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  • 19 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

is a wonderful tool, but it is not productive to sit in a room and try to figure out where you want to be in 10 or 20 years. Instead, think about what you can do in the next year or two to broaden your learning, experiences, and choices. View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 22 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

New Challenges in Leading Professional Services

professionals with a very high need for achievement. Few want to make a career of working in the firm. These variables are different from regular organizations. The economic model is different as well. And the service expectations are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Consulting; Accounting; Legal Services
  • December 1997
  • Case

Franco Bernabe at ENI (B)

By: Linda A. Hill, Jennifer Suesse and Mara Willard
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Personal Development and Career; Management Teams; Management Style; Strategic Planning; Crisis Management; Privatization; Italy
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  • 08 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

trade to the Patriots and play for Belichick. In 2004, playing for the Patriots, Dillon rushed for 1,635 rushing yards and 12 touchdowns, setting career highs and franchise records. Dillon played a major role in New England’s victory in... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • January 1982 (Revised July 2007)
  • Case

Kirk Stone (A)

Kirk Stone ran into an organization "land mine" when he joined the company. The teaching objective is to understand better how Kirk could have anticipated the company culture and other realities. View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Planning
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  • 16 Jul 2021
  • Op-Ed

For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down

LinkedIn. Follow Jeffrey Bussgang on LinkedIn to read more of his posts. About the Author Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School as well as co-founder and general partner at Flybridge Capital... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
  • January 1983 (Revised July 2007)
  • Case

Neill Hance

Neill Hance takes advantage of all available information and resources to insure a smooth entry into a culture--an entry that would have normally been rather difficult to deal with because of stereotyping and perceived threat. View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Planning; Prejudice and Bias
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  • 06 Mar 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

productivity always hold a fascination for us. But the last few weeks seem to have brought an unusual flow of material on the subject across my desk. One question this raises is, "Why now?" In short order, I am encouraged by Tony Schwartz to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • September 2011 (Revised October 2011)
  • Case

Scotty Smiley

By: Scott A. Snook and Doug Crandall
U.S. Army Lieutenant Scotty Smiley faces the biggest challenge of his young life. What will he do after learning that the wounds he received from a car bomb in Iraq have left him permanently blinded? On April 6, 2005, Lieutenant Scotty Smiley was grievously wounded by... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Personal Characteristics; Customization and Personalization; Personal Development and Career; Work-Life Balance; Performance Capacity; Planning; Employment Industry; United States; Iraq
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  • 13 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

humblebraggers. The takeaway: Seriously, stop humblebragging! "Not only do we like humblebraggers less that braggers, but we're less likely to be generous to them," Gino says. Next Steps And Lessons Learned Gino says her team plans to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

full-blown crises. We explore the reasons—cognitive, organizational, and political—why predictable surprises happen and we develop a framework to help leaders recognize, prioritize, and mobilize to avoid them. Once that is done, I'm View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

decisions that we expect we will make based on our finely developed plans are often different from how we actually behave. We get sidetracked. We set a new career path, we choose a diet to follow, we make... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

Think About Limits? To achieve multifaceted, lasting success in a world of moving targets, it is not enough to soberly reject celebrity as the only leadership style. You have to understand the baseline assumptions behind celebrity, and how deeply they undermine the way... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
  • 16 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter

Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, TooRituals help couples build relationships. Can they help build businesses too? (12,746 visits) Walmart's Workforce of the FutureA case study explores Walmart's plans for its workforce of the future.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2024
  • In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

“no” to enough things to ensure we have slack in the system? After all, the patterns of burnout are often predictable, and planned downtime is cheaper than unplanned downtime. Christina Wallace is a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 21 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

as a sales issue.” Planning and hiring To reap any of these benefits companies must develop links between the C-suite and the customer-facing side of the business. In his article, Cespedes offers two examples of how this can be done:... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 29 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

competitive, and yet Fresco's attention was diverted by investments in technology and Web presence, as well as by acquisitions meant to diversify the company's portfolio. After the carmaker slid into a protracted liquidity crisis, Fresco and his board supported a... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment
  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

are beyond the farmgate. Embrapa's director of technology transfer must develop a plan to encourage adoption. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507019 Ethics: A Basic Framework Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

Finally, in contrast with some cross-country analyses, ethnic and caste polarization, land inequality, and political participation are not significantly associated with violence. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-065.pdf Demographics, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 13

within an organization to be effective leaders and to accomplish their personal goals. Executives are urged to examine their lives to discover major themes, interests, and values, using that examination to create a short statement of individual purpose which is then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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