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- 11 Aug 2021
- News
How to Make Hiring More Equitable
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
Is Your Team Solving Problems, or Just Identifying Them?
- 20 Jan 2021
- News
Your Star Employee Just Quit. Will Others Follow?
- 11 Oct 2019
- News
Balancing Act
In a snapshot of the PresenceLearning leadership team taken this spring, CEO Kate Eberle Walker (MBA 2005) stands, smiling, just right of center. She’s flanked by three other women and four men—the gender-balanced C-suite she had been determined to build when she took... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Room to Write
Edited by April White; photos courtesy of the authors “A lot of my book was written on the Notes function of my phone while commuting in London. The ideas flow easily wherever I am, but I need a bit more quiet to bring it all together.” —Tom Tuke-Hastings (AMP 189,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- News
Philanthropy’s Dilemma
An estimated ten times more money will pour into philanthropy during the first half of this century than during the entire century before. A high-profile case in point is the Giving Pledge, a campaign headed by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to encourage the nation’s... View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
practices related to those tools. Our study contributes to the accounting and management literature on influence-gathering, underlining that toolmaking plays a vital role in explaining how functional experts may compete in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
a lucrative deal intended to help Quibi compete with a growing pack of streaming services on the prowl for content. Netflix, for one, has been acquiring content at a pace almost no one can match and reportedly spent $12 billion on content... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- News
Breaking Ground in Manufacturing
- September 2023 (Revised June 2024)
- Technical Note
Note on the Evolving Landscape of HR Tech
By: Joseph Pacelli and Alexis Lefort
Keywords: Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture; Talent and Talent Management; United States
Pacelli, Joseph, and Alexis Lefort. "Note on the Evolving Landscape of HR Tech." Harvard Business School Technical Note 124-012, September 2023. (Revised June 2024.)
- 2009
- Article
Feeling the Heat: The Effects of Performance Pressure on Teams' Knowledge Use and Performance
By: Heidi K. Gardner
Why do some teams fail to use their members' knowledge effectively, even after having correctly identified each other's expertise? This paper identifies performance pressure as a critical barrier to effective knowledge utilization in teams. I theorize that performance... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Expectations; Groups and Teams
Gardner, Heidi K. "Feeling the Heat: The Effects of Performance Pressure on Teams' Knowledge Use and Performance." Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2009).
- September 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
Cathy Benko: WINning at Deloitte (A)
By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Deborah M. Kolb and Cailin B. Hammer
Jim Quigley, CEO of Deloitte and Touche's consulting practice, asks senior partner Cathy Benko to lead Deloitte & Touche's much publicized Initiative for the Retention and Advancement of Women (WIN). Benko, already the Lead Client Service Partner on one of Deloitte's... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Leadership Development; Talent and Talent Management; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Consulting Industry; United States
McGinn, Kathleen L., Deborah M. Kolb, and Cailin B. Hammer. "Cathy Benko: WINning at Deloitte (A)." Harvard Business School Case 907-026, September 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
“Howard is the fiercest man I have ever known — fiercely interested in the world and its people, fiercely loyal to family and friends. Of course, he is also fiercely honest.” — HBS professor Myra Hart “Howard cares so much about HBS and everyone here. That’s why it was... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
for All published by the Harvard Business Review. [Image: Hispanolistic] Related Reading Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete Making Health Insurance That Consumers Actually Like What... View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
employees. And several identified personally with the phenomenon. Desirable qualities of imposters were described in different ways. Julie Cohen said, “The balance of competency and occasional self-doubt keep them constantly striving to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
through the lens of "sabermetrics" to compete with much better-funded organizations, achieving success with a relatively small investment. Writing recently in The New York Times, Cade Massey and Bob Tedeschi speculate on whether... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
that the markets between the very rich and the poor are disappearing. Those firms are losing the middle ground, where a lot of consumer activity has traditionally taken place. Companies also must compete for skills and talent. That has... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
that unethical behavior can deny people their intellectual property." These are the latest examples of the effectiveness of speed as a competitive weapon that was described some years ago by George Stalk and Thomas Hout in their book, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
It’s India Above China in New World Order
their Foreign Policy article, "Can India Overtake China?" Lagace: "China and India are the world's next major powers," you both write. "They also offer competing models of development." What are the most... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
vary. A missing dimension to the global versus local debate is that global corporate brands compete with other global brands, said Holt. Consumers usually evaluate transnational brands through five different lenses, he said: Perceived... View Details