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- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Rethink What You 'Know' about High-Achieving Women By: Ely, Robin J., Pamela Stone, and Colleen Ammerman Abstract—On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the admission of women to Harvard Business School's MBA program, the authors, who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 17 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity
rainy ones," says Francesca Gino, an associate professor at Harvard Business School who cowrote the paper with Bradley R. Staats (HBS MBA '02, DBA'09) of the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, and Jooa Julia Lee... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
this tendency to shut off the new and basically transfer the corporate culture over to the new employee," says Francesca Gino, an associate professor at Harvard Business School who cowrote the paper with Daniel M. Cable of London Business School and Bradley R. Staats... View Details
- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
Foundation Professor Leonard A. Schlesinger, who coauthored the case, Pho Hoa Dorchester, with 2017 MBA students Michael Raiche and Roger Zhu. Pho Hoa and Pho Linh, a smaller restaurant located in Quincy,... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
jobs and dignified salaries. As of March 2010, La Fageda has opened up a new production facility to make ice cream in an urban area outside of its well-known agricultural farm. Students are faced with understanding La Fageda's business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
Kimball Thomas (HBS MBA '11), prompts an evaluation of the pros and cons of each possibility. "Above all else, I hope the case will help students understand the economics and intricacies of the concert... View Details
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
managers to realize that when their subordinates and colleagues come to work they bring their history and current relationships. One of the assignments in my MBA class is to have a difficult conversation. A View Details
- Teaching Interest
Managing Human Capital
The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future general manager (not just the human resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and her or his own career with optimal... View Details
Keywords: Human Capital; Hiring; Socialization; Performance Management; Compensation And Benefits; Talent Development And Retention; Structure; Career Management; Human Resources; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Organizations; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Africa; Asia; Europe; Middle East; Latin America; North and Central America; South America
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
assumptions, quantitatively estimating likely revenue and profitability, testing out sensitivity to assumptions using scenarios, and assessing the main risks of entry and of staying out. The analysis provided strong support for entry subject to the key assumptions. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
solely defined by the transactional rhythms and white-hot speed of the marketplace. (My graduating MBA students talk of this concern frequently as they discuss job choices and sketch out their own career... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
Business of Aesthetics to second-year MBA students and select applicants from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. The course looks at the role of aesthetics in strategy, organizational structure, succession... View Details
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
the greatest (and most high-strung) athletes in the world, staying current on the latest training regimens and technology, and plotting strategy both for on-field play and organizational success. Elberse first taught the case, Sir Alex Ferguson: Managing Manchester... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
jurisprudence. Law students now learn the law not as a collection of statutes but rather as a set of principles, doctrines, and rules that have evolved over the course of centuries and are said to constitute legal reasoning itself. The... View Details
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
tell you that the world of business is not so different. “It really was all about the recognition of and comparison with their peers, and many of them were willing to pay for it.” "This is why MBA programs send out lists of average... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
activities of a large cohort of physician-MBAs by gathering information on 206 physician graduates from the Harvard Business School MBA program who obtained their degrees between 1941 and 2014. Key outcome measures that were examined... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
solution to bringing practical focus into the curriculum is "a year-long on-the-job exposure" for students after the first year of the MBA curriculum as well as "mandatory association with... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
sufficient passion for those tasks you choose to spend time on. This is a critical area of advice that I regularly give to MBA students as they are thinking about their first job and industry choice. The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
true deficiency in finance and quantitative methods, says Sasser. While PLD students learn a variety of business specialties including strategy, finance, marketing, and innovation, the point is that future leaders often need to break out... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
gestures in negotiations because people feel comfortable initiating negotiations with them and believe they signal cooperation (Study 1). We show that handshakes increase cooperative behaviors, affecting outcomes for integrative and distributive negotiations. In two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne