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- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
team found programming documents, technical specifications, training materials, and change management documentation in the repository. Because these documents were available, Love and his team did not have to spend any time tracking down... View Details
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
Summing Up Can managers acquire ways of thinking or ways of learning from doctors? Managers can learn from an understanding of how doctors think. But whether the lessons are profound or even totally... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases
yourself paying more attention to the prices of everything you buy? You are not alone. Consumers everywhere are more price aware. People who've been indifferent to price increases for years are suddenly amazed at what things now cost. How... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
practices in management education. "Overall, we were delighted to see the impact that PCMPCL is having in the area and on these leading schools of business," Wheelwright says. Report: Q: What general advice would you give our... View Details
- 27 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know
considered one of the last taboos,” says Senior Lecturer Derek van Bever. “Our students have been asking for it because they see very clearly that they will be in positions of global leadership where they will have to deal with it.” To fill that need, van Bever wrote... View Details
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
ensure that the casinos' best customers return to play another day. “It's not absolute freedom—it's freedom within a framework" —Francisco de Asís Martinez-Jerez And it turns out that casino hosts are ideal subjects to gain insight into an ongoing question debated for... View Details
- 17 Sep 2019
- News
Young People Are Going to Save Us All From Office Life
- May–June 2018
- Article
Structure That's Not Stifling: How to Give Your People Essential Direction—Without Shutting Them Down
By: Ranjay Gulati
Most leaders view employee freedoms and operational controls as antagonists in a tug-of-war. They tend to focus on regulating workers’ behavior, often putting a damper on commitment, innovation, and performance without realizing it. But freedom and control aren’t zero... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Mission and Purpose; Framework; Employee Relationship Management; Performance Effectiveness
Gulati, Ranjay. "Structure That's Not Stifling: How to Give Your People Essential Direction—Without Shutting Them Down." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 3 (May–June 2018): 68–79.
- 21 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Employee Negativity Is Like Wildfire. Manage It Before It Spreads.
Repurposing can also be effective for managing interpersonal problems. When personality clashes rise to the level of aggression, a leader can repurpose those emotions in the pursuit of a more positive outcome. “The leader could say, ‘The... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 2009
- Chapter
Do Private Equity-owned Firms Have Better Management Practices?
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms across Asia, Europe and the US. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level performance (e.g. productivity,... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Private Ownership; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Do Private Equity-owned Firms Have Better Management Practices?" Chap. 1 in The Global Economic Impact of Private Equity Report 2009, 1–23. Globalization of Alternative Investments Working Papers. Geneva, Switzerland: World Economic Forum, 2009.
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
The Cycles of Theory Building in Management Research
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The New Global Business Manager
function of today’s global manager? We used to think of the CEO as being the grand strategic architect. Now the world is so complex and fast-moving that the general manager’s role is less about managing content and more about View Details
Keywords: Management
- 27 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance
higher than newer companies, perhaps a function of the fact that they were good enough to survive longer. Finally, firms with higher management scores also had more highly skilled workers. “Stronger companies according to our score have... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Nov 2011
- What Do You Think?
The Ultimate Question in Management
this type was proposed by Pete DeLisi: "Do you make your people feel like they want to be a better man or woman?" Favorite "ultimate" questions that managers could ask of their reports... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- September 1992 (Revised July 1998)
- Case
Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification
By: George C. Lodge and James W. Ragsdale
In October 1990, eastern Germany was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany. The German people rewarded the architect of these changes, Helmut Kohl, with an enhanced majority in national elections. But only two years later it was hard to remember these heady... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Inflation and Deflation; Central Banking; Interest Rates; Political Elections; Situation or Environment; Integration; Europe; Germany; Italy; United Kingdom
Lodge, George C., and James W. Ragsdale. "Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification." Harvard Business School Case 793-033, September 1992. (Revised July 1998.)
- Teaching Interest
Managing Human Capital: Keeping Hope Alive in Organizations (Not offered 2013-2014)
Managing Human Capital has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the general manager who seeks to manage both other people and his or her own career with optimal effectiveness. Any and all students who believe they will need to effectively manage... View Details
- 28 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better
working from home brought greater flexibility, such arrangements often blurred personal and professional boundaries and created a never-ending day for some people. We asked three Harvard Business School faculty members to offer insights from research that can help... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
easier?' " she adds. "It's all about working with the unit manager to help people be more effective, not just looking for positive or negative actions." Long Tail Problems Tucker hopes to... View Details
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Password Managers | Information Technology
administrators and should not be used for your personal accounts. About Password Managers You'll hear many people tell you that "You should use a password manager!" But why? How does it benefit you? Aren't... View Details
- Web
Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work
job. Adaptable and inclusive: Kraft Heinz’s brand of workforce 03 JUL 2024 | Managing the Future of Work Melissa Werneck, EVP and global chief people officer for the multinational food and beverage firm, on... View Details