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- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
managing through the pandemic. The topics: people and personal management, strategy, marketing, and organizational design. PEOPLE AND PERSONAL MANAGEMENT Tip: Guide your team to create new norms, protocols, and purpose. Leaders need to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Approach problems using structured methods of gathering observations, breaking cognitive fixedness, and generating creative ideas for solutions Apply View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
profitability and poverty eradication targets. [The late] C.K. Prahalad has noted that some of the most breakthrough business strategies, models, processes, and ways of organizing have come from teams building profitable businesses... View Details
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
to the CEO. In many cases, the chief legal officer should be a member of the top management team who is expected to weigh in on all issues, not just represent the legal function. Q: What managerial levels are we talking about here? A:... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
This case describes the strategic and organizational challenges that Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) faced between 2008 and 2012. In 2008, in order to strengthen the firm's brokerage team, JLL merged with The Staubach Company, a real estate services provider with a first-rate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
management and digital marketing tools for entertainment venues and sports teams (largely unused during the pandemic), switched to targeting small- and medium-sized traditional businesses struggling to survive. Fourth Quadrant: Firms... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
Geibel wondered what he and Ron Johnson, whom he hired and teamed up with to re-envision the Systems group within Disney Animation, could do to improve the flow and the efficiency of the organization's increasingly technical and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
analyzed our data, we were struck by the resourcefulness and creativity of the managers, doctors, police officers, and addiction counselors whom we interviewed. Necessary evils are often done under difficult conditions, with lots of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech
and execute on their own independent projects. First, they need to autonomy to work creatively in areas of their own interest, for instance by intentionally allocating them free time on their own or in teams... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
industries like biotech, you can test things along the way to see if they are feasible, but for creative ideas like a film, you can’t experiment. You have huge uncertainty and you have to think about how to manage that risk.” One way that... View Details
- 09 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages
from HBS in 1992, and wrote the case study with HBS researchers Olivia Hull and Amy Klopfenstein. With a combination of savvy planning and creative thinking, US Foods managed to weather staff shortages while simultaneously growing its... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
emerging. Various units operated as independent fiefdoms. In 1998, Fahey was named CEO, and the task was clear: build an organization to thrive for the next 100 years. To do so, he "assembled a management team of diverse backgrounds... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are... View Details
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
organizations over deep thinking. As Lorre Zuppan said, "I think Jeff Immelt's efforts to protect deep thinking reflect a nice sentiment but If his team could carry the ball, would he need to announce that he's protecting it?"... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
Sometimes, thinking outside the box isn’t ambitious enough to get real innovation flowing. In her new book, Rosabeth Moss Kanter encourages organization leaders to think much more broadly at what restricts creativity and how to overcome... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
important, as I was not yet in a major leadership position. I now have to manage a team of creatives and business professionals, and often their motivations and goals are misaligned. How to balance out their... View Details
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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni
entrepreneurship immediately, or acquire more business experience first? When you feel ready to be a founder, you'll need: An idea for a problem to be solved And/or a team of partners who have a marketable idea, or have skills/experiences... View Details
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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Student ventures are placed into one of three tracks – Open, Health & Life Sciences, and Social Impact. Applications are due in December. Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project: Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project matches a team of 4 to 5... View Details
- 26 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing)
“Now, brands are working with a lot of influencers, and it’s difficult for them to centralize content. Second, they probably don’t want to centralize content because they actually want to leverage the authenticity and the creativity of... View Details
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Site Credits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Library Search Search Search Lehman Brothers: 1850 - 2008 Resources Site Credits Site Credits EXHIBITION TEAM Laura Linard Melissa Banta Melissa Murphy Michelle Jarvis Liat Spiro Jennifer Skarbek Christine Riggle Tim Mahoney CONSERVATION... View Details