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Inside the Learning: The Impact of a Personal Case
performing team member or a looming career decision. AMP provides a unique opportunity to address an important issue head-on. All participants choose one significant challenge as the topic of their Personal Case, which they work on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
in a new job, Waldroop urges managers to: Take notes on key colleagues. Especially for the first few weeks, jot down notes on your boss, team members, and direct reports at the end of each day. “Write down what you notice about them,”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
reminder that Atlanta is no stranger to entrepreneurial, global enterprise. And that is what the Games have become - a huge commercial and organizational endeavor that is as much about management as it is about medals. Indeed, a world-class management View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
process of creating two new boards of directors for these companies. As part of this process, the team reviews the roles and responsibilities of a board, defines what capabilities the new boards need, and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
directors. In particular, how does a board really know the leadership style of its senior operating management and the culture of the company for which it has fiduciary responsibility? Most boards do a good job of evaluating their CEOs and senior leadership View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
sites might be beautiful, intuitive, mobile-optimized, and written with simple, straightforward language. And just like TurboTax is upfront that the process might seem like a slog but, don’t worry, we’ll get through it together, one step... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 04 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy
Tell us a little about what you were doing before HBS and what brought you to HBS. Before applying to HBS, I was working at NextEra Energy, which is a large renewable energy company. I started on the renewable development team after I... View Details
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
the process of creating and evaluating new business and social impact ventures. Winners & Runners-Up Finalists 2024 Winners Play Crop Diagnostix: Dubilier Grand Prize Winner, Student Business Track, 2024 New Venture Competition video Play... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
to the support of companies, investors, and the initiatives of a number of NGOs, widespread regulatory intervention has yet to materialize. Outside of South Africa, adoption remains voluntary, accomplished via social movement abetted, to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
theme is sort of a callback to mechanization, which is digitization. So now suddenly we have the tools to completely change our world again from mechanical processes to digital processes. So those are the five what I would call dominant... View Details
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
curriculum as well. Last year we launched learning teams for first-year students. These are diverse groups of roughly seven who work together on projects throughout the year. Writing is an important component of what they do, in addition... View Details
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Professor Bernstein currently teaches a second-year MBA course in Managing Human Capital (MHC). He is also the faculty chair for the Harvard Business School Online Developing Yourself as a Leader course and teaches in a variety of executive education... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Innovation Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Management Style; Management Systems; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Organizations; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance; Information Technology; Strategy; Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Recruitment; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Selection and Staffing
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
paper, "Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization," written by Harvard Business School postdoctoral fellow Adam M. Kleinbaum, and professors Toby E. Stuart and Michael L. Tushman. In an unnamed company with over 100,000 employees, the View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
implemented a tried and tested tool to help contain infectious disease: human-led contact tracing, the process of tracking down and notifying individuals who have been exposed to the illness. Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) used... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
process helps improve the dealer's profit by at least $269. These estimates suggest a potentially high return to taking the "information-based" approach to pricing idiosyncratic products. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
And I was often involved in processes and projects in ways that were helpful to them, and that necessitated my working closely with a broad range of people at the School. As soon as I became the decision maker, that changed. Even though I... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
Companies need to have smart technicians who stay abreast of emerging digital threats and defenses, of course, but the technicians shouldn't be calling the shots. General managers need to take the lead in building processes that will... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
Health in Mirebelais, Haiti. A project team mapped the clinical processes for use in estimating the direct costs of personnel, equipment, and facilities for obstetric and breast cancer care. The accurate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
aspirations and expectations; it is the belief that "I can do it." Team confidence: This is having confidence in each other, counting on each other, giving and receiving respect and support, and giving and taking responsibility.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About
incentives and trained salespeople to focus on doing what was best for the customer rather than push a particular product to earn a commission. Other organizations have changed processes to enable representatives to focus on building... View Details