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- January 2002 (Revised April 2015)
- Background Note
A Note on Maneuvering in War and Negotiation
By: Michael Wheeler and Gillian Morris
Military metaphors are commonplace in business writing about strategy, but they are rarely used in the negotiation literature. This case takes the Marine Corps philosophy of warfighting and compares it with the tactics and techniques of effective negotiators. Some of...
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Wheeler, Michael, and Gillian Morris. "A Note on Maneuvering in War and Negotiation." Harvard Business School Background Note 902-157, January 2002. (Revised April 2015.)
- 2014
- Working Paper
The New Empirical Economics of Management
By: Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen
Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review...
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Management;
Organization;
Productivity;
Management Practices and Processes;
Performance Productivity;
Microeconomics
Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen. "The New Empirical Economics of Management." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-111, April 2014. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 20102, April 2014.)
- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Miami’s Climate Tech Potential (A): The State of Play
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 324-119. Miami-Dade County led the work to get South Florida designated a national climate resilience tech hub, the only one of 31 focused on climate change, an urgent major issue for the region in light of global warming and sea level...
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- 18 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Brand China Can Succeed
Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.As the British nineteenth century commentator John Ruskin...
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by John Quelch
- 07 May 2019
- News
Global Workers Are Ready for Retraining
- 07 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss
full-time jobs, were asked to recall a recent time when a colleague was visibly distressed, and how that demonstrated either passion or emotion. The study also teased out whether the type of profession or relationship between participant...
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by Roberta Holland
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
like. “It’s presumably making workers happier and more productive, and helping their communities and their organizations,” he says. Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance View Details
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by Kara Baskin
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 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Promoting a Management Revolution in Public Education
- September 2010 (Revised December 2012)
- Case
Assembling Smartphones: Takt Time ≠ Cycle Time?
By: Willy Shih and Ethan Bernstein
The case was prepared to be used as part of a process review in the first year Technology and Operations Management course at HBS. It offers students an opportunity to discuss the context of a manufacturing process choice, and then examine actual production numbers...
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Keywords:
Cognition and Thinking;
Research and Development;
Design;
Six Sigma;
Measurement and Metrics;
Production
Shih, Willy, and Ethan Bernstein. "Assembling Smartphones: Takt Time ≠ Cycle Time?" Harvard Business School Case 611-012, September 2010. (Revised December 2012.)
- 08 Mar 2018
- Video
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- 28 Jan 2021
- News
'Degree inflation': How the four-year degree became required
- April 2021
- Case
Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ros Atkins
By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Ros Atkins launched the 50:50 Project on a BBC news program he anchored, deciding with his team to start tracking the gender of the contributors and experts featured on the show. Before long, it was clear that monitoring the data led to increased awareness of a gender...
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Keywords:
Gender Equality;
Allyship;
Representation;
Leadership;
Gender;
Equality and Inequality;
Media;
Analytics and Data Science
Groysberg, Boris, and Colleen Ammerman. "Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ros Atkins." Harvard Business School Case 421-075, April 2021.
- 14 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Rainmakers: Why Bad Weather Means Good Productivity
- Research Summary
Overview
Professor Coffman studies the sources of gender gaps in economically-important contexts. Her work focuses on the role of beliefs: how do stereotypes bias the beliefs that individuals hold about themselves (and others), and how do these biased beliefs shape...
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The Process of Managing Business Transformation
By: Richard L. Nolan
Richard L. Nolan is examining the process of business transformation, which he characterizes as the creative destruction of industrial economy management principles and the evolution of a set of workable management principles for the information economy. According to...
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- 2022
- Article
Gender Inequality in Research Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: Ruomeng Cui, Hao Ding and Feng Zhu
We study the disproportionate impact of the lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak on female and male academics' research productivity in social science. The lockdown has caused substantial disruptions to academic activities, requiring people to work from home....
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Keywords:
Gender Inequality;
Research Productivity;
Telecommuting;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Research;
Performance Productivity;
Gender;
Equality and Inequality;
Health Pandemics
Cui, Ruomeng, Hao Ding, and Feng Zhu. "Gender Inequality in Research Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 24, no. 2 (March–April 2022): 707–726.
- 2007
- Chapter
Creativity in Product Development
Managing new product development is a key area of management, straddling strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship and macro-organizational behaviour. All of the contributors in the Handbook of New Product Developmet Management are well-known and leading exponents to...
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Management Practices and Processes;
Product Development;
Problems and Challenges;
Research;
Creativity
Fleming, Lee, and Santiago Mingo. "Creativity in Product Development." In Handbook of New Product Development Management, edited by Christoph Loch and Stylianos Kavadias. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007.
- 22 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance
hire workers with a criminal history, especially if crime and safety insurance is available, or if the worker can provide past work performance reviews. The findings were included in a working paper,...
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by Jay Fitzgerald