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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
come to them,” notes Susan Stautberg, president of PartnerCom Corporation, which assembles and manages advisory boards. “Before Sarbanes-Oxley and the outcry for better governance, you might have been tapped just because you knew... View Details
- August 2012
- Article
Dynamically Integrating Knowledge in Teams: A Resource-based View of Team Performance
By: H. K. Gardner, F. Gino and B. Staats
In knowledge-based environments, teams must develop a systematic approach to integrating knowledge resources throughout the course of projects in order to perform effectively. Yet, many teams fail to do so. Drawing on the resource-based view of the firm, we examine how... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Projects; Performance Effectiveness; Knowledge Sharing; Employees; Theory; Framework; Management Practices and Processes; Research
Gardner, H. K., F. Gino, and B. Staats. "Dynamically Integrating Knowledge in Teams: A Resource-based View of Team Performance." Academy of Management Journal 55, no. 4 (August 2012): 998–1022.
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
Sandra Sucher (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva; Getty Images) Sandra Sucher (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva; Getty Images) After studying mass layoffs for a decade, Professor Sandra Sucher has seen the detrimental effects and advises against this... View Details
- May–June 2018
- Article
Structure That's Not Stifling: How to Give Your People Essential Direction—Without Shutting Them Down
By: Ranjay Gulati
Most leaders view employee freedoms and operational controls as antagonists in a tug-of-war. They tend to focus on regulating workers’ behavior, often putting a damper on commitment, innovation, and performance without realizing it. But freedom and control aren’t zero... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Mission and Purpose; Framework; Employee Relationship Management; Performance Effectiveness
Gulati, Ranjay. "Structure That's Not Stifling: How to Give Your People Essential Direction—Without Shutting Them Down." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 3 (May–June 2018): 68–79.
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
the organization together and promote coordination and teamwork. If the organization is a country, then one can only imagine the difficulty of effectively managing all of its individual components. South... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Looking back; looking forward
them. We were looking for the science of business. Gradually, though, it became clear that management was as much an art as a science. Becoming an effective manager meant not... View Details
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
Summing Up Those offering insights into ways to make the corporate brain function more effectively suggest that the corporate brain may be as complex as its biological counterpart. Respondents alternatively focused on learning, constant... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the... View Details
- February 2008
- Case
Moët Hennessy España
By: Tiziana Casciaro, Vincent Dessain and Elena Corsi
Since being appointed CEO of Moët Hennessy España (MHE), the Spanish subsidiary of the wine & spirits business of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH), the world's leading luxury products group, Ramiro Otano had overseen a spectacularly successful run at the company by... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Food and Beverage Industry; Spain
Casciaro, Tiziana, Vincent Dessain, and Elena Corsi. "Moët Hennessy España." Harvard Business School Case 408-108, February 2008.
- Student-Faculty-Profile
Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell
them. Ryan: At HBS, research literally meets practice. The questions we tackle arise from a deep understanding of both the extant theory and the real problems managers face. Michelle entered the doctoral program fascinated by impediments... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
senior executives specializing in everything except sales. “The number of executives reporting to the CEO in the average S&P 500 company has doubled in the last 20 years,” says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- March 2010
- Article
In Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules into a Wise Cost-benefit Analysis
By: Max Bazerman and Joshua D. Greene
Bennis, Medin, and Bartels (2009) have contributed an interesting paper on the comparative benefit of moral rules versus cost-benefit analysis (CBA). Many of their specific comments are accurate, useful, and insightful. At the same time, we believe they have... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Moral Sensibility; Adoption; Performance Effectiveness; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
Bazerman, Max, and Joshua D. Greene. "In Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules into a Wise Cost-benefit Analysis." Perspectives on Psychological Science 5, no. 2 (March 2010): 209–212.
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
lights are out. Ideally, orders flow directly from order entry to a warehouse management system, but they can also be scanned or entered manually. None of this is new. I’ve seen it used for everything from tiny, lightweight products... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Manufacturing: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech
The globalization of manufacturing and the increased dependence on digital technology is transforming the sector and changing its competitive advantage profile. This is a long-term trend, but we are seeing its effects more clearly with... View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
Published in this month’s issue of Strategic Management Journal, the researchers examined data on how many violations different teams exposed at the same factory—which, all things being equal, was an indication of a more View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
society actually works.” A more effective response, he contends, is a “strategy of emergence.” By this he means that relief agencies should first provide resources for survivors to manage their own recovery.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
emphasis on function reflected conference chair Professor Kenneth A. Froot's decision to bring a different message to the gathering. "With a functional approach, you do less comparison of the institutions for corporate governance and instead compare the View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Gender Stereotypes in Deliberation and Team Decisions
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
efforts to refine search capabilities. With that in mind, panel moderator Thomas R. Eisenmann, associate professor of Entrepreneurial Management at HBS, noted that the next wave in search tools is going beyond material on the World Wide... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
data?'" That's Paul Nicholas' reaction after reading most of the responses to this month's column. It's not a bad "sense of the meeting," in which many contributors offered suggestions to managers wishing to get the most out of so-called... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett