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In-Office, Remote, or Hybrid: Strategies for Success - Recruiting

when they communicate. Set expectations around preferred channels and response times. Define team goals and check in regularly as priorities evolve. Use simple frameworks—like PPP: Progress, Plans, Problems —in weekly one-on-ones or team... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program

features of today's MBA experience. We all know that the effective use of technology is a priority at the School. How is this influencing the MBA Program? Technology is a huge part of the MBA experience. It is something today's students are going to live with and View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Connecting With Nonprofits

or goods made in response to requests from nonprofits. The level of engagement and resources is relatively low, infrequent, simple, and nonstrategic. It is basically a check-writing relationship. The giver has a charity mindset and the... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

25 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i) reduce the number of positions between the CEO and division managers (DM), (ii)... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Nov 2020
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

migrant workers. Choudhury will teach the case in his elective course, Managing Global Operations. California Research Center When the pandemic forced people around the world to work remotely, use of the video conferencing platform Zoom... View Details

06 Dec 2018
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Source Code

space they occupy, what they sound like. All these interactions make changes to your brain—specifically in the neocortex, the vast portion (about 70 percent) near the front of the skull that is responsible for giving us logic, reason,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

01 Dec 2002
News

Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

Angela Serino, manager of corporate responsibility for Natura, a Brazilian cosmetics company, and Maria de Graça Fernandes Branco, principal of Matilde Elementary and High School. The pair are subjects of a... View Details

Business and Society

It taught me about key entrepreneurs and inventions that shaped civilization. And through this class I gained a better understanding of key points in time that have shaped history. Those learnings, in their own right, are incredibly valuable. But Professor Jones’ View Details

28 Jul 2021
News

Governance Reform and Shared Value

01 Dec 2016
News

HBS Alumni Contribute to Business and Society

Josh Lerner, Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at HBS, recently led a research study aimed at quantifying the economic and social contributions of Harvard University... View Details

13 Jun 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

American Management Systems on accounts with corporations, big NGOs, and several government agencies, including the Department of Defense. In 1999, AMS nominated him to attend HBS’s General Management... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

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Online Dynamic Teaming Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Dynamic Teaming ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! New Dynamic Teaming $1,850 Next 4-week session starts... View Details

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Bringing the Environment Down to Earth

considerations of social responsibility are important, executives who frame environmental problems solely in those terms may overlook the business opportunities and risks that come with such problems. Treating environmental issues like... View Details

Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt

21 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design

manufacturing efficiencies beyond those of its competitors and further supports its investments in its recycling programs. Our tour included visiting with the team responsible for disassembling used pumps coming back from the field, which... View Details

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Kurt White

the quality of people and thought here.” Two years in, the experience has already proved transformative. “In the military, I operated in an environment where I was expected to make the calls all the time,” Kurt says. “That seemed to be the only feasible way for View Details

02 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

everybody else—a rare opportunity for professionals who often have few chances in their usual work lives to interact with others outside their own firms, much less outside their own professions or countries. Feedback from past participants shows that anyone who View Details

Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

inside the firm to create subunits that define the operating core. As you will see, responsiveness is the critical objective for units close to the customer; economic efficiency and cost control are more important for units in the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

so that the kids grow up to be responsible about their lives and don't become, not only a drain financially for us, but a pain in our hearts and an embarrassment socially? Those are universal concerns. One part of the work I do is getting... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

excerpt, Thomas describes the key factors that made the initiative a success. Any major corporate change will succeed only if a few key factors are in place: strong support from company leaders, an employee base that is fully engaged with the initiative, View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

01 Mar 2009
News

Damon Silvers

freshman year at Harvard, where he worked part-time in a student dining hall and took an interest in the workers’ ongoing contract negotiations. When he started wearing a union button to work, “it just changed the relationship I had with everybody,” he recalls. “The... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation

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