff members, and other professors. This year’s symposium, held last week on the HBS...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
the company’s global brand. Petersen, who joined the company in 2004 as head of marketing, says he’s never seen another business open its meetings with meditation, or offer free yoga classes to all its employees. Yeung adds that enabling View Details
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Deborah Halber
- Web
What theory did you just use? News brief — week of Feb 26 2016 - Forum for Growth
different problems (or defining the need for a new theory), rather than needing to become an expert in the problems themselves. What theory did you just use is a question that professors of Clay’s course, Building and Sustaining a...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
other policymakers to remove regulatory barriers that entangle Indian start-ups. Worse than government red tape is the lack of risk capital for emerging firms, says HBS professor Tarun Khanna, an expert on the Indian and Chinese economies...
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- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
as dangerous as Power and others speculate. Based on two detailed case studies and 53 additional interviews with risk-management staff at five other major banks over 2001-2010, this paper shows that relentless risk measurement is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Quarterly, The Journal for Popular Music Studies and Parcours anthropologiques. Other publications include chapters in I Was Born to Use Mics: Listening to Nas’ Illmatic and The Hip-hop & Obama Reader. In addition to scholarly work. Dr. Gaunt is a federally-certified...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
on September 14, when the campus community came together for a noontime memorial service honoring those lost in the September 11 terrorist attacks. Under gray skies, a steady rain fell on students, faculty, and staff members who stood...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Behavior & Organization What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the Determinants of Book Reviews By: Dobrescu, Loretti I., Michael Luca, and Alberto Motta Abstract—This paper investigates the determinants of expert reviews in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
The case describes an organization's use of the science of improvement to transform their process quality from below average to the top 10% in their industry. The case outlines the protagonist's strategy of developing internal experts who...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
difficult professional situations. Members can seek help through call centers and in-person meetings with accounting experts in the field to discuss how to best handle difficult situations. In addition, the Ethics Advisory Committee meets...
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Carmen Nobel