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- 02 Aug 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?
Engaged workers are more productive. (iStock) iStock SUMMING UP: How Can We Prepare Leaders to Engage Their Associates? This month’s column elicited a number of reasons on why organizations around the world do such a poor job of engaging... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
Maxweles, who asked, "Was Steve Jobs possibly a 'brilliant jerk'? Could innovation be stifled by simply eliminating the uncomfortable individuals?" Lawrence Nwaru added, "We are all brilliant jerks in one form or the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Launching a Career in Clean Energy
distribution operations of personnel and supplies for large-scale training exercises and deployments. It was a foundational experience that ultimately drove me to HBS—I realized that I could be, and wanted to be, a leader. What was your... View Details
- Web
Why HBS? - Doctoral
Business School doctoral students graduate and join many of the world’s leading business schools and universities. Recent HBS graduates have received job offers from institutions such as, Berkeley, Chicago, Columbia, INSEAD, Harvard... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- What Do You Think?
Are We Ready for Self-Management?
in how their jobs affect the customer in how their jobs can be improved in getting work done more effectively is most definitely welcome." Birgi Martin said, "I think self-management is needed at... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Ignacio Lartirigoyen
executives and the board. "It gave me a lot of exposure to senior management and helped me learn how to communicate agribusiness in financial terms," he says. In 2016, he shifted once again to an Argentine agribusiness jointly owned by his family. "My... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
might not take much effort to train ourselves to engage in thoughts during the commute that prepare us for the role ahead. Knowing that a long commute can make or break the job for some workers, the research... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
terms. Assuming that they face an interpersonal or tactical barrier, suppliers often seek training on the principles of persuasion, joint brainstorming, how to make advantageous initial offers, body language, and so on. Yet apparent... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
Women and Black professionals are more willing to join a team that’s predominantly male or white if it helps them stand out in hyper-competitive situations, despite the potential psychological toll of being a “token,” new research says. In fact, when a View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
comes to getting a job done, of course competence trumps likability. "I can defuse my antipathy toward the jerk if he's competent, but I can't train someone who's incompetent," says the CIO at a... View Details
Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
do to train knowledgeable, principled, and skilled leaders. Against this backdrop of problems, business schools are poised to take advantage of exciting opportunities to cooperate and innovate, argue HBS professors Srikant M. Datar and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Phil Black
compassionate family is no small accomplishment. HBS's mission is to train business leaders who "contribute to society's well-being," but mine will start at home, where Accounting, Negotiations, Leadership, and Investment... View Details
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
she set store standards, instituted training programs, and rejuvenated performance. Due to her success in operations over the next two years, this manager received two more challenging assignments. First, she became director of sales for... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- Web
ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
at the firm, served as a director of a number of its portfolio companies, and became one of the leading women in the US venture capital field. A steady stream of individuals who trained at HBS entered the Quartermaster Corps, and Doriot... View Details
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
training we had given ourselves in the field of polarized light had endowed us with a competence we had not sought and did not know we had," Land wrote. "It was as if all that we had done in learning to make polarizers . . . had been a... View Details
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
Q: You write that an OSM can serve in effect as the CEO's chief of staff. In a typical organization, how many staff would be in an OSM, what are their career backgrounds and/or training that make them best for this function, and what are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2019
- What Do You Think?
Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?
commented that, “When a non-compete clause is required it can signal a lack of trust If your ethics are being questioned the time of hire, question the company ethics.” This may help explain why RCD said that, “I have walked away from several View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Virginian-Pilot, a daily newspaper owned by his uncle. After graduating from the University of Virginia (UVA), serving in the Merchant Marine, and earning a Harvard MBA in 1952, he took a job as a reporter and ad salesman for his uncle's... View Details
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
surprising number don't," he says. Senior leaders should leverage this depth chart information about up-and-comers by delegating to them more extensively. This also allows senior leaders more time to achieve a better match between their own time and key... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
Europe during World War II. At the end of the war, he returned to Dayton and a job as a sportswriter at the Dayton Journal Herald, where he helped humorist Erma Bombeck get her start at the paper. He earned his high-school diploma through... View Details