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  • 23 Feb 2022
  • News

‘From Strength to Strength,’ Lessons in Leadership, Happiness

    Marlous van Waijenburg

    Marlous van Waijenburg is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches in the MBA required curriculum.

    Professor van Waijenburg’s main... View Details

    • Apr 12 2017
    • Testimonial

    Getting Back to Basics

    • 28 Jan 2022
    • News

    Helping Trapped Low-Wage Workers, Employers Struggling to Fill Spots

    • 04 Aug 2003
    • What Do You Think?

    Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?

    pointed out that "So many managers are afraid that attitude is too soft, too difficult to assess and to use as a key hiring criteria." Saurabh Dwivedy commented that "...attitude, morals, ethics, and leadership View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • November 2003 (Revised May 2005)
    • Case

    Beverly Stern: Retail Executive

    By: H. Kent Bowen and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
    Beverly Stern has been a successful operating manager in three prominent retail chains: GAP, Pottery Barn, and Williams-Sonoma. Stern's last job at a start-up did not meet her expectations, and she must now decide what to do next. She has an offer to start a new retail... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Experience and Expertise; Personal Characteristics; Jobs and Positions; Decisions; Retail Industry
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    • June 2023
    • Supplement

    Clash of Two Giants Simulation Exercise

    By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti
    Many markets are organized around platforms that connect consumers with complementary applications and services. These platforms are two-sided because both sides - consumers and those providing applications or services - need access to the same platform to interact. A... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Acquisition; Platform Strategy; Technology Platform; Digital Platforms; Competitive Strategy; Network Effects
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    • 26 Jun 2018
    • News

    Hard-Pressed by Soft Skills, CIOs Face Talent Challenge

    • 11 Mar 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

    then at least in the fog” "We negotiate, if not in the dark, then at least in the fog," says Michael Wheeler, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and retired MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice, who taught... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 05 Nov 2019
    • News

    How the Future of Work Will Heap New Pressure on K-12 Companies

    • January 2010 (Revised April 2010)
    • Case

    Gobi Partners and DMG

    By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
    Thomas G. Tsao, founding general partner of Gobi Partners, an early stage venture capital firm in China, must decide how to manage his firm's largest investment after the departure of the CEO. Tom has temporarily stepped in as CEO, but finding a replacement with the... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Competency and Skills; Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Investment; Business or Company Management; Management Succession; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges; Business and Stakeholder Relations; China
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    • February 2020 (Revised August 2020)
    • Case

    Catalant's Operating System for the Future of Work

    By: Christopher Stanton, William R. Kerr, James Palano and Kendall Smith
    This case touches on the topics of project-based work, agile methodology, and skill and talent management through Catalant's evolution as a company. Catalant’s journey to becoming a software platform and talent marketplace provides context for students to explore new... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Talent and Talent Management; Business Model; Transformation
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    • 25 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Importance of Teaming

    need to develop and use new capabilities for sharing crucial knowledge quickly. They must learn to ask questions clearly and frequently. They must make the small adjustments through which different skills and knowledge are woven together... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson
    • 23 Nov 2021
    • News

    Job Hunting Nightmare: 1,000 Plus Job Applications and Still No Offers

    • Teaching Interest

    Startup Operations

    By: Julia B. Austin
    Startup Operations is designed to provide hands-on guidance through the early stages of building your business. Students will test assumptions and hypotheses to evolve their product, build their strategic and operating roadmaps, create organizational plans and... View Details
    • 23 Mar 2021
    • News

    Should Gig Work Be Government-Run?

    • 27 Apr 2022
    • News

    Rolling Back Degree Requirements Expands the Pipeline for Tech

    • Career Coach

    David Woodman

    David (HBS '92) uses his experience in starting and running media companies to assist students in matching their skills and interests with opportunities in the Media, Sports, and Entertainment sectors.Work Experience: General View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Sports
    • 2015
    • Book

    Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

    By: David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano
    The authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time (a Business Week top 10 book) analyze the strategies, principles, and skills of three of the most successful and influential figures in business—Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs—offering... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Strategy; Leadership; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology Industry
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      Robert Simons

      Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. For 2023/24, he is... View Details