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The Business Case for Curiosity

By: Francesca Gino
Although leaders might say they value inquisitive minds, in reality most stifle curiosity, fearing it will increase risk and inefficiency. Harvard Business School’s Francesca Gino elaborates on the benefits of and common barriers to curiosity in the workplace and... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Employees; Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Learning; Decision Making; Performance Effectiveness
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  • April 2003
  • Module Note

Design and Management of Health Care Delivery Processes, The

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer
Discusses the design and management of clinical processes in health care. Presents a framing of the clinical process as a problem-solving process that fundamentally involves learning along two dimensions and at least two levels. The two dimensions are: 1) learning in... View Details
Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Service Delivery; Management Practices and Processes; Learning; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • 9 AM – 9 AM EST, 31 Jan 2018
  • HBS Online

HBX Becoming A Better Manager

Master a process approach to management and move your organization forward. In Becoming a Better Manager youll learn to identify, analyze, design, and influence four critical organizational processes: decision-making, implementation, organizational learning, and change... View Details
  • 03 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

that perform poorly (suffering from the performance gap) and good teams that under-perform (suffering from the opportunity gap). In both cases, teams need quality coaches to improve their on-field performance. Teams planning changes on Black Monday can View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 17 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Teaming in the Twenty-First Century

collaboration are essential, but they happen in fluid arrangements, rather than in static teams. Read the Book Excerpt In her new book, Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy, Edmondson says that... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • September – October 2011
  • Article

Manage the Culture Cycle

By: James L. Heskett
Organizational culture—the shared assumptions, values, and behaviors that determine "how we do things around here"—can be measured and shaped. In organizations with large numbers of customer-facing employees, it can account for up to half of the difference in operating... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Value; Behavior; Retention; Customer Focus and Relationships; Change Management; Learning; Innovation and Invention; Labor
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  • 2008
  • Book

Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage

By: James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser Jr. and Joe Wheeler
Hundreds of large organizations worldwide have used the groundbreaking Service Profit Chain to improve business performance. Now The Ownership Quotient reveals the next generation of the chain: customer and employee "owners" of your business. Employee-owners exhibit... View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Customer Ownership; Employee Ownership; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation
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  • 9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 21 Mar 2018
  • HBS Online

HBX Becoming A Better Manager

Master a process approach to management and move your organization forward. In Becoming a Better Manager youll learn to identify, analyze, design, and influence four critical organizational processes: decision-making, implementation, organizational learning, and change... View Details
  • 11 Jun 2015
  • Video

HBS Leadership Fellows: Making an Impact

  • 2016
  • Working Paper

More Effective Sports Sponsorship—Combining and Integrating Key Resources and Capabilities of International Sports Events and Their Major Sponsors

By: Ragnar Lund and Stephen A. Greyser
Organizations in the field of sports are becoming increasingly dependent on sponsors for their value creation and growth. Studies suggest that sports organizations (rights-holders) often fail to exploit the full potential of such sponsorship partnerships. The aim of... View Details
Keywords: Sponsorship; ＂Sports Organizations,; Case Study; Europe; Business Relationships; Collaborative Marketing; Value Co-creation; Relationship Portfolio Management; Value Creation; Cases; Marketing; Sports; Sports Industry; Europe
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  • 26 Apr 2024
  • HBS Case

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

Leaders intent on boosting team performance could learn from the old-school, military-style approach of Deion Sanders, a former star athlete and now the unorthodox coach behind the revival of two college football teams. “When I’m teaching... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
  • 14 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

balance this curiosity with intentionality as they figure out when to be open-minded and broad and when to be focused and dig deep. They must learn to pick up "weak signals" about what is happening in their View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology
  • 30 Nov 2023
  • Blog Post

College Students, Take a Sneak Peek at the HBS MBA

you can explore options for your future and learn how an MBA can help you develop general management skills that you can use in any career and in any kind of organization – from for-profit businesses to... View Details
  • 05 Jul 2023
  • Cold Call Podcast

How Unilever Is Preparing for the Future of Work

Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 07 Sep 2012
  • News

What Every Nonprofit Board Needs to Know

  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Book

Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs

they do stumble, their instinct is to hide their mistakes, rather than openly acknowledge them. Yet to unlock potential success, Edmondson says, people need to be honest about failures, so they can learn from them. Likewise, at a time... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 03 Jan 2016
  • News

NFL Black Monday Insights: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

  • 31 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

and connection, even among digital-first companies and digital natives. 5. Continuous experimentation and learning In a world where speed matters, digitally mature organizations act even when the appropriate... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

    Robert Simons

    Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. For 2024/25, he is teaching a... View Details

    • 05 Feb 2024
    • What Do You Think?

    How Do You Hire for Attitude?

    learning? What do you want to learn on this job? What do you feel you can teach others on this job? Of course, every organization is different. Hiring practices have to be customized accordingly. Teaching... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett