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- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
Four titans who defined a new era in business during the past decade recently concluded their terms: PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi, Unilever’s Paul Polman, Mayo Clinic’s John Noseworthy, and US Bancorp’s Richard Davis. When they became CEOs, the...
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- 04 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees
We often expect corporate executives to conform to certain extroverted CEO stereotypes: C for charismatic, E for effusive, and O for outgoing. To wit: Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson, who very publicly flew around the world in a hot...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Aug 2023
- News
Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University...
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by Avery Forman
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
Maxweles, who asked, "Was Steve Jobs possibly a 'brilliant jerk'? Could innovation be stifled by simply eliminating the uncomfortable individuals?" Lawrence Nwaru added, "We are all brilliant jerks in one form or the...
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by James Heskett
- 27 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding
from virtual onboarding to managing anxiety and stress. Over the next few months, I will try to tackle them one by one in this space. COVID-19 has turned many companies into federations of remote workplaces, but without much guidance on...
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by Boris Groysberg
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
issues to a new level by commenting, "It is tough to even have people agree on what is being denied ." Denial can be beneficial. Joline Godfrey waxed almost poetic in saying that "denial is a critical component of my...
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by Jim Heskett
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
Two dramatically different approaches to organizational change are being employed in the world today, according to our observations, research, and experience. We call these Theory E and Theory O of change. Like all managerial action, these approaches are guided View Details
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by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
in the School's Business History Group to reflect on Chandler's legacy and to share personal memories. To listen to this interview with professor Richard Tedlow, click on the triangular play button below. The Macromedia Flash plug-in is...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
unaccommodating behavior by the slighted party. In their 1991 book, A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations (ILR Press), Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie recount such a scenario. After a string of...
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by Deepak Malhotra
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
School, who coauthored the study. “[It] means not only that the pool of potential human capital for startup companies began declining when COVID started, but also that the quality of the pool has deteriorated,” he says. “The incumbent [companies], just View Details
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by Rachel Layne
- 24 Mar 2015
- News
The King Buried Under The Parking Lot
- 04 Apr 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
printed out the pages containing the results he didn’t like, highlighted the offending ads, posted them on a bulletin board on the wall of the kitchen by the pool table, and wrote THESE ADS SUCK in big letters across the top. Then he went...
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by James Heskett
- 27 Nov 2006
- What Do You Think?
What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?
worse." Dean Turner expressed the frustrations of many when he said, "What's the best system? After 40+ years in the work force, I am still searching for it." By way of contrast, Richard...
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by Jim Heskett
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
space race have been blessed somewhat by the glamour of it all. Investors enthusiastically, maybe too much so, backed a host of startups including those headed by superstar names like Sir View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows
Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2023 recipients of its Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1988 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (MBA 1959), a former...
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- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
classroom. Understanding the elusive female protagonist Knowing this, we wanted to look at the HBS case output and curricula through a gender lens. We first took a deep dive into the cases published between 2008 and 2015 and found that 20 percent of cases written View Details
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by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
companies, and the gender pay gap persists. While young women are aware of these systemic problems, the more nuanced forms of sexism that persist today often take them by surprise, say Ammerman and co-author Boris Groysberg, the View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 12 Oct 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
and MIT Sloan School of Management Dean Richard Schmalensee, which will come out from MIT Press next fall. I am working on several papers attempting to provide theoretical frameworks for studying some of the issues mentioned above, such...
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