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  • 25 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams

points to differences in the instincts and baseline soft skills of men and women when they approach managerial roles and responsibilities.” The research team chose Latin America because men and women hold... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Food & Beverage
  • July – August 2011
  • Article

Foundations of Organizational Trust: What Matters to Different Stakeholders?

By: Michael Pirson and Deepak Malhotra
Prior research on organizational trust has not rigorously examined the context specificity of trust nor distinguished between the potentially varying dimensions along which different stakeholders base their trust. As a result, dominant conceptualizations of... View Details
Keywords: Trust; Competency and Skills; Forecasting and Prediction; Ethics; Framework; Analytics and Data Science; Surveys; Organizations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Identity; Perspective
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  • Web

Curriculum - MBA

optimizing for profitability an e-commerce business. Read More Field Course: Transforming Health Care Delivery This course will help students develop the managerial skills required to identify and implement... View Details
  • 29 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites

analytical skill set that's developed in the last fifteen or twenty years amongst business press journalists is amazing. Many reporters I've talked with seem to think their skill as a reporter is being a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News; Publishing
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors

By: Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher J. Malloy
We test the hypothesis that firms appoint independent directors who are overly sympathetic to management, while still technically independent according to regulatory definitions. We explore a subset of independent directors for whom we have detailed, micro-level data... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Managerial Roles; Prejudice and Bias
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Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

was New Zealand's main work visa between 2008 and 2022. Essential Skills migrants could only work for firms which could not find New Zealanders. Loosening restrictions for a single individual has no impact on their wages: migrants who win... View Details

    Joshua D. Margolis

    Joshua Margolis is James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration and the Unit Head for the Organizational Behavior unit. He is also Faculty Chair of the Program for Leadership Development. His research and teaching revolve around leadership... View Details

    Keywords: furniture; health care; insurance industry; nonprofit industry; pharmaceuticals
    • September 2016 (Revised July 2017)
    • Case

    Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (A)

    By: Dorothy Leonard and Christopher Myers
    The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a federally funded research institution within NASA, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has played a large role in many space and planetary explorations, particularly to the planet Mars. As a project-based... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Employees; Experience and Expertise; Aerospace Industry; United States
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    • 18 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 18

    power. Publisher's link: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amy-cuddy/presence/9780316256575/ February 2015 Prentice Hall Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Evaluating Performance By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav V. Rajan... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    The Exchange: Help Wanted

    big institutions. Sadun: To have a functional team I expect that all executives will need social skills to work together. Even outside the realm of business: Think about teams of doctors and engineers. These technical professions will... View Details
    Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
    • Web

    MBA Experience - Leadership

    MBA Experience MBA Experience At Harvard Business School, students exercise the leadership skills they will practice in business and beyond, and leave with lessons in leadership that are practical, priceless and most importantly, real.... View Details
    • Web

    Finance Curriculum - Faculty & Research

    create value. Topics covered include: Basic analytical skills and principles of corporate finance. Functions of modern capital markets and financial institutions. Standard techniques of analysis, including capital budgeting, discounted... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    A More Accommodating Approach

    Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
    • 17 Aug 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: August 17

    explore the consequences of scientific publication-an instance of public disclosure-for a core set of activities within the firm. Specifically, we link publications to human capital management practices, showing that scientists' bonuses and the allocation of View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

    By: Nelson P. Repenning and Rebecca Henderson
    Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"—delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer-term investments—makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Performance Improvement; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Management Practices and Processes; Revenue; Quality; Competency and Skills; Motivation and Incentives; Auto Industry; United States
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    • 26 Feb 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55749 forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare By: Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos, and John Van... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

    skills in scholarship and/or athletics. William Bennett (MBA 2014) Fellowship This fellowship was established through the generosity of William Henry Gavin Bennett (MBA 2014) to celebrate his 5th Reunion and to honor his late father,... View Details

      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

      • 05 Dec 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

      report was co-written by Matt Sigelman, Nik Dawson, and Gad Levanon of the Burning Glass Institute and supported by the Schultz Family Foundation. The scorecard comes as employers struggle to find skilled workers in a stagnant labor pool,... View Details
      Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

        Anthony Mayo

        Tony Mayo is the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the Organizational Behavior Unit of Harvard Business School (HBS).  He currently teaches and serves as the course head for... View Details

        Keywords: advertising; airline; education industry; nonprofit industry; publishing industry; service industry