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- 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
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
Knitting together a workforce with diverse backgrounds, cultures, and other demographic differences is challenging even for experienced managers, who must socialize those employees into the organization and also help them form new work... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
an organization where employees are expending their energies in a number of divergent and uncoordinated directions." Leaders need to ask whether they articulate a clear vision and, just as importantly, whether their key View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
new engineers at once is not going to accelerate development overnight. Each time a new person comes on board, it’s disruptive to a team’s flow, and this is not just about training them. It disrupts the whole dynamic of the team. If... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on... 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
- 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
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
"professional" models? Or will it increasingly be achieved in the institutions created and run by large business enterprises to train not only their own employees but those of other organizations... View Details
Keywords: by James 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
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
from them. Discourage exclusionary social activities, and make sure that teams don’t treat women as outliers or extraneous. Development. Assess how managers assign training and development opportunities, and ensure they use objective... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
installed four porcelain Buddha figures for inspiration at the club's training ground before starting in 2008. The Spanish superstar manager Pep Guardiola redesigned the playing philosophy to the successful “tiki-taka-style” as he started... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
natural, conversational manner." One of the biggest challenges Stack and Burton faced was training Tate's hundreds of employees to produce digital content. They started with a dedicated digital crew,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
"performance-oriented culture" to the 117-year-old firm. "No one," she says, "wants to take on people who've worked [at the company] for 25 years." Why Nisa could challenge entrenched employees and the historical norms at Godrej... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
off-campus at 48 Boylston Street (now JFK Street) in Harvard-owned Drayton Hall near what was then a grimy MTA subway train yard. From the apartment, it was a convenient walk across the Larz Anderson Bridge to the HBS campus. In the... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
fees. My heuristic for these types of engagements is to assess whether they are performing a part-time role you’d otherwise fill with a full-time employee (FTE) if you could find them. These engagements should be time-boxed and outcomes... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- July 10, 2024
- Article
Designing a Successful Reskilling Program
In this article, written as a follow up to the award-winning “Reskilling in the Age of AI”, the authors report the results of a reskilling survey that they conducted with chief human resource officers from approximately 1,200 organizations in the U.S., along with... View Details
Tamayo, Jorge, Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel, Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic, and Raffaella Sadun. "Designing a Successful Reskilling Program." Harvard Business Review (website) (July 10, 2024).
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
Bumping up against accepted theories in process improvement, a new research paper from Harvard Business School questions the value of prioritizing problems identified by frontline employees. Citing a hospital safety improvement program based on View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Rahkeem Morris (MBA 2018) spent the first 10 years of his work life as an hourly wage earner, moving from one minimum wage job to the next, often unable to transfer learned skills or View Details
- January 2011 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
Development and Promotion at North Atlantic Hospital
By: Boris Groysberg, Lisa Leffert, Kerry Herman and Libby Williams
Dr. Elizabeth Harris, Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology (DA) at North Atlantic Hospital (NAH), faces several significant challenges. Staff satisfaction surveys confirmed her assessment that department faculty morale was low, the tenure and promotion system was... View Details
Keywords: Training; Employees; Retention; Performance Evaluation; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry
Groysberg, Boris, Lisa Leffert, Kerry Herman, and Libby Williams. "Development and Promotion at North Atlantic Hospital." Harvard Business School Case 411-018, January 2011. (Revised March 2011.)