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  • November–December 2023
  • Article

Iterative Coordination and Innovation: Prioritizing Value over Novelty

By: Sourobh Ghosh and Andy Wu
An innovating organization faces the challenge of how to prioritize distinct goals of novelty and value, both of which underlie innovation. Popular practitioner frameworks like Agile management suggest that organizations can adopt an iterative approach of frequent... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Novelty; Goals; Specialization; Coordination; Field Experiment; Software Development; Agile; Scrum; Iteration; Iterative; Organizations; Innovation and Invention; Value; Goals and Objectives; Integration; Applications and Software
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  • 03 Dec 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

and some of the most successful projects in the world have been accomplished by 'jerks.'" Todd's comments prompt the questions: Have we failed to take appropriate notice of research and accumulated experiences that would help View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

General Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Required Curriculum (FIRST YEAR) Leadership and Corporate Accountability In this course, students learn about the complex responsibilities facing... View Details
  • 06 Feb 2023
  • HBS Seminar

Using Oral History in Business and Management Studies

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Supply Chain Management - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Supply Chain Management Course Number 2108 Associate Professor Kris Ferreira Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Project Professor Ananth Raman Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits View Details
  • 2007
  • Casebook

Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership

By: Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen S. Grossman and Susan Moore Johnson
Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the... View Details
Keywords: Management; Strategy; Leadership; Public Sector; Organizational Design; Education; Performance Improvement
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  • 1980
  • Article

R&D Performance as a Function of Internal Communication, Project Management, and the Nature of the Work

By: Thomas J. Allen, Denis M.S. Lee and Michael Tushman
Keywords: Research and Development; Performance; Communication; Projects; Management
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  • September 2002 (Revised October 2002)
  • Case

Managing Knowledge and Learning at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and David Kiron
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) faces a serious loss of knowledge--both because of the "faster, better, cheaper" mandate for Mars missions and from the retirement of key personnel. An extensive knowledge management system for NASA/JPL includes formal knowledge-capture... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Management; Knowledge Dissemination; Leadership Development; Internet and the Web; Risk and Uncertainty; Organizational Culture; Retirement; Human Resources; Human Capital
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Summer Venture in Management | MBA

Summer Venture in Management The Summer Venture in Management Program is an educational program designed to increase opportunity in business education for high-potential college students making an impact in... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

for natural gas, and to create derivative supply contracts that could help customers manage the risks of demand volatility and price swings more effectively than before. In this way, Skilling and his colleagues solved a major contracting... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • Web

Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online

Certificate Courses (10) Leadership Principles Professors Joshua Margolis & Anthony Mayo Learn to bring out the best in others by applying and adapting your leadership style and managing the conditions that drive team performance. 6... View Details
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

If you don't know where you're going, any map will do.1 This conventional wisdom sounds right to many managers. It highlights the safety of having a clear objective for your management actions. It implies that all View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
  • 05 Oct 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Linus Dahlander, European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)

  • Web

Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Faculty & Researchers Faculty & Researchers Project Co-Chairs Joseph B. Fuller Professor of Management Practice Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice at the... View Details

    The Entrepreneurial Gap: How Managers Adjust Span of Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy

    This HBS working paper focuses on the relationship between business strategy, organization structure, and diagnostic control systems. The project analyzes data from 75 field studies to illustrate how managers adjust span of accountability and span of control to... View Details

    • TeachingInterests

    Managing the Future of Work (MBA Education—Elective Curriculum)

    By: Christopher T. Stanton

    The nature and scope of work is changing rapidly, creating massive business challenges in the shadow of broader political and social shifts.  HBS launched a major initiative in 2017 on Managing the Future of Work to define these workplace issues and... View Details

    • Web

    Community College Report - Managing the Future of Work

    collaboration between America’s community colleges and employers, Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work partnered with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). The... View Details
    • Web

    Media Coverage - Managing the Future of Work

    Feb 2025 USA Today Musk’s DOGE Email Ripped from Private Sector Playbook, Says Harvard Expert Re: Joseph Fuller 19 Feb 2025 The Project on Workforce Data and Technology in Action: Community Colleges Advancing Economic Mobility By: Joseph... View Details
    • March 2007
    • Article

    Authority, Risk, and Performance Incentives: Evidence from Division Manager Positions inside Firms

    By: Julie Wulf
    I show that performance incentives vary by decision-making authority of division managers. For division managers with broader authority, i.e., those designated as corporate officers, both the sensitivity of pay to global performance measures and the relative importance... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Model; Globalization; Measurement and Metrics; Status and Position; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Divisions
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    • April 2016
    • Supplement

    Preparing a Concession Bid at TAV Airports Holding

    By: C. Fritz Foley and Çiğdem Çelik
    In 2013, TAV Airports Holding prepared a bid for the concession to build and operate the third Istanbul airport. This process involved input from various parts of the firm with operating and financial expertise. Burcu Geriş, the CFO of TAV Airports Holding, and her... View Details
    Keywords: Project Finance; Infrastructure Development; Equity Cash Flows; Capital Budgeting; Valuation; Financial Management; Financing and Loans; Air Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Turkey
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