BEST Practices - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Jan 2022
Op-Ed

3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

support they need. For example, a team member may wish to have flexibility in their work schedules when school starts and ends to get their children settled. The ability to schedule meetings around those times can enable them to do their View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

01 Mar 2005
News

Turkish Delight

BYFORD: Changing careers is well worth the effort. Grenville Byford (MBA ’79) was practical when he decided to pursue his interest in international relations. “Unless your name is Kissinger, you have to specialize in a particular area of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

03 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 3

and Michael Slind show how trusted and effective leaders are adapting the principles of face-to-face conversation in order to pursue a new form of organizational conversation. They explore the promise of conversation-powered leadership-from the time-tested View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Certificates, Credentials, & Credits | HBS Online

immersive online learning, the best industry cases, and input from actual executives at industry-leading companies. In a nutshell, HBS Online allows us to meet our business needs in real time. Morten Lindholst Vice President Global Talent... View Details

06 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling

Snigdha Sur (MBA 2017) is the Founder and CEO of The Juggernaut, a digital media company for South Asian stories. She’s on a mission to diversify storytelling and newsrooms and help challenge existing storylines. Since writing this blog post, Snigdha Sur was... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

candidate for a World Bank Scholarship to attend business school at Harvard. "That is not an easy opportunity to refuse," Hoa notes. With her background in communist theory and difficulty with English, Hoa found her first year at HBS a struggle. "I had no View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

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7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion - MBA

and HBS faculty and modeled after HBS’s Startup Bootcamp program, where students are asked to “learn by doing.” During the two-week intensive course, students practice prototyping physical goods and develop a business plan for a new... View Details

20 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 20

compensation plan. Substantively, the paper sheds insights on how different elements of the compensation plan enhance productivity. We find evidence that: (1) bonuses enhance productivity across all segments; (2) overachievement commissions help sustain the high... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

Richard L. Nolan are professors at Harvard Business School while Shannon O'Donnell is a consultant with Cutter Consortium's Innovation Practice and a PhD fellow at Copenhagen Business School. The three teamed up via email for the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

Beans, and Mandan Squash—the “Three Sisters” of Native American lore that thrive when planted together—Sacred Seed is modeling a different approach based on agricultural practices that are thousands of years old. Cornstalks provide a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52652 Learning to Manage: A Field Experiment in the Indian Startup Ecosystem By: Chatterji, Aaron, Solene Delecourt, Sharique Hasan, and Rembrand Koning Abstract—Management styles and View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 May 2018
News

Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987

growing institution is clearly changing education—and society—in Brazil. Haddad and his handpicked advisors also borrowed working practices from institutions around the world. “I wanted to bring the best... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

15 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

according to the working paper Do Management System Standards Indicate Superior Performance? Evidence from the OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Standard. To earn the voluntary certification, workplaces need to demonstrate that their processes adhere to the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Engagement - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

examples or experiences. Best Practices Tell students how long they have and what will be the signal to end Give students space to talk freely; don’t linger by any one group Consider allowing brief... View Details

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

roll it out in Asia, then Europe. Functional managers with worldwide responsibilities really have to know their specialty—whether it's technology, R&D, or people. They must know where best practice is... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Jun 2022
News

In My Humble Opinion: Home Base

Dowling launched Workparent, a coaching and consulting firm that supports organizations and individuals by providing practical tips and techniques that help workers excel at home and on the job. To date, the company has advised parents on... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 2020
Blog Post

The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1

customer but solves it in a way that it becomes indispensable. The best way to accomplish that goal is by really understanding the customer and experiencing what they are feeling. For our product, we conducted user interviews so that we... View Details

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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity

for outstanding senior Black and URM faculty and scholars of race, diversity, inclusion, and inequality; and making HBS a particularly attractive place for diverse faculty to do their best work. Toward these ends, we will create, fund,... View Details

06 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

Many employees fall into a rut. They do their jobs and respond to challenges in a set way to deliver stable results. But consistency can give way to performance gaps between a company’s high achievers and its weakest links. Fortunately, seeking help and adopting the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Request more information | HBS Courses | HBS Online

correctly. Topics of Interest Business Essentials Leadership & Management Entrepreneurship & Innovation Strategy Finance & Accounting Business in Society I am interested in the for-credit version of CORe I am interested in the for-credit version of CORe What statement... View Details

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