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- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
following year. In Chasing Stars, Groysberg explains the importance of having an integration strategy, whether a star is joining a new baseball team or a new team of financial analysts. "Even stars need time to adjust to new settings, and successful integration... View Details
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Artist Support | Baker Library
have real human and historic value. Ansel Adams The intersection of photography and art at Polaroid reflected changing attitudes toward photography within the broader academic and museum community. In his discussions with Kennedy, Land... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
result of such despondency, children are not encouraged to go to school; many fail to attend at all or drop out early. Yet many multinational corporations, while undertaking their regular profit-making activities, have managed to change this View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
results of choices we made. GE Healthcare employees assemble magnetic-resonance imaging machines in Beijing. In 2011, the highly global company moved its x-ray unit headquarters staff to China-a major, rapidly growing market. Q: The US... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
business. The book describes a conceptual framework, "the culture cycle," for managing culture that comprises setting and meeting expectations; establishing trust, engagement, and ownership among employees and customers that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
Argentina to run a foreign exchange house owned by his family. Citing the organizational challenge posed by the long-standing Latin tradition of family-owned businesses, he emphasizes the importance of fostering professional management that rewards View Details
- January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)
By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg
In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Change Management; Transformation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Style; Marketing Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Franchise Ownership; Performance Expectations; Performance Improvement; Strategic Planning; Attitudes; Conflict Management; Corporate Strategy; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Education Industry; Music Industry; Massachusetts; United States
Sandino, Tatiana, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad, and Stacy Straaberg. "School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)." Harvard Business School Case 124-043, January 2024. (Revised June 2024.)
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
thousands more individuals across the world. This crisis can either be an end or a new beginning." APRIL 29 As chairman of Wipro, an Indian multinational, Rishad Premji's (MBA 2005) response to COVID-19 was both practical and humanitarian. On the practical side, he... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
frontline staff work with particular attention to patient safety issues and facilitated open-discussion meetings with employees about their safety related concerns. Data Collection. Hospitals submitted data on the operational failures... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
volume reflects exciting new work by political psychologists to understand the psychological processes underlying Americans’ political thinking and action. In 13 chapters, world-class scholars present new in-depth work exploring public opinion, social movements, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
Proceedings (forthcoming) Abstract When a skilled employee moves from one organization to another, the effects on the hiring organization can be substantive (i.e., changes in actual outcomes) and symbolic (i.e., changes in expectations or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
the norm for health care than the exception. They may not have ever taken a management course, despite the challenge of overseeing dozens of employees across a variety of functions. They’re responsible for their unit’s financial... View Details
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
to change people's minds. In order to do this, he or she must be a good persuader (part salesperson, part teacher), skills that some business leaders ignore as unimportant. Being decisive is ineffective if employees can't be convinced to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
But that being said, when I talk to people throughout the country who are dealing with these issues every day, we've still got so far to go. Hanna: And if we were to fast forward, say, 10 years, what are some of the changes you would hope to see in the workplace, in... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
effect of boundary spanning contact on boundary spanners' negative attitudes toward their own jobs and organization (e.g., job attractiveness and confidence in the organization). Download the Paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
off-ramp into that community." D2D (which stands for Doorways to Dreams) relies on the promise of an innovative program called individual development accounts (IDAs). "IDAs are like 401(k)s for people without access to employee savings... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
fulfillment drive work engagement. Employees have needs (e.g., a desire to be authentic) and they also have expectations for how their job or their organization will fulfill them. We argue that experiences at work that confirm employees’... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
for examining this question. Results indicate that nonnative English-speaking employees experienced status loss regardless of their English fluency level. Yet variability in their self-assessed fluency-an achieved status marker-was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
2008, Macridis wondered if it wasn’t a sign of things to come and decided to borrow money that he didn’t need. Later, when sales dropped 40 percent and capital controls gridlocked the banks, the company was able to continue to fund inventory, service their clients,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
programs has grown by 25 percent to 330 participants. Looking back over the past decade, Childress detects a growing interest among young alums in starting or joining an organization dedicated to social change. “The attitude is that this... View Details