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13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

leaders of listed companies in Germany.1 Is Big Change always the right action to revitalize a dispirited organization? Could “Small C” retooling work better in some instances than an exhaustive, complete turnaround? What we’ve learned in... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society

while building platforms to educate leaders and catalyze action on this complex and expanding set of issues. Play Video duration: 3:02 Harvard Business School’s Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) works to help... View Details

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

Research Summary

Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana

I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

Operating Model Simulation) will be part of module 6 of the course. It is similar to a mini capstone experience, in that it encourages participants to draw on their knowledge from the rest of the course to make investment decisions in the... View Details

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

March 28, just days before the congressional hearing. The new choices were constrained, however, by knowledge that every new option offered potential for a less open site. This was something that was generally feared within the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

not just to the company, but also to people around the globe. At the same time, managers at other global brands were similarly considering their brands’ response to the COVID-19 crisis. Nike chose to twist its consumers’ athletic aspirations into a life-saving call to... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

soliciting and using their knowledge and expertise, you’re not truly including them in the actual work of your team. In our survey of women executives, one consistent characteristic of non-inclusive managers, both male and female, was an... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

Benefit Early- and Mid-Career Professionals Aspiring Entrepreneurs Nonprofit Leaders Gain credibility to be more impactful at work and navigate organizational politics. "HBS Online doesn't teach you knowledge or prescribe to any... View Details

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

on intangible capabilities, such as the ability to assess the value of the knowledge and skills that are already present within the firm and in some instances within its broader ecosystem; to rapidly understand how to redeploy them in new... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

the crisis to emerge stronger than others in our industry?” “How can the organization learn through this experience to win in a new world?” Saenz and O’Keeffe explain: “To guide the decisions and actions that will answer those... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

clean, and industrious” will reach the top when, in reality, only a fortunate few ever do. Perhaps this knowledge contributes to an unarticulated restlessness that afflicts these decent men (often Wharton, not HBS, grads). Perhaps it is... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

30 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

from Front-Line Employees" [PDF], considers data on nearly 7,500 incidents from a single hospital to determine whether two types of managerial actions increase the frequency with which frontline workers speak up by reporting incidents and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

11 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

frightening than the E*Trades," according to McFarlan. Unlike the new online entrants, he says, "once the larger firms get their trading action in place, they can go back and harvest their eternal verities—research, credibility, the... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

28 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

up and reveals the actual nature of being when one is being a leader and opens up and reveals the source of one's actions when exercising leadership. And ontology's associated phenomenological methodology (explained in [2] below) provides... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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IT Strategy: Improving Service to Support Innovation | Information Technology

levels, lack of shared knowledge, and outdated technology. These issues were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, spurring action from the team. Though TSS is a team of well-trained and knowledgeable... View Details

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Shared Value Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

global corporations, nonprofits, and foundations committed to creating shared value between business and society. Commitment to Action The Shared Value Initiative brings together leaders from companies, civil society, and governments to... View Details

26 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 26

this earlier setting, we find cross-sectional evidence of improved earnings quality when auditors provide NAS, especially those related to information services. This is consistent with better audit quality from knowledge spillovers due to... View Details