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22 Nov 2022
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Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety

Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, has long studied the performance of teams in the workplace. Her latest book is The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the... View Details

05 Feb 2015
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Crossing the Atlantic

Coming to Harvard Business School was a forcing function to re-think my career path. One thing was for sure, I was committed to not return to consulting post-HBS. Therefore, it was a surprise to my friends, and most of all me, when I... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Manufacturing

01 Feb 2021
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Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

involve initially educating the senior leaders, as these are the folks who can open the right doors, make the needed resources available, and align the D&I process with all of the business objectives. Additionally, leadership must be... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

organizational management practices all over the world. The project was borne of a widely perceived gap in economic research. In business academia, there is an optimistic tendency to assume that managers generally make decisions in the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

When Transnational Management was first published in 1992, the world was a different place. "The global economy was radically restructuring in the wake of an era of accelerating globalization in the 1980s," says Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2018
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Josh Latson and his Fellowship: “It’s like a pie eating contest.”

One night during his first-year at HBS, Josh Latson (MBA 2015) shadowed an emergency room physician through his rounds in a busy urban hospital. Josh was there as a member of the school’s Health Care Club, which he had joined to pursue a... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

Innovation Lab. Upon his appointment last year, Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria named innovation, along with globalization and business ethics, as one of the most important focuses of the School... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

many entrepreneurs in action and to follow their thinking as it has evolved. Some entrepreneurs conceptualize their new business model all at once, in a single, grand epiphany. They proceed intuitively,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

22 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

over 600 multibusiness corporations in seven countries (France, Germany, Holland, U.K., Japan, U.S., and Chile), the paper describes the differences among countries and then applies a model of the factors determining the size of corporate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

non-scorecard users. Based on our research and client work, we created a model to describe the roles and responsibilities of an OSM, as described in the recent Harvard Business Review article. Some of these... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

investors in London and New York? Kaspi.kz’s business model is one that is unlikely to have developed elsewhere, says Victoria Ivashina, the Lovett-Learned Professor of Finance and the faculty chair of HBS’s... View Details

August 2017 (Revised June 2018)
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Enpara.com: Digital Bank at a Crossroad

By: Sunil Gupta and Eren Kuzucu

In March 2017, Elsa Pekmez Atan (MBA 2004), was wondering about the future of Enpara.com, a digital-only banking platform of QNB Finansbank. Since its launch in October 2012, Enpara had been successful in attracting over 600,000 customers by appealing to digital savvy,... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Competition; Banks and Banking; Business Model; Product Launch; Competitive Strategy; Integration; Innovation and Invention; Decision Making; Strategy; Emerging Markets; Digital Transformation; Banking Industry; Turkey

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Beth Clark | About

Elizabeth (Beth) Clark Bio As the Chief Information Officer at Harvard Business School (HBS), Beth Clark oversees the transformation and strengthening of enterprise IT, ensuring alignment with the School's reputation for excellence.... View Details

23 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Why White-Collar Crime Spiked in America After 9/11

fraud increased significantly, particularly in regions where the FBI focused its counterterrorism efforts, according to a study by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Trung Nguyen. The study is among the first to link the FBI’s... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

16 May 2011
Research & Ideas

What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee

Businesses that offer their customers the highest levels of service might like to believe that all their efforts to pamper and please will pay off with an extremely loyal following. “Customers you might expect to be the most 'stuck' are... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

2017
Book

Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang

Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to today's dynamic innovation economy, while freshly minted MBAs see magic in founding something new. Yes, startups look magical, but they can also be... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Managerial Roles; Job Search

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09 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

each branch of the armed services must make. Army and Marine Corps officers operate in an inherently uncertain environment. They define the mission but then give subordinates the flexibility to adjust to realities on the ground. This leadership experience tends to turn... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Demonstration Policy | About

Demonstration Policy This policy outlines guidance and requirements for and restrictions on demonstrations and other forms of dissent on the Harvard Business School campus. It complements the University-Wide Statement on Rights and... View Details

13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

performance and career outcomes,” the paper says. Will companies embrace remote work long term? Despite the seismic shift many companies made to remote work during the pandemic, some business leaders remain concerned about adopting the... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

could develop only to a point.” 11 When color began to be added to the products themselves, advances in color printing and reproduction followed. Starting in the 1920s American consumers went from a commercial world of white towels and black View Details

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