Management Skills - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jan 2018
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Investing in India’s Nonprofits to Overcome Poverty Sustainably

have the basic skills to just go up to their manager and say, ‘You know, I need to take a leave.’ “Having all of these basic skills are very, very important. And that's why our... View Details

20 Jul 2017
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Pushing the Next Generation Forward

lunching with a student mentee, strategizing with the director of a pre-K education program, or working on crisis management with city officials in the aftermath of a violent neighborhood incident. “Don’t ask me about my typical day,” he... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

11 Sep 2009
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I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…

Do future MBAs emerge from the womb with business card in hand? Greet their preschool pals with a firm, not fishy, handshake? HBS alumni so frequently mention the lifelong benefits of connections made at Soldiers Field that I’ve always assumed their networking View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

04 Oct 2019
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Changing of the Guard at Tesco

of amazing retailers with the organization. It’s much broader, about strategy, if you understand the brand, the customer and do you have the interpersonal skills to engage with 450,000 people?” READ MORE View Details

Keywords: Tesco; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

04 Sep 2019
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Case Study: Up in the Air

consumers can be assured of the quality and effectiveness of the resources they are procuring. It appears you plan to have a measurable way to assess the technical and soft skills of the resources: Consumers will want to know what the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

17 Feb 2022
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A Big Bet

Tracy Palandjian (MBA 1997) and Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) (Photos by Susan Young) When Google announced a $100 million fund to expand skills training and job placement programs for low-income Americans, two HBS alumni were standing by:... View Details

Keywords: jobs training; social enterprise; upskilling; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2000
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Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity

technical and analytic skills to craft a 'well-prepared' provisional self," she writes. "By rehearsing these clumsy, often ineffective, sometimes inauthentic selves," Ibarra concludes, "junior managers learn... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and temperaments, a variety and diversity seemingly matched only by the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

11 Jul 2013
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Making Lives Better

course. "I think every parent whose child is diagnosed with autism becomes an advocate to some extent," she says. "Everyone goes to the walks, but there are a handful of people who want to take their professional training and use their View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; autism; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Mar 2015
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Case Study: The Speed of Light

that maintains and expands your repeatable service/solution yet keeps your employees, managers, and leaders fully engaged. Keys to your future growth are servicing new contracts with your repeatable solution, and the skill set of your... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Sep 2008
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Knowledge Integration Rules at Yale

JOEL PODOLNY: New courses reach across disciplines. Yale set out in the fall of 2006 to create a distinctive new model of management education, one that eliminated traditional discipline-based courses and replaced them with courses... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 2001
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Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments

skilled outside workers and managers while providing good wages in a country where the average person makes under $100 per year. Equally important is the project’s catalytic impact on future investment. The... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

Your Company’s Deep Smarts by Dorothy Leonard, Walter Swap, and Gavin Barton (Harvard Business Review Press) When highly skilled subject-matter experts, engineers, and managers leave their organizations,... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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OPM Honors Marty Marshall with Professorship

Last fall, graduates of the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) honored one of their favorite professors by endowing a new HBS chair: the Martin Marshall OPM Professorship of Business Administration. A member of the HBS faculty for... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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William K.L. Fung

told my father that I didn't want to be in a family company," says Fung with a chuckle. The elder Fung challenged his son to use his HBS skills to breathe new life into the trading company, founded by Fung's grandfather in Canton, China,... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

25 Aug 2014
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Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987

Corning 2007 Named Chairman, Corning 2007 Corning markets Gorilla Glass 2013 Fast Company names Corning one of World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies Chairman and CEO, Corning Incorporated As CEO of Corning Incorporated, Wendell Weeks View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)

and life-skills organization serving foster youth and youth aging out of care). Our discussions about leadership and ethics—in LEAD, LCA, ALD, Managing Human Capital, and the Moral Leader, and outside those classes—are very relevant in my... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

obliterates all competitors, fall so precipitously? Other minicomputer firms were suddenly failing too. How could good managers seemingly turn bad so fast? That was the puzzle. Colleagues suggested exploring the disk-drive industry... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll

applied value-based management throughout the company and are inviting people to think out of the box, take much more responsibility for themselves and others, and really drive for value. Mining operations can directly affect communities,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Management

24 Apr 2014
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Leading the way in times of crisis

the city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, got the city’s transit system back on track using the same take-charge skills he displayed on September 11, 2001, when, as Rudy Giuliani’s deputy mayor, he helped coordinate emergency... View Details

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