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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni
events. Subscribe to our newsletter to join the conversation and help shape the future for business and society. D^3 HBS Initiatives / Institute... View Details
- 10 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men
the partners worried the high turnover was damaging the firm’s competitive edge, according to research by Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
and, as a result, gain the capacity to curb its influence. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf Cultural Notes on Chinese Negotiating Behavior Authors:James K. Sebenius and Cheng (Jason) Qian Abstract Western... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2010
- Chapter
When Does Leadership Matter? A Contingent Opportunities View of CEO Leadership
By: Noam Wasserman, Nitin Nohria and Bharat Anand
There is by now a long-standing debate on the impact that CEOs have on company performance. Studies of leadership describe how CEOs can significantly impact company performance, while the "constraints" perspective argues that leaders are sufficiently constrained by... View Details
Wasserman, Noam, Nitin Nohria, and Bharat Anand. "When Does Leadership Matter? A Contingent Opportunities View of CEO Leadership." Chap. 2 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
- 22 Mar 2017
- News
Stemming the Tide of the World's Water Shortage
- 30 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Cambridge to Nairobi
name of Ushahidi’s headquarters in Nairobi, before heading to San Francisco to work closely with the company’s business development team. Beyond the internship, the environment is full of energy: the Nairobi... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
Are there certain characteristics that all leaders possess? Could Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton be equally successful today running another company? Harvard Business School's Leadership Initiative is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent this Summer Coding
difficult and the number of product cycles are high). It's liberating to be self-reliant and not be hamstrung by the "I need a developer" excuse. There's been a lot of debate on whether View Details
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 07 Nov 2019
- News
Growing Our Food: Making Agriculture More Sustainable
- 03 Dec 2016
- News
Cashing In on Climate Change
- 27 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the PRIDE Club
engagement. On-campus advocacy: Work with DEI Council and the Student Association on initiatives including additional gender-neutral Bathrooms and LGBTQ+ case protagonists as... View Details
- September 2014 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling
By: Ethan Bernstein, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats and Luke Hassall
With 24,000 staff and over 300 stores, Belk Inc. sought to replace its entirely manual labor scheduling system with an automated software solution from Reflexis. Belk hoped the upgrade would simplify scheduling, reduce time employees spent in non-customer-facing roles,... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Scheduling; Local Autonomy; Automation; Metrics; Organizational Change; Human Resource Management; Process Improvement; Performance Measurement; Transparency; Southern United States; Retailing; Department Stores; System Outsourced Services; Employee Relationship Management; Selection and Staffing; Change Management; Governance Controls; Resource Allocation; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Applications and Software; Family Business; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Bernstein, Ethan, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats, and Luke Hassall. "Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling." Harvard Business School Case 415-023, September 2014. (Revised February 2017.)
- 12 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
What Does PRIDE at HBS Mean to You?
continue fostering an environment of love, acceptance, and celebration of diversity within HBS and beyond. Oscar Yuan (MBA 2003) PRIDE at HBS was, for me, a respite View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
environment where moral behavior is instilled as proper behavior rather than imposed. How moral orders are built and sustained in organizations is of particular fascination to Harvard View Details
- 28 Jan 2016
- News
What Flint's Water Crisis Means For The Future of U.S. Cities
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
To answer one of the oldest business quandaries—is it better to partner or go solo on a project—John Beshears looked for answers in an unusual place: the oil and gas drilling industry in the Gulf of Mexico.... View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
what we are doing and why. Six years ago we launched an initiative at the Harvard Business School on leadership and values. It grew out of a... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- April 4, 2009
- Article
The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid?
By: Aldo Musacchio and Francisco Flores-Macias
The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 has prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as Venezuela,... View Details
Keywords: History; Private Ownership; State Ownership; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations
Musacchio, Aldo, and Francisco Flores-Macias. "The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid?" Harvard International Review (website) (April 4, 2009).