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- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
likely to under-achieve your potential." Do You Have A Succession-planning Process In Place? Kaplan stresses the importance of developing potential successors for key positions in your company-including your own-and creating a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
responsibility to help educate citizens in such countries who can, we hope, be a driving force for positive change in their communities and governments. Academics Can I earn academic credit for participating in an HBS Online program? By... View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
seek and how firms could deliver it. The result can be new revenue, increased customer satisfaction and loyalty, positive word of mouth, and cost savings. The multiyear process to price the 8 million tickets to the upcoming London 2012... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
this position where you’re going to be inclined to be inclusive because your expertise is not sufficient, and then you see the payoff. Some teams will struggle because they were exclusive and dismissive of each other. Inclusion gets you... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Jun 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
predators and no there is no place for them in positions of power, ever, anywhere.” Janie added, “There is compelling evidence suggesting that many CEOs have strong narcissistic qualities, border on sociopathic tendencies, and often turn... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
at an urban charter school, where over 95 percent of the 500 students were minorities and more than 75 percent were low-income. They focused their attention on tutors—the employees with the closest and most extended contact with students. (Tutors serve a one-year,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
conversations with their bosses, notes Thomas DeLong, who teaches organizational behavior at Harvard Business School. "I'm amazed that although organizations are willing to set metrics for success in difficult times, so few... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
the necessary behavioral changes. Poor communication. A change initiative is like the start of a marathon: change will be occurring rapidly in some units, whereas in others it won't even have gotten under way. Change leaders need to be... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
key role business leaders have to play in confronting climate change—and the power of HBS alumni to make a positive difference. Jacqueline Adams (MBA 1978) President, J Adams Strategic Communications; co-author of A Blessing: Women of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
held a memorial service for his grandmother. Since then, several members of his family have been considering returning home. “A lot of people involved in the pro-democracy movement have moved back and are making positive changes,” he... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
only added three substitutions to his roster, 40 percent fewer changes than his fellow turnaround coaches made that season. Only one of eight coaching positions changed when a new assistant coach replaced the departing brother of the... View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment
clean, resilient, and consumer-centric through the application of data science and behavioral economics, optimizing the system assets and operations across the electric meter.” Tanuj Deora HBS MBA 2006 Vice President, Market Development... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Power Couple
become today’s mass media. Sarnoff, who works closely with Random House chairman and CEO Peter Olson (MBA ’76), is, among other priorities, helping to position the publisher in the digital arena, including wireless-content distribution.... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
behavior that make this redeployment feasible and sustainable over time. "A vast majority of the initiatives that companies are implementing do not require large capital investments or radical innovation." How companies are... View Details
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Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach
This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
(iStockphoto/FreshSplash) There seems to be limited interest in middle management or the managers that occupy such positions among those who study management today. Go to Amazon or Google, for example, and check out the number of recent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
submitted, from managing a remote workforce to making decisions in the face of vast uncertainty. Not surprisingly, one significant challenge reported by many CEOs was how to position their company to survive, or even thrive, during the... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
It is tough to think positively in a crisis. Yet one overarching lesson in a new book by HBS professor Bill George, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis (Jossey-Bass), is exactly that: See crisis as a chance to develop and enhance your... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
2011. In the early 2000s, e-commerce was seen as a threat to entire store formats such as grocery, music, and toy stores. But as consumer behavior evolved over the last decade and as supply chains improved, it became apparent that the... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
can be tracked through clicks, page views, and time on the site, as well as through a host of other metrics. But, says Avery, "there is often still not a direct link to the type of customer behavior we want to measure, such as ticket... View Details