Organizational Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Jun 2024
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Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories

by Stephen Schwarzman (MBA 1972), Chairman, CEO and Cofounder of The Blackstone Group. For an event as monumental and impactful as the Leadership Dinner, the HBSCNY relies on a team of volunteer members who bring their varied management... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2005
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Better than Cash

greater impact. The alumni came courtesy of the Community Action Partners (CAP) program organized by the HBS Association of Boston. Through CAP, alumni work in teams of four to six over several months to provide Boston-area nonprofits with View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; CAP; HBS; nonprofits; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Jun 1998
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Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium

attract and enroll outstanding students, we also know that many future leaders don't think of HBS as one of their options," says Jill H. Fadule, managing director of MBA Admissions. "We need to reach people who may not realize the... View Details

Keywords: Cindy Olnick

01 Jun 2009
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Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace

ELY: Drilling down for valuable perspectives on how gender issues affect efficiency, safety, and productivity in the workplace. Field-based research can take HBS faculty members to some unusual places. Professor Robin Ely’s recent working paper, “Unmask-ing Manly Men:... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

24 Apr 2014
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A social enterprise visionary

Believing that there was a pressing need for management education that would prepare leaders for the nonprofit sector, the late Wall Street executive John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947, LLD 1995) inspired and supported the creation of the Social... View Details

05 Jun 2017
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Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement

toward more inclusive organizational cultures, more inclusive boards. There’s a high demand for understanding how to get there. At HBS, we have a critical mass of faculty researchers looking at gender and at governance and faculty... View Details

Keywords: Margaret Kelley

14 Dec 2015
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A Leader’s Call to Action

management role at the Wisconsin Public Service Corporation that included a team of 42 union and administrative workers spanning four counties. At 34, she was assigned line responsibility for electric line crews and gas technicians. “I... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

Given success of this magnitude, why aren’t for-profit managed charter schools like Sabis in high demand? The authors rebut the charge that for-profits running charter schools are in it for the money, not the kids, and they explore the... View Details

15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

companies, industries, and human capabilities. Examples of the fusion technique for high-value, radical innovation are presented in this unique collection of stories about innovating across industries, fields, organizational silos,... View Details

27 Oct 2017
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The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received

person is doing something wrong, but it's more that collectively, we're not able to work together. So it's more this idea of collective action versus me and another person. Hannah Vazzana, 2002. You don't work for the company; the company works for you. I had a View Details

01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

history courses today. The first HBS course designed specifically to teach entrepreneurial management - The Management of New Enterprises - was introduced in 1947, one of several HBS initiatives undertaken... View Details

01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call

(see sidebar). “What business managers and leaders most have to share with education officials lies in the domain of organizational behavior and human resources,” says Leschly. “Education is a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jan 2008
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Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Harvard College, 1977 A.B., Visual Studies (Film) LESSONS FROM HBS “Having seen that ninety bright minds in an... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards

Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the firm undertook with... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

Mediva (for Medical Innovation and Value-Added). The medical branch remains a legally separate nonprofit, according to Japanese regulation, but in practice the two entities operate as one: Mediva handles management across both companies,... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and have been a great source of wealth accumulation for individuals. Mutual funds also represent an... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2011
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Alumni Book Briefs

in organizational success and personal growth. He also provides a 28-day program for mastering innovation’s key steps: finding insight, generating ideas, building businesses, and strengthening innovation prowess in the workforce and... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business

Organizational design, structure, and culture do play a role and almost always have in corporate scandals. Companies that get into trouble often do so because of minimal internal connections between many parts of the organization. With... View Details