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14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

change—business leaders have entered a new era requiring new ways of leading. Traditional management methods seem no longer sufficient to address the volume of change we are seeing. I label this VUCA 2.0. In a 1998 report designed to train officers for the twenty-first... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

14 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs Making the Move to General Manager Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured Share your insights below. View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Sep 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Branding Yoga

name, Bikram's Yoga College of India. In 1994, he began offering intensive courses, training 200 teachers per year, according to the case. Worried that competitors were copying his teachings and techniques, Bikram decided in 2002 to... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

03 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

curricula. The good news, says Huckman, is that many of these skills can be learned simultaneously with clinical skills. “Like medicine,” he says, “leadership is best taught through observation, experience, and practice.” In fact, the case study method used in MBA... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women, published in the journal Management Science. The study was co-authored by Coffman and Nancy R. Baldiga, an economics and accounting professor at the College of the Holy Cross,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

a Terrorist, a deeply powerful memoir by Patrisse Cullors, the founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. Cullors shares her incredible journey from childhood to adulthood as a Black queer woman in LA. It is an emotional, yet insightful book worth reading. My View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

would not go to India. Q: The term "medical tourism" is fairly new, but how new is the phenomenon of going overseas for medical treatment? A: When I was a college student in the United States I discovered that dental care was... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

advises Donald P. Rogers, professor of international business at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. John Chappelear, a professional coach and trainer, says, "Clarify your expectations, and make sure people have the resources... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

04 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

In a recent set of experiments detailed in "Temptation at Work," Piovesan and his colleagues tested exactly that using 20- to 25-year-old college students in an office environment. Instead of paper-folding, the test subjects... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

very quickly ... It's really within that first year that they start to say, ‘This doesn't feel quite right.'" “It happens very quickly,” says Groysberg, reflecting on interviews with college students and young professionals conducted for... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

held against him the fact that he is an immigrant. Nor was he held back because he is of Jewish origin. When he graduated first in his engineering class at the City College of New York in 1960, he was quoted in The New York Times to the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

information on where each person went to school from LinkedIn. Birds of a feather invest together The information showed that the venture capital world is incredibly homogenous, consisting mostly of white men from liberal arts colleges... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

colleagues measured how the big firms lobbied on proposed accounting regulations. His paper, coauthored with HBS doctoral student Abigail M. Allen and Boston College accounting professor Sugata Roychowdhury, is titled The Auditing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

college roommates who worked in South Central Los Angeles as a community organizer. He was bemoaning the lack of financial services to people who lived there. As a result, I became very interested in what we might call "consumer" or... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

point: Something has changed in the last few years. We've always hired young people from elite colleges and universities and started them as Analysts. For many years we found that after six or seven years with us and one or more... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

21 Mar 2012
Op-Ed

Finding the Right Jeremy Lin Storyline

New York Knicks basketball sensation Jeremy Lin has attracted worldwide attention because he crosses so many boundaries and defies so many stereotypes. Lin, an Asian-American (rare in the NBA) who played college hoops at Harvard (even... View Details

Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan; Entertainment & Recreation

23 Jan 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Sports: Lessons for Managers

shows that hooking up with the right mentor can quickly increase your value. On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K” Bobby Knight and Mike Krzyzewski were arguably the two most successful college basketball coaches in the country. But... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

18 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

students are graduates of Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH), an innovative six-year public high school program spearheaded by IBM that has improved college completion rates among... View Details