Effective Managers - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2002
News

Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

enterprise,” Austin notes. “NGOs are critical actors in the global arena that play an increasingly important role in shaping the business environment and in enabling companies to more effectively address social issues through... View Details

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1.4.3 Required Curriculum (RC) | MBA

students exercise their team building and management skills to develop protocols for effective learning and shape the distinctive norms and personality of their sections. Students quickly discover that the... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking

“aims to give students a competitive advantage.” How can understanding happiness, both that of our colleagues and our own, make one a more effective leader? One of the big problems that we have is that when people don’t understand... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

01 Mar 2013
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Making Change

diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world. Jana Care aims to do so by building sensors and apps that can transform a mobile phone into a personal lab and lifestyle coach. The mobile phone as a key to diagnostics and health-care delivery. Photo... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

elective course, Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact, which she teaches to second-year MBA students at HBS and select students from Harvard Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government. The User's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

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Brooke Boyarsky

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I felt that I had a lot to learn. I knew that the cases and skills taught at HBS would give me the foundation to be an effective general manager, and the case study method at HBS would... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Technology

28 Jun 2011
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Beyond Case Writing

behavioral-change experiments in health, agriculture, and microfinance in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. She brings that globetrotting experience to bear when teaching a second-year course called Managing Global Health. At a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

Donald M. Kendall

Kendall secured PepsiCo’s rapid growth through effective management and diversification. During his tenure, PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay became the leader in salted snack foods, and its Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship

Stevenson Professor of Business Administration Joseph B. Lassiter , Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management Meredith L. McPherron , Director of the Arthur Rock Center... View Details

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Rewiring the Workplace: Behavioral Economics and the Future of Inclusive Organizations - Blog: RGE Report

practice, however, alleviating the effects of inequities requires a shift in organizational culture, including fundamentally reworking value systems and decision-making frameworks to cultivate the best environment for the employees of all... View Details

04 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CVS Health

million patients each year, and expanding specialty pharmacy services, the company enables people, businesses and communities to manage health in more affordable and effective ways. CVS Health serves 5... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

06 Oct 2003
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Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

be managed effectively on a continuing basis. As Richard Eckel put it, "'Disruptive' is the clue for why the proposed method of sustained growth will fail in most organizations ... B-schools graduate... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

creditors for quality reporting. In contrast, the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis posits that public equity firms, because their managers have a greater incentive to manage earnings, have lower... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Monica Chang | MBA

and business: As a Project Manager for Harvard Tech for Social Good last spring, I led a team of engineers and designers that worked with an experienced civic technologist to create a web app comparing the View Details

01 Apr 1997
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Manager's Notebook

Higgins and Nohria also wanted to understand why the 128 Venture Group was successful. "We wanted to know which pitches were most effective in which situations," explains Higgins. "For example, why would one View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo

on the macro and micro effects of this boom—on the markets, the environment, and the future of small-town North Dakota. Read on for thoughts from Senior Lecturer John Macomber, Wade Myers (MBA 1994), Barbara George (MBA 1980), Professor... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Apr 2002
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Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives

During the bull market of the 1990s, stock grants and options formed increasingly large components of executive compensation. Now, however, with many options "underwater" as share values have declined well below the strike price, boards of directors are perplexed. Can... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Muelbroek; Li Jin; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?

from ready for online voting. We can't even manage to cast and count votes accurately with the new electronic technologies. Q: In the United States it seems the public has a very low opinion of the federal government. Can government... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2015
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An Exceptional Faculty of Scholars and Teachers

250 academics and practitioners — who make them a reality. Today’s faculty members are drawn from an increasingly wide range of backgrounds and disciplines. Developing these individuals—helping them become not just effective but... View Details

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

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

can managers learn from the outcome of the Canada/Bombardier vs. Brazil/Embraer dispute about the most effective way to handle these types of situations? A: The dollar value of the Brazilian sanctions... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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