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  • December 2023
  • Case

Robert McNamara: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
This case traces the life of Robert McNamara from Harvard Business School to Ford Motor Company to the U.S. Department of Defense. McNamara excelled in every job along the way: becoming the youngest-ever professor at Harvard Business School, the first non-family... View Details
Keywords: Performance Measurement; Military; Leadership Development; Values and Beliefs; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Success; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence; Business Education; War
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    John D. Macomber

    John Macomber is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School. His professional background includes leadership of real estate, construction, and information technology businesses. At HBS, Mr. Macomber's work focuses on climate adaptation and the... View Details

    Keywords: waste management; waste management; waste management; waste management; waste management; waste management; waste management; waste management; waste management; waste management
    • 2021
    • Book

    Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance

    By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
    In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is their secret? In Better, Simpler Strategy, Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee shows how these... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Strategic Planning; Value; Analysis; Competitive Advantage; Performance Effectiveness
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    • 24 Mar 2021
    • News

    Intel Puts Marker Down to Grab Chip Leadership Again: Willy Shih

    • 18 Aug 2018
    • News

    Disrupted Teams are Rewriting the Rules of Office(less) Politics

    • March 2008 (Revised March 2010)
    • Module Note

    Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

    By: Laura Alfaro
    This module note presents a series of case studies taught in the Harvard Business School course Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy (IMaGE). The course addresses the opportunities created by the emergence of a global economy and proposes strategies for... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Macroeconomics
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    • 2022
    • Book

    Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies

    By: Ranjay Gulati
    This book offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms manage to get purpose right. Few business topics have aroused more skepticism in recent... View Details
    Keywords: Purpose; Business And Society; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Performance Effectiveness; Organizational Culture
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    • 20 Jan 2022
    • News

    Vault: How to be a Moral Leader: Sandra Sucher Reads The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    • July 1989
    • Background Note

    What Is Marketing?

    An introductory note for MBA students on the nature of marketing and topics encountered in its study. Defines the topic then breaks marketing into two major conceptual pieces--the tools, tasks and variables of the marketer, and the marketing process. In the tools... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing
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    • Research Summary

    Strategic Human Capital

    My research focuses on the links between managerial background, job attributes, organizational/firm characteristics, and firm performance. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how a manager's skills, knowledge, connections, experiences, and other attributes... View Details

    • 09 Nov 2021
    • News

    Changes To The Applicant Tracking System (ATS) Can Block Your Resume From Being Seen

      How to Recalibrate Work Dynamics and Embrace Digital Transformation in a Post-Pandemic Worklplace

      Tsedal Neeley, Harvard Business School professor, award-winning author, and global management and leadership expert, recently caught up with us to share her insights and advice as the workforce continues to go through rapid transformation brought about by the... View Details
      • 20 Jun 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

      case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/905409-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-052 The Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (A) Responsibility for working conditions in contract factories within the supply... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 14 Jan 2022
      • Blog Post

      Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

      workers during the pandemic. “You have to trust that they are intelligent enough and well-intentioned enough to get work done no matter what it takes,” she says. This means managers should be careful not to treat workers like children... View Details
      Keywords: All Industries
      • 09 Jul 2013
      • News

      Can Zynga’s New CEO Turn The Stock Around?

        Paul W. Marshall

        MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of... View Details

        Keywords: management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting
        • 07 Aug 2000
        • Research & Ideas

        Rocket Science Retailing

        Retailers can significantly improve forecast accuracy simply by updating their predictions based on early sales data, tracking the accuracy of their forecasts, getting product testing right, and using a... View Details
        Keywords: by Marshall L. Fisher, Ananth Raman & Anna Sheen McClelland; Retail
        • April 2008
        • Module Note

        Improvement with Customer-Operators

        By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
        Taught as the third module in a Harvard Business School course on Managing Service Operations: Understanding the Customer Operating Role (606-092). Explores how firms can systematically leverage their customer-operators in the organizational improvement process is... View Details
        Keywords: Service Operations; Performance Improvement; Customer Focus and Relationships; Framework; Employees; Business Model; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design
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        • 28 Mar 2018
        • HBS Seminar

        Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media

          Tomomichi Amano

          Tomomichi Amano is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at HBS. He teaches the Marketing course in the MBA required curriculum.

          Professor Amano draws on economic theories to understand novel mechanisms by which new... View Details