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- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
organizational behavior as a field of study. He was a pioneer in creating a body of work on organization design, leadership, and change in both the private and public sectors. Lawrence’s professional work was rooted in an aspiration to do... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
weaknesses that underlie corruption everywhere. As an emerging professional he must also weigh the trust value of the personal relationships he is forming; his own comfort zone for ethical trade-offs; and the inherent uncertainties of... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
professional and professor. Reliable innovation is "a weird concept," Austin admits. "Reliability in business is about things aimed at consistency of outcome. Reliable innovation means something more like a consistent... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
professional service firm reshaped its activities and beliefs over nearly two decades as it adapted to shifts in the social discourse regarding gender and work. Analyzing archival data from the firm over... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Leadership. She has received the Excellence in Teaching Award of the Year in the Executive MBA programs at Fuqua ten times. She received her Bachelor in Business Administration degree and Master in Professional Accounting degree from the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
interdisciplinary life-sciences research center on Western Avenue across from the HBS campus, and several of the Harvard professional schools are scheduled to move next to us within several years. This will eventually position us at the... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
negotiation requires adapting your communication acts to the most advantageous pattern. Learning The Notes Imagine you're a sales rep negotiating with the procurement manager of a professional services firm.... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
solutions to these problems. Taking this SIP in my RC year has set me up for a continued deep inquiry over the next year and a half at HBS to learn how I can create a climate adaptation lens to look through as I design my personal and View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
performance, even after controlling for current performance, and that this relation is driven by the perceptions of middle management and professional staff rather than senior executives, hourly, or commissioned workers. Taken together,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
individuals who can and want to embrace the disruption, who understand how to thrive in ambiguity and respond quickly to its unforeseen challenges. These aspects, the leader realized, depend more heavily on an individual’s temperament and outlook than they do on View Details
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HBS. We were the first student group at HBS formed on some basis other than professional aspirations." 7 Darden is Professor in Organizational Theory and Management, Emeritus at Pepperdine University's School of Business. He is author of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
“dedication to a cause greater than oneself,” and success and happiness will flow from it. The book influenced me to change the path I was on, and that has made all the difference. —Nate Boaz (MBA 2006) is a dad, author, US Marine Corps veteran, and recovering View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could promote the health and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
and efficiency), based on structural characteristics of the task and team. We also distinguish between a team's mean use of stored knowledge and the concentration of knowledge use in a team. Using objective data from several hundred software development projects in an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
children feeling every skinned knee and caring so much about their well-being. Our family found our way through it. I believe it is important to talk about these things. Back to top H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA 1933) Posthumous award HBS Distinguished View Details
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
manufacturing compliance services company to the U.K. and Europe. He has to decide whether to hire Wayne Snelgrove and how to define the scope of his responsibilities. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
in production and economies of scope in distribution. In some industries, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" was gradually tamed by what the historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr. has termed the "visible hand" of professional... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- Web
Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
Their Careers During the pandemic and the disruption in business worldwide, HBS’s Career & Professional Development team made an appeal to alumni and recruiting partners that resulted in nearly 1,000 new full-time and internship... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
accelerator services to spur innovation at the intersection of healthcare and technology. The company was the creation of Halle Tecco (HBS '11) and her HBS classmate Nate Gross (HBS '11), who met early in their first year at the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
orders and have them delivered to their tables—a service often performed by managers. “Now when I see a customer talking to a manager, it’s a good thing,” says Karavites, smiling. Traditionally, the bank of cash registers that separates... View Details