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- 30 Apr 2024
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When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
organization, says Paine, a Baker Foundation Professor. In fact, the fault often lies with managers who set unrealistic deadlines, production targets, or other objectives that lead decent people to take shortcuts to achieve the goal... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis
managers who conduct layoffs feel a mix of emotions that may catch them by surprise: sympathy, sadness, guilt, shame, anxiety, and perhaps anger. Best practice for managers... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Faculty - Faculty & Research
Cohen L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration Zoe B. Cullen Associate Professor of Business Administration Mihir A. Desai Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance DJ DiDonna Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Joseph B. Fuller Professor of View Details
- 16 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management
production in a ledger, instead of as people. Rosenthal is aware that what started out as a straightforward history of business practices could become highly controversial, with some misconstruing her research as a kind of justification... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
- 27 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know
considered one of the last taboos,” says Senior Lecturer Derek van Bever. “Our students have been asking for it because they see very clearly that they will be in positions of global leadership where they will have to deal with it.” To fill that need, van Bever wrote... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
How-To Book for General Managers
modules; each focuses on a single process that is essential to general managers, such as strategy development, resource allocation, decision-making, or change. The cases include detailed process descriptions as well as practical tools,... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
The Cycles of Theory Building in Management Research
- Fast Answer
Management Consulting: Build a List
How can I create a list of management consulting firms in a certain geographic area, with a specific industry focus and a certain number of employees? Creating Your Own List of... View Details
- 03 Nov 2011
- What Do You Think?
The Ultimate Question in Management
convincing case that trust was absolutely essential to the successful implementation of policies and practices necessary to implement any strategy. For example, several managers testified to the importance... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- February 2014
- Teaching Note
A.P. Møller–Maersk Group: Evaluating Strategic Talent Management Initiatives
By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Robin Abrahams
This teaching note is an accompaniment to the case, A.P. Møller–Maersk Group: Evaluating Strategic Talent Management Initiatives. The case reviews the talent management issues being discussed at Maersk Group, a global conglomerate with large shipping and oil & gas... View Details
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General Management Faculty - Faculty & Research
Shad Professor of Business Ethics John F. Batter Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Arthur C. Brooks Professor of Management Practice... View Details
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Online Management Course | HBS Online
experts from companies like Amgen Pharmaceuticals, Uber, and United States Digital Service. Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professors Joseph Fuller View Details
- 01 Jul 2003
- News
Managing Regulatory and Societal Processes
Keywords: Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
- June 2001 (Revised January 2002)
- Background Note
Structuring and Managing BizDev on the Net: A Note
Discusses business development as it is practiced in many Internet companies. The focus is on companies in Silicon Valley. View Details
Chesbrough, Henry W., Sergio Rattner, and Helen H. Lin. "Structuring and Managing BizDev on the Net: A Note." Harvard Business School Background Note 601-183, June 2001. (Revised January 2002.)
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
understand these firm-specific characteristics that allow or detract from the creation of a long-term management perspective. Q: How does your research add to the literature? Brochet: We add to the literature in several ways. First, as a... View Details
- 28 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better
time, management scholars recommend seven or fewer people in a meeting, to keep individual effort high. Fewer and shorter meetings are one of the best ways we can improve time management for greater... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 1 Jun 1991
- Conference Presentation
Information Technology and Fast-Cycle Management
By: L. M. Applegate
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
health care is about life, quality of life, and death. Start trying to manage, control and put a dollar figure on that and you will instantly run into walls at all levels of society." On the other hand, David Giammittorio described how the introduction of good... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
and co-author of the new book, Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work. “They have lots of opportunity to change the structures themselves.” The authors of Glass Half-Broken weave academic research with View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz