Change Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jul 2020
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Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experience from Around the World

Keywords: COVID-19

01 Jun 2022
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In My Humble Opinion: Home Base

equipped to answer. The query typically came at the end of a session, after a productive conversation about delegating, managing a packed calendar, or presenting effectively in meetings. “But I’ve got six-month-old twins at home, and... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 Nov 2019
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The Ritual Effect

Source: Norton Source: Norton Professor Michael Norton studies the ways in which rituals can influence human behavior. In his research, he has found that people establish rituals to enhance their enjoyment of something or to improve their success and don’t like to... View Details

Keywords: rituals

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

“I loved learning how capital and labor came together to create things,” she says. That same spirit of discovery would come in handy in York’s career as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist with 30 years of experience financing early-stage technology and healthcare... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order

By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to a 2018 UN report, up from 55 percent today. That means making room for and creating the infrastructure for another 2.5 billion people to live, work, move, and consume. Meanwhile, the... View Details

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01 Oct 2002
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Michael F. Cronin

young Michael and his four siblings. Cronin soon went to work, too, as a Boston Herald paperboy, the first of innumerable jobs on a résumé that would eventually top out with his current position: cofounder and managing partner of Weston... View Details

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

advocacy as an employee for benefits or for resources that can help you live more sustainably. Or whether that's on the operational level for you as a manager or a director, the teams that you manage or... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

growing things could play in educating others about indigenous cultures. Now he talks about the intelligence of corn—how it changes color to optimize filtration of ultraviolet light: Soon, he explains, the corn leaves will be tinted a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

09 Feb 2021
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Investing in Entrepreneurship

Scientific), to name a few. As a founder and managing general partner of Venrock Associates, he led the venture investments of the Rockefeller family during a 45-year career. Now retired and serving on numerous corporate and philanthropic... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2023
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Toward a Life Well Lived

first, LIFE Matrix (see below), offers insights about managing time, dealing with trade-offs between work and life, and how choices correlate with joy, meaningfulness, achievement, and life satisfaction. Another tool, currently being... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

10 Apr 2023
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Leading the Way

"Within two years of meeting him, I had two internships on Wall Street and was accepted to the HBS 2+2 program. It was like a light switched on for me and everything changed." Trujillo grew up in a poor Hispanic neighborhood in South Phoenix, and with the help of a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check

David Berman (MBA 1991) is a successful hedge fund manager and a regular commentator on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, who has been deemed “the king of the retail jungle” by Fortune. But none of this, he says, would have been possible without the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

26 Feb 2019
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Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

An experiment in real estate investing is underway in Philadelphia, where Steinbridge Group CEO Tawan Davis (MBA 2006) has made a long-term commitment to less-affluent renters in the city’s most rapidly gentrifying communities. “You want to see positive economic View Details

11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart

Well, I have known you for many, many years. We met in college, actually in New Delhi. And then of course we lost touch for many, many years until you showed up in my class, in the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School,... View Details

18 Jan 2018
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The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast

unanimous: All-day breakfast. In the end, all-day breakfast rolled out nationwide in October 2015, less than a year after Cunningham arrived. In this episode of Skydeck, I talked to Cunningham about how she managed rapid organizational... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision

seashells washing up on the shore—all of which would also require time and attention, be they challenges or opportunities. You can’t ignore them; but you also can’t let them consume you, because you still have to manage the rest of the... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2003
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Stan O’Neal

While the recent corporate scandals have increased cynicism, O’Neal points to the many positive changes that have taken place as a result — in legislation, in policy, in transparency. “Significant improvements have been made,” notes... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Finance

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

on shaping and influencing the way tomorrow's leaders will change the world. The need for management faculty has never been greater; in recent years, a wave of faculty retirements, combined with a shortage... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

29 Nov 2023
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A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway

Scholarship Fund has sent more than 200 local MBA students to Harvard since 1968. The fund has also supported 11 local nonprofit leaders to attend the Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management Program (SPNM) at HBS. In addition, the... View Details