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May 14, 2007
Martha Lagace |
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team It is imperative that top performers as well as their managers take into account the quality of colleagues.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 12, 2009
Martha Lagace |
The Value of a 'Portable' Career Can you predict whether star performers will replicate their success in a new environment? A look at professional athletic teams may provide valuable lessons for star performers and hiring executives of business firms. |
Fast Company
May 2010
D. Heath & C. Heath |
Does Top-Notch Employee Talent Transfer to Other Jobs? You should grow your next generation of talent, not recruit it. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 4, 2010
Jim Heskett |
Why Do We Chase Stars? Is chasing outsider talent a fool's errand? Is general management performance portable between organizations? If not, is management truly a profession? |
Inc.
August 2004
Alison Stein Wellner |
The Perils of Hiring Stars New research shows that so-called star performers rarely do well when they leave one company for another. What's more, their mere presence can actually hurt their new employers |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 6, 2013
Carmen Nobel |
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School Professor Boris Groysberg discusses his new case, "Women MBAs at Harvard Business School: 1962-2012," which delves into the experiences of the School's alumnae over the past 50 years. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 25, 2011
Carmen Nobel |
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out It's a case study in the common but misguided business practice of recruiting superstars, says Harvard Business School Professor Boris Groysberg, author of Chasing Stars -- The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance. |
Job Journal
January 24, 2010
Penelope Trunk |
Brazen Careerist: 4 Keys to Star Performance Fundamental areas where you can easily elevate your performance. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 14, 2013
Carmen Nobel |
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix? Women hold only 14 percent of the board seats at S&P 1500 companies. Why is that, and what -- if anything -- should business leaders and policymakers do about the gender disparity? |
Registered Rep.
August 28, 2013
Carina S. Diamond |
We Need More Female Advisors When it comes to attracting women to our ranks, the industry still has a long way to go |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 18, 2003
Linda A. Hill |
How New Managers Become Great Managers Newly minted managers must commit themselves to lifelong self-improvement. This article is an excerpt from Harvard Business School professor Linda A. Hill's update of her classic, Becoming a Manager. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 15, 2003
Meyerson & Ely |
Women Leaders and Organizational Change Merely expanding the number of women in leadership roles does not automatically induce organizational change. Harvard professor Robin Ely and Stanford's Debra Meyerson call for fundamental changes to transform organizations. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 21, 2011
Kim Girard |
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know Pressure to not compete against men, rather than an innate preference for cooperation over competition, may keep women from earning what they're worth in the workplace, according to preliminary findings by three Harvard researchers. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 21, 2011
Carmen Nobel |
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms Running a financial institution, never easy to begin with, has quickly become one of the most difficult leadership challenges that an executive can undertake, requiring mastery of talent management, change management, and ethics. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2010
Mary Quist-Newins |
Missing in Action As planners look to grow and ultimately transfer their businesses for maximum value, aligning team members with market opportunities is just common sense. This means actively recruiting and retaining more female financial planners. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 3, 2005
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
The Box Office Power of Stars An interview with Anita Elberse who researched the effect of box office stars on a studio's overall profitability and published the results in the working paper, The Power of Stars: Creative Talent and the Success of Entertainment Products. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 5, 2004
Mallory Stark |
The Moral Dilemmas of Young Professionals What influences the moral compasses of young professionals? Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers discuss their new book on ethical conflicts faced by generations at the start of their career ladder. |
ifeminists
June 2, 2004
K. C. Wilson |
Men: Save Your Marriage While both men and women can be ambitious or greedy, or kind and saintly, it can be for different reasons and using different tools. Apply this to marriage. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 29, 2004
Manda Salls |
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative On the eve of the Social Enterprise Initiative's 10th anniversary, Harvard professor James E. Austin talks about bringing social enterprise to the forefront of business education. |
CRM
August 2010 |
The 2010 CRM Rising Stars: An Introduction Eight companies join the ranks of the CRM Rising Stars this year. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 2, 2008
Sean Silverthorne |
Most Popular Stories 2007 Here are the 20 most popular business stories from 2007. |
Financial Advisor
November 2010
Joni Youngwirth |
Out Of Balance Should our industry take proactive steps to increase its number of women? |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 14, 2014
Carmen Nobel |
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides A symposium at Harvard Business School delved into "intersectionality" -- the seemingly obvious yet complex idea that gender interacts with other axes of inequality such as race, age, class, and ethnicity. |
Job Journal
January 16, 2005
Bob Rosner |
Working Wounded: Does Manager's Gender Matter? Is it better to work for a woman or a man? |
Psychology Today
Jan/Feb 2007
Judith Sills |
Catfight in the Boardroom Do women hold other women back? Whether it's reality or perception, office pressures can make women uncooperative. |
BusinessWeek
March 28, 2005 |
What Larry Summers Got Right Many women opt out of the workplace. Employers can offer flexible work arrangements to them. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2010
Mary Quist-Newins |
An Abundance of Caution The financial services industry sometimes gives women a bad rap when it comes to their investment attitudes and behaviors. They are often seen as risk avoidant and even indecisive in their approach to investing. |
CRM
December 2013
Leonard Klie |
In-House Marketers Take on More Roles ANA reports external firms are on the decline as companies assign tasks to internal teams. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 20, 2009
Sean Silverthorne |
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation Embracing external innovators does not come naturally to most firms -- we don't have a course (yet) on this topic at HBS! But the CEO has to mandate this approach. No one organization can monopolize knowledge in any given field. |
Fast Company
August 2002
Margaret Heffernan |
The Female CEO ca. 2002 Here are the five naked truths about women in business. Together they add up to one big message: The future of business depends on women. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2006
Elizabeth O'Brien |
Behind the Star System Morningstar defends its mutual fund ratings in the face of new competition. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 1999 |
This Just In... updated and improved release of STAR Reading |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 30, 2014
Carmen Nobel |
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men Studies by Alison Wood Brooks and colleagues reveal that investors prefer pitches from male entrepreneurs over those from female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitches is identical. And handsome men fare best of all. |
AFP eWire
November 7, 2005 |
Gender Pay Gap Narrows at U.S. Charities, But Still Remains Unequal A new study reveals that despite increases, men continue to earn more than their female counterparts, with the median salary for a male CEO of a charity with a budget of $50 million or more $332,985 compared to $262,275 for a female CEO. |
BusinessWeek
March 29, 2004 |
Ann Fudge on Making Choices The Young & Rubicam CEO talks about the benefits of stepping away from work and how her priorities changed because of it |
U.S. Banker
May 2006 |
Banking Evolution From Risk Takers to Rock Stars Imagine, for a moment, if someone likened J.P. Morgan, Walter Wriston or Robert Rubin to rock stars. It's an undignified thought, at best. Welcome to public company "campaign management." |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
Boards Need Women Over the last few decades, women have made great strides toward gender equality in many arenas -- but not on corporate boards. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2009
Frank Watson |
There Are No Search Rock Stars The idea of the "search marketing rock star" is very misleading. Success takes diligence and persistence. Being involved in forums, attending conferences, and reading as much as you can is the way to become a skilled practitioner in this space. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 4, 2010 |
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009 Here are the Top 10 articles and Top 5 working papers that appeared in HBS Working Knowledge in 2009. |
