Managing Difficult Interactions - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2020
News

All Hands on Deck

start dates delayed, and those interested in hard-hit industries like hospitality and entertainment had to broaden their searches,” explains Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003), managing director of Career and Professional Development (CPD).... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

01 Feb 2000
News

Short Takes

evolve along this continuum, forward or backward," he says, "is a useful strategic tool for managers who are assessing what type of relationship they're in and considering if and how they should progress to the next stage." In the first,... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Mar 2017
News

Lego Stays on Script

the Lego brand,” Moynihan recalls. “Ultimately, that led to an extremely difficult period around 2003 and 2004, when we almost lost our financial independence as a private entity.” After that, the company refocused its attention on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

decision by the Bush White House to provide more than $20 billion to GM, Chrysler, and their financial subsidiaries, the auto task force put together by President Obama managed a restructuring of both companies at a breathtaking pace.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

01 Jun 1999
News

New York Club Names Entrepreneur of the Year

company has been a major force in shaping the deregulated communications landscape. RCN was chosen from among hundreds of nominees in the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut area. "With a stellar group of ten finalist firms, the selection committee had a very View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Faculty Books

politically more influential, and industry less influential, than is commonly assumed. The prevailing view—that diffuse interests like those of consumers are too difficult to organize and too weak to influence public policy—represents, he... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits

goods are becoming more, not less, concentrated. What about someone like Lady Gaga, whose quick rise to fame came with no previously established brand? What did her management team do right? It's hard to imagine that only 18 months before... View Details

Keywords: Patrick Kirchner; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 1998
News

Beyond the Numbers

movement, in the mid-1970s Robinson was a strategic financial manager for General Foods' (GF) domestic grocery products. After scanning a decade's worth of data and analyzing GF's investments in new product development, Robinson says he... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

22 May 2017
Blog Post

Changing How You Think at HBS

game and learn a new skill set. Going to HBS was a no brainer: the general management curriculum was exactly what I was looking for. Truth is I had been working with US competitors’ firms, and I wanted to get exposure to the US... View Details

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Charitable Remainder Trust - Alumni

Quarterly payments for life to you and/or the people you choose Charitable income tax deduction Avoid capital gains tax Gift and estate tax savings Your trust can be invested with the Harvard endowment or in alternative tax-efficient options Expert View Details

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

memory that the product was safe to drink. Q: What can any manager or business leader take away from reading Driven? A: All managers and business leaders need to get things done through people. It is hard to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

measures, particularly measures that are relatively informative about management's ability but that are difficult for management to influence, may have unintended and undesirable consequences. Our results... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

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Working at Harvard Business School | Employment

who make a difference in the world. Situated on a beautiful, 40-acre campus in Boston, the School attracts faculty, staff, and learners from all over the world to share ideas and invent the future of business. We have evolved to meet the View Details

17 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

strictly online. Who reads newspapers? Old guys. So this is an industry that is being dramatically transformed. “The reality for the advertising industry is that the old model is broken.” As broadband enables new forms of entertainment and new ways to consume and View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

01 Jun 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

have in common? They know that productivity relies on making certain choices: the way we frame our daily decisions; the big ambitions we embrace and the easy goals we ignore; the cultures we establish as leaders to drive innovation; and the way we View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary

Shanghai municipal government, Netcom is putting up a stiff challenge to three other government-controlled telecom network operators. Tian, who holds a doctorate in environmental management from Texas Tech University, is bringing a new... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Telecommunications; Information

04 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School, who spent five years as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) before joining the HBS faculty. “And so we have this sort of binge diet kind of process of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 16

Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Nov 2016
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Making a Fast Start on a New Job

Experience Lacking experience, contract workers find it difficult to advance to a job with expanded responsibilities. But it can be done. Research into the the concept of "stretchwork." Reflecting on Work Improves Job... View Details