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  • May 2025
  • Background Note

Skills-First Talent Management: The Importance of Managers

By: Boris Groysberg, Nicole Zelazko, Tom Quinn, Robin Abrahams, Izzy Yeoh and Colleen Ammerman
This note supplements a 2025 series on skills-first talent management in organizations, comprising “Skills-First Talent Management: Hiring” (HBS No. 425-019), “Skills-First Talent Management: Onboarding, Development, and Performance Management” (HBS No. 425-020), and... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Talent and Talent Management; Experience and Expertise; Job Design and Levels; Employment; Human Capital; Management Practices and Processes; United States
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  • February 2014
  • Teaching Note

A.P. Møller–Maersk Group: Evaluating Strategic Talent Management Initiatives

By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Robin Abrahams
This teaching note is an accompaniment to the case, A.P. Møller–Maersk Group: Evaluating Strategic Talent Management Initiatives. The case reviews the talent management issues being discussed at Maersk Group, a global conglomerate with large shipping and oil & gas... View Details
Keywords: Retention; Human Capital; Human Resources; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Management Practices and Processes; Shipping Industry; Energy Industry; Denmark
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  • 20 Aug 2015
  • Blog Post

AVICII: REFLECTIONS ON MANAGING THE BRAND OF A GLOBAL SUPERSTAR

goals, and values related to our lives and careers post business school. One of my ten photos was of a young Swedish DJ named Avicii and his... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
  • Web

General Management - Faculty & Research

encompasses: the personal values and qualities of effective general managers and enterprise leaders; the philosophies, values, and strategies... View Details
  • 2022
  • Article

Diffusing Management Practices within the Firm: The Role of Information Provision

By: Michael J. Lenox and Michael W. Toffel
Why are some firms more successful in adopting profitable environmental management practices than others? A key role of corporate managers is to encourage subsidiaries to adopt innovative practices. We examine the conditions under which corporate managers use... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Strategy; Information Provision; Environmental Management; Knowledge Dissemination
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  • Web

Research - Managing the Future of Work

help employees manage their caregiving responsibilities—while reducing costs and increasing productivity By: Joseph B. Fuller and Manjari Raman October 2017 Report Dismissed by... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2022
  • News

Hong Kong: A Case Study of Managing in Extreme Uncertainty

  • Web

Online Management Course | HBS Online

techniques that they can readily apply in their organizations to create higher quality, more efficient work. Related Programs 7 Courses Credential of Leadership, Impact, and View Details
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990

By: Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski
This working paper examines corporate strategies of political risk management during the twentieth century. It focuses especially on Beiersdorf, a German-based pharmaceutical and skin care company. During World War I the expropriation of its brands and trademarks... View Details
Keywords: History; Risk Management; Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Intellectual Property; Cooperation; Business and Government Relations; Germany
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  • 05 Jul 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Are Middle Managers Falling Down Most Often on Employee Inclusion?

(iStockphoto/AzmanL) Search “inclusion” on Amazon and the majority of book entries that come up are for children. Is that an indicator of the current state of management art on the subject? Fortunately,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 19 Aug 2010
  • News

Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • January 2012 (Revised September 2012)
  • Case

Aadhaar: India's 'Unique Identification' System

By: Tarun Khanna and Anjali Raina
Keywords: Business Government Relations; Information; Information Technology; Organizational Design; Infrastructure; Leadership Style; Business and Government Relations; Change Management; Crime and Corruption; Identity; Projects; Information Management; Information Technology Industry; India
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  • 14 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

important career matter for individuals as well as for managers who want to inspire, nurture, and recruit stars. A new study by Harvard Business School's Boris Groysberg and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 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:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2019
  • Article

Industrie-Holding: Creating a Community of Interest among Swiss 'Multinationals'

By: Sabine Pitteloud
This article focuses on the genesis and evolution of Industrie-Holding, a federation of Swiss multinationals, from 1942 onwards. Thanks to recent donations from the Alusuisse and Hero archives, historians now have access to the minutes of the Industrie-Holding... View Details
Keywords: Business ＆ Government Relations; Multinationals; Lobbying; Business and Government Relations; Multinational Firms and Management; Switzerland
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About the Program - Summer Venture in Management

Harvard Business School Summer Venture in Management About the Program About the Program Curious to know what a “day in the life” of an MBA student is like? Experience it first-hand at the Summer Venture in View Details
  • Teaching Interest

Overview

By: Debora L. Spar
I currently teach an Elective Course on Capitalism and the State (CATS), and serve as Course Head for a new Required Curriculum course on the Social Purpose of the Firm (SPF). Previously, I developed and taught Managing International Trade and Investment (MITI) in the... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Business ＆ Government Relations; Business And Society; International Trade; Technological Change: Choices And Consequences; Business and Government Relations; Education Industry; United States; Europe; Africa; Asia
  • June 1994 (Revised August 1994)
  • Case

Cunard Line Ltd.: Managing Integrated Marketing Communications

By: Stephen A. Greyser
Cunard, the world's oldest luxury line company, is confronted with several key issues involving its marketing and marketing communications strategy. One concerns the balance between image/positioning advertising and short-term-oriented promotional... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Consumer Behavior; Organizational Structure; Identity; Balance and Stability; Shipping Industry
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  • 08 May 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Mara Lederman, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management

  • Web

Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

managers on environmental and social governance? May 2025 Case Daiichi Sankyo: Steering a Global Organization By: Tiona Zuzul , Amy C. Edmondson and Cat Huang In the spring of... View Details