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Ahmed Eldemerdash
internship, what did Cimpress do well to set you up for a successful summer? Beyond the usual orientation about the company and the business, from day one my manager made sure that I got to know the View Details
Keywords: Technology
- December 2004 (Revised August 2005)
- Exercise
Orientation to the Public Image Assessment Exercise
By: Robin J. Ely
The Public Image Assessment exercise acquaints students with the ideal images they hold of themselves, the actions they engage in to convey these images, and the benefits and costs of these behaviors to themselves and to others. Social psychologists call this process... View Details
Ely, Robin J. "Orientation to the Public Image Assessment Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 405-057, December 2004. (Revised August 2005.)
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- March 2000 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
Korea: On the Back of a Tiger
Describes the development strategy followed by Korea under the leadership of Park Chung Hee as well as the reform efforts embarked on by his successors. View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Growth and Development Strategy; Public Administration Industry; South Korea
Huang, Yasheng. "Korea: On the Back of a Tiger." Harvard Business School Case 700-097, March 2000. (Revised May 2002.)
James E. Austin
Dr. Austin holds the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. Previously he held the John G. McLean Professorship and the Richard P. Chapman Professorship. He has been a member of the Harvard... View Details
Keywords: agribusiness
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
case: http://hbr.org/search/713074-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 413-099 Transitions Asia: Managing Across Cultures The director of an interim executive search firm, Chee Lung Tham, faced a clash of culture View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 15, 2021
- Article
Putting Your Corporate Purpose to Work
By: Hubert Joly
Making a company purpose come to life is an arduous journey that requires a multi-pronged and sustained approach. Yet as hard as it is, the journey is well worth it and will yield positive transformation not only for the company, but also for the people who work there.... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Business and Stakeholder Relations
Joly, Hubert. "Putting Your Corporate Purpose to Work." Harvard Business Review (website) (November 15, 2021).
- 15 Jul 2011
- News
Bad News at News Corp.
- May 2013
- Case
Wendy Peterson
By: Linda A. Hill and Alisa Zalosh
Wendy Peterson was recently promoted to Vice President of Sales at the Plano, Texas, office of AccountBack, an accounting software and services company. To penetrate a perceived market niche, Peterson hires Fred (Xing) Wu, whose familiarity with and access to Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Conflict Management; Salesforce Management; Rank and Position; Performance Evaluation; Management Teams; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Accounting Industry; Texas
Hill, Linda A., and Alisa Zalosh. "Wendy Peterson." Harvard Business School Brief Case 913-560, May 2013.
- October 2005 (Revised December 2006)
- Case
Bennie Wiley at The Partnership, Inc.
Benaree Wiley, an African American, female HBS graduate (class of 1972), was appointed CEO and president in 1991 of The Partnership, a Boston-based nonprofit dedicated to developing leadership potential in professionals of color and in increasing their representation... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Leading Change; Nonprofit Organizations; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry; Boston
Roberts, Laura Morgan, and Victoria Winston. "Bennie Wiley at The Partnership, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 406-012, October 2005. (Revised December 2006.)
- 2018
- Article
Overcoming Barriers to Time-Saving: Reminders of Future Busyness Encourage Consumers to Buy Time
By: A. V. Whillans, Elizabeth W. Dunn and Michael I. Norton
Spending money on time-saving purchases improves happiness. Yet, people often fail to spend their money in this way. Because most people believe that the future will be less busy than the present, they may underweight the value of these purchases. We examine the impact... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Choice; Sharing Economy; Opportunity Cost; Time-as Money; Well-being; Time Management; Happiness; Perception; Behavior
Whillans, A. V., Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Michael I. Norton. "Overcoming Barriers to Time-Saving: Reminders of Future Busyness Encourage Consumers to Buy Time." Social Influence 13, no. 2 (2018): 117–124.
- 2021
- Book
Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work
By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
Why does the gender gap persist and how can we close it? For years women have made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States. In 2019, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the workforce was the smallest on record.... View Details
Keywords: Women; Career; Gender Gap; Glass Ceiling; Gender; Employment; Personal Development and Career; Equality and Inequality; Organizational Culture; Diversity; Management; Strategy
Ammerman, Colleen, and Boris Groysberg. Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2021.
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The short but destructive history of mass layoffs
- September 2012
- Article
The Unwanted Self: Projective Identification in Leaders' Identity Work
By: Gianpiero Petriglieri and Mark Stein
This paper employs a psychodynamic perspective to examine the development and maintenance of a leader's identity, building on the premise that such identity work involves both conscious and unconscious processes. We focus on the latter by suggesting that those in... View Details
Petriglieri, Gianpiero, and Mark Stein. "The Unwanted Self: Projective Identification in Leaders' Identity Work." Organization Studies 33, no. 9 (September 2012): 1217–1235.
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
Working PapersSilent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines, in a series of three studies, how View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 16, 2019
- Article
Research Confirms: When Receiving Bad News, We Shoot the Messenger
By: Leslie John, Hayley Blunden and Heidi Liu
Most jobs require us at some point to deliver bad news—whether it be a minor revelation such as a recruiter telling a prospective employee that there’s no wiggle room in salary, or something major, like when a manager must fire an employee. We dread such discussions... View Details
John, Leslie, Hayley Blunden, and Heidi Liu. "Research Confirms: When Receiving Bad News, We Shoot the Messenger." Harvard Business Review (website) (April 16, 2019).
- 17 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News
Challenging a concerning proposal Jordan studies how individuals and organizations manage their reputations. This research asked whether the desire to look good in the eyes of others might motivate View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
John A. Deighton
John Deighton is The Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is an authority on consumer behavior and marketing, with a focus on digital and direct marketing. He teaches in the area of Big Data in Marketing,... View Details
- Teaching
Overview
Professor Bernstein currently teaches a second-year MBA course in Managing Human Capital (MHC). He is also the faculty chair for the Harvard Business School Online Developing Yourself as a Leader course and teaches in a variety of executive education... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
we believe can be quite important to the long-term survival of organizations and the contribution they make to society at large. As organizational scholarship and management... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace