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- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
are you won’t ever learn how to pull off a triple bypass. And yet, in business, companies routinely expect employees to pick up new job knowledge through vicarious learning—through reading descriptions of tasks in knowledge-management... View Details
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
educating MBAs at HBS. Martha Lagace: Teachers are leaders, as you argue in your new book, and yet most managers don’t receive any training in teaching. How can managers approach their role in a new way? Thomas DeLong: Their employees... View Details
- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
Employers are dangling all sorts of sparkling lures to capture hot job candidates in the battle for top talent: Generous compensation. Stock options. Lofty titles. But Harvard Business School research suggests that many companies fail to promote a key draw for many... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
Participants are expected to fully complete all coursework for each program in a thoughtful and timely manner. They must meet each week’s course module deadlines and fully answer the questions posed therein. In addition to module and assignment completion, learners... View Details
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Judges - Alumni
see" how things go. It is important to convey a sense of urgency Cesar Carvalho Co-Founder & CEO, Wellhub Cesar Carvalho Co-Founder & CEO, Wellhub Bio: Cesar Carvalho is the CEO and Co-Founder of Wellhub, a corporate wellness platform that connects View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
are told that great entrepreneurs are persistent. So, if you throw in the towel, you must not be a great entrepreneur.” It’s hard to let others down. Letting go of an ill-conceived idea becomes much harder when dozens of employees rely... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
conversations with individual employees during this critical time. Conversations are the best way to get leaders and employees back into the practice of relating to one another in person. How are people... View Details
- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
companies, but also for policymakers and society at large,” says Kempf. “For example, should we protect political identity in the workplace? Currently, US federal law and many state laws do not prohibit private employers from discriminating against View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
workers without an agency affiliation. This advantage declines after high-quality non-affiliated workers receive good public feedback scores. The results indicate that intermediaries have arisen endogenously to permit a more efficient... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
evolved in some organizations into policies that gave employees much more information about the activities of the enterprise and more voice in determining what they felt they needed to know. Vineet Nayar, vice chairman and joint managing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
employees on company time to make updates and edits to the software for community use that could be used by competitors? New research by Assistant Professor Frank Nagle, a member of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, shows that... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Silence Spells Trouble at Work
employees in organizations ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 corporations to government bureaucracies reveal that silence can exact a high psychological price on individuals, generating feelings of humiliation, pernicious... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
the management knew, but also the unknowns, based on the belief that everyone should be made aware of the challenges faced by the company and society at large. Companies also worked hard to collect feedback from View Details
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
found six managerial barriers that hindered communication from lower levels getting to the top, among them ineffectiveness of the leadership team. “Unvarnished employee and stakeholder feedback is key in... View Details
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
thousands of loyal, hard working, often inadequately recognized, government employees attempting to carry out the latest immigration policy are caught in the middle. Immigrants need the US. It still represents the world’s most attractive... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 May 2022
- What Do You Think?
Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?
Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage. Your feedback to last month’s column As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding ‘Don’t Say Gay’? By the time cases are discussed at HBS and elsewhere, we... View Details
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What Black Executives Really Want
Black executive starting out? Most of the Black executives we interviewed felt safer when they could see other Black people in senior positions. That is one reason why many told us that employee resource groups, also called affinity... View Details
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John H. McArthur | About
including peer reviews for tenured faculty members at five-year intervals to provide feedback and assist them in establishing or clarifying professional directions. He also paved the way for the creation of the Senior Faculty Center for... View Details
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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
startup ecosystem to improve your chances of raising capital Get an insider view into the venture capital (VC) process Develop an awareness of the systemic biases and ethical considerations in the startup ecosystem Who Will Benefit Founder Startup View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Transitioning From the Military to Business School
received almost constant feedback from a variety of sources and thus found it relatively easy to understand how I was performing. But at HBS most classes consist of only two grades – participation and a final exam – so until grades come... View Details