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- December 2023
- Article
Looking Forward – To Better Strategy-Sales Coordination
By: Frank V. Cespedes
Business decisions are about tomorrow, not yesterday. A key to looking forward in most firms is the annual strategy meeting, where linking sales efforts with strategy is vital for implementation and profitable growth. But according to surveys, less than half of... View Details
Cespedes, Frank V. "Looking Forward – To Better Strategy-Sales Coordination." Top Sales Magazine (December 2023), 26–27.
How to Help (Without Micromanaging)
Extensive research shows that when employees get hands-on managerial support, they perform better than when they’re left to their own devices, but unnecessary or unwanted help can be demoralizing and counterproductive. So how do you intervene... View Details
- January–February 2021
- Article
How to Help (Without Micromanaging)
By: Colin M. Fisher, Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer
Extensive research shows that when employees get hands-on managerial support, they perform better than when they’re left to their own devices, but unnecessary or unwanted help can be demoralizing and counterproductive. So how do you intervene constructively? The... View Details
Fisher, Colin M., Teresa M. Amabile, and Julianna Pillemer. "How to Help (Without Micromanaging)." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 1 (January–February 2021): 123–127.
- 17 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership
day makes me optimistic that I might last another forty. But the darkness of each night makes me realise that, if any one thing goes wrong, I will not survive.” The circadian rhythm appears to be very important. Advice on adverse... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- Web
About - Business History
About History has played a vital role at Harvard Business School since the School’s founding. The School’s first Dean, Edwin F. Gay, was an economic historian. In “The Rhythm of History” (1923), Gay wrote, “The self-centered, active... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic
the first project, we didn’t have a virtual team room, and didn’t have a rhythm for working together and organizing our work,” the interviewee said. “In the second project, we had a smoother teaming process because we tried to relax the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Drop Everything, Read This
develop a practice to harness the rhythms and movements around us. Rubin also draws on spiritual ideas, such as to “play, explore, and test without an attachment to results,” to nourish creativity. “The making of art is not a competitive... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Should Leave
organization’s rhythm until you depart. You should attend all meetings already scheduled and keep your commitments. Avoid taking on new initiatives but clean up as many housekeeping items as possible (including title changes and salary... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 23 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit
company’s materials are designed to be as user-friendly as possible. A parent might help a child with pattern recognition by having them tap out rhythms with household utensils, or teach them to count by having them play hopscotch with... View Details
- 10 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
3 Benefits of the Case Method
among the primary reasons that HBS was such a transformative two years for me. This style of learning has numerous benefits, but I particularly appreciated these three aspects. 1. The distinctive academic rhythm made the learning more... View Details
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
solely defined by the transactional rhythms and white-hot speed of the marketplace. (My graduating MBA students talk of this concern frequently as they discuss job choices and sketch out their own career plans.) We can see this in the... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
the right expectation and rhythm for execution, discovering and developing talent to their potential, to being responsible for every decision I make. What's next? Teresa: In the year ahead, I’m excited to continue customer interviews with... View Details
- Web
Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
(CSML). 2020 Ethan S. Bernstein : Winner of the 2020 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize for the most outstanding MIT Sloan Management Review article on planned change and organizational development for ““Improving the Rhythm of Your... View Details
- Portrait Project
Marc Oman
The rhythm of chirping Blackberries. Students running from classes to meetings to a ringtone that never ends. Another kind of rhythm. What I dream to produce one day. To become a percussionist in a live salsa band is my secret passion.... View Details
- Portrait Project
M. Monique McCloud-Manley
joys of singing aloud... even if they don't have a great voice. Teach others the joys of dancing... even if they have no rhythm Show others how fulfilling life can be when you're not worried about being liked by everyone Speak out for... View Details
- Portrait Project
Bari Schwartz
ascending rhythm pulsed, slowly, repeating. The stadium began to rumble. The action on the diamond stood frozen. Slowly the fans started clapping and whooping. The organ played louder, and louder, and louder. A swell of people emerged... View Details
- 11 Aug 2020
- News
Find Your Allies
market phenomenon—which makes it difficult to build a consistent pipeline of senior leaders. “ we are way behind where we could be if we had had a regular rhythm with respect to people of color and women from, I’d say, 1990, ’92, which is... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kareem Reda
share, and to replenish my body (with food) and my soul (with faith). As for the rest of the year? I pay no attention to the rhythms and cycles of the earth, to the signals begging to be pondered. Will these days continue to pass me by... View Details