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Online Management Course | HBS Online

processes: decision-making, implementation, organizational learning, and change management. 8 weeks 4-7 hours per week 4 modules Self-Paced This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn . Overview... View Details

09 Oct 2001
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Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

bores you, and which the world does not need—this life is hell. —W.E.B. Du Bois In the organizational context, the four-drive theory implies that every person, from the CEO to the most junior employee will... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

17 Feb 2022
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When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

employees to discover their purpose in life but to then find a connection between our personal life purpose with the purpose of the organization where we work. The great resignation under way over the past... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

PublicationsOvercoming Resistance to Organizational Change: Strong Ties and Affective Cooptation Authors:Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We propose a relational theory of how... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Jul 2016
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Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

when the CEO sends out a companywide email, are you supposed to reply? That’s where the soft skills training comes in. After landing a job, Autism at Work participants are given mentors and team buddies—existing SAP employees who volunteer—as well as a job and View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

05 Jun 2023
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Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?

just guilty of falling into Odell’s “rhetoric of growth”?) Regardless of where you stand on the issue, time is on the side of the Gen Zers. The long-term future of organizational leadership belongs to them. It suggests the question: Is... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 2021
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Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

demands. "What we’re beginning to understand is that life at the top isn’t that easy." The historical study by Harvard Business School Professor Tom Nicholas, who tracked the status and mortality rates of more than 1,000 managers and... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

28 Nov 2005
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Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

Currently a Unilever brand can be found in one out of every two households in the world. This book has related how these brands came to form part of the everyday life of so many people as the world "globalized" from the 1960s.... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on Capitol Hill. He then earned a Ph.D. from Harvard's Economics Department. Much of his research focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations. (This research is collected in three books, The Venture... View Details

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Getting to Product Market Fit Hiring Fast and Firing Faster Life as an Entrepreneur Managing Growth vs. Profitability Managing Pivots and Setbacks Negotiating Partnerships Builders - Small Group Discussions: Builder/Founder Relationships... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Retail Work Breaking the Cycle The Good Jobs Strategy Show Hide Details Concepts Talent Linking Productivity and Customer Delight Competing on Flexibility Compensation Policy Featured Exercises Create an employee journey map to find ways... View Details

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Events - Business History

1960s and developed a research agenda for scholars seeking to overcome those roadblocks. In addition to offering a retrospective analysis of where corporate sustainability has fallen short, the conference explored the incentives, View Details

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

Analytics course helped to demystify statistics for me, rendering the subject matter approachable and appealing. The fabulous visualizations and graphics, combined with relevant and interesting case studies, brought the concepts to life... View Details

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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

August 7 $1,850 Certificate Leading Change and Organizational Renewal Professors Michael Tushman and Charles O’Reilly Lead your organization through successful transformation by learning how to execute for today and innovate for tomorrow.... View Details

26 Apr 2022
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What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

principles into every aspect of the organization. This purpose serves as a compass to guide all decisions, but also as an operating system that shapes all facets of the business, including its strategy, culture, and its public relations. It enables the organization to... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

nature of strategy, organizational design, and leadership. Management: An Integrated Approach is the only introductory management text on the market to address this challenge by taking an integrated and holistic approach to management, as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Pforzheimer Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under Accounting & Management) Robert Simons Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors (also listed under View Details

01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup

the life cycle of the company”—from proof of concept to platform and product development. It plans to focus first on creating oral versions of peptide hormone drugs used to treat rare endocrine and metabolic... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

Learning to create an effective network, improve your interpersonal skills, access new information, and connect with important organizational stakeholders in this self-guided course. Resume Maintenance Make it a habit to document your... View Details

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services is to enable a holistic view across the life cycle of the faculty, from recruitment through retirement. The DRFD team's singular focus is supporting an environment where faculty members at all... View Details

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