Managing Up - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

constituencies cropping up along the way. The crux of the case becomes apparent soon enough: Can Genzyme's HAND program manage all of these initiatives successfully without stretching itself too thin? Given... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

18 Nov 2021
News

Fewer Boots, More Slippers: How a Shortage of Shipping Containers is Changing What Shows Up on Shelves

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

Since March, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge has posted more than 80 stories and research papers on the topic of COVID-19, most targeted at managers and the new challenges they face. That's a lot of information to digest. To... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2014
News

Training managers in the developing world

aims to help build a modern professional management class, help create jobs, spark value-added processing of raw materials, and encourage competitive manufacturing. “There are up to 100 institutions in... View Details

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

Summing Up What's rational in the world of management? Judging from replies to the question, "Are you ready to manage in an irrational world?," respondents to this column are ready. But they also... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 May 2021
News

Workplace Diversity: Managers Must Build a Culture of Belonging

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management

only discern the psychological profile of an entrepreneur and then hold an individual up against that profile, one could predict whether that individual has the pontential to become an entrepreneur, or is one already. Yet none of the... View Details

Keywords: by Howard H. Stevenson & Teresa M. Amabile

January – February 2012
Article

How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power, and Timing in Redundant Communication

By: Paul Leonardi, Tsedal Neeley and Elizabeth M. Gerber

Several recent studies have found that managers engage in redundant communication; that is, they send the same message to the same recipient through two or more unique media sequentially. Given how busy most managers are, and how much information their subordinates... View Details

Keywords: Communication; Media; Information; Groups and Teams; Projects; Management Style; Power and Influence; Motivation and Incentives; Technology

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Technology & Operations Management Faculty - Faculty & Research

Technology & Operations Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Unit Heads Marco Iansiti David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration Co-Unit Head, Technology and Operations... View Details

25 Feb 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Fostering Organizational Learning: The Impact of Work Design on Workarounds, Errors, and Speaking Up About Internal Supply Chain Problems

Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker

29 Jul 2017
News

Fund managers challenged to confront lack of ethnic diversity

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

employees, while maintaining the safety and flexibility to weather an uncertain path ahead. Jeffrey Polzer (@jeffpolzer) is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

Why Apps for Managing Chronic Disease Haven't Been Widely Used, and How to Fix It

While chronic disease management (CDM) apps have had some initial success, they have not yet lived up to their potential. This shortcoming is not due to the technologies, which are quite impressive; the problem is the incentives and institutions of the delivery system... View Details

11 Jun 2019
Book

These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway

greater burdens on managers but also creating new opportunities to shine. Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time Making a business successful is a challenge in itself, but making a green business profitable is an even... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Oct 2022
What Do You Think?

Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

remotely We can get the job done, but it’s tough to flourish.” Similarly, there is growing evidence that changes in some consumer behaviors occasioned by the pandemic are not all that permanent. While Amazon encouraged us to trade off logistics expense (paid for by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Colleges, Employers, and America's Chronic Skills Gap , Report, Harvard Business School Project on Managing the Future of Work, December 2022. With Joseph Fuller. Building From the Bottom Up , Report,... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Entrepreneurial Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2024 Jeffrey J. Bussgang : Named one of the Boston Globe 's Tech Power Players 2024. Zoe B. Cullen : Recipient of a 2024 Sloan... View Details

15 Mar 2016
News

Why Is It So Hard to Change How We Manage Ourselves?

04 Jun 2024
News

AI Isn’t Yet Capable of Snapping up Jobs—Except in These 4 Industries, McKinsey Says

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

a year to treat a newly diagnosed diabetic patient; obviously, the numbers go up if a diabetic suffers serious complications. Healthcare providers have attempted a number of disease management strategies... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

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