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Positions - Faculty & Research

diverse intellectual community, and strongly encourages applications from women and minorities. Harvard University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Tenure-Track Positions Harvard Business School seeks candidates in all... View Details
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Building a Legacy

solutions to your wealth management challenges Develop an action plan for initiating an intergenerational transfer Implement best practices for separating operating assets and family office assets Make key... View Details
  • 11 Jun 2024
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

achieve actionable transparency by embedding their design in a centralized system with a shared design language and near-real-time updating, where everyone with an interest in improving the design has the right and the means to act on it.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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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  • July 2014 (Revised October 2014)
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McKinsey & Co. - Protecting its Reputation (A)

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; Consulting 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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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
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Curriculum - MBA

to work on their own startup concept or pursue an internship at a technology company. Most of Year 1 is spent at HBS completing the MBA Required Curriculum (RC), although students start the program as a cohort at SEAS in August, taking the Design Theory and 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
  • 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
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Rising Generation in the Family Enterprise

critical decisions. Learning alongside a select group of generational peers, you will crystallize priorities and develop a plan of action to guide the next phase of your life and career—and the next phase of the business. Details Address... View Details
  • 31 Oct 2007
  • HBS Case

Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs

global warming. First, it could do nothing and stabilize its emissions at the company's 2005 levels with internal energy-saving strategies and the purchase of carbon emissions offsets. A 10 percent reduction would fall in line with industry View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 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
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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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  • 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
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Podcast - Business & Environment

balancing climate action with economic development, while promoting environmental justice. David also offers insights on career opportunities at the intersection of business, climate, and government. BCG Global Chair Rich Lesser: How... View Details