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  • 15 Jun 2012
  • News

Stop Working All Those Hours

  • 19 Jul 2022
  • News

Regulated Human Capital Disclosures

  • May 2020
  • Article

Measuring Collaboration in Modern Organizations

By: Stephen Michael Impink, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun
Internal communication has been a central theme in organizational economics, as employee collaboration provides insight into the structure of firms. Use of electronic communications data can be transformational for organizational economics, as these data provide a... View Details
Keywords: Collaboration; Employees; Interactive Communication; Measurement and Metrics; Organizations; Performance
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  • 10 Nov 2011
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again

Center for the Performing Arts: Alternative Futures, cowritten with Coleman Radell (HBS MBA '11), addresses many more challenges for the Lincoln Center's chief beyond fundraising. The case is a compelling read for nonprofit leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 25 Jan 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Effects of Quota Frequency on Sales Force Performance: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung and Das Narayandas
  • September 2006 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

Fritidsresor Under Pressure (A): The First 10 Hours

By: Joshua D. Margolis, Vincent Marie Dessain and Anders Sjoman
When a tsunami hit Southeast Asia on December 26, 2004, the leadership team at a Swedish tour company must manage a devastating crisis affecting thousands of its customers and employees in Thailand. Documents the challenges the company faced in the first ten hours of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Crisis Management; Natural Disasters; Tourism Industry; Thailand; Sweden
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  • April 2011
  • Supplement

Felipe Calderón: Leading with Light and Power (B)

By: J. Bruce Harreld and David Lane
This sequence of cases explores how leaders get their team focused on framing, analyzing, and ultimately acting upon complex decisions. The A case provides an inside look as President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, works with his cabinet ministers to decide how to... View Details
Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cases; Crime and Corruption; State Ownership; Business or Company Management; Economics; Risk and Uncertainty; Finance; Performance; Management Teams; Strategic Planning; Energy Industry; Mexico City
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    Robert S. Huckman

    Robert Huckman is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, the Howard Cox Faculty Chair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative, and the Unit Head for View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; health care; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals
    • April 2021
    • Case

    Zeynep Ton: The Good Jobs Strategy

    By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei
    The link to this multimedia case should be provided to students in advance as preparation for classroom case discussion.

    In Zeynop Ton’s 2014 book The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost... View Details
    Keywords: Organizations; Selection and Staffing; Compensation and Benefits; Operations; Performance Effectiveness
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    • January 1996
    • Case

    Biogen, Inc.: rBeta Interferon Manufacturing Process Development

    By: Steven C. Wheelwright
    Biogen, Inc., a Cambridge, MA-based biotechnology company, is wrapping up a project to develop a new manufacturing process for a new drug product that will reposition the company from a purely research-oriented company to a fully integrated pharmaceutical manufacturing... View Details
    Keywords: Learning; Technological Innovation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Projects; Research and Development; Corporate Strategy; Biotechnology Industry
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    • 27 Jan 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Microstructure of Work: How Unexpected Breaks Let You Rest, but Not Lose Focus

    Keywords: by Pradeep Pendem, Paul Green, Bradley R. Staats, and Francesca Gino
    • 26 Aug 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

    anticipatory regret can lead to indecision and costly delays. 71 This anxiety can be particularly problematic for executives in fast-moving industries. Successful management teams in turbulent industries develop certain practices to cope... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns

    By: Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher J. Malloy
    This paper uses social networks to identify information transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Pricing; Investment Portfolio; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Social and Collaborative Networks; Financial Services Industry
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    • 06 Jan 2016
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?

    objective observer? At Zappos, CEO Tony Hsieh became enamored with several concepts around the innovative idea of replacing managers (except himself) with “circles,” some 300 groups of self-selected View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto; Fashion

      Linda A. Hill

      Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation. Hill is... View Details

      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Private Equity and COVID-19

      By: Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
      We survey more than 200 private equity (PE) managers from firms with $1.9 trillion of assets under management (AUM) about their portfolio performance, decisionmaking and activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Given that PE managers have significant incentives to... View Details
      Keywords: Health Pandemics; Private Equity; Management; Investment Portfolio; Performance; Decision Making; Value Creation
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      • 01 May 2024
      • What Do You Think?

      Have You Had Enough?

      Culture? 2017: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees? 2016: When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix? 2013: Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent? 2012: Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 14 Jun 2016
      • First Look

      June 14, 2016

      forthcoming Harvard Business Review Press Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—Part of a manager's job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 20 Mar 2020
      • News

      How grocery stores restock shelves in the age of coronavirus

      • 15 Sep 2020
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Is Happiness at Work Really Attainable?

      Keywords: Financial Services