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06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

organizations practice it, as evidenced by macroeconomic trends? Is the basic premise even correct, given evidence from Europe, where less inequality prevails alongside slow growth? What do you think? To Read More : Don Delves, The Pay Problem, The Conference Board... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

risk only after you're stricken with a heart attack. He describes various approaches for reviewing your organization with a clean sheet of paper. For example, one approach involves creating a task force of younger emerging company... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

2009
Other Unpublished Work

Singapore Competitiveness Report

By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Ashish Lall and Boon Siong Neo

The 2009 Singapore Competitiveness Report, the first in this new series of regular assessments by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, provides data and analysis to inform the discussions on the impact of the crisis... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Singapore

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2007
Text Book

Teaching the Moral Leader: A Literature-Based Leadership Course

By: Sandra J. Sucher

This book is a comprehensive, practical manual to help instructors integrate moral leadership in their own courses, drawing from the experience and resources of the Harvard Business School course "The Moral Leader," an MBA elective taken by thousands of HBS students... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Curriculum and Courses; Moral Sensibility; Body of Literature; Books; Leadership; Personal Development and Career

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04 Jun 2018
What Do You Think?

Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

piece temporarily and review the criticism. The result is this revised post, which reflects what we heard. The article elicited forcefully written letters of complaint to my editor, and several other rebukes posted on comments to the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Nov 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

Business Review article that describes his philosophy to building, leading, and managing teams. (I am pretty sure it will be necessary to visit a few more Manchester United matches to collect additional data). I am also hoping to complete... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

even as they invest relatively comprehensively in the future by spending on marketing, R&D and new assets,” Gulati, Nohria, and Wohlgezogen wrote in their Harvard Business Review article Roaring Out of Recession. “Their approach... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

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Harvard Business School

cell phone and television network business, and started his own phone company. Ed Jones Jr. MBA 1972 In 1973, the Harvard Business Review published Edward Jones's personal account, “What It's Like to Be a Black Manager.” At the time he... View Details

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

never made twice. AT&T's Bell Laboratories conducted reviews of its own software engineers to determine why some were more productive than others with the goal of distilling their techniques into best practices that their less... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

12 Nov 2015
Blog Post

3 Facts About HBS Discussion Groups

different strengths and weaknesses learn from each other to better prepare for class. By reviewing interpretations and numbers for different cases, students can make sure they are on top of the material and can test out opinions and ideas... View Details

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

raises. Review the outcomes of promotion and compensation decisions by race, gender, and other identity characteristics. Retention. Track attrition and tenure by gender. Combat flexibility stigma by focusing on measurable aspects of... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

break that I can feel free to come in and out of the class, that she had a young one and empathized. She stayed behind to review some notes and send me the rest via email. HBS as a community demonstrated their support of my motherhood and... View Details

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or how the policy applies to a particular situation should discuss the matter with the Dean or a Dean’s designate. This policy is reviewed every 3–5 years. This policy was reviewed and approved by the... View Details

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

have enjoyed reading his reviews of works by Thomas Cochran, Mira Wilkins, Hugh G.J. Aitken, Samuel Haber, Ray Ginger, and many others. Al preferred books with a clear core argument and had little patience with authors who failed to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

different people, and a self-image that is quite different from the same group sprinkled throughout the field organization. Formal management processes such as planning and budgeting approaches, compensation schemes, training programs, coordinating committees and task... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

Research Summary

Overview

Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details

06 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die

our current strategy." Companies think strategic change is this huge process they have to go through. But if you regularly review what you are doing, then that keeps the tasks from getting bigger and bigger to the point where it gets... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

importing a text file (e.g., .csv), you may need to request up to 10x the size of the text file. We discourage ongoing reading and writing of text files; to save time and RAM, try to read your text files into binary data files and work primarily with those. You can... View Details

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Understanding Customers

In conventional business case studies, protagonists almost never have the option of stepping back to seek a new understanding of the customer. But to be effective in practice, managers need both the self-assurance and ability to initiate and pursue, with rigor and... View Details

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By: Richard S. Tedlow

Don't Deny the Facts

Investor's Business Daily, April 27, 2010

The ability to see facts objectively is paramount to business success. An interview with Richard S.... View Details

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