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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
Narayanan, the Thomas D. Casserly Jr. Professor of Business Administration and chair of the Accounting and Management Unit. Called the Balanced Scorecard Game, the complex simulation was the result of intensive research, development, and... View Details
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
trusted, capable person in the firm, to oversee the company's management process surrounding this issue. Jane's dilemma is this: Should she take on the responsibility? How does it coincide, or not, with her own ambitions? Can she decline... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- May 1990
- Teaching Note
Xerox Corp.: Executive Support Systems, Teaching Note
- March 2003 (Revised October 2007)
- Teaching Note
Tele-Communications, Inc.: Accelerating Digital Deployment (TN)
Teaching Note for (9-899-141). View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
Building sufficient cash reserves to launch a business and managing subsequent fundraising are challenges for every entrepreneur, but they are particularly daunting tasks for women. Women often come up short of cash at start-up and, when... View Details
- Profile
Nathalie du Preez
Why was getting a HBS MBA important to you? HBS, in particular, appealed to me for its general management focus, the diversity and quality of its people, its close alumni network, and of course, the case... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
there’s one thing I’ve learned in business, it’s the power of rapid-fire experimentation: enabling your team to test, rapidly change, iterate, and test again. Run experiments with customers and let them vote, instead of relying on the... View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
we don't associate leadership with women. I thought if that is true, then I can treat that mistake the way I treat other mistakes people make." This meant applying insights from the behavioral economics toolbox. The research team was... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
about 25 percent turned out to be mistakes. In other words, a typical manager gets it wrong a lot. So if a “right stuff” screen doesn’t predict future success, what does? I spent a lot of time searching. It wasn’t until I came across work... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
realities. “In recent years, the student appetite for entrepreneurial ventures has increased significantly,” says HBS professor of management practice Myra M. Hart, who has studied the career trends of HBS graduates. “The contest gives... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
come to them,” notes Susan Stautberg, president of PartnerCom Corporation, which assembles and manages advisory boards. “Before Sarbanes-Oxley and the outcry for better governance, you might have been tapped just because you knew... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation
conversations. To do this you can institute a practice of using the hand raise feature in video meetings before participants take themselves off mute to contribute. A member of your team can also serve as the meeting facilitator to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 13 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part
placed on inclusion. “Diverse hires are often junior hires and the people rising through the firm and reaching management levels are not the diverse candidates. Representation and mentorship therefore matter... View Details
- 1989
- Book
Pawns or Potentates: The Reality of America's Corporate Boards
By: J. W. Lorsch and Elizabeth MacIver
Keywords: Management Teams
Lorsch, J. W., and Elizabeth MacIver. Pawns or Potentates: The Reality of America's Corporate Boards. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1989.
- November 1981
- Supplement
Corning Glass Works International, Part II, Interviews with Top Management, Video
Presents tapes of interviews with Tom MacAvoy (Corning Glass president) and James Houghton (Corning Glass vice-chairman). View Details
Bartlett, Christopher A., and Michael Y. Yoshino. "Corning Glass Works International, Part II, Interviews with Top Management, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 882-513, November 1981.
- May 1989
- Supplement
Lincoln Electric Co., George Willis, Video
By: Norman A. Berg
Presents George Willis, chairman and CEO of Lincoln Electric Co., addressing an HBS PMD executive class on October 7, 1988. View Details
Berg, Norman A. "Lincoln Electric Co., George Willis, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 889-517, May 1989.
- June 1990 (Revised October 1993)
- Case
Phil Knight: CEO at NIKE--1983
By: Richard E. Walton
An edited, shortened version of Phil Knight: CEO at Nike with parts of Nike (E) integrated into it. View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Sports Industry
Walton, Richard E. "Phil Knight: CEO at NIKE--1983." Harvard Business School Case 390-038, June 1990. (Revised October 1993.)
- September–October 2016
- Article
What Senior Executives Should Know About Sales
Business is more complex, data more abundant, and more specialists are needed to stay up-to-date with functional best practices. As a senior executive, you can worry all you want about disruption, but you need a salesforce aligned with strategy to do something about... View Details
Cespedes, Frank V. "What Senior Executives Should Know About Sales." European Business Review (September–October 2016): 10–13.
- 22 Sep 2020
- News
Balancing Act
In a snapshot of the PresenceLearning leadership taken this spring, CEO Kate Eberle Walker (MBA 2005) stands, smiling, just right of center. She’s flanked by three other women and four men—the gender-balanced executive team she had been... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
restaurants. Things went well, until — as is so often true in the mercurial world of restaurants — they didn’t. Thomas put her expertise in operations and management to work, helping to sort out some of the financial difficulties the... View Details