Management Practices - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2018
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Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management

stand-alone course. “Practicing managers do not divide their decisions by discipline, so why do we do it as instructors?” Soltes asks. His second recommendation is to cultivate moral humility, rather than moral confidence. “If people knew... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

April 2001 (Revised November 2001)
Case

Supply Chain Management at World Co., Ltd.

By: Ananth Raman, Marshall L. Fisher and Anna Sheen McClelland

Describes a supply chain with very quick (i.e., two week) response times and allows students to explore how such short response times are achieved. Allows students to explore why other supply chains, with much longer response times, might not be able to replicate this... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain; Knowledge Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Improvement

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Clinical Trials as a setting for Health Policy and Management Research

The clinical trial marketplace is in flux. A decade ago, pharmaceutical firms almost exclusively conducted the study of their novel drug compounds within major academic medical centers. But today, industry-sponsored clinical trials are increasingly using community... View Details

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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Teams at the Top: Revisiting the Structure and Effects of Strategic Work in Top Management

By: James R. Dillon

This paper examines the usage and effects of small work groups by top management in the course of guiding an organization's strategy process. Reviewing evidence from research literatures on strategy process, strategic leadership, and small groups, I propose that a... View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Strategy; Leadership; Practice; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

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25 Nov 2013
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Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

Keywords: Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Archives & Records Management | Baker Library

Training and Best Practices Guidance Contact: Records Management Program lifecycle@hbs.edu Have questions about Special Collections & Archives? Our team is here to help. Ask Us View Details

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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Law, Management and Entrepreneurship Course Number 1540 Senior Lecturer John Batter Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Exam Senior Lecturer John Batter Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Exam Note: No student who is in the JD/MBA program,... View Details

25 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

themselves. As such, the researchers noticed that production seemed to slow down whenever the employees knew they were being watched. The level of workplace transparency meant that just as managers could see their employees more easily,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

processes, not universal rules. Nor should they assume that workers’ preferences will remain static. As we move from one next normal to a subsequent one, their needs will change just as those of the company do. Joseph B. Fuller (@JosephBFuller) is a professor of View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

May 1997
Teaching Note

Managing Product Development: Matching Technology with Context, Instructor's Note

By: Marco Iansiti

This overview to Managing Product Development (MPD) both previews course material, cases, exercises, and lectures--and provides its conceptual and academic underpinnings. Additionally, this note links these materials to the activities students will be undertaking in... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Product Development; Knowledge Management; Performance; Projects; Management Practices and Processes; Opportunities; Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Strategic Management Society for her paper with Ian Cockburn, "Measuring Competence? Exploring Firm Effects in Pharmaceutical Research" ( Strategic Management Journal , 1994). The award is for a paper... View Details

13 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

States, Zhang found that purchased companies added nearly 15 percent more minority managers and 4 percent more female managers to their ranks than unacquired companies during the same period. "When the old... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

ready for the practical experience of the Entrepreneurial Management Field Studies (EMFS) course. The case studies, he notes, were valuable. "Having the opportunity to work through the actual issues involved... View Details

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Organisational Learning in Software Requirements Engineering and Management

The current research project addresses the continuing low success rate of software development projects, which has been frequently reported in empirical studies. For example, the 2004 Chaos Report by the Standish Group found that only 29% of 9,236 application... View Details

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Theory and Practice of Intangibles, Intellectual Capital, and Sustainability by the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management at the 2022 EIASM Interdisciplinary Conference for “Regulated Human... View Details

February 1995
Background Note

Note on Reengineering, Transformation and New Management Principles

By: Richard L. Nolan

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes

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21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

Global health care is entering its most challenging era, with increasing demand for services from consumers newly arrived in the middle class, under-served people, and rapidly aging populations, all the while dealing with the need to View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

2015
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The Fourth Wave: Business Management and Business Education in the Age of the Anthropocene

By: Andrew J. Hoffman and John Ehrenfeld

Sustainability has become mainstream in both management practice and management research. Firms incorporate sustainability strategies into their core mission. University administrators promote sustainability as central to their curricula. Scholars pursue sustainability... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Natural Environment; Leading Change; Management Systems

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July 1995 (Revised April 1999)
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Becton Dickinson (E): An Assessment of Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling

By: Michael Beer and Pamela J. Maus

This case presents an assessment of the strategic human resource management (SHRM) profiling process implemented at Becton Dickinson. It explores the questions the assessment raised about the viability of the process and what aspects might be changed if the process is... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Human Resources; Management Practices and Processes; Strategic Planning; Health Industry

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