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Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
managers how to lead change that improved performance. One unit dramatically boosted its performance while the other did not. The difference? The readiness of the senior team and the environment for change.... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
2016 University of Chicago Press Innovation Equity: Assessing and Managing the Monetary Value of New Products and Services By: Ofek, Elie, Eitan Muller, and Barak Libai Abstract—This book bridges the gap between what academics know, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
hospice care, but Lee refused to give up. Researching treatment options, she found doctors at Johns Hopkins who performed complicated surgeries. Today, Margaret is cancer-free, and much of Lee's philanthropy focuses on improving outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 2022
- Article
Divergence Between Employer and Employee Understandings of Passion: Theory and Implications for Future Research
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Hannah Weisman
There is an increasingly prevalent expectation in contemporary society that employees be passionate for their work. Here, we suggest that employers and employees can have different understandings of passion that potentially conflict. More specifically, we argue that... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Human Capital; Performance Effectiveness; Management Style
Jachimowicz, Jon M., and Hannah Weisman. "Divergence Between Employer and Employee Understandings of Passion: Theory and Implications for Future Research." Research in Organizational Behavior (in press).
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
cost performance of IT technologies over the first forty years changed by roughly 107, and for the foreseeable future will continue to evolve at the same rate. That is in sharp contrast to a train, which after eighty years moved six times... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- March 2018
- Case
Summit Public Schools (A)
By: John J-H Kim and Aldo Sesia
Summit Public Schools was a very successful charter management organization with schools in California and Washington State. The students came from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds, many from economically disadvantaged households. While nearly all of its students... View Details
Keywords: K-12; Online Learning; Virtual Learning; Blended Learning; Secondary Education; Middle School Education; Early Childhood Education; Learning; Business Model; Performance Improvement; Technology
Kim, John J-H, and Aldo Sesia. "Summit Public Schools (A)." Harvard Business School Case 318-067, March 2018.
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Business School Case 817-088 Hygeia Group: Delivering Quality Care in Nigeria Fola Laoye is the Group Managing Director of Hygeia Group, a Nigerian healthcare insurer and provider, and she is deciding on the optimal strategy to grow the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
structures do they take, and what are the facilitators and barriers? How are they managed in terms of performance standards, accountability systems, and governance? How might networks alter the way board... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
management and personnel, they said. What creates superior performance management? Attention to outcomes. Focus on stakeholders. (Surveys, satisfaction. How do funders and community perceive what we do?)... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
performances of daughter, Heidi, a professional opera singer Recommended Reading Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman "Goleman shows that integrity, the ability to communicate and influence, self-motivation, empathy, and social... View Details
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By: Anywhere Sikochi
Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
apartheid and its first democratic elections in 1994, was doing everything right. They had liberalized the economy. They had enacted economic reforms that made it easy for foreign capital to flow in and out. They performed well on various... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Debora L. Spar | About
Debora L. Spar Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean, Business in Global Society Unit Head, General Management ; Senior Associate Dean, Business in Global Society ; Unit Head, General... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
and build and manage new systems. Throughout, the HBS community worked together to overcome the complexities inherent in this hybrid approach. Students Arrive More than 9,300 applicants sought a place in the MBA Program and nearly 800... View Details
- February 2011 (Revised February 2012)
- Case
Online Marketing at Big Skinny
By: Benjamin Edelman and Scott Duke Kominers
Describes a wallet maker's application of seven Internet marketing technologies: display ads, algorithmic search, sponsored search, social media, interactive content, online distributors, and A/B testing. Provides concise introductions to the key features of each... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Digital Marketing; Resource Allocation; Marketing Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Internet and the Web; Retail Industry
Edelman, Benjamin, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Online Marketing at Big Skinny." Harvard Business School Case 911-033, February 2011. (Revised February 2012.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
managers from 20 firms to gather best practices of the companies that do collaborative innovation correctly. They also charted how global teamwork can misfire. The research built upon expertise developed in Wipro's own collaboration... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
not be taken into account or even noticed-as a strategy for managing diversity and intergroup relations. Despite research demonstrating that race is perceived automatically (and thus, the seeming improbability of actual colorblindness),... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
scientist who can’t wait to get to the classroom to share the experiment. If you adopt this mindset, students will remain intellectually and spiritually in the classroom with you.” The Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice in... View Details
- 29 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Firsthand Experience and the Subsequent Role of Reflected Knowledge in Cultivating Trust in Global Collaboration
Keywords: by Mark Mortensen & Tsedal Neeley