Managing Up - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2002
News

Q&A - Mark Fields

After HBS, he signed on with the Ford Motor Company, where he served in various capacities, including two years as managing director of Ford Argentina S.A. In 1998, he moved to Mazda (33.4 percent of which is owned by Ford) as senior... View Details

Keywords: auto; Mazda; Ford; Mark Fields; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

19 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?

it cheaper for startups to stand up an enterprise. One result: VCs could suddenly fund more companies. Apple and Amazon Are ’Frenemies’ When It Comes To eReaders Why sometimes it's better for fierce competitors like Apple and Amazon to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

Starting a job can feel like stepping onto a movie set without a script. Everyone knows the plot; the challenge is figuring out the role. Managers often know what they want from top performers but rarely explain it. That perspective... View Details

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’

ability" and that they are in the "business of hitting home runs." He went on to add, however, that if Pixar had "no failures," which he defined as a "less than spectacular outcome," then that would suggest it had lost its passion for doing cutting-edge work. This is... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Mar 2005
News

Facing Ambiguity

were later cited as the cause of the disaster.) NASA’s experience offers a lesson to managers in other areas, suggests Edmondson, who, with her coauthors, came up with the concept of the “recovery window,”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Space Research and Technology; Government

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The best of Working Knowledge in your inbox | Working Knowledge

The best of Working Knowledge in your inbox Sign up for weekly newsletters Since 1999, Working Knowledge has connected the School’s leading edge research and ideas on business management with practitioners,... View Details

06 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?

the face of a new competitive threat. HBR published comments from four management gurus on what DataClear should do. (See Close Up.) Now it's your turn. We have included an excerpt of the case and a summary of the consultants' advice. But... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

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Data for Impact: Impact Measurement from Startup to Fortune 500 C-Suite - Course Catalog

facing demands to look beyond their bottom line, to meet a broader set of responsibilities to society and our planet. This is evidenced by the strength of ESG and impact investing industries but also by the proliferation of roles dedicated to impact measurement and... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

drug trade in North America for a new TV documentary series. Local Color by Gwen Keane (PMD 50) (High Tide Publications) Based on her experiences growing up in a farm community in the 1950s, Keane describes an undeveloped area where... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)

Shift—I manage finance, I manage our marketing team, I manage the board, I manage recruiting.” While it’s been a departure, Ingersoll says the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey

01 Sep 2016
News

How I Got to Google

up with Prem Ramaswami (MBA 2013) to gain some insider knowledge of a role cited by the Wall Street Journal for its coveted status among MBAs. Ramaswami, a senior product manager at Google (where he worked... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

Here's a cautionary tale of innovation woe: Nokia has consistently outspent Apple on phone-related research and development over the past decade, especially in the years leading up to the launch of Apple's iPhone. Between 2004 and 2007,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis

percent on those investments. RECOVERY DELAYED While that response to the crisis may make rational sense, it also may explain why Spain took so long to recover from the recession. “If you make [shorter-term] investments that will turn up... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking

05 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact

helped him move on to an operations management role at an early-stage battery startup. Tell us a bit about your background before you came to HBS. I studied industrial engineering as an undergrad, and ended View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century

(Palgrave Macmillan) make clear, the blowout that killed 11 people and created an ecological miasma could have been prevented by any one of dozens of managers or executives speaking up about eight serious... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; oil spill; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Alumni WDYDWYD

Mary Falvey

follow in my footsteps; I want you to stand on my shoulders." As the first woman to manage an engagement at McKinsey & Company, I demonstrated that a woman could develop client relationships, as well as bring clarity to their... View Details

01 Aug 2002
News

Shoshanah Cohen (MBA '92)

A Class Notes correspondent for ten years and counting, Shoshanah (“Shosh”) Cohen came to her 10th Reunion first and foremost “to find out what everyone's been up to.” Second was for an event that she helped to organize, a panel... View Details

31 Jan 2019

College Programs Webinar for International Schools

HBS offers three programs for college students including two preview experiences (Peek Weekend and the Summer Venture in Management Program) as well as the 2+2 deferred admissions process for college seniors who are ready to apply to an... View Details

28 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

striking a balance between morals and money when setting goals and offering rewards. "When you're a manager helping to set up the conditions in which people operate, be attuned to the messages you're... View Details