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  • 10 Jan 2007
  • HBS Case

The Challenge of Managing National Security

attacks. Garry Emmons: The focus of your work is on how to manage integration within a highly differentiated organization. Post-9/11, how's the intelligence community doing on that score? Jan Rivkin: Intelligence issues are enormously... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

The New Global Business Manager

function of today’s global manager? We used to think of the CEO as being the grand strategic architect. Now the world is so complex and fast-moving that the general manager’s role is less about managing... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • 18 May 2017
  • News

Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

  • 30 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

organizational management practices all over the world. The project was borne of a widely perceived gap in economic research. In business academia, there is an optimistic tendency to assume that managers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

excitement and the growing enthusiasm, at times even the frenzy, about these new phenomena, on the grounds of the pressing demands on managers to deal with the new reality and on academics to understand these phenomena. “Existing strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology
  • February 2022
  • Case

Toto Wolff and the Mercedes Formula One Team

By: Anita Elberse and David Moreno Vicente
In December 2021, Toto Wolff, team principal and chief executive officer of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team (the ‘Mercedes team’) is preparing for the start of the 2021 Formula One (‘F1’) season’s last Grand Prix, in the United Arab Emirates. Everything the... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Team Management; Culture; Organizational Culture; Sports; Entertainment; Media; Superstars; General Management; Engineers; Competition; Problems and Challenges; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • Research Summary

Risk, Trust and Escalation Behavior of Owner Managers

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery
Professor Montgomery and Professor Deepak Malhotra (HBS), together with scientists from Harvard's Program on Evolutionary Dynamics, are studying risk-related decision making of owner managers in newly-founded and established companies.  This experimental... View Details
  • March 2009
  • Article

Earnings Management and Corporate Tax Shelters, and Book-Tax Alignment

By: Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
This paper reviews recent evidence analyzing the link between earnings management and corporate tax avoidance and considers the implications for how policymakers should evaluate the financial reporting environment facing firms. A real-world tax shelter is dissected to... View Details
Keywords: Earnings Management; Taxation; Financial Reporting; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 28 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better

working from home brought greater flexibility, such arrangements often blurred personal and professional boundaries and created a never-ending day for some people. We asked three Harvard Business School faculty members to offer insights from research that can help... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Teaching Interest

Managing Human Capital: Keeping Hope Alive in Organizations (Not offered 2013-2014)

Managing Human Capital has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the general manager who seeks to manage both other people and his or her own career with optimal effectiveness. Any and all students who believe they will need to effectively manage... View Details

  • April 2002
  • Article

Internal Capital Markets and Firm-Level Compensation Incentives for Division Managers

By: Julie Wulf
Do multidivisional firms structure compensation contracts for division managers to mitigate incentive problems in their internal capital markets? I find evidence that compensation and investment incentives are substitutes: firms providing a stronger link to firm... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Executive Compensation; Capital Budgeting; Motivation and Incentives; Profit; Decisions; Resource Allocation; Performance; Investment; Contracts
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  • October 2024
  • Course Overview Note

Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in the Era of Climate Change (ROICC)

By: George Serafeim
This course overview note introduces the course Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in the Era of Climate Change to students. View Details
Keywords: Environment; Innovation; Technology; General Management; Organizational Transformations; Investments; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Finance; Accounting; Leadership; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Management
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  • September 2024
  • Case

Leadership for Stretch Goals: Inspiring Employees to Achieve the Impossible at Charter Next Generation

By: Ethan Rouen and Elisabeth Powell
In 2023, Kathy Bolhous, CEO of Charter Next Generation (CNG), set out to achieve an ambitious "Moonshot"—increasing profits by $100 million within three years, purely through internal innovations and efficiency gains, without layoffs or new revenue streams. After years... View Details
Keywords: Profit; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Growth Management; Mission and Purpose; Employee Ownership; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

for natural gas, and to create derivative supply contracts that could help customers manage the risks of demand volatility and price swings more effectively than before. In this way, Skilling and his colleagues solved a major contracting... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 22 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

Observing and understanding the tasks and challenges that workers face every day is important. But managers who merely put in time "walking the floor" are not doing enough; in fact, it can make employees feel worse about their... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

    Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation.

    Randomized experiments have become the standard method for companies to evaluate the performance of new products or services. In addition to augmenting managers' decision-making, experimentation mitigates risk by limiting the proportion of customers exposed to... View Details
    • Teaching Interest

    Harvard Business Analytics Program: Operations and Supply Chain Management

    By: Dennis Campbell
    Digital technologies and data analytics are radically changing the operating model of an organization and how it connects to its broader supply chain and ecosystem. This course emphasizes managing product availability, especially in a context of rapid product... View Details
    • 27 Sep 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Judith Chevalier, Yale School of Management

    • 21 Sep 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management

    • Web

    Research - Managing the Future of Work

    More Related Faculty Joseph B. Fuller Entrepreneurial Management , General Management 15 results William R. Kerr Entrepreneurial Management Jan... View Details