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The Gift of Global Talent

Talent is in High Gear 5 Oct 2018 William R. Kerr, Bloomberg TV “ This is a clear-eyed exposition of how talent moves around the world and why so much lands in the United States. Chock-full of compelling data, this book shows that the... View Details

05 Jun 2023
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Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?

premium on “novelty and growth over the cyclical and the regenerative.” "It’s not that Gen Zers want to do nothing or even less. It’s just that they want to achieve in their own way and in their own sweet time." Athos taught and researched in a world of what Morra... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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David Velasquez

always tried to purchase a back-up cake). Who is one person from your life that you admire the most today? My mother (I still love you, Dad). I could write an entire book about the sacrifices that she made for my brothers and me. For the... View Details

28 Jan 2020
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Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

University, where senior and retired executives learn to develop leadership skills in the service of solving large social problems. Many of the examples in the book come from her experience leading that program. Sean Silverthorne: We’re... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2020
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Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

05 Mar 2009
What Do You Think?

How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?

for not just a recession but a depression. They raise questions about the appropriate posture for leaders under conditions in which they themselves may harbor pessimism about the future. And they call out for more attention to ways in which economics intersects with... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees - Recruiting

help employees be themselves, according to a new book co-edited by Anthony J. Mayo, Laura Morgan Roberts, and David A. Thomas. When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, some saw it as proof that the color of one’s skin could no... View Details

19 Jan 2024
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The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

one of the silver linings from that time. DM: I want to talk about a figure in this book who you discussed, Kathleen Hogan, chief people officer at Microsoft, and you note that she was someone who used inclusion to lead that company's... View Details

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Library Equipment: Printing, Copying, Scanning, Wireless

scanners, one flatbed and one overhead book scanner, are also located in the Stamps Reading Room Annex. Scanning is free of charge. View Details

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

go back and haggle over the minutes of a meeting,” says Thomke, whose recently released book Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments encourages companies to test new business models to gain a competitive... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

conscience into a professional field. Order article at Harvard Business Online This article is also available in the book On Competition . Feb 2002 Center for Effective Philanthropy Foundation Performance Metrics Pilot Study Toward a... View Details

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Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty Member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety

Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, has long studied the performance of teams in the workplace. Her latest book is The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the... View Details

10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

forthcoming New York: Palgrave Macmillan New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy By: Fredona, Robert, and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. Abstract—This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical assets by digital technologies. But... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Business Leaders and Corporate Responsibility

By: Thomas R. Piper

Thomas R. Piper is trying to establish an appropriate sense of ethics and corporate responsibility for future business leaders. Earlier research provided compelling evidence that many future leaders seriously doubt that their interpersonal ethics can be brought into... View Details

2015
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What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms

By: James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser and Leonard A. Schlesinger

Based on decades of collective field experiences, the authors present anecdotal evidence in support of eight things that great service leaders know and do. Great service leaders know that (1) leading a breakthrough service is different, and they take steps to ensure... View Details

Keywords: Management; Leadership; Service Operations; Service Delivery

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From the editor team of the ground-breaking Consumer-Brand Relationships: Theory and Practice comes this new volume. Strong Brands, Strong Relationships is a collection of innovative research and management insights that... View Details

Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work

Most managers today understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get started. What they lack are guidelines and tools that transform abstract... View Details

23 Jul 2012
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The Power of Conversational Leadership

this approach positively affects a company's bottom line. "In many ways the book is not about communication as much as it is about performance," Groysberg says. "In an economic environment where there is so much uncertainty, the senior... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

Executive Education Participants Friends of Executive Education Harvard Business School Leadership Fellows HBS News MBA Executive Education More HBS RSS Feeds: Baker Library New Books Executive Education HBS Alumni Bulletin HBS News HBS... View Details

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