Filter Results:
(5,495)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(5,495)
- People (22)
- News (1,636)
- Research (2,695)
- Events (12)
- Multimedia (21)
- Faculty Publications (1,415)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(5,495)
- People (22)
- News (1,636)
- Research (2,695)
- Events (12)
- Multimedia (21)
- Faculty Publications (1,415)
- March 2014
- Case
Managing Change at Axis Bank (A)
By: Paul Healy and Rachna Tahilyani
Axis Bank is India's third largest private sector bank. In April 2009, Shikha Sharma, an outsider, was appointed as its CEO. She took over from a person who had overseen ten years of rapid growth at the bank. The selection of an outsider as the new CEO surprised many... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Valuation; Finance; Banks and Banking; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; India
Healy, Paul, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Managing Change at Axis Bank (A)." Harvard Business School Case 114-082, March 2014.
- Career Coach
Rebecca Emerick
Rebecca is a Corporate Relations Director in the HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) office. She has worked in CPD since 2008 and serves as the consulting industry lead for the office. In addition, she manages the recruiting... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 2022
- Article
Is Maximising Creativity Good? The Importance of Elaboration and Internal Confidence in Producing Creative Ideas
By: Goran Calic, Elaine Mosakowski, Nick Bontis and Sébastien Hélie
While knowledge management researchers acknowledge that individuals transition from generation to implementation of ideas, these transitions are not fully understood. The current article focuses on idea elaboration – defined as the transition of an idea from an... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Management; Organizational Culture; Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Innovation and Invention; Learning
Calic, Goran, Elaine Mosakowski, Nick Bontis, and Sébastien Hélie. "Is Maximising Creativity Good? The Importance of Elaboration and Internal Confidence in Producing Creative Ideas." Knowledge Management Research and Practice 20, no. 5 (2022): 776–791.
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
expand. Already working long hours, most just accept these additional demands—whether they are urgent or not—and those who don't risk being branded as less committed to their work. And thus the cycle spins:... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 27 Nov 2006
- What Do You Think?
What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?
received mixed reviews. Tery Tennant's opinion is that "forced ranking is injecting fear into the workplace." But as Nauman Faridi put it, "Ranking must be handled delicately . Organizations must first improve their... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
on their business plan as well as with the contacts they already have in place, Gbadegesin is realistic about the difficulties ahead. “We know it's a big risk, but we're committed,” he says. “If you don't... View Details
- Web
Considering Retirement - Alumni
Careers Considering Retirement Careers Considering Retirement As you progress through your career, you may be wondering what's next in your path. Whether you're looking to take a step back to focus more on your board membership, or are... View Details
- Web
Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
Understand how power really works Cultivate power to make an impact Avoid the pitfalls of power Build networks as a source of power Assess your organization’s political landscape Develop influence skills to shift power dynamics Exercise... View Details
- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault
monthly donation, there are additional ways to activate anti-racism allies and we want to diversify how we can help communities of color.” As ARF grows and evolves, there are three things the Chenault brothers and their team know will... View Details
- Portrait Project
Arpit Agrawal
“Let him field. He won’t bat or bowl anyway.” A 9-year-old me anxiously waited with bated breath as a group of teenagers debated if I should be allowed to join them in a game of cricket. Batsmen stole the limelight. Bowlers were crucial.... View Details
- Profile
Bridgette Slater
accomplishments, but I admire her humility and generous spirit most of all. What’s the best thing about your hometown? Growing up in Washington D.C., I always enjoyed how culturally diverse and international it felt. View Details
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting
extended over greater distances, personal connections were not always available. Yet, as every merchant knew, restricting business to known customers was no way to grow a company. The solution to this problem was the new industry of... View Details
- 30 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
3 Growing Pains from my First Year at HBS: Academic, Social, and Career
unified identity as one firm. For instance, no matter which office you belong to, we can work as a team from day one because we have common values that guide our decision making and View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1
insightful feedback on how well the solutions matched real customers’ needs. A unique feature of the course is that it is designed for teams with ideas at different stages, allowing teams to bring ideas into the course from prior MS-MBA courses, or to start afresh. In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
debate between economists such as the Chicago school’s Milton Friedman, who argued that the sole purpose of business is to generate profit for (and presumably transfer wealth to) shareholders by any legal and ethical means, and Yale’s... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Wombi Rose
doing different things for different partners," says Wombi of his FIELD 2 experience. Wombi's assignment was challenging: A local television station wanted to expand its existing online dating service into a mobile application. Between the language and View Details
- 04 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives
a great way to get involved with the movement for Black lives. If you identify as someone with access to wealth or a high income (i.e., most MBA grads), join Resource Generation, a movement of people under 35 View Details
- February 2009
- Article
Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting
By: Lisa D. Ordonez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky and Max H. Bazerman
Goal setting is one of the most replicated and influential paradigms in the management literature. Hundreds of studies conducted in numerous countries and contexts have consistently demonstrated that setting specific, challenging goals can powerfully drive behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives
Ordonez, Lisa D., Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman. "Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting." Academy of Management Perspectives 23, no. 1 (February 2009).
- 03 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
4 Things You Need to Know About Independent Projects
project I would say it's definitely workload intensive. My fall IP took quite a bit of time in clumps, including many hours over winter break, whereas my spring IP was much gentler on my time. Consider that time commitment when you are... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
Partners 1999 Begins office expansion to EU and Asia 2008 Providence expands into credit business 2014 Providence has 275 employees and $40 billion under management Founder and CEO, Providence Equity Partners, LLC As a partner at... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young