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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
participants to understand how their role encompasses all organizational disciplines; to learn to manage up, down, across, and outside the organization; to perform a working assessment of their organizations; and to formulate solutions to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 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
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
that the traditional manager versus leader argument ("Clark Kent versus Superman," he jokes) tends to undermine the value of management. "There are lots of people who look and act like managers, who have excellent managerial skills, and... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
1991 to 1994, he served as the first senior associate dean, director of financial and information systems, at HBS. He has coauthored five books and written nearly two hundred cases and articles. The Managerial Implications of Deregulation... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
with a successful entrepreneurial track record and a Boston address. “I am a tech CEO.” With so few women in leadership roles in the information technology sector and a dramatic gender imbalance throughout the field, Kraus’s title is more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
New Releases
Abraham Zaleznik. Grouped in three sections that address the future of organizations, the process of change, and the new role of management, the articles address topics such as how networks reshape organizations, why transformation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
changes in China have been more dramatic than people realize. Second, democracy in China is inevitable. Third, these economic reforms have been political, cultural, and, above all, global processes. Understanding these developments tells us much about the View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
Faculty cochair V. Kasturi (Kash) Rangan, a newly tenured professor when he became the SEI's first head, recalls, "We decided on a broad scope of inquiry. For us, understanding managerial challenges within the non-profit sector was a... View Details
Keywords: SEI
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
African Managerial Leadership Chalsty Fellowship Will Help Black South Africans Attend HBS From Wildlife to Winetasting READ MORE Mandela in Triumph at Harvard New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
Related Links Martin discussing his book One of the most influential papers defining the role of business, “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” was coauthored in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
idea is that there are some problems that require collective input and cumulative knowledge-building. Open-source communities are a very powerful way to get that done. We used to think that software had to be developed by lots of engineers working under a strict View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Pill, and Ingrid Vogel (World Scientific Publishing Co.) Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock-market booms and busts, and social and labor unrest is crucial in making informed managerial decisions. These... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
job." Jon and George Pellegrin were grappling with issues common to any company: managerial differences, power clashes, succession questions. But ratcheting up the intensity of their struggle was the fact that they were not just talking... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
organizational negotia- tions. To add realism, the unit's faculty has scrambled the sections for this course so that students encounter both familiar and unfamiliar faces across their classroom bargaining table. "The role of informal... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
financially and managerially as a for-profit organization. That’s what I told the Sesame Workshop board. I said, “If you aren’t looking for that kind of discipline, don’t hire me.” I have three bosses: the board, my employees, and the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell (Harvard Business Review Press) This fictional narrative about newly minted CEO Jim Barton allows readers to walk beside Jim as he takes on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
since the end of World War II, agency theory also served to delegitimate managerial authority itself. This was a striking development to have occurred in university business schools, which owed their original raison d’ÃïÃÿÃýtre to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
the reservations, gradually assuming roles of increasing responsibility in sacred ceremonies and serving as an administrative intern for both of his tribes. The high-profile Cherokee chief, Wilma P. Mankiller, served as his mentor. "I got... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
Ron Mitchell says his most valuable learning experience at HBS did not take place in the classroom. Rather, it emerged from his work as student government president. "That's where I learned about working with people in a political and professional environment and about... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
Work, by Don Cohen and Laurence Prusak, is the first book to examine and explain the role that social capital — the value inherent in human connections, including trust, personal networks, and a sense of community — plays in the... View Details