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- July 2024
- Case
Gates Ventures: Making Alzheimer's a Forgotten Past
By: Satish Tadikonda, William Marks, Shardule Shah and Calvin Marambo
After a personal journey and interest in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) by Bill Gates, Gates Ventures set out to find the best way to accelerate innovation in the field of AD. In partnership with the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, Gates Ventures created the...
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Tadikonda, Satish, William Marks, Shardule Shah, and Calvin Marambo. "Gates Ventures: Making Alzheimer's a Forgotten Past." Harvard Business School Case 824-075, July 2024.
- 2012
- Working Paper
Expertise Dissensus: A Multi-level Model of Teams' Differing Perceptions about Member Expertise
By: Heidi K. Gardner and Lisa Kwan
Why are some teams more effective than others at using their members' expertise to achieve short-term performance and longer term developmental benefits? We propose that a critical factor is expertise dissensus-members' differing perceptions of each other's level of...
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Keywords:
Groups and Teams;
Failure;
Experience and Expertise;
Research;
Performance Effectiveness;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Perception;
Personal Development and Career
Gardner, Heidi K., and Lisa Kwan. "Expertise Dissensus: A Multi-level Model of Teams' Differing Perceptions about Member Expertise." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-070, February 2012. (Revised March 2012.)
- 01 Feb 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
Making Diverse Leadership a Priority at Whittier College
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Re: Debora L. Spar
- October 12, 2012
- Article
What's the Difference Between a Fabulous Boss and a Mediocre Boss? Not Much
By: Gautam Mukunda
Mukunda, Gautam. "What's the Difference Between a Fabulous Boss and a Mediocre Boss? Not Much." CNBC.com (October 12, 2012).
- October 10, 2009
- Article
Making the Public Option a Simple One
By: Robert C. Pozen
Pozen, Robert C. "Making the Public Option a Simple One." Boston Globe (October 10, 2009).
- May 16, 2011
- Blog Post
A Counter-Intuitive Approach to Making Complex Decisions
By: Maarten Bos and Amy Cuddy
Bos, Maarten, and Amy Cuddy. "A Counter-Intuitive Approach to Making Complex Decisions." Harvard Business Review Blogs (May 16, 2011). http://blogs.hbr.org/2011/05/a-counter-intuitive-approach-t/.
- 2022
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Organizational Behavior Reading: Managing Differences
By: Robin Ely and Colleen Ammerman
This reading provides principles and practices managers can draw upon to leverage differences in social identities - such as gender and race - to create more effective work relationships, teams, and organizations. The Essential Reading's first section draws upon...
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Keywords:
Diversity;
Groups and Teams;
Prejudice and Bias;
Identity;
Management Practices and Processes
Ely, Robin, and Colleen Ammerman. "Organizational Behavior Reading: Managing Differences." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Publishing 8394, 2022.
- October 2003 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
GE's Talent Machine: The Making of a CEO
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Andrew N. McLean
GE believes its ability to develop management talent is a core competency that represents a source of sustainable competitive advantage. This case traces the development of GE's rich system of human resource policies and practices under five CEOs in the post-war era,...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Capital;
Selection and Staffing;
Leadership Development;
Management Succession;
Corporate Strategy
Bartlett, Christopher A., and Andrew N. McLean. "GE's Talent Machine: The Making of a CEO." Harvard Business School Case 304-049, October 2003. (Revised November 2006.)
- spring 1985
- Article
Cost Accounting: A Revolution in the Making
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert S. "Cost Accounting: A Revolution in the Making." Corporate Accounting (spring 1985): 10–16.
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
Universal that produce and distribute movies. More and more, fears of piracy impact decisions that industry executives make regarding release strategies. However, a different...
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- 28 Feb 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
Muhammad Ali: A Case Study in Purpose-Driven Decision Making
- August 3, 2004
- Article
Negotiation: The Right Set-up Makes a Deal
By: James Sebenius and David Lax
Keywords:
Negotiation
Sebenius, James, and David Lax. "Negotiation: The Right Set-up Makes a Deal." Financial Times (August 3, 2004), 9.
- October 2008
- Article
It's Time to Make Management a True Profession
By: Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana
In the face of the recent institutional breakdown of trust in business, managers are losing legitimacy. To regain public trust, management needs to become a true profession in much the way medicine and law have, argue Khurana and Nohria of Harvard Business School. True...
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Keywords:
Competency and Skills;
Education;
Ethics;
Corporate Accountability;
Management;
Trust;
Value Creation
Nohria, Nitin, and Rakesh Khurana. "It's Time to Make Management a True Profession." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 10 (October 2008).
- 2022
- Working Paper
Beliefs about Gender Differences in Social Preferences
By: Christine L Exley, Oliver P. Hauser, Molly Moore and John-Henry Pezzuto
While there is a vast (and mixed) literature on gender differences in social preferences, little is known about believed gender differences in social preferences. This paper documents robust evidence for believed gender differences in social preferences. Across a wide...
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Exley, Christine L., Oliver P. Hauser, Molly Moore, and John-Henry Pezzuto. "Beliefs about Gender Differences in Social Preferences." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-079, June 2022.
- 2020
- Working Paper
How Do CEOs Make Strategy?
By: Mu-Jeung Yang, Michael Christensen, Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and Jan Rivkin
We explore the critical question of how executives make strategic decisions. Utilizing a new survey of 262 CEO alumni of Harvard Business School, we gather evidence on four aspects of each executive’s business strategy: its overall structure, its formalization, its...
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Yang, Mu-Jeung, Michael Christensen, Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and Jan Rivkin. "How Do CEOs Make Strategy?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-063, October 2020.
- November 2007
- Case
Differences at Work: Jason (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
Jason is a member of his firm's recruiting team, which has a mandate to create a more diverse workforce. When the group decides to interview a candidate based on the candidate's race, Jason wonders whether they made the right decision and how, in general, diversity...
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Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Jason (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-016, November 2007.
- Fall 2016
- Book Review
Review of Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, by Saba Mahmood
By: Kristin Fabbe
Fabbe, Kristin. "Review of Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, by Saba Mahmood." Journal of Church and State 58, no. 4 (Fall 2016): 753–755.
- November 2007
- Case
Differences at Work: Allie (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
On a business trip, Allie's boss demands that she and a colleague skip planned company meetings and "meet him at the beach in their bikinis."
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Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Allie (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-037, November 2007.
- 1 Oct 2006
- Keynote Speech
Shifting Paradigms in Diversity Research: From Difference to a Relational Framing
By: R. Ely