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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
society that should offer a safety net, but also companies, where they recognize that employees are, first and foremost, people who must manage through the volatility we all experience over the course of our... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
guard—largely because it flies in the face of other studies and anecdotal evidence showing that, within many businesses, the employee pool has grown more racially mixed over time. “There’s this assumption that firms are more diverse,”... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
In 1957 a group of eight scientists, disenchanted with the management style of their Nobel Prize-winning boss, William Shockley, walked out of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories in Palo Alto. Armed with the technical expertise to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
clean out their closets and earn some cash or score discounted used clothing and lighten fashion’s carbon footprint. Revitalizing Bricks and Mortar Under the guidance of product manager Soufi Esmaeilzadeh (MBA 2010), Google Maps comes... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
just need the funding from the federal government." With so many people working from home, Open Sesame, a corporate e-learning firm in Portland, Oregon, is offering free access to courses that help companies educate their employees about... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
Clayton M. Christensen has a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units. His research focuses on the management of technological... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
opportunities, where they can help their managers and employees learn and improve from situations of poor performance. Q: What is the importance of a specific leader in the whole process? Can an organization... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
together and in an office. Workforces today, though, can be remote or hybrid, and many are global, making this approach infeasible and ineffective. Leading in this environment requires more reliance on culture and trust. Managers will... View Details
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
heterogeneous telecommunication costs arising from different regulatory regimes) strengthens our results. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-023.pdf Employee Selection as a Control System Author:Dennis Campbell... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
Summing Up The authors of a recently-published book, Creative Destruction, have more work to do to convince our readers of their primary argument that creative destruction, based on an assumption of discontinuity, is a more effective View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- June 2018
- Teaching Note
Difficult Conversations and Dealing with Challenging Situations at Work
By: Boris Groysberg and Amram Migdal
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 416-031, 416-032, 416-033, 416-034, 416-035, and 416-036. View Details
Keywords: Communication; Communication Intention and Meaning; Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Management Skills; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Groups and Teams; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Behavior; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Emotions; Perception; Personal Characteristics; Perspective; Power and Influence; Prejudice and Bias; Reputation; Satisfaction; Trust
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
happening in terms of management practices in their hospital. What I see in my studies mapping the adoption of basic management practices across hospitals is a wide dispersion: There are some points of... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home
Shifting to remote work raises many questions for managers and employees, especially when it happens quickly as a result of a crisis. Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
scientists that may be due to a performance management system that leaves top performing employees slighted by the practice of uniform ratings. In an effort to retain top employees, the company institutes a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
managers publicly acknowledge the need to explore new businesses and markets, the claims of established businesses on company resources almost always come first, especially when times are hard. When top teams allow the tension between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking
Director and Career Coach Renee Pappastratis – Recruiting Relations Manager Kurt and Renee work closely with students interested in banking and assist investment banks with their recruiting strategy. They bring a combined 18 years of... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader
authority until people feel like they know you." Coming In With The Answer New leaders who show up with a single answer for complex organizational problems usually do so out of arrogance or insecurity, or because they believe they must appear decisive and... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
Former President & CEO, eBay Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Princeton University, 1977 A.B., Economics SELECTED PREVIOUS POSITIONS Hasbro, General Manager FTD , CEO Disney, Senior Vice President Bain... View Details
- Web
Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
uncomfortable territory in an effort to respond to their employees' deeper yearnings. While spirituality is a highly individual and personal matter, managers and employees alike seem to find common themes... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso