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  • 16 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

when life goes back to normal.  Forward-thinking leaders can run better organizations by creating conditions that allow customers to be more helpful. When service provision is a true partnership and customers are pitching in, employees... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 2010
  • Book

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

By: Robert L. Simons
To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into day-to-day actions that will enable your company to win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Innovation and Management; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Competitive Strategy
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  • 22 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 22

Robert S., and Mary L. Witkowski Abstract—The paper describes the theory and preliminary results for an action research program that explores the implications from better measurements of health care outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

W. Norton & Company, 2014). Martin Ford, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (New York: Basic Books, 2015). James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger, What Great Service Leaders... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

case describes how Robert Fadel, CEO and chairman of ABC, one of Lebanon’s leading retail and real estate groups, professionalized the family business. Robert was the second son of the company’s founder,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Research Summary

Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

  • 23 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

http://hbr.org/product/handbook-of-leadership-theory-and-practice/an/12326-HBK-ENG Women and Leadership: Defining the Challenges Authors:Robin J. Ely and Deborah L. Rhode Publication:Chap. 14 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jan 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)

but success. To that end, we’re sharing some well-researched tips from Harvard Business School faculty to help you keep your career-related resolutions this year. 1. Resolution: To gain more respect at the office. Tip: Wear weird sneakers to work. Research View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Jul 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?

conclude that I understood leadership pretty well, I've begun to wonder. Let's start with the leadership associated with large organizations with relatively long histories. In recent years, we have been educated by concepts such as MBWA... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Building Communities as Well as Companies

Morgan Roberts at a recent conference. But what are the nuts-and-bolts details of starting and sustaining a minority-owned business in today's tough economy? Panelists at the 2003 H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference emphasized the well known... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

heralding the start of National Biotechnology Month, as January 2000 had been designated by the U.S. Senate. For biotech, in fact, the party had begun months earlier, when hundreds of millions of dollars had poured into promising... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 02 Mar 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

report to you succeed, I think it’s pretty hard to lead with anything other than humility and vulnerability.” Dfallah said, “I believe candor, humility and trust are core values for visionary companies ” Michael H. added, “For several years, I’ve been advocating a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 09 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

separate studies by the type of entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This literature shows common results and many points of disagreement, reflective of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

2018 Pearson Education Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan Abstract—Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the cost accounting market and continues to innovate today by consistently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

Relationships Authors:Robin Ely and Laura Morgan Roberts Publication:In Diversity at Work, edited by Arthur P. Brief. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming Abstract No abstract available. Exploring Black... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2013
  • Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

series of 20-minute presentations followed by discussion groups took an unconventional look at topics such as stereotypes, difference, and organizational change. (Presenters were also asked to write short research-based papers to... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Introductory Reading for Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger
This paper is the sixth of six pre-course reading assignments for an experimental leadership course developed by the authors over five years (2004-2008) at the U. of Rochester Simon School of Business working with students, alumni, executives, and faculty from various... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Curriculum and Courses; Strategy; Performance Capacity; Attitudes; Behavior; United States; Netherlands; Texas
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  • 11 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 11

August 2013 Work and Occupations Toward a Model of Work Redesign for Better Work and Better Life By: Perlow, Leslie A., and Erin L. Kelly Abstract—Flexible work accommodations provided by employers purport... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

benefit allied politicians. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-100.pdf Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Is Voluntary Disclosure a Signal of Effective Self-Policing? Authors:Michael W. Toffel and Jodi L. Short Abstract As... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

and by incorporating user innovation. We then examine how this ease of external engagement impacts the organization and its strategic activities. Specifically, we consider how this shift in information processing costs affects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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