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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
are at a point in their careers where they’re wondering how to step up, how to have more of an impact and navigate across organizational cultures they might not be used to,” says Weiss. “They love their cities, and they’re keen to make a... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
J&J company performing well, and I tried to implement the best of what J&J did while avoiding the pitfalls it fell into. —Steven Newman (MBA 1992) Back to top “Heublein, Inc.,” aka the Smirnoff Vodka Case Smirnoff has 23 percent of the... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993
with J.P. Morgan. A member of the firm’s operating committee, she has run the Asset Management division, a global leader in investment management and private banking, since 2009. Her group’s record-setting performance is unheard of in... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
information technology and management, or organizational behavior. That broad range of choices, coupled with the satisfaction of conducting research in the field, generates an extraordinary demand for the handful of available places each... View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
unanimous: All-day breakfast. In the end, all-day breakfast rolled out nationwide in October 2015, less than a year after Cunningham arrived. In this episode of Skydeck, I talked to Cunningham about how she managed rapid organizational... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A United Front
Sustaining peak performance over not just years but decades may be the single most difficult challenge for executives, which makes Sir Alex Ferguson's 26-year run as manager of England's legendary Manchester United soccer club so... View Details
- 25 Nov 2021
- News
An Aria for the Ambidextrous Organization
operating an arts nonprofit in a competitive environment to ensure its future growth and organizational health. Zvulun, the subject of an HBS case by Tushman, cites Tushman’s new book, Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
explores these differences in a working paper titled "Limits to Globalization: Organizational Homogeneity and Diversity in the Semiconductor Industry." Extensive interviews with managers at nine major firms (four American and five... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
triumph since 1972 hold lessons for other kinds of organizations and companies? Sports and games serve as a handy source of metaphors for business. Performance metrics abound, and success and failure are on the scoreboard for all to see.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
turn triggers the adrenal gland and floods the conscious brain with chemicals. By the time the information reaches the thinking part of the brain, the cortex has been tainted by the prior emotional response. Thus, messages of emotional content - View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
capital markets and firms’ social, environmental, and governance performance. Lakshmi Ramarajan, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit, also had ties to HBS before joining the faculty. After earning her doctorate in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Books
organizational performance is substantial and quantifiable. An effective business culture can account for up to half of the performance differential between organizations in... View Details
Keywords: Utilities
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
Foundations of Organizational Strategy by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard University Press) Economists have historically concentrated on analyzing markets while glossing over the complexities of organizations inside those markets. Behavioral... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
American and European MNCs. Writing for managers who seek to boost firm performance and for academics interested in organizational design, the authors detail how MNCs can fully tap the value creation... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
not-so-pretty picture of a frustrating and baffling decline in performance by the varsity boat at the United States Military Academy. Polzer, whose teaching and research focus on organizational behavior,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Talent: The Best Employee Perk?
“[Just] as organizations that invested financial capital more wisely than their rivals performed better in the past, the companies that do the best job of managing time, talent, and energy are the ones that win today’s competitive races.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
The research of HBS professor Boris Groysberg centers on a question that troubles many managers: How do I hire and develop top performers who will contribute to my company's success? The author of Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Outsourcing for Radical Change
Linder Photo Courtesy of Accenture Institute As research director at the Accenture Institute for High Performance Business, Jane C. Linder (MBA 1976, DBA 1989) was asked to provide a managing director with new material for a speech on... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
On The Case
looking back at its heroic response to the pandemic. Still, it took a toll on the organization’s 77,000 caregivers, and the hospital would not meet its performance targets for the second year in a row. They had recently transitioned the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
concepts to improve organizational effectiveness. Richardson attended a more targeted program titled Performance Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations, which is designed to boost... View Details