Management Practices - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2000 (Revised May 2001)
Case

Gucci Group N.V. (A)

Examines the turnaround of Gucci and its transition from a single brand to a multi-brand company. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Apparel and Accessories Industry

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19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

at large. About the Authors Joseph B. Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. He co-chairs the HBS Project on Managing the Future of Work and... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

01 Oct 1998
News

Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

Today, 25 years later, Hoa is still living in Hanoi and doing her part to help her impoverished country establish a modern, productive economy. As managing director of Galaxy Company, a successful consulting firm, her advice on doing... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

12 May 2020
Blog Post

Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

thinking about the next step of my career. I’d learned a lot at Google while working on some of the biggest mobile apps and products in the world, getting exposure to thinking strategically, managing teams and having impact. However, I... View Details

01 Jun 2007
What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

practice in need of further examination. Taken to an extreme, it leads to a conclusion such as that of Renat Nadyukov: "Sometimes we forget why we pay people." Sivaram Parameswaran concurs, saying, "in the compulsion to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Porter Prize Japan - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

published in the 1990 book The Competitive Advantage of Nations . The book Can Japan Compete? , which was selected as one of the top three non-fiction books of 2000 by The Economist , was co-authored by Michael Porter and Hirotaka Takeuchi of Hitotsubashi University... View Details

04 Aug 2011
What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

Article Some of the more interesting writing that is relevant to management these days is found in out-of-the-way places in my local bookstore. In addition to the management and economics sections, you... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Profile

Erin Kaivan

the security of a community, but helps individual people lift themselves out of poverty." A time of transitions Confident that an MBA would help her shift from the military to a business career, Erin applied to HBS. This was not only the fulfillment of a... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

05 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 5, 2006

Bowman, Steve LaValle, Vikas Mittal, Das Narayandas, Girish Ramani, and Rajan Varadarajan Periodical:Journal of Service Research 9, no. 2 (November 2006): 184-194 Abstract Conceptually, customer relationship management (CRM) has been... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

reluctance has hit Black Americans particularly hard since they have seen historically higher arrest rates, often fueled by racial discrimination, research shows. But it might be a good time to rethink those hiring practices and the... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

managing teams and organizations with best practices in educational leadership, to provide school leaders with frameworks, skills, and knowledge to effectively lead and drive change improvement in schools.... View Details

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

How to Avoid a Price Increase

early to say for certain, I suspect that other ice cream manufacturers will soon follow suit. Q: The practice of reducing quantity while keeping price the same could be perceived as dishonest by consumers. Have any companies experienced a... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

26 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 26

positions were significantly more likely than others to repatriate dividends to parent companies in the United States. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18107 How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

This Mother’s Day, we celebrated progress and possibility on the HBS campus! HBS first accepted women into the MBA Program in 1963. Fast forward six decades and now classrooms are 44% female and most sections have 1-2 mothers. Across the RC (first-year) and EC... View Details

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Rafaella Sadun | About

to measure management practices and managerial behavior in organizations, such as the World Management Survey , the Executive Time Use Study , and the first large scale View Details

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4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures - MBA

taught by an HBS faculty member. [4] A student venture is any entity that is, or is expected to be, substantially controlled, owned, or managed by a currently enrolled student. These entities include all for-profit and nonprofit... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Toward a Life Well Lived

students plan more intentionally for the path ahead, navigate the bumps that arise, and stay true to their values, Perlow created a second-year course, Crafting Your Life: The Tactics and Practices of the First 10 Years Post-MBA. “What I... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

when other approaches would produce better results for customers, employees, and shareholders and foster better long-term performance of the company. “I’ve been a leader during three recessions, and I’ve never heard a management team talk... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

30 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date

rules and norms and expectations.” A job interview is one circumstance that may benefit from asking more questions. For example, standard practice suggests that a potential new boss is expected to do the asking. But asking more questions... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

to change your life. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54720 in press Health Care Management Review Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived Support for Learning on Participation By: Jung, Olivia S., Andrea... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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