Execution - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2024
News

Counter Intelligence

big believer in focusing on the job that you do, and I’ve always wanted to be the best at whatever that was,” says Christou, who did well enough that he was soon promoted to assistant general manager. It was the first step on the way to a series of View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

Network HBS Executive Education programs supporting Women Leaders Women on Boards: Women on Boards empowers participants to break into corporate board roles by navigating the selection process, building strategic networks, and... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online

Certificate Strategy Execution Professor Robert Simons Gain the tools, skills, and frameworks to successfully implement strategy within your organization and drive impactful results. 8 weeks, 5-8 hrs/week Pay by July 17 $1,850 Certificate... View Details

01 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

A warning to CEOs and other top executives in high-pressure positions: Job stress could shave years off your life, causing you to die younger than lower-level workers, new research suggests. After all, modern CEOs face taxing work... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

Teaching Interest

Negotiation

By: Kevin P. Mohan

Managerial success requires the ability to negotiate. Whether you are forging an agreement with your suppliers, trying to ink a deal with potential customers, raising money from investors, managing a conflict inside your firm, or resolving a dispute that is headed... View Details

09 Nov 2023
Blog Post

The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

executive at a company where the numbers say you need to close a factory, which you know will have a devastating impact on the employees affected. If you don’t do it, however, your whole company may collapse. This dilemma mirrors the... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

citizenship. Five years later, SEI launched an executive education program on corporate social responsibility. In 2005, SEI convened a research forum on business solutions to global poverty, bringing together academic, business,... View Details

18 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works

obvious pointed out to them." The results also provide a concrete strategy for managers in Neeley's Executive Education classes who are struggling with how best to communicate with workers. "This is an actual strategy—a... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

01 Sep 2023
News

Preparing Global Leaders

faculty research facilitated by the School’s 18 research outposts on five continents, and more than 1,300 MBA students traveled abroad to 20 countries for immersive courses in the field. Across all of HBS’s academic programs—MBA, View Details

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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

in finance, marketing, executive leadership or with small businesses and start-ups. They connect candidates with full-time, part-time, or project-based roles. Second Shift The Second Shift was founded in 2014 to address the needs of both... View Details

20 Oct 2023
News

Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

During an overview of the MBA Program, Jana Kierstead, executive director of the MBA and Doctoral programs, said, “Our focus now is on three priorities: invigorating our sense of purpose, centering on the education, and attracting the... View Details

18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

Harvard Business School says. As part of a sweeping executive order aimed at promoting competition in the American economy, US President Joe Biden specifically called out non-compete agreements as hurtful to innovation and workers. Issued... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

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Course Overview - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

distinctive challenges facing first-time chief executives in large, complex enterprises. The focus of the workshop is on defining an agenda as CEO, and preparing for the most challenging issues that a new CEO is likely to face.... View Details

28 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?

To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

28 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Master the Team Meeting

every leader’s strong suit, then bring someone in who is. I’ve seen everyone from executive assistants to HR leaders to program managers facilitate meetings, keeping the group on topic, on time, and to pay attention to the room. I don’t... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

10 Feb 2020
In Practice

6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy

Even though the internet has been publicly available for almost three decades, executives at just about every company are wrestling with how to use digital technology to advance their business strategy. We asked professors from Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

15 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 15

Tang Harvard Business School Case 410-018 Shanghai Tang is a luxury brand that focuses on Chinese-inspired fashion, accessories, and home decoration products. In fall 2008, amidst a growing global economic crisis, Raphael Ie Masne, View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? To learn about the frameworks firms use when evaluating potential venture opportunities, Mike Roberts, executive director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, and HBS senior... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Barley

31 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap

finance. Hilary is focused on ensuring the customer experience is executed flawlessly – from first click to product delivery. Our entrepreneurial journey in some ways can be mapped back to one of the first parties during RC year. We met... View Details

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