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Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD)
Professor Bernstein taught Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) from 2013-2016 (7 sections). This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise.
The course is divided into five modules:
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
collaborate with the CFO to "integrate" strategy into operational planning and budgeting. We have yet to see a CFO resist the effort to make the planning process more strategic and useful for the organization. Q: You write that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
expects 80 percent of the company’s employees to work either in-office or in a hybrid model after the pandemic—and he cited the reduced quality of informal interactions in the workplace as being the reason he’s resistant to allowing... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
standard size, as in the case of eggs and butter. If dairy firms were to sell butter in slightly less than one-pound packages, consumers would notice. In these cases, one could expect more resistance and backlash. With that said, however,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
mean that implementing activities that protect the brand or attempting to update or modify the brand often meets with resistance internally. In some cases, highly decentralized organizations such as Médecins Sans Frontièrs [also known as... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
participants face in their new jobs." Like executives, faculty eventually need to resist career pressures that compel them to become too narrow because many, if not most, business problems are multi-dimensional. "When you come... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
managers and executives who purposefully address the behavioral issues in demand planning. They see the problem in demand planning in terms of the behavioral dynamics involved rather than, say, as an optimization problem with objective to minimize forecasting accuracy.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
lining is that many business leaders who have long been resistant to the idea of remote work may open their eyes for the first time to its benefits, including happier workers, less need for office space, and, for some, a possible bump in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
fundamental belief I have is that you can't separate strategy formulation from strategy implementation. You can't discuss changing strategy unless you are ready to discuss what makes people resist change and what part people could... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 May 2022
- Blog Post
Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research
resistant plants, novel biofuels processes, and alternative meat production. This year we’ve further expanded and even have a few non-life sciences teams in our cohort, working on industrial waste recycling and recyclable packaging... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
in business communications. "You'll burn out, your team will resent you, your reputation will suffer, and the work probably won't all get done anyway." Conversely, if you offer resistance to new duties when the company is down,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
and older typically resist language mandates more than do 20-somethings, Neeley says the older workers at Rakuten also shared advantages: they often had more education and money to pay for additional private or small-group classes.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
these businesses are resisting the changing labor/wage environment. Why would that be, and do you foresee that becoming a problem? "Their business model requires a low-cost operation, so they’re going to feel that inflationary pressure."... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
wounds in the balance sheet—spurring the call to Kahn—and her ultimate recommendations were a challenge to leadership. But she met considerable resistance from the parent company chiefs, including her father. "Godrej has been one of those... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
“Crises offer rare opportunities to make major changes in an organization because they lessen the resistance that exists in good times.” "Leaders must be willing to ask for help," he continues. "They should rely on a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
scenarios, so too should any financing from friends and family, or else founders should resist the temptation to take such money. "burning The Boats": Productive Motivation Or "entrepreneurial Suicide"? Taking money... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
question is, how much behavior change do you embed in the product? People resist change. They like the way they do things now, for the most part. They might wish a familiar product was cheaper or faster, but they've gotten used to the way... View Details
- Web
Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
they have built up to the daily problem of making scratch resistant sheets . . . of keeping the frame from warping, of getting dirt out of the lamination. . . . Whatever is necessary to make the whole gang of us do a better job for... View Details
- Web
2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal 4-5 May 2023 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Welcome Robin J. Ely and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Agnes Sauvage
I want to get high. I want to edge risk. I want to climb to remember I am alive. I plan to leave room for Nature in my business plans. I am going to the mountains and I will bring the mountains to you. I will help you listen to the music of the Earth and View Details