Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

And this isn’t for lack of ambition among them: Black women are even more likely to aspire to hold a powerful position with a prestigious title than white women. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? Each had been employed for at least two years and had aspirations to move into executive management or senior leadership.

Management 12

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 12

Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Sample Script: Making it Conscious, Not Confrontational The set up: You and your team are working together on a presentation that’s due in less than twenty-four hours. As you can see, offering a number of choices at every turn allows those involved to retain some measure of control, which is essential to keeping the situation from escalating.

Press Release 207

Press Release Discount Video PR 207

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. In recent years we have learned a lot about the causes of short-termism and its intensifying power.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

We often hear about the power of personality, and how some traits are beneficial for our careers while others are more harmful. The overall effect of personality on lifetime earnings is large – in the same order of magnitude as the average lifetime earnings difference between high school and college graduates in my sample: over $1.2

Sample 14

Sample Education Bottom-up Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. The other CEOs in our sample didn’t directly oversee breakthrough innovation. tax jurisdiction.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

A working paper by Lily Fang, an associate professor of finance at INSEAD, and Sterling Huang, a Ph.D. She and her co-author also found that 35% of the women in their sample had attended an Ivy League school as opposed to only 25% of the men. For the men in the sample, the median long stint is 15 years. is the rallying cry.

Advice 8

Advice Sample Social Capital CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

During the past decade, business analytics platforms have evolved from supporting IT and finance functions to enabling business users across the enterprise. But it turned out that the analysts had selected a biased sample of older cars with higher-than-average maintenance costs among cars of the same age.

Technology 8

Technology Sample Depreciation Analysis 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Good useful original gifts are best if they can contain a mini-version of your product or service for sampling.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We have more than 100 data scientists that power algorithmic capabilities used throughout the company. We have algorithms for recommender systems, merchandise buying, inventory management, relationship management, logistics, operations — we even have algorithms for designing clothes! ” a product manager inquires.

Learning-by-Doing 9

Learning-by-Doing Engineering Metrics Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

The Vanguard Group, for example, makes a point of interviewing a sample of clients who have convinced others to bring business to the firm. Some utilities help customers finance, install and maintain their own systems for generating power and heat through solar roof panels.

Loyalty 8

Loyalty Decentralization Sample Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The academic study of strategy took a big leap forward in the 1970s when Michael Porter of HBS looked at earlier economic research on industry structure and noticed that market power — which economists wanted to minimize — was the same thing as sustained profitability, which corporate executives wanted to maximize. Corporate finance?

Strategy 8

Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

After all, sales and finance were often at odds in organizations, and the conflict hadn’t had a big impact on Barker’s revenues. “Ahmed has promised samples for the new line on the Clarkson account, but his order exceeds the limits accounting set, so we need Damon’s signoff, and he won’t give it.”

Case Study 12

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Many rely on HR managers to screen out applicants who aren't qualified for the job or a good fit for the company. The majority of job applications die before the hiring manager ever sees them. Some larger organizations are very transparent about the process and even include sample questions on their website.

Sample 15

Sample Case Study Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Lazear went on to describe how economists, with the University of Chicago's Gary Becker leading the way , had been running roughshod over the other social sciences — using economic tools to study crime, the family, accounting, corporate management, and countless other not strictly economic topics.

Tversky 10

Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Fueled by passion and purpose, they produced and tested foundation samples on their own time. Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

I have found that the way we answer it has important implications for how men feel at work, and also influences organizational cultures in ways most managers might not consider. These men represent the range of demographics, occupations, and clothing styles in my sample. This question is not as trivial as it may seem.

Fashion 10

Fashion Participative Class Creativity 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In 1980, Jim Baron, now a professor at the Yale School of Management, and William Bielby, now a professor at the University of Illinois, published a seminal article on firms and inequality. These changes may provide a powerful incentive for corporate organizations to forge longer-term commitments with their workers.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8