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- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
that foreign companies employ 5.4 million in the United States. Clark is not optimistic about today's societies that have not had a long history of cultural foundations and functioning institutions that support the kind of formal and...
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by by Jim Heskett
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Western Pennsylvania - Heinz History Center. He is a member of the Boards of Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, The Urban League of Pittsburgh, Sewickley Academy, and the Extra...
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In the Community | About
City of Cambridge MBTA Mass Challenge Year Up MBA FIELD Course: Arts & Cultural Entrepreneurship (partial) Boston Ballet Boston Public Library Boston Symphony Orchestra Celebrity Series of Boston Handel and Haydn Society Peabody Essex...
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- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
their culture so that some of these ideas begin to permeate and shape the behaviors and actions of their employees. Level 4: At level 4, firms become agnostic about whether they produce all the inputs they provide to their customers and,...
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Batten Hall | About
i-lab also fosters collaboration among Harvard students, faculty, entrepreneurs, and members of the Allston and Greater Boston communities through workshops, seminars, and programming. The programming offered by the i-lab is designed to...
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
leadership of James Austin on the importance of collaborative relationships to the success of nonprofits and Allen Grossman and V. Kasturi “Kash” Rangan on new directions in nonprofit strategy , we adopted a problem-focused approach...
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- May 2011
- Article
The Power of Small Wins
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer
What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step forward every day. In an analysis of knowledge workers' diaries, the authors found that nothing contributed more to a positive inner work life (the mix of emotions, motivations, and...
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Creativity;
Interpersonal Communication;
Employee Relationship Management;
Leadership;
Performance Effectiveness;
Emotions;
Motivation and Incentives;
Groups and Teams;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Leadership;
Working Conditions;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Skills;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Productivity;
Attitudes;
Behavior;
Happiness;
Perception;
Trust;
Time Management;
Resource Allocation;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Managerial Roles
Amabile, Teresa M., and Steven J. Kramer. "The Power of Small Wins." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011).
- 01 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows
across India and Malawi. He said, “The fellowship will give me a platform to test out ideas and hypotheses while collaborating with other recipients, starting in my first year.” Paul Lachman. Paul comes to HBS from Fairchain, a social...
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- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
Merrill Lynch can in part be explained by the pursuit of profits for their own sake. HCHP firms, by contrast, grow by using their distinctive capabilities to move into adjacent markets, products and services, and geographies. Risk: HCHP firms avoid undue financial or...
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by Martha Lagace
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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online
collaborating with a global community of peers before, during, and after your course. Learners who successfully complete an HBS Online program will be added to the HBS Online Community's Official Networking Group and gain exclusive access...
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- March 2001 (Revised July 2007)
- Background Note
Power and Influence: Achieving Your Objectives in Organizations
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Elizabeth Long Lingo
Power is the potential to mobilize energy. This rather neutral definition does not address the issues of how to exercise power or to what ends. The answers to these questions determine the ultimate value of an individual's power. This note is written to help readers...
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Organizational Culture;
Personal Development and Career;
Power and Influence;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Value
McGinn, Kathleen L., and Elizabeth Long Lingo. "Power and Influence: Achieving Your Objectives in Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-425, March 2001. (Revised July 2007.)
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
Subcultures within organizations can differ as much as organizational cultures themselves. Most people have encountered a team that performs well above—or below—the organizational norm. While this has always been the case, widespread...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Finance and Financial Stability Initiative evaluate the demand for long term government bonds from Pension and Insurance companies. Regulatory changes are used to provide collaborating evidence that the curvature of the yield curve is...
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- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
Collaborating with a friend, Nouf, Fatima launched Jonnah, a nonprofit that would help women with sewing skills get the materials, space, and services necessary to run a garment business. By August 2018, they had successfully launched...
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- 21 May 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network?
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
three decades, Klarman has built one of the most successful hedge fund companies in the world. While such accolades are important to Klarman, he is equally proud of the culture at Baupost. "We have a very View Details
- October 2019
- Case
Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music
By: Rohit Deshpandé
To Vijay Gupta, music was sacred. A highly accomplished and renowned violinist with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gupta believed the act of making and performing music was a deeply spiritual practice — one that had the power to heal audiences and musicians...
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Arts;
Cultural Entrepreneurship;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Social Issues;
Business and Community Relations;
Music Entertainment;
Human Needs;
Music Industry;
Los Angeles;
California;
United States
Deshpandé, Rohit. "Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 520-701, October 2019.
- Profile
Philippe Rival
the sharing of different opinions are core to collaborative learning. The result is that no day is ever dull, and every day teaches you something you’d never thought you’d learn! Being part of the HBS community is like Discovering whole...
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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
designed to enhance collaboration and iteration in development Guide teams to draw from a wide range of professional experiences and backgrounds and create stronger collaboration dynamics to heighten their...
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Phillip Jones
went outside the military, I could increase the scope of my service.” Phillip recognized that the general shape of his ambitions crossed multiple sectors. “The future,” he says, “requires leadership from both the private and the public...
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