Filter Results:
(4,573)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(4,573)
- People (6)
- News (633)
- Research (3,476)
- Events (23)
- Multimedia (7)
- Faculty Publications (2,202)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(4,573)
- People (6)
- News (633)
- Research (3,476)
- Events (23)
- Multimedia (7)
- Faculty Publications (2,202)
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
one mechanism for capturing the performance benefits of diversity in experience and provide insight into how the management of experience accumulation affects team performance. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
"As different cultural traditions meet in the marketplace and inside organizations, managers face tough choices about the values that they and their organizations will live by," HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine told participants at an HBS... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
everybody is getting into the cosmetic business.— Tyler Morse, Bliss "We'll know exactly what brands are performing well, exactly what sizes are selling," she said. Instant Feedback Morse said controlling a retail channel is a... View Details
- June 2018
- Teaching Note
Difficult Conversations and Dealing with Challenging Situations at Work
By: Boris Groysberg and Amram Migdal
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 416-031, 416-032, 416-033, 416-034, 416-035, and 416-036. View Details
Keywords: Communication; Communication Intention and Meaning; Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Management Skills; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Groups and Teams; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Behavior; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Emotions; Perception; Personal Characteristics; Perspective; Power and Influence; Prejudice and Bias; Reputation; Satisfaction; Trust
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
From product push to customer pull, technology has vastly reshaped the business transaction—and in turn, the customer's place in the value chain. Today, managing the customer relationship has become the single most important dimension of... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
fact-based, nonpartisan effort to understand what makes the US economy competitive. In 2016, with US economic performance lackluster and the public discourse in this critical presidential campaign muddled, the Project’s lead faculty... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
forthcoming Management Science The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures By: Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman Abstract—We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
management for a couple of years. I loved P&G, but I don’t have a lot of respect for authority, and I don’t like answering to people. So I applied to HBS. Why HBS? I always had an entrepreneurial spirit, and I wanted to learn about... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
long-term impact on the practice and thinking in this field will reach its full potential. From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management Author:Anette Mikes Publication:Accounting, Organizations and Society... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
institutions. We seek empirical evidence suggested by theories concerning conflicts between managers and owners over risk-taking. We argue that managers holding equity of their bank take less risk because... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2020
- News
Culture Shift at Big Blue
among the old guard of tech firms, is due for shift in culture. A former COO at Delta Airlines, Whitehurst joined Red Hat as CEO in 2008. Although his corporate background may have seemed like a surprising fit for Red Hat—the open-source antithesis of corporate—his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
of capital within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for performance measurement and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
new way of looking at the traditional organizational structure of cost and profit centers. Every unit, by contributing to effective strategy execution, has the opportunity to support and create profit. This capability has important implications for specifying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
and help build a better world while we are still striving to deliver high performance for the enterprise. Managing that tension is difficult." HBS invited the executives to the second Higher Ambition CEO... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
IT Strategy: Improving Service to Support Innovation | Information Technology
levels, lack of shared knowledge, and outdated technology. These issues were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, spurring action from the team. Though TSS is a team of well-trained and knowledgeable professionals, they lacked some of the resources necessary to View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
organizational behavior. Our ideas have been profoundly influenced by these early scholars. Q: What concerns you about the emphasis of leadership studies on economic performance rather than social impact? A: In more recent organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work by Cathleen Benko (MBA ’89) and Molly Anderson (Harvard Business Review Press) The authors argue that a lattice model rather than the corporate ladder is... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
were going to succeed and prosper needed to manage risks better, have a stronger sense of purpose to motivate their employees, and satisfy a public already agitated about scandals such as Enron in the corporate world. What I didn't see... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Jackie Burgos
In high school, Jackie Burgos, says, “I wanted to be an actress. Business was more something I thought of as a back-up plan.” As she performed in student shows and remained active in the drama club, she was also accepted into the National... View Details
- Profile
Jackie Burgos
In high school, Jackie Burgos, says, “I wanted to be an actress. Business was more something I thought of as a back-up plan.” As she performed in student shows and remained active in the drama club, she was also accepted into the National... View Details