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- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
Moses (HBS MBA '03) is an American who works for VASC, a state-owned Vietnamese telecom and media company. "The people who manage business well in a foreign environment do create a new style of doing... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
saw potential in sports endorsements in the television age. McCormack informed Palmer that he was planning to start up a business revolving around personal business managers or "agents" handling professional golfers' affairs.... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce
keeping people together when there are fundamental disagreements over a company's direction. But even these rifts must be managed in a respectful and careful way, ultimately with a commitment to preserve... View Details
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
division.' " And in the 1960s and '70s, a foreign assignment could be far from a promotion: "It was sometimes the failed domestic managers who were sent abroad." “Companies can no longer assume that all the smart View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
Relationships across these lines, unless managers make an active effort otherwise, are less likely to be developmental. People on both sides are hesitant if not afraid to take risks for fear of inviting... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
that "the true 'jerk' is the manager who is unable to fuse this talent into the organization The task of management would be simple if only 'easy' people were... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
If you don't know where you're going, any map will do.1 This conventional wisdom sounds right to many managers. It highlights the safety of having a clear objective for your management actions. It implies that all View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
My Week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)
I am incredibly grateful to have spent this past week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) aimed at introducing rising seniors to Harvard's MBA and, in all, exposing us to the impact of strong... View Details
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
How to Manage the Emotional Impact of Getting Laid Off
- 07 Dec 2017
- HBS Seminar
Eric von Hippel, MIT Sloan School of Management
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
value: Attraction and recruitment. Actively seek candidates outside managers’ networks, and assess the language used to describe jobs and the company. Hiring. Educate managers about the gender biases that influence hiring decisions.... View Details
- March 2018 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
Matching Markets for Googlers
By: Bo Cowgill and Rembrand Koning
This case describes how Google designed and launched an internal matching market to assign individual workers with projects and managers. The case evaluates how marketplace design considerations—and several alternative staffing models—could affect the company’s goals... View Details
Keywords: People Analytics; Google; Labor Market; Staffing; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Selection and Staffing; Goals and Objectives; Technology Industry; United States
Cowgill, Bo, and Rembrand Koning. "Matching Markets for Googlers." Harvard Business School Case 718-487, March 2018. (Revised August 2018.) (More about Bo Cowgill.)
- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
way, and setting high goals while maintaining standards. "If you believe people are fundamentally bad—if you believe people are constantly looking to get over and get by and won't do anything unless... View Details
- January 2015 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Trouble at Tessei
By: Ethan Bernstein and Ryan W. Buell
In 2005, Teruo Yabe is asked to revive Tessei, the 669-person JR-East subsidiary responsible for cleaning its Shinkansen ("bullet") trains. Operational mistakes, customer complaints, safety issues, and employee turnover are at or near all-time highs, even as the... View Details
Keywords: Service Management; Employee Engagement; Employee Motivation; Leadership And Managing People; Quality Improvement; Efficiency; Japan; Operational Transparency; Employee Coordination; Transparency; Leadership; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Employees; Quality; Transportation Industry; Japan
Bernstein, Ethan, and Ryan W. Buell. "Trouble at Tessei." Harvard Business School Case 615-044, January 2015. (Revised October 2015.)
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
Editor's note: This is the first of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. In this first of two articles, Davis discusses leadership models. Part One: Global Norms And The One-leader... View Details
- 2022
- Chapter
Sustainability for People and the Planet: Placing Workers at the Center of Sustainability Research
By: Julie Yen, Julie Battilana and Emilie Aguirre
Though workers face a series of critical challenges in contemporary work organizations, they are often overlooked in conversations about sustainable business. In this chapter, we argue that prioritizing the rights and well-being of workers is a core dimension of... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Employees; Well-being; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Structure; Social Issues
Yen, Julie, Julie Battilana, and Emilie Aguirre. "Sustainability for People and the Planet: Placing Workers at the Center of Sustainability Research." Chap. 11 in Handbook on the Business of Sustainability: The Organization, Implementation, and Practice of Sustainable Growth, edited by Gerard George, Martine R. Haas, Havovi Joshi, Anita M. McGahan, and Paul Tracey, 189–214. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.
- 08 Apr 2015
- News