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- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
regimes and codes of conduct-that diffuse global standards. But little is known about the conditions under which companies adhere to these standards. We conduct one of the first large-scale comparative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard
I grew up in Brookline, MA but spent a year of high school studying abroad in Zaragoza, Spain. When I came back from my year abroad I was looking for something to do for the summer where I could speak Spanish, and through a family friend... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
required." Whether this is the case or not, several voiced the need to link pay to both financial and non-financial performance measures. As Ellis Baxter put it, " sanity is paying for what you want to have done ." Karla... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
prescriptively—from detailed historical case studies of "great negotiations," chosen more for their salience than their analytic characteristics or comparability? Taking a number of such View Details
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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online
"I found the content of the course to be extremely informative and applicable to the real challenges of being a leader. I loved the frameworks and the case study model of the course, and I thought the course... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?
create value for their farmer-owners, both economic and environmental. Supply Chain Sustainability. Behind their ambitious goals, Arla shared the strategic pathways that they plan to execute on their path to be carbon net zero by 2050. As is the View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine. The results of our comparative View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
describes Socially Responsible Investing, providing a brief history, description of different socially responsible investing approaches, and overview of selected players and institutions involved in the socially responsible investing field. It has been written to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
the city an opportunity to rebuild its low-performing public school system. What led you to do this research and teach case studies on this subject? Stacey Childress: I developed and teach an MBA elective... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
examined four U.S. industrial giants from the 1900s to the 1940s, focusing on the executives who devised the decentralized, multidivisional structure of the large corporation. In Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism, he View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
these settings. In this paper we set out to accomplish both tasks by investigating the implementation of a lean production system at an Indian software services firm. Combining a detailed case study and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
same time. In some cases, leaders discover that resources are being wasted because one person has been given too many. Those resources can be reallocated and used more wisely, or the person in that role could be asked to step up more. Simons did a View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 May 2022
- Blog Post
MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS
year and my water broke around 2 hours after the class ended. I don’t think I will ever forget the name of that case (“ofo”) because it helped me realize how close I was from meeting my baby. Marie Jimenez Year: Second Due Date: August... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
CasPhotography What Can the Harley-Davidson Case Teach Us About Managing in a Politicized Environment? The advice to Harley-Davidson’s management from respondents of this month’s column is to (1) ensure that politics doesn’t deter the... View Details
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
the rough-and-tumble of business everywhere, let alone in conditions of turbulence where corruption may be the norm and not the exception, it may seem almost counterintuitive to believe that maintaining the highest standards, including ethical standards, is a way to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD)
Professor Bernstein taught Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) from 2013-2016 (7 sections). This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise.
The course is divided into five modules:
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
instance. In buying a house or a car, a disparity in knowledge can cause purchasers to feel anxious over bargaining for the best price. In the study Can Nervous Nelly Negotiate? How Anxiety Causes Negotiators to Make Low Frst Offers, Exit... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love
thrive? Carroll’s inquiry into unleashing human potential began with a well-known idea dating back to the psychologist Abraham Maslow and others: the notion that intrinsic, not just extrinsic, rewards motivate people to excel. My own conversations with Carroll,... View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?
through experience. ... That is why so many MBA programs teach using the case study method..." Jack Wung appeared to take issue with this view, suggesting that "street smarts can only be acquired... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Philippe Rival
individual contributor to a manager and thought leader, while remaining in my field. Coming to HBS is like Gaining admittance to the greatest continuing World Exposition. HBS attracts outstanding actors from every industry and puts them into one View Details