Cultivation - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Aug 2023

Life at HBS Chat with the Tech Club

Virtual Life at HBS Chats are a unique opportunity to hear straight from current HBS students regarding their MBA experience. Join a panel of students from the Tech Club who will share their backgrounds and how they have cultivated their... View Details

16 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

becoming more important at all levels of the labor force as we move from a more mechanical engineering, manufacturing economy to a post-industrial society. Retaining and cultivating those skills as part of learning on the job is becoming... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology

02 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

April 14, 2017 Harvard Business Review Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It By: Deighton, John A. Abstract—United Airlines has pledged to improve its training programs and empower its... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Latin America - Global

global trials, and supported the launch of the historic COVID-19 antiviral, PAXLOVID . By August 2021, GCS launched “Project A,” initiating a four-year journey to reshape its operating model, enhance agility, and cultivate a digitally... View Details

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A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

the needs, sentiments, and emotions of its members, and the members to it, Roethlisberger and his colleagues believed that organizational life presented a context—for both management and worker—to cultivate a meaningful existence. The... View Details

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Our Mission | About

leaders, we mean people who embody a certain type of competence and character—both the competence that comes from the general manager’s perspective the School cultivates and the character to understand the difference between being... View Details

07 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

encourages the psychological safety necessary for cultivating a growth mindset among employees. To nurture that sense of shared purpose, as well as customer-centric thinking, participants described how they sent cross-functional or... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

January 2023 (Revised April 2024)
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First to Fight? Culture, Tradition, and the United States Marine Corps (USMC)

By: Ranjay Gulati, Akhil Iyer and Joel Malkin

Over a history of more than 240 years, the United States Marine Corps has forged a distinct culture and institutional identity centered on its “warrior ethos.” In the wars of American history, Marines fought with uncommon valor, rising to international prominence for... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Government Administration; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; United States

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10 May 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

their own way; they flounder and eventually leave, reinforcing the judgment that they weren’t worth investing in, she says. Adopting the development mindset To foster more equity, firms need to move away from an assessment culture and instead View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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FAQs - Doctoral

Program is designed to cultivate a community of business scholars; thus, applicants must demonstrate how the research activity they are engaged in will contribute to their development as a researcher, as indicated in the selected... View Details

06 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

increased pressure and seduction. Leaders can avoid these pitfalls by devoting themselves to personal development that cultivates their inner compass, or True North. This requires reframing their leadership from being heroes to... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade

merchants, making personal fortunes through sales with Western traders The hong merchants cultivated close relationships with Western traders like Augustine Heard and provided them with valuable guidance. “[Houqua’s] great success was at... View Details

26 Sep 2023
Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

knowledge that is in turn capable of explaining the new digital realities by leveraging existing strategy theories and tools and cultivating new ones. As such, our endeavor turns into a wonderful opportunity to encapsulate in one... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

disagreeing; encourages people to cultivate a receptive mindset; teaches people to choose words carefully, hedge claims, and emphasize areas of agreement; and fosters a culture of tolerance. Honing these skills can decrease frustration... View Details

26 Jul 2023

Life at HBS Chat with the Entrepreneurship Club

Virtual Life at HBS Chats are a unique opportunity to hear straight from current HBS students regarding their MBA experience. Join a panel of students from the Entrepreneurship Club who will share their backgrounds and how they have View Details

07 Dec 2021
Op-Ed

Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge

invest in their leaders. Cultivate the leaders’ mindset. To begin exploring and cultivating a leader’s mindset, organizations should shift from “telling” to “inquiring.” Directive dialogue teaches your... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle

24 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

Passion at Work Is a Good Thing—But Only If Bosses Know How to Manage It

their organizational design,” Jachimowicz suggests, “What processes and structures do you have in place to ensure your organization is cultivating passion in their workforce? How do you move beyond just hiring for passion, and actually... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Klarman Hall | About

Advisors. In 2011, Seth received the HBS Alumni Achievement Award, the School’s highest honor. Seth joined the newly launched Baupost Group shortly after graduating from HBS in 1982. The low-profile CEO attributes Baupost’s success to a steady focus on clients’ best... View Details

12 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Bridging Science and Business: My Summer Internship at Eli Lilly

Earlier this year, I had the incredible opportunity to further cultivate my intersecting interests during a transformative internship at Eli Lilly. It wasn't just a summer of tasks and projects—it was an experience that tied together my... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Returning to the Roots

It’s not a role he sought or expected. But when his brother died of a brain tumor late last year, Florent Latour (MBA 1999) became CEO of Maison Louis Latour, a winemaker established in 1797 in the Burgundy region of France. The 11th generation of his family to lead... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; wine; entrepreneurship; family business; innovation; climate change; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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