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  • 30 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

organizational management practices all over the world. The project was borne of a widely perceived gap in economic research. In business academia, there is an optimistic tendency to assume that managers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

Companies that manage for short-term gain rather than long-term growth have been blamed for everything from popularizing celebrity CEOs to causing a significant chunk of the current financial crisis. Now new research findings suggest that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 28 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better

working from home brought greater flexibility, such arrangements often blurred personal and professional boundaries and created a never-ending day for some people. We asked three Harvard Business School faculty members to offer insights from research that can help... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Web

Video Management Policy | About

Video Management Policy General Principles At Harvard Business School, the video management systems infrastructure is implemented to enhance the safety and security of the... View Details
  • Web

Management Consulting Club | MBA

Management Consulting Club (MCC) and the general HBS community with ample opportunities for learning, exposure, and interaction with the consulting industry, and to contribute to the success of former and... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs

business schools can’t — the HBS experience, through its alumni teachers and its use of the case method. “The case method and the exposure to some pretty high-level executives” distinguish the course from other classes, Burke says. “It’s also a fairly low-cost View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • October 2019 (Revised February 2020)
  • Case

Relevent and LaLiga: Bringing Spanish Soccer to America

By: Anita Elberse and David Moreno Vicente
“Barcelona backs out of proposed LaLiga match in Miami.” It is December 2018, and Daniel Sillman, chief executive officer of sports and entertainment company Relevent, is tasked with finding a way forward after a significant setback. Relevent had found success by... View Details
Keywords: Soccer; Football; Superstars; Talent; Talent Development; General Management; Marketing; Entertainment; Sports; Media; Talent and Talent Management; Globalization; Strategy; Sports Industry
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  • 27 Sep 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Judith Chevalier, Yale School of Management

  • 12 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

businesses.” In 2008, companies averaged 2.9 general managers, compared to 1.6 in 1986, according to data from several surveys. The average number of functional managers reporting directly to the CEO... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

from general merchandisers to cotton commodity brokers, they opened an office in New York in 1858, the center of the commodities trading business. The firm served as brokers between farmers selling cotton and industrialists and exporters... View Details
  • 21 Sep 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management

  • 20 Feb 2014
  • News

Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

“because there were virtually no General Motors vehicles there, which meant no spare parts or maintenance available,” Goodwin recalls. Ultimately, politics won out, and the ambulance was shipped, but Goodwin knew it provided no benefit to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • June 2020
  • Background Note

Customer Management Dynamics and Cohort Analysis

By: Elie Ofek, Barak Libai and Eitan Muller
The digital revolution has allowed companies to amass considerable amounts of data on their customers. Using this information to generate actionable insights is fast becoming a critical skill that firms must master if they wish to effectively compete and win in today’s... View Details
Keywords: Cohort Analysis; Customers; Analytics and Data Science; Segmentation; Analysis; Customer Value and Value Chain
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  • Teaching Interest

Harvard Business Analytics Program: Operations and Supply Chain Management

By: Dennis Campbell
Digital technologies and data analytics are radically changing the operating model of an organization and how it connects to its broader supply chain and ecosystem. This course emphasizes managing product availability, especially in a context of rapid product... View Details
  • 03 Nov 2011
  • What Do You Think?

The Ultimate Question in Management

several forms. But many proposed questions were clustered around inquiries about willingness to recommend, trust, and authenticity. Among suggested questions that managers might ask of themselves were: "What positive, relevant impact... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • May 2012 (Revised November 2015)
  • Case

The National Geographic Society (A) (Abridged)

By: David A. Garvin and Annelena Lobb
In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.–based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of... View Details
Keywords: General Management; Change Management; Media And Publishing; Digital Convergence; Strategy Development; Business Models; Information Publishing; Online Technology; Business Model; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Publishing Industry
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  • August 1995
  • Background Note

Managing in an Information Age: IT Challenges and Opportunities

By: Lynda M. Applegate
The co-evolution of technology, work, and the workforce over the past 30 years has dramatically influenced our concept of organizations and the industries within which they compete. No longer simply a tool to support "back-office" transactions, IT has become a... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Information Management; Restructuring; Technological Innovation; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology Industry
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  • Web

Research - Managing the Future of Work

More Related Faculty Joseph B. Fuller Entrepreneurial Management , General Management 15 results William R. Kerr Entrepreneurial Management Jan... View Details
  • Dec 21 2011
  • Interview

Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management

  • 14 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

cultivate stars. But if there are only a few stars, these individuals will tend to have a tougher time sustaining top performance. Q: What else are you working on? A: We also examine the portability of performance in a different labor market: star View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace