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- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
mobilized to accomplish. Reassess available resources. The relaunch is a time to reexamine information, budgetary resources, and networks that will help the team advance its goals. Understand members’ constraints. A relaunch is an ideal opportunity for each member to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
balance—the ability to embrace both the divergence that may characterize early discussions and the unity needed for effective implementation. Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian Empire and a renowned military leader, understood...
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by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
paid. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50623 Harvard Business School Case 516-058 BRF In 2015, BRF's new leadership team is transforming several aspects of the Brazilian protein giant, which had grown...
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Sean Silverthorne
- June 2010
- Article
Are You a High Potential?
By: Douglas A. Ready, Jay A. Conger and Linda A. Hill
Some employees are more talented than others, and nearly every company has its method for identifying their high-potential managers. So how can you get on your company's high-potential list? Douglas A. Ready, of the talent-management research center ICEDR; Jay A....
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Talent and Talent Management;
Employees;
Leadership Development;
Personal Development and Career;
Personal Characteristics
Ready, Douglas A., Jay A. Conger, and Linda A. Hill. "Are You a High Potential?" Harvard Business Review 88, no. 6 (June 2010).
- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
governments create dysfunctional systems that can be predicted to lead to bad behaviors, I see the problem starting with the dysfunctional system. And I see the creating of optimal systems as a key leadership function. Q: Specifically,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- December 2011
- Article
Manager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers
By: Francois Brochet, Lucile Faurel and Sarah McVay
We investigate how managers contribute to the provision of earnings guidance by examining the association between top executive turnovers and guidance. Although firm and industry characteristics are important determinants of guidance, we conclude that CEOs participate...
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Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Management Teams;
Policy;
Decisions;
Change;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Leadership
Brochet, Francois, Lucile Faurel, and Sarah McVay. "Manager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers." Journal of Accounting Research 49, no. 5 (December 2011).
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
Giroux, 1968) for the reference to Ken Kesey. Your feedback to last month’s column Can We Train for Trust? The sense of the discussion of this issue was that, while trust may be a combination of nature and nurture, to some degree it is...
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by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
Esty. To that end, readings and classroom discussions in GMP are very different from the Harvard MBA program, and from other HBS leadership programs. Where the MBA program develops functional skills, GMP...
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
proved difficult to change ingrained routines and practices. Shared values and strong networks kept Unilever together, but the need for agreement and discussion before taking action meant that it was hard to move quickly on major issues....
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- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
Provides in-depth information on MLBAM's four main sources of revenues and relates those to the league's overall revenues. Describes the company's online and mobile offerings in considerable detail and outlines the choices facing MLB's offering for Apple's iPad device,...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
leaders manage these conversations effectively. Drawing on our insights and those of others, we offer this guide to help leaders have the kinds of discussions we need to be having right now. The four I’s of conversational View Details
- 02 May 2022
- What Do You Think?
Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?
leadership to get out of the controversy, to conduct discussions internally to learn from the experience, and to move forward with a clear view of the nature of the issues in which Disney should be involved....
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- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
businesses that have passed through the high growth stage can continue to deliver the resources, capabilities, and platforms needed to fuel the emerging opportunities of the future. This business lifecycle view of innovation requires new View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Art of Haggling
example of the two strangers negotiating the sale of the lakeside cottage. What if the current owner is putting it up for sale because he has lost his job, while the businessman just happens to be Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg? Scenarios like that spark spirited View Details
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by Katie Johnston
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
Students are invited to walk in the shoes of the CIO and become active participants in making these decisions and creating new knowledge about IT leadership through classroom discussion and debate. We want...
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by Martha Lagace
- October 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Teaching Note
The Miccosukee Tribe and the Battle to Save the Everglades: A Miami Climate Action Story
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 324-002. "Miccosukee" explores the challenges of coordinating actions to solve a complex systems problem—from individuals, small organizations, and coalitions of multiple organizations. The case discusses the impact of climate change and...
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- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
published in the February issue of The Leadership Quarterly as "Leader Behaviors and the Work Environment for Creativity: Perceived Leader Support." Amabile, an influential scholar on creativity, conducted the research with...
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in...
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- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
has been a failure of leadership as astounding and momentous (and ironic) as the company's early achievement. Robert D. Austin, Associate Professor: When I worked in a U.S. auto company in the mid 1990s, we were doing many of the right...
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- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
Series How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership The COVID...
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by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott