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- 28 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
3 Reasons Engineers Thrive at Business School
brainstorming and idea generation. I am also often able to be the “voice” for other functions, such as Manufacturing and R&D, during case discussions. Guy: Being an engineer helps in several way in the classroom and at HBS in general. The engineering View Details
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
educating MBAs at HBS. Martha Lagace: Teachers are leaders, as you argue in your new book, and yet most managers don’t receive any training in teaching. How can managers approach their role in a new way? Thomas DeLong: Their View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
are unique because: They battle against what DeLong called a natural gravitational pull toward alienation within organizational life. "In other words, if you ignore your employees over time, they will start to feel left out and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers, and lower mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither). We argue that supplying joint... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
TOBIAS: “When CEOs make 500 times what their employees make, there is an upper class.” So there I am moderating last fall’s 35th Reunion panel, “Two Steves and a Joe,” with classmates Steve Schwarzman (estimated net worth, $15 billion),... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
productively and help employees at all levels do so. Tactics include training that defuses fears of disagreeing; encourages people to cultivate a receptive mindset; teaches people to choose words carefully,... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
or exploring new training methods such as role plays between employees to introduce safety protocols. Overall, a common theme emerging from our interviews is the attempt to deliver a highly individualized HR... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
change—business leaders have entered a new era requiring new ways of leading. Traditional management methods seem no longer sufficient to address the volume of change we are seeing. I label this VUCA 2.0. In a 1998 report designed to View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 18 Dec 2017
- Op-Ed
Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs
Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
steps toward addressing institutional racism Companies have long used competition to motivate employees to think creatively and push themselves. Law firms, consultancies, and other adherents to the “up or out” philosophy aim to promote... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
employees on company time to make updates and edits to the software for community use that could be used by competitors? New research by Assistant Professor Frank Nagle, a member of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, shows that... View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?
addressing. The first is, just what are street smarts anyway? The contexts in which the term has come up seem to indicate that they include things like knowing how to close a sale, when to walk away from a deal, when to remain silent, and how to select winners as View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
terms. Assuming that they face an interpersonal or tactical barrier, suppliers often seek training on the principles of persuasion, joint brainstorming, how to make advantageous initial offers, body language, and so on. Yet apparent... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
whites and other Americans. Seeing Patients: A Surgeon’s Story of Race and Medical Bias By: Augustus White Growing up in Jim Crow–era Tennessee and training and teaching in overwhelmingly white medical institutions, Gus White witnessed... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
airy plant; all employees are on salary and receive excellent benefits. Training programs -- for both new and current employees -- are extensive, and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
plans that are not linked to the organization's strategy. This is extraordinary. (d) Seventy percent of middle managers and more than 90 percent of front-line employees have compensation that is not linked to the strategy. (e) Most... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
insurance conglomerate. He left a legacy of openness to new technologies, a commitment to employee training, and a collaborative style of leadership that had transformed the company. His success at USAA followed an equally impressive and... View Details
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
colleagues, trained to admire and teach action, would walk away shaking their heads and asking each other, "Is he alright?" It is perhaps no coincidence that Tony often came up with some of the most profound insights at faculty... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Web
Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
training we had given ourselves in the field of polarized light had endowed us with a competence we had not sought and did not know we had," Land wrote. "It was as if all that we had done in learning to make polarizers . . . had been a... View Details
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
things and keep what works.” It is not by chance that nearly all of their private sector examples come from high tech, where employees are being trained in large numbers to routinely conduct experiments that... View Details