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- 27 Jan 2019
- News
Harvard study questions benefits of fund manager diversity
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
Thomas said. If employees feel that they can't afford to fail because their boss won't stick up for them, or that the boss is less inclined to support them due to racial or gender assumptions, then it's not a work environment that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2013
- News
How to Manage Closure as a Leader
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
Summing Up Can the Brilliance of the "Jerk" Be Tapped? The best business problem cases are those that divide a class into groups making two or more persuasive arguments. The questions of whether or not and how to make... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management Program Experience
Madeleine Diagne is an International Business student at the University of Houston – Downtown, and a Summer Venture in Management (SVMP) 2022 alum. Graduating high school during the height of the pandemic was yet another obstacle... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
Why would a business school professor want to write a case study about a string quartet? The answer was easy for Robert Austin, a scholar with research expertise in the management of innovation. While attending an academic workshop near... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
Since March, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge has posted more than 80 stories and research papers on the topic of COVID-19, most targeted at managers and the new challenges they face. That's a lot of information to digest. To... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates
When the FBI charged Shawn Hogan and two others with defrauding eBay of about $21 million in affiliate marketing sales, Benjamin G. Edelman was watching closely behind the scenes. Edelman's name rarely came up at the time of the 2010... View Details
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
supposed to pay off, the greater the uncertainty. Hence, investment decisions and compensation contracts tend to converge toward more short-term, observable metrics that encourage corporate managers and professional money View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Training managers in the developing world
aims to help build a modern professional management class, help create jobs, spark value-added processing of raw materials, and encourage competitive manufacturing. “There are up to 100 institutions in... View Details
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
constituencies cropping up along the way. The crux of the case becomes apparent soon enough: Can Genzyme's HAND program manage all of these initiatives successfully without stretching itself too thin? Given... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
saw potential in sports endorsements in the television age. McCormack informed Palmer that he was planning to start up a business revolving around personal business managers or "agents" handling... View Details
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
consider other options in China. "I have no regrets," he adds, "because I learned so much from that experience." Now working in strategic planning for Philip Morris International's China operations, Klump is part of a small View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work
responsibilities—but management tends to lack a strategic response. This is because few employers calculate or track the economics of providing support to caregiving employees. Our research shows that employers who make the right... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- News
Workplace Diversity: Managers Must Build a Culture of Belonging
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management
only discern the psychological profile of an entrepreneur and then hold an individual up against that profile, one could predict whether that individual has the pontential to become an entrepreneur, or is one already. Yet none of the... View Details
- January – February 2012
- Article
How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power, and Timing in Redundant Communication
By: Paul Leonardi, Tsedal Neeley and Elizabeth M. Gerber
Several recent studies have found that managers engage in redundant communication; that is, they send the same message to the same recipient through two or more unique media sequentially. Given how busy most managers are, and how much information their subordinates... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Media; Information; Groups and Teams; Projects; Management Style; Power and Influence; Motivation and Incentives; Technology
Leonardi, Paul, Tsedal Neeley, and Elizabeth M. Gerber. "How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power, and Timing in Redundant Communication." Organization Science 23, no. 1 (January–February 2012): 98–117.
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Technology & Operations Management Faculty - Faculty & Research
Technology & Operations Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Unit Heads Marco Iansiti David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration Co-Unit Head, Technology and Operations... View Details