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- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
vision for the hospital as, "We will be the best at getting better." How CCHMC accomplishes just that is an object lesson for MBA students who hope to help lead substantive change in any sort of... View Details
- 09 Feb 2024
- HBS Case
Slim Chance: Drugs Will Reshape the Weight Loss Industry, But Habit Change Might Be Elusive
she coauthored with John McDonough, a former MBA student at HBS. The case notes that morbidly obese Americans spend more on medical services and prescriptions, and they face a potentially wider range of... View Details
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
organization to pursue the direction. This is appropriate because managerial techniques are being spread fast by imitation, adoption, and MBA education. Administrative techniques were generalized around the world decades ago. So what is... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 29 Nov 2010
- HBS Case
United Breaks Guitars
quick hop to the mainstream media; by the end of July, the video had been viewed 4.6 million times, with external references expanding that audience by many more millions. Click to watch.“United Breaks Guitars,” created by Canadian musician Dave Carroll Taught in the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Bernie Madoff Explains Himself
anybody.” Soltes now plays the recording for students in his MBA and Executive Education courses. His goal is not to garner a discussion of Madoff’s massive crime, but rather to help View Details
- 31 Mar 2008
- HBS Case
JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis
all that changed. HBS associate professor Robert Huckman, professor Gary Pisano, and research associate Virginia Fuller tell that story in "JetBlue Airways: Valentine's Day 2007," a case taught in the MBA course Operations... View Details
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One
for your new book was the unusual course you've been teaching for MBA students on moral leadership in organizations. What is a quiet leader? Is quiet leadership a topic you had been thinking about prior to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business School, I teach courses in... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
- 27 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge
slides before teaching a new MBA course at HBS when a student entering the room mistook her for an IT support specialist. “Easy mistake, right?” Huang says. “Asian woman equals tech support, not professor.”... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy
widespread discrimination on Airbnb, leading Airbnb to take steps to mitigate bias and prompting broader discussion across other companies. “Many businesses were unaware of the implications of their decisions,” says Luca, whose research on race in the online economy is... View Details
- 20 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It
our classes seemed to be participating less," says Cuddy, who teaches the MBA elective Power and Influence. "Some of the women exhibited body language associated with low power, so we wondered if that was in turn affecting how... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually "clueless" about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the attention of... View Details
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
to $10 in 2016 (it hit $11 per hour in early 2018). Yet in 2015, announcement of a wage increase resulted in a share price drop the following day of 10 percent, on news that the increase would cut earnings per share by 6 to 12 percent in 2016. It’s a dynamic that lays... View Details
- 23 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do
the Harvard MBA classes of 2013 and 2014. The participants considered a picture of an actual ladder, which represented the conceptual corporate ladder. Their task: to indicate their current position in their industry, their ideal... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen
150 MBA students about the listening skills of their classmates. After ranking themselves on a personality scale, students were asked to answer four questions, including: “If... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 21 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity
the amount of prior experience working in the office wouldn’t skew results, the researchers “recruited” patent examiners who would be a completely blank slate: MBA students from HBS. For the experiment, they... View Details
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
Edmondson, who chairs the Doctoral Programs and teaches in the Technology and Operations Management unit. "To cite one example, former HBS doctoral student Jim Detert and I interviewed some 200 people of all ranks and functions in a... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
sometimes want you just to tell them the answer—like 'just give me the answer to leadership!'" says Bernstein, who co-teaches the required Leadership and Organizational Behavior course to first-year MBA View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- Op-Ed
Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable
we can come to prefer difference, with time—to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. We took on this idea while teaching Inclusive Leadership to first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School last... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- 19 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space
the world, and our MBA students feel they need exposure to it. Going back to my graduate years at Harvard, there were many valuable classes on economic development—including in economics, in political... View Details