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07 Dec 2022
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2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

behind the 2022 theme: "When the co-chairs and I met earlier in the summer to decide on the direction of this year's Climate Symposium, we continued to come back to the themes of intersectionality of climate change across sectors and... View Details

06 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

telecommunications company in which there was a greater than 50 percent difference in revenue-per-call between top-quartile and bottom-quartile employees. “There are common pitfalls that people face in the sales process,” says Stanton. “People repeatedly View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 May 2025
Blog Post

How to Work with Search Firms

"non-traditional" candidates who may be a little off target. Participating in a search as the non-traditional candidate could be a test run for a future search in which you’re the bullseye. If the recruiter receives positive feedback from... View Details

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Leading Successful Digital Transformation

may be disrupted in the future is not the best recipe for long-term success. Experimentation: Companies often run hackathons and innovation days that inspire employees to start many new digital projects. Senior management encourages these... View Details

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

underinvestment in the economy and managers trying to buy back stocks to appease shareholders while neglecting good investments. Or, worse yet, managers could be trying to boost earnings metrics to flatter themselves. At the same time,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

by delay can be a very powerful strategy because it's so easy to deploy. A case is made that sounds so reasonable, where we should wait (just a bit) until some other project is done, or we should send this back into committee (just to... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

20 Jan 2022
Op-Ed

3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

struggled with whether to lay off or furlough employees. Business leaders have had to make tough calls amid rapidly changing conditions with official guidance that keeps changing, and their decisions have run the gamut from trust building... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

scheduling and high turnaround, so each person gets results back as quickly as possible. Sometimes, though, hiccups do occur and we need to make adjustments. Large jobs -- those bigger in cores/RAM than what is currently View Details

20 Apr 2021
Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

they are then able to better serve their customers. This is particularly true in service industries. A third difference is that I emphasize the strategic value of operational effectiveness. Traditionally, we did not make much of running... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

strengths of and barriers to commitment and performance. These task forces are clearly instructed by the CEO or business unit manager (depending on the level of the organization in which this process is applied) to bring back the truth.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Jul 2005
What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

are not the skills that most doctoral candidates are asked to master as part of their training." Leonard Lane reinforces this view in saying that "Relevancy requires that the MBA-level instructor be a true practitioner-scholar who has . . . View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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HBS Cases | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the Run on Lehman and the Shadow Banks, and the Decision to Bailout Wall Street.” HBS No. 718-022. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2017. Foley, C. Fritz, and Linnea Meyer. “Nomura's Global Growth: Picking Up Pieces of Lehman.”... View Details

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

Tactics, deal design, and set-up are three crucial components of the most effective negotiations. Yet many negotiators focus only on the tactical part, running the risk of undermining their own best interests. How can you negotiate more... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Nov 2018
Blog Post

When Ideas Become Reality: Entrepreneurship at HBS

If entrepreneurs are born that way, then I must be the weird one out. Last weekend I was back in Wisconsin for a wedding, and my aunt asked me, "what's the hardest thing about starting your own company?" There were many ways I... View Details

27 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Video: Inspirational Women in Business

And humility, sharing credit where credit is due, and taking more than your share of the blame. Aastha Bhardwaj: The former CEO of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi— Veronica Chua: The first woman of color and immigrant to run a Fortune 50 company.... View Details

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

“The industry is hard,” she says. “You need tons of money to get started. Almost all restaurants go broke after the first year. And very few people get beyond one or two locations.” Azuero was intrigued, yet it wasn’t until the pair met for lunch View Details

01 Jan 2005
News

Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

in the Northeast, responsible for everything from running the projectors to selling more than 1 million pounds of popcorn each year. To help Hollywood fill seats, O'Donnell bought Allied Advertising, which, with the clout befitting the... View Details

Profile

Enrico Ferrari

grocery delivery venture in Germany and Australia, which was backed by Rocket Internet, the largest European internet incubator and investor. Although that founder's journey ultimately came to an end, Rocket recruited Enrico as the... View Details

Keywords: Tech

01 Jan 2011
News

Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

ran a textile business before taking over Chicago-based Tootsie Roll Industries, which he continues to run jointly with her mother, Ellen Gordon. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in economics, business school was the natural... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico

offer was a perfect fit. Meanwhile, however, back in his hometown of Morelia, Mexico, the family business, Organización Ramirez Cinemas, was facing a serious challenge. “My grandfather and my father called and said, ‘We really need your... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; World Bank; United Nations; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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