Orientations - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 May 2023
In Practice

After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?

tightening, the collapse of SVB is yet another reason for investors to be cautious and risk averse. That orientation is a headwind for startupland. Jeffrey Bussgang is a senior lecturer of business administration at HBS and general... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Technology; Financial Services

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About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Faculty for more details). In addition, the Center participates in the design and delivery of the START orientation program for new HBS faculty as well as various case method teaching programs offered by HBS to faculty from business... View Details

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HBR Classics - Alumni

Decisions Fine Tuning Market Oriented Practices New Thinking for a New Financial Order Innovation Innovation Killers , Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen Pl, Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih Innovation - The Classic Traps , Rosabeth Moss Kanter... View Details

2022
Article

Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO

By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a knowledge work context for the purpose... View Details

Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

philanthropy. That kind of thing is very mission oriented and is about giving students exciting new learning opportunities. Finally, in the EC, we’re encouraging faculty to create more half-courses and, in some cases, seminar courses at... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

09 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

controlled for industry and stage in the business cycle.” Bob Vanourek, citing results of a study by the McKinsey Global Institute, said that long-term oriented firms in its sample “outperformed the short-termers in revenue growth,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Alumnae Circles - Alumni

since 2016. Regional Leaders Each Circles region requires multiple volunteer leaders for them to be successful. Together, Regional Leads manage program aspects that ensure smooth operations and an engaged community: Oversee and support facilitators with recurring... View Details

19 Jul 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic (In)Congruence in the Helping Process within Organizations

Keywords: by Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer & Teresa M. Amabile

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

scholars find instead distinctive regimes of interaction and peculiar modes of relation. They study capitalism in action. This new focus lies at the intersection of two legacies from the historiography traced above—historians’ tendency to expand their subjects of study... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

11 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

worthy regulatory effort should focus on facilitating firms' focus on the long term rather than reprimanding short-term orientation per se. Q: You identified industries and companies that lie on either side of the short-termism spectrum.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

the new tools at their disposal. Orientation and training: Hiring managers should provide employees with electronic versions of important company documents that will help orient them to the company’s... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

17 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

individual performers—don't even think about relationships. They're so task oriented that they put the work to be done and their authority as boss at the heart of what they do and assume they can ignore the human aspects of working with... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Global Activities 2020

China and Myanmar. 50 % Cases published in FY20 that were globally oriented 33 % MBA students in the Classes of 2021 and 2022 who are international, representing 81 countries 15 HBS global research centers and offices operating worldwide... View Details

Profile

Dilan Gomih

Although trading was “an incredible experience that forced me to be detail oriented and whet my appetite for risk," Dilan felt called to leadership. Reflecting upon her work experience—in trading, media, and wellness instruction—she... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Entertainment/Media

09 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations

requires that you understand the other side's interests and constraints, and that the other party understands your interests and constraints. Most family members are typically well intentioned when they negotiate, and one would think that such an View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra

01 May 2020
Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

environment, and build a network, which may ultimately help with the recruiting process. Ryan Flamerich (MBA 2021): I had the opportunity to travel with my HBS classmates to both career and community oriented treks this year. Many of the... View Details

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

with building trust. If you demand immediate compensation every time you make a concession, your behavior will be seen as self-serving rather than oriented toward achieving mutual satisfaction. 4. Make Concessions In Installments Which of... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

ripples to others. Companies with the strongest stakeholder and partner orientations are best able to survive and transcend crises, because they can plan together, gain local knowledge from each other, and draw on good will to get back to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Sep 2018
Blog Post

10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

small group has its advantages Our first case was about Analytical Space Inc., a startup about space telecommunications founded by HBS alumni. During Orientation day, we went to visit the incubator where the startup operates. We had the... View Details

18 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Family Business Club

to network and connect with people of similar backgrounds, and have the opportunity to learn from distinguished professors and guests at our action oriented workshops and speaker series. Students also get to interact with classmates who... View Details

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