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  • 05 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

experience decreased by 8 percent between 1985 and 2015, while those highlighting collaboration increased by 37 percent. References to supervisory duties in Indeed.com reviews decreased by 22 percent, while mentions of... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

encourage participation—or closed. This paper reviews factors that motivate decisions to open or close mature platforms. At the platform provider and sponsor levels, these decisions entail 1) interoperating with established rival... View Details
  • Web

Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

management and leadership challenges of running an alliance, and the uncertain legal status of some of the groups. Video Recording Driving Climate Performance through Accountability and Governance Faculty Moderator: George Serafeim (DBA... View Details
  • Program

The HR-Executive Suite Connection

strategic opportunities and direction, performance improvement, and competitive threats. You will return to your organization with the expertise and confidence to recommend bold moves and create business value. Key Benefits In this human... View Details
  • 2012
  • Chapter

When Identities, Interests, and Information Collide: How Subgroups Create Hidden Profiles in Teams

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Lisa Kwan and Lisa B. Kwan

Purpose—We review how team members' identities and interests affect team functioning, paying special attention to subgroup dynamics triggered by fault lines and coalitions. This review sets the stage for describing novel pathways through which identities and... View Details

Keywords: Information; Conflict of Interests; Interests; Groups and Teams; Identity; Performance
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  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Book

Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential

project fails, the employee often risks a bad performance review or even a job loss. Instead, managers should applaud the employee for embarking on a worthwhile experiment and encourage others to do the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Research Summary

Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

  • 2003
  • Other Unpublished Work

The Development of the Cluster Concept—Present Experiences and Recent Developments

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
This review presents an overview of the current research on clusters and cluster-based economic development. It is organized in three parts: First, it takes a look at the conceptual foundations of the cluster approach, discussing the definition of clusters, the... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Clusters; Development Economics; Performance; Framework; Knowledge Sharing; Policy
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    Mastering the Management System

    From HBSP: " Companies have always found it hard to balance pressing operational concerns with long-term strategic priorities. The tension is critical: World-class processes won't lead to success without the right strategic direction, and... View Details

      Rakesh Khurana

      Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

      Professor... View Details

      Keywords: executive search
      • December 1993 (Revised March 1995)
      • Case

      Medical Products Co.

      By: Robert H. Hayes
      In early 1990, the company is contemplating changes in its European plant network for producing hypodermic products, including the total production capacity to be provided, the number and location of plants over which to spread this capacity, and which products should... View Details
      Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Decision Making; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Production; Performance Capacity; Performance Effectiveness; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Europe
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      • 06 Nov 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: November 6, 2007

      River in identifying investments, performing due diligence, and working with portfolio companies and asks how Blue River should build itself into a top-tier private equity fund, particularly as more and more foreign firms target the... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 25 Aug 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Agglomeration and Innovation

      Keywords: by Gerald A. Carlino & William R. Kerr
      • Program

      Aligning Strategy and Sales

      sales recruitment, development, compensation, and performance management systems support corporate strategy Coordinate sales activities across different sales groups and throughout the enterprise Establish a flexible approach that enables... View Details
      • 05 Dec 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)

      Graeber. The outcomes “depend on whether the right people are confident or not.” Graeber cowrote the paper, which was published in American Economic Review in July 2023, with Benjamin Enke, an associate professor in economics at Harvard... View Details
      Keywords: by Kara Baskin
      • 27 Sep 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: September 27

      performance in their exchange ties (Gulati and Sytch, 2007) and acquisitions (Zaheer et al., 2010); revenues (Baum et al., 2000; Shipilov and Li, 2008); market share (Zaheer and Bell, 2005) and market entry (Jensen, 2008); IPO success... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 28 Oct 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: October 28, 2008

      source development. We use DSMs to analyze a sample of matched-pair products—products that perform the same function but that have been developed via these contrasting modes of organization. Our results reveal significant differences in... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 08 Apr 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: April 8, 2008

      and then carefully reviews the various issues associated with the project. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708022 Comcast New England: A Journey of Organizational Transformation Harvard... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 26 Apr 2024
      • HBS Case

      Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

      Leaders intent on boosting team performance could learn from the old-school, military-style approach of Deion Sanders, a former star athlete and now the unorthodox coach behind the revival of two college football teams. “When I’m teaching... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
      • Web

      Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

      performance of teams without AI, demonstrating that AI can effectively replicate certain benefits of human collaboration. Moreover, AI breaks down functional silos. Without AI, R&D professionals tended to suggest more technical solutions,... View Details