experience - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News

associate professor at Harvard Business School. “But we also find that a surprisingly large degree of information avoidance doesn't appear to be related to such excuse-driven motives.” By replicating past experiments that sought to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

31 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

experience. Not so manufacturers and their complex webs of suppliers, who in many cases lack that same experience or large-scale backup plans. The result: a chaotic scramble resulting in production delays, product shortages, and higher... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Auto; Technology; Computer; Electronics

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Professional Development - Alumni

exploring our programs, exercises and resources. Find a Career Coach Did you know that HBS alumni get 6 complimentary coaching sessions a year? Learn How Career Coaches Can Help Find a Career Coach The coaching experience is unique to... View Details

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Your Coach Will Help You Become a Better Leader

backgrounds and professional experience to the table—they can provide valuable guidance and elicit significant new insights. Executives tell us that coaching is an extremely valuable part of their program experience. Markus Messerer, who... View Details

03 Jun 2020
News

How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee

Keywords: Rebecca Carnahan; Remote work

09 Jan 2020
Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

in AI, eclipsing most other firms and universities in the number of publications and patents. What did it mean for Google to be AI first? Pichai wasn’t talking about introducing a new AI-inspired product or launching a few pilots View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Getting Started - Alumni

and cover letter templates, and learn how fellow alumni made a career change. Find a Job Find a Job Find a Career Coach Did you know that HBS alumni get 6 complimentary coaching sessions a year? Learn How a Career Coach Can Help You Find a Career Coach The coaching... View Details

01 May 2013
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Raphael Geismar, MBA 2006

58 years after he did meant something important to me.” The HBS experience proved “very different from anything I had known in France,” he says. “With professors, the relationships weren’t ‘topdown,’ but more like with peers, people who... View Details

30 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations

Player A gets to keep the balance. But if declined, both players end up with nothing. Rationally, B should take any offer—even as little as $1—that's more than nothing. And yet, whenever this experiment is performed, B consistently... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
Case

Rosalind Fox at John Deere

By: Anthony Mayo and Olivia Hull

Rosalind Fox, the factory manager at John Deere’s Des Moines, Iowa plant, has improved the financial standing of the factory in the three years she’s been at its helm. But employee engagement scores—which measured employees’ satisfaction with working conditions and... View Details

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17 Jun 2011
HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

but who also had experience in the Western way of doing business. "It was a foot in both worlds," Shelman says. "They knew firsthand the Western model but they also understood the challenges of operating in this Chinese,... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

Experience provides pragmatic guidelines for implementing performance-based pricing: Invest the time up-front to carefully and fully define the objectives of the project and exchange all the relevant information. Both buyer and seller... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

a same-day reply by phone or email. The rules aren’t mission statements, but rather a way to make learning experiences easier to adopt and follow. McDonald adds, “Even simple rules can outlive their usefulness.” 6. Make the new look... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

September 2006 (Revised August 2008)
Module Note

Assessing Your Organization's Capabilities: Resources, Processes and Priorities

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Stephen P. Kaufman

Summarizes a model that helps managers determine what sorts of initiatives an organization is capable and incapable of managing successfully. The factors that affect what an organizational unit can and cannot accomplish can be grouped as resources, processes, and the... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Experience and Expertise; Innovation and Management; Business Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Mathematical Methods

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05 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 5

significantly reduces dishonesty. When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of Leader Power on Team Performance Authors:L.P. Tost, F. Gino, and R. Larrick Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the impact of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

strategy management system that we make a rather bold claim that leadership is both necessary and sufficient for successful strategy execution. The necessary condition comes from our experience with the more than one hundred enterprises... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Oct 2022
Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

though, I can confidently say they represent the best thing that could have ever happened to me. My first experience being “fully” out was here at HBS. On the first day of RC year, I mustered the courage to come out to my entire... View Details

10 Feb 2016
HBS Seminar

Hong Luo of Harvard Business School and Julie Mortimer of Boston College, Department of Economics

31 May 2023
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

continue to push, because if you succeed, unfortunately you’re the exception. If you fail, it’s I-told-you-so.” Election bid: “Would I run for mayor of New York again? Yes, unequivocally. I wanted to use my background and experience to... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

28 Jun 2020
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Perfect Your Pitch

Keywords: HBS Career Programs

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