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How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management
High-performing knowledge workers often question whether managers actually contribute much, especially in a technical environment. Until recently, that was the case at Google, a company filled with self-starters who viewed management as more destructive than beneficial... View Details
- 03 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers
performance, and the bind is likely to apply even beyond gender—to anyone who feels threatened by a negative stereotype.” Feldberg’s research also shows how women manage their image for lower-ranked employees. Usually, research focuses on... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
Summing Up How Do We Encourage CEOs to Manage for Sustainability? Important forces encourage short-term perspectives among managers as well as investors today. These include governance biases, tax policies,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Article
Managing Alliances with the Balanced Scorecard
By: Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton and Bjarne Rugelsjoen
The article addresses failures in strategic alliances and illustrates, via a detailed description of the successful strategic alliance between Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Quintiles company how the creation of a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard helps align the... View Details
Keywords: Alliances; Balanced Scorecard; Employees; Alignment; Corporate Governance; Interests; Management Practices and Processes; Goals and Objectives; Partners and Partnerships
Kaplan, Robert S., David P. Norton, and Bjarne Rugelsjoen. "Managing Alliances with the Balanced Scorecard." Harvard Business Review 88, nos. 1/2 (January–February 2010): 114–120.
- 14 May 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams
be developed into team players? How do teams learn? How Does A Team Leader Win The Confidence Of The Group? How Team Leaders Show Support—or Not What does a team leader do so that employees know they are being supported? A Q&A with... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 02 Aug 2013
- News
HBS Hosts Annual Summer Venture in Management Program
"One Way to Help Employees Build Emergency Savings" Harvard Business Review (May 2024)
Intentional cooperation between two organizations — BlackRock, a major asset management firm, and national non-profit, Commonwealth — created the conditions for the nation’s largest payroll processor, multiple U.S. employers, retirement record keepers, and others... View Details
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
of the responses to this month's question about why managers don't think deeply. The list of causes was much longer than the list of proposed responses. But in the process, some other questions were posed. Ben Kirk kicked off the list of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Web
Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research
Entrepreneurial Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students July–August 2025 Article Case Study: Do We Reskill or Replace Our Workforce? By: William Kerr To remain competitive in the... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Examining Global Workforce Management
particular circumstances,” says Sucher, MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice and Joseph L. Rice, III Faculty Fellow. “Both why and how they are done matter—to employees and to the company’s... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
million emails and 80 million meeting invitations. Shortly after a new CEO takes over, uncertainty among employees dampens communication within a company. However, after about five months, internal chatter sharply intensifies as View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 08 Oct 2020
- News
How to Manage a Hybrid Team
- November 2009 (Revised January 2010)
- Case
Zara: Managing Stores for Fast Fashion
By: Zeynep Ton, Elena Corsi and Vincent Marie Dessain
Pablo Isla, the CEO of Zara, wanted to improve operational efficiencies in managing its store network. In particular, he wanted to improve labor productivity at the stores. He considered outsourcing certain store operations to third parties, changing the way store... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Managerial Roles; Service Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Retail Industry
Ton, Zeynep, Elena Corsi, and Vincent Marie Dessain. "Zara: Managing Stores for Fast Fashion." Harvard Business School Case 610-042, November 2009. (Revised January 2010.)
- 07 Apr 2020
- News
How to Manage Coronavirus Layoffs with Compassion
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
Summing Up Can managers acquire ways of thinking or ways of learning from doctors? Managers can learn from an understanding of how doctors think. But whether the lessons are profound or even totally... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- December 2003 (Revised September 2004)
- Case
Managing Segway's Early Development
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and David Kiron
Describes the early development of the Segway Human Transporter and focuses on the organizational issues that arise between the parent company and the new company that is being spun out to produce and market the Segway. Key issues are the distribution of bonuses and... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Startups; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Resource Allocation; Organizational Design; Technology Adoption
Hamermesh, Richard G., and David Kiron. "Managing Segway's Early Development." Harvard Business School Case 804-065, December 2003. (Revised September 2004.)
- September 1992 (Revised August 2004)
- Case
Martin Marietta: Managing Corporate Ethics (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine
Senior managers at Martin Marietta are considering two questions: how to assess the company's seven-year-old ethics program; and how to deal with employees' fear of retribution--real or imagined--for alerting the corporate ethics office to potential problems. The case... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Resignation and Termination; Employees; Law; Business or Company Management; Programs
Paine, Lynn S. "Martin Marietta: Managing Corporate Ethics (A)." Harvard Business School Case 393-016, September 1992. (Revised August 2004.)