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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research
of time they actually devote to coaching their people. For example, research indicates that only 15% of sales managers even spend as much as 25% of their time on coaching. Moreover, many managers believe...
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- Career Coach
Mo Fong
understand their truly motivations and their values as guiding principles on how to chart their career and life ambitions. She is passionate about helping students chart their career paths and providing executive coaching for mid-career professionals and senior...
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- 20 Mar 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts
- September 2014 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling
By: Ethan Bernstein, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats and Luke Hassall
With 24,000 staff and over 300 stores, Belk Inc. sought to replace its entirely manual labor scheduling system with an automated software solution from Reflexis. Belk hoped the upgrade would simplify scheduling, reduce time employees spent in non-customer-facing roles,...
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Retail;
Scheduling;
Local Autonomy;
Automation;
Metrics;
Organizational Change;
Human Resource Management;
Process Improvement;
Performance Measurement;
Transparency;
Southern United States;
Retailing;
Department Stores;
System Outsourced Services;
Employee Relationship Management;
Selection and Staffing;
Change Management;
Governance Controls;
Resource Allocation;
Service Operations;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Performance Evaluation;
Performance Improvement;
Applications and Software;
Family Business;
Retail Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
Bernstein, Ethan, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats, and Luke Hassall. "Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling." Harvard Business School Case 415-023, September 2014. (Revised February 2017.)
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
Summing Up Jobs shape us in many ways, according to respondents to this month's column. For example, Sue Stewart said that " we become our jobs." Charlie Cullinane went further, saying that "Not only do we become our jobs...
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by James Heskett
- Web
Student Performance - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
content, but also the delivery and timing of comments within the flow of the class discussion. More frequent participation is often a positive factor, although excessive attempts to comment may lead to lower quality contributions and may...
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- Profile
Henry McCance
recent advances in gene sequencing and data mining, he believed he could identify many more genes in a short time with a relatively modest investment. That could lead to the major breakthrough the founders were after, because more genes...
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- 28 May 2024
- In Practice
Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible
New graduates entering the job market will face a very different landscape from even a year ago, with a murky economy and potentially more limited career prospects. Though unemployment figures in the US remain near historically low...
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by Rachel Layne
- 02 May 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?
outside on what is acceptable. After interviewing Google CEO Sundar Pichai for 60 Minutes last month, CBS correspondent Scott Pelley said Pichai “told us society must quickly adapt with regulations for AI in...
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- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Marketers are trained to match supply to demand. Everything that consumers need should be...
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- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
balance this curiosity with intentionality as they figure out when to be open-minded and broad and when to be focused and dig deep. They must learn to pick up "weak signals" about what is happening in their organizations and ecosystems. By the View Details
- 08 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
8 FAQs on the MBA Application
experience required? As the case method of learning used by our MBA program relies on exchanging perspectives, you must have two years of full-time work experience in a professional position in the public, private, or nonprofit sector by...
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- February 2023
- Case
Grupo Sancor Seguros: Facing the Digital Transformation of Insurance in Argentina (A)
By: Jorge Tamayo and Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago
In 2020, Alejandro Simón, CEO of Sancor Seguros Group, a nearly 75-year-old cooperative that had become Argentina’s insurance leader, had to decide about the Group’s digital transformation strategy. The Group’s values and history needed to be considered during the...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Digital Transformation;
Organizational Culture;
Cooperative Ownership;
Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Adaptation;
Technology Adoption;
Insurance Industry;
Latin America;
South America;
Argentina
Tamayo, Jorge, and Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago. "Grupo Sancor Seguros: Facing the Digital Transformation of Insurance in Argentina (A)." Harvard Business School Case 723-422, February 2023.
- July 2021 (Revised August 2021)
- Supplement
Airbnb Emerges from the Pandemic: Lessons for Stakeholder Governance (B)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Allison M. Ciechanover
As the COVID pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based platform for renting accommodations, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted more than 70% over the prior year. Responding to the sudden...
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Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Corporate Governance;
Crisis Management;
Leadership;
Two-Sided Platforms;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Value Creation;
Decision Making;
Goals and Objectives;
Travel Industry;
Tourism Industry;
Service Industry;
United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Allison M. Ciechanover. "Airbnb Emerges from the Pandemic: Lessons for Stakeholder Governance (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 222-003, July 2021. (Revised August 2021.) (To be taught in September 2021.)
Paul W. Marshall
MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of... View Details
- Fall 2020
- Article
Christo and Jeanne‐Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa
Over the past two decades the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON) has named thirteen people as Great Negotiators. The project, directed by my colleague Jim Sebenius, has given us the opportunity to commend our honorees’ outstanding work and to learn from...
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Wheeler, Michael A. "Christo and Jeanne‐Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa." Negotiation Journal 36, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 471–487.
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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research
By: Xueyue Liu, Yu Liu and Jaya Y. Wen Export controls are a common instrument of national security, but their economic consequences are not well understood. This paper evaluates how these controls affect firm performance and adaptation in targeted countries. We View Details
- 11 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
From Britain to Boston: Two Years at HBS
favorite memory? The first section retreat. Everyone was very open and wanting to know each other. We had a fantastic time together. Can you tell us about the friendships you’ve made here? I have made...
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- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
discovery to validate a problem but don’t yet have a product, my follow-up question is: “How do you know people or companies will use your product?” Answers are equally discouraging. More often than not, I hear examples of interest tests,...
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by Julia Austin
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
Knowledge is codified using a "people-to-documents" approach: it is extracted from the person who developed it, made independent of that person, and reused for various purposes. Ralph Poole, director of Ernst & Young's...
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