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- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
Understand the roles Do you understand the difference between a front-end developer versus designer versus UX expert? (If you don’t, read this.) Are you fluent enough in your architecture to know what type... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself
outgoing or creative? Gino: We can learn to bring out the badass in ourselves and part of what we do is to show people how from a person who’s done it, [Saint John]. Frances and I see our View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
on the other side stronger.” The courage to acknowledge vulnerability can strengthen the position of leaders. Employees don’t expect leaders to have all the answers, but they do View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
communication of new safety principles, the plans made to implement them, and the role that each employee had in sustaining them over time. Involvement View Details
- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
pursues." Joe Schmid commented that "the 'highest behavior' any leader can expect from those they lead is the 'lowest behavior' they demonstrate." To the extent that fairness and ethical behaviors are View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
2020 print edition of the Academy of Management Journal. “A big lesson for all organizations is to be more thoughtful about the extent to which our expectations for others are... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
line. Q: What is the role of the manager in this process? A: Your question about the role of the manager gets... View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
how they would answer the question, "Can for-profit corporations be good citizens?" In reflecting on their answers, the chapter puts forward an account that grounds the purpose and responsibilities View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
to the CEO. In many cases, the chief legal officer should be a member of the top management team who is expected to weigh in on all issues, not... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
executive compensation. Yet while laws, regulations, and policies have a clear role to play here, they are a relatively expensive and inefficient way for a society to promote responsible conduct and trustworthy business leadership. View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
relies heavily on foreign debt. Access to such debt is suddenly curtailed when there is a downturn in market sentiment regarding the Icelandic economy as a whole. Students will reflect on the essential elements View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
maximize the gains and minimize the risks, but all three have been in short supply in Argentina, especially, for decades. Q: What role did the Business History Initiative... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
in philanthropy as well. "We expect to see greater opportunities for workers with transferable, soft skills in the wake of growing automation."... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
are you won’t ever learn how to pull off a triple bypass. And yet, in business, companies routinely expect employees to pick up new job knowledge through vicarious learning—through reading descriptions View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
Look beyond the United States and Great Britain and you are likely to find networks of companies, from Latin America's grupos to India's business houses and Japan's keiretsu, helping to form the world's economies. For HBS associate... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
value-creating activity. It would be unfortunate if boards focused only on compliance and didn't engage in functions that create value. —Robert S. Kaplan The board role is significantly different than that... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- January 2007
- Case
Robert E. Rubin (A)
By: Nitin Nohria, Robert Steven Kaplan and Nicole Davison
Bob Rubin was a businessman given the task of setting up and running the National Economic Council for the Clinton Administration. Unfamiliar with management in a political climate, Rubin worked hard to design, staff, and position the Council to make better economic... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Government and Politics; Managerial Roles; Macroeconomics; Organizational Design; Economy
Nohria, Nitin, Robert Steven Kaplan, and Nicole Davison. "Robert E. Rubin (A)." Harvard Business School Case 407-064, January 2007.
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
Eisenmann says. “With some distance from the failure, a founder will typically see that those first-blush explanations may have some merit. But they’ll also recognize that their own decisions and shortcomings as a leader almost certainly played a big View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
role of small entrepreneurs in the co-creation of the industry. Making extensive use of oral history, the article... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
have with their consumers which may be leveraged to mobilize action. In fact, 63 percent of those surveyed believe that their country will not make it through the COVID-19 crisis without brands playing a... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman