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Managing Innovation

companies across the globe. With new insight into innovation processes, you will be ready to take action and lead a highly creative, innovation-focused culture that can consistently deliver results. This program is eligible for the... View Details
  • 26 Apr 2024
  • HBS Case

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

Sanders wasn’t afraid to roll up his sleeves to help his team succeed—even mowing the practice fields himself if they didn’t get mowed on time. By his third year at JSU, Sanders had posted the first undefeated season in the school’s... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
  • 2013
  • Article

Rituals Enhance Consumption

By: J. Vohs, Y. Wang, F. Gino and M. I. Norton
Four experiments tested the novel hypothesis that ritualistic behavior potentiates and enhances the enjoyment of ensuing consumption—an effect found for chocolates, lemonade, and even carrots. Experiment 1 showed that ritual behaviors, compared to a no-ritual... View Details
Keywords: Practice; Satisfaction; Consumer Behavior
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  • July 2014 (Revised October 2014)
  • Supplement

McKinsey & Co. - Protecting its Reputation (B)

By: Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague
On Tuesday March 15, 2011, all 1,200 global Partners of McKinsey & Co. gathered at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center near Washington, DC for their annual Partners' conference. The atmosphere was tense as Partners, in addition to their normal agenda,... View Details
Keywords: Board; McKinsey; CONSULTING Firms; Risk; Risk Assessment; Partnerships; Insider Trading; Confidentiality; Personal Investing; Reputation; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Construction Industry; United States; California
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Families in Business

strengths of your family business and implement practices that enable high performance, shareholder loyalty, healthy family relationships, and broad social impact. Key Benefits In this family enterprise management program, you’ll learn... View Details
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Initiatives & Projects - Faculty & Research

leadership development, both within HBS and through collaborations with other organizations. Managing the Future of Work The Project on Managing the Future of Work pursues research that business and policy leaders can put into action as... View Details
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Organizational Ambidexterity in Action: How Managers Explore and Exploit

By: Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael L. Tushman
Dynamic capabilities have been proposed as a useful way to understand how organizations are able to adapt to changes in technology and markets. Organizational ambidexterity, the ability of senior managers to seize opportunities through the orchestration and integration... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Opportunities
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  • 27 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

contribution of organizations to the etiology of sex differences in behavior, cognition, and emotion at work. Specifically, we wanted to understand how organizational features, such as work practices and norms, encourage people to think,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 08 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

workplace happiness: “It may actually be because they have been sorted into firms with worse work environments,” he says. “It’s possible that in more liberal states, there are more policies and practices to reduce some of the stereotypes... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Overview

By: Andy Wu
How can technology entrepreneurs build competitive advantage from the ground up? Professor Andy Wu conducts scholarly research and develops course materials that document how technology entrepreneurs can (1) organize for innovation to create new market opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Technology Platform; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Video Game Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; China; Southeast Asia; South Asia
  • 31 Oct 2007
  • HBS Case

Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs

What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In "UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action?" Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest Reinhardt present the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

  PublicationsStrength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak Interests Author:Gunnar Trumbull Publication:Harvard University Press, forthcoming Abstract This book investigates the sources of interest group influence has on public policy. Trumbull argues that diffuse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

kidnapping, from a fire in an office block to an airliner crash in the jungle.” “People who survive disasters are the ones who are able to regain cognitive function quickly, assess their new environment accurately, and take goal-directed View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
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Podcast - Business & Environment

for those interested in working in carbon markets and climate finance. The Potential and Challenges of the Voluntary Carbon Market 29 JAN 2025 | Climate Rising Our second episode on the voluntary carbon market is a bonus episode of a panel discussion recorded at... View Details
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Research Summary

By: Leslie A. Perlow

There has been tremendous change in the workplace — ubiquitous technology, 24/7 globalization, hyper-efficiency and now significant changes in work location. Professor Perlow’s research explores the implications for the ways we work and live, and what we can do to... View Details

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Health Care Initiative - Health Care

and innovation, and to disseminate these works. Alumni Opportunities to participate in health care activities at the school, and through the ongoing development of the alumni health care network Executive Education Programs that disseminate knowledge and influence... View Details
  • 11 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

discuss what he considers to be the biggest practical issues facing boards today: how to get and give honest assessments without eroding collegiality and trust; how to evaluate the CEO using factors that go beyond financial results; how... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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DENIAL reviews

By: Richard S. Tedlow

"A wake-up call to be sure that we dont allow ourselves to confuse our maps with the actual territory."

strategy+business "2010 Best Business Books," Winter 2010

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  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

international economic and financial crises highlights the need for a comprehensive framework to assess the robustness of national economic and financial systems. This paper proposes a new comprehensive approach to measure, analyze, and manage macroeconomic risk based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Advancing Women of Color in Leadership

inclusion, this program emphasizes practical steps to advance women of color and enhance their leadership ability and fulfill their ambitions—while helping others do the same and leveraging the contributions made by different generational... View Details