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forge matters. In reality, the art and practice of leadership are deeply personal for the leader and those being led. They are deeply personal because molecules are stirred when a leader has an interaction with another person. Energy is... View Details

22 Sep 2015
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Putting Entrepreneurial Skills to Work in City Hall

Now teaching HBS’s first course in “public entrepreneurship,” Professor of Management Practice Mitchell Weiss (MBA 2004) served as chief of staff for late Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, helping lead what the New York Times called “one of... View Details

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Professional Practice: Nonprofit Agency Challenges

By: Alnoor Ebrahim

Keywords: Practice; Nonprofit Organizations; Problems and Challenges

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October 2010 (Revised May 2012)
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Drilling Safety at BP: The Deepwater Horizon Accident

By: Stephen P. Kaufman and Laura Winig

Following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico explosion and oil spill on the Deepwater Horizon, public attention focused on BP's safety record, practices, and management culture as the primary cause of the disaster. Drawing on public sources this case traces the circumstances... View Details

Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Practice; Safety; Energy Industry; Mexico, Gulf of

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1999
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Ethical Universals in Practice: An Analysis of Five Principles

By: M. C. Moldoveanu and H. H. Stevenson

Keywords: Ethics; Practice; Theory

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26 Apr 1997
Keynote Speech

Ethics in Organizations: Theory v. Practice." Co-moderator. "The Harvard Program in Ethics and the Profressions, 10th Anniversary Event

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Ethics; Organizations; Theory; Practice

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December 2007
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Fair (and Not So Fair) Division

By: John W. Pratt

Drawbacks of existing procedures are illustrated and a method of efficient fair division is proposed that avoids them. Given additive participants' utilities, each item is priced at the geometric mean (or some other function) of its two highest valuations. The... View Details

Keywords: Price; Management Practices and Processes; Valuation

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28 May 1997
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From Principles to Practice: Narrowing the Ethics Gap." Speaker. "Executive Workshop

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Theory; Practice; Ethics

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2014
Chapter

Management as a Profession

By: Rakesh Khurana and Eric Baldwin

Keywords: Managerial Roles; Practice

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2022
Chapter

Coordinating Marketing and Sales in B2B Organizations

By: Frank V. Cespedes

This chapter focuses on the topic of coordinating marketing and sales in Business-to-Business (B2B) organizations. It provides an historical overview, indicating that this is not a new issue facing firms, that the business press has outlined a recurring set of... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Practice; Research; Sales

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March 16, 2020
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15 Questions About Remote Work, Answered

By: Tsedal Neeley

How should corporate leaders, managers and individual workers shift to remote work in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic? Tsedal Neeley, a professor at Harvard Business School, has spent two decades helping companies learn how to manage dispersed teams. In this... View Details

Keywords: Coronavirus Pandemic; Remote Work; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Practices and Processes

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winter 1990
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The Impact of Family Dynamics on Structure and Process in Family Foundations

By: J. A. Davis, K. Gersick and I. Lansberg

Keywords: Family Ownership; Management Practices and Processes

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17 Apr 2019
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Give It to Me Straight

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Early on in Kim Scott’s career, she had a few wake-up calls that set her on a mission to become a better boss—a leader who was highly effective but still very human. She began to develop a... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services