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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
don’t you even think of passing off older men or second-raters. I’m asking the same thing of every major company in the country, and I’ll be watching very closely how well your men do compared to the best young men from all the other...
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Garry Emmons
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
experiment carried out in a large business process outsourcing company, we found that socialization focused on personal identity (emphasizing newcomers' unique perspectives and strengths) led to significantly greater customer satisfaction and greater employee retention...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
workforce development: College is broken. Apprenticeships deliver. Episode 200: The founder and CEO of UK-based unicorn Multiverse makes the case for the earn-and-learn model. Arguing that the college advantage is oversold and overpriced,...
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- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
whole context. Ely: In Men and Women of the Corporation, you dig into roles and structures, and you weave it all together into cycles of advantage and disadvantage. I’m curious to know how you think about actually intervening in those...
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by Robin J. Ely
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
Excerpt Second, I wanted to demonstrate the relative importance of business compared to governments and other institutional actors in building global capitalism. In both the historical and economics literatures, firms are typically...
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- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
contracting structure has important strategic implications. Preferring Balanced vs. Advantageous Peace Agreements: A Study of Israeli Attitudes Towards a Two-State Solution Authors:Deepak Malhotra and Jeremy Ginges Publication:Judgment...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
compared to 56.9% for all other analyst recommendations. We find that appointed analysts' optimism is stronger at precisely those times when firms' benefits are larger and that appointed analysts appear to be more closely tied to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
financing as compared to all other investors. This allowed them to diversify their holdings across a range of companies and to minimize dilution as the companies raised follow on money. Diversification and investing in additional rounds...
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by Manda Salls
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
million on energy conservation projects, cutting generation demand by 116 megawatts and saving 194,300 megawatt-hours of electricity, compared with the forecasts. The net value of the energy saved was $90 million, of which New England...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
pour Entrepreneurs by Fabrice Cavarretta (MBA 1996) Plon Yes, France is a paradise for entrepreneurs, Cavarretta writes. The country has one of the best opportunity ecosystems in the world and the drawbacks—for instance, the cost of labor or taxes—are relatively minor...
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- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
diversified business groups in contemporary developed economies of Western Europe, North America, and Oceania. It aims to come up with a new theoretical understanding of diversified business groups and other comparable models of corporate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
breezes of change have been in evidence for a number of years, it remains true that most pensions and institutional investors maintain outsized allocations to active long-only (ALO) managers, with comparatively high fees. The question is:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
advantage shrinks as a result. Fortunately, I don’t think that will happen. There’s been an increased emphasis on individual research projects built into the MBA curriculum, and that offers a healthy antidote to just reading printouts. —...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
reforms that began in 1978 have stoked annual growth in excess of 9 percent, three times that of the United States. Per capita income among the nation’s 1.3 billion inhabitants has more than quadrupled, surpassing $1,000 last year. Multinationals have rushed to take...
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- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
from what it promises to do. Book: http://www.people.hbs.edu/jwulf/CMR_May.pdf Working PapersBusiness Model Evaluation: Quantifying Walmart's Sources of Advantage Authors:Humberto Brea-Solis, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Emili...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
fungible, and cannot be easily leveraged for strategic advantage by proximate competitors. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-071.pdf Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives Authors:Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso,...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
that CEOs deserve and should be given a percentage of the value they created. The notion struck me as odd when compared to the logic of other professions. Doctors save lives; lives are infinitely valuable; so do doctors deserve to be paid...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
leading Bay Area companies. It also offered plenty of opportunities for alumni to network, compare notes, and catch up with friends and classmates. As Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine - the first Harvard president to attend...
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Daniel Penrice
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
skills and opportunity gaps. We’ll also discuss where the 20th-century education and training model falls short in a fast-evolving 21st-century economy. We’ll consider how the apprenticeship model offers advantages for both workers and...
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- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
than shepherding an innovation through the entire commercialization process. We argue that this binary outcome—i.e., success via acquisition—creates different opportunities and threats for new entrants and has important and novel implications for the following...
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Dina Gerdeman