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06 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Bringing Music to the HBS Classroom: My Journey as a Nontraditional Student in the Summer Venture in Management Program

work for Universal Music Group’s internal creative solutions team as a Strategic Partnerships Representative and aspire to pursue a Master of Business Administration within the next few years with the long-term goal of pursuing... View Details

24 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors

career-related outcomes. “There are lots of open questions,” says Chang. “We're talking about using this tactic in a one-off interaction asking for help, but we don't know what's going to happen if it’s a prolonged interaction.” Feedback or ideas to share? Email the... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

04 Nov 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

Their skill-set is wrong." We chase stars for a number of reasons: " corporations and the media encourage stardom and discourage team work" (Nauman Lodhi); "It is the expectation that some 'miracle worker' or 'hot... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

processes may be used in other industries as well, Luo says. In a typical corporation, for example, a product management team of maybe two or three people makes the final decision about what products to invest in—but dozens of people in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

01 Oct 2021
News

From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact

continuing her pursuit of expanding access to therapies for children with rare diseases. This past summer, she interned at Genentech in San Francisco, where she worked on the commercial marketing team for the neuro rare disease group. “I... View Details

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

from them. Discourage exclusionary social activities, and make sure that teams don’t treat women as outliers or extraneous. Development. Assess how managers assign training and development opportunities, and ensure they use objective... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

Profile

Ignacio Lartirigoyen

After applying his skills at ExxonMobil – "a very exciting time because of the company's size and its level of professionalism"– Ignacio moved to an agribusiness closer to his roots, Adecoagro, where he joined the planning team... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

Competing arguments become difficult to judge, since advocates will suggest using those measures (net income, return on capital, market presence, share of mind, and so on) that favor their preferred alternative. Fuzzy thinking and long delays are the likely result. To... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

25 Aug 2014
News

Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983

says, noting that “long-range plans don’t usually work out,” and observing that in his career he has focused on building things in a different way. “I have spent 30 years working with some of the most talented people in industry—our CEOs and their View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Web

Developing the Plan - Advancing Racial Equity

curriculum, research & dissemination, faculty & doctoral, students & participants, staff, business engagement, and organization & culture. Teams that focused on these seven areas engaged additional members of the community and these View Details

08 Sep 2020
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)

paired student teams with technologies developed at the University, alongside an experienced industry mentor. The student teams were responsible for developing a commercialization strategy for the inventor... View Details

October 1996
Article

Assessing the Work Environment for Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile, R. Conti, H. Coon, J. Lazenby and M. Herron

We describe the development and validation of a new instrument, KEYS: Assessing the Climate for Creativity, designed to assess perceived stimulants and obstacles to creativity in organizational work environments. The KEYS scales have acceptable factor structures,... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Culture; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Performance; Research; Theory

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30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

learned that its 20 percent interest rate was higher than average and that the card didn’t provide travel insurance. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/prRmhGSXiSbMwOabP4CL][/div] After qualified customers activated their credit cards, Buell’s View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

HBS], the point I make is that you can have great values, but if you don't have the competence [to implement them], forget it. You need both character and competence. If you don't have the competence, you're going to get yourself in real deep trouble." "Enron... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2001
News

Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus

"but it needs the support of a solid management team at a fairly early stage in the company's evolution." Having reached the top echelon of a profession that has been both financially and personally rewarding, de Chazal is at a point in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2013
News

Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

threat," recalls Jacobson, who also led the product development team. "It was an incredible turnaround. The team grew the company by $200 million." With Converse back on its feet, in 1994 Jacobson left to work as a consultant and was then... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Web

Summer Associates | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

meetings throughout summer, and mid-summer and end of summer feedback sessions Create an atmosphere that allows the individual to take risk and to be a full team member Give them enough support and access to resources that they can be... View Details

13 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

Picture the Jamaican bobsled team going for the gold at the Winter Olympics. Or competitors in what seem fundamentally unbalanced battles: the Chicago Cubs versus the New York Yankees, Apple versus Microsoft, and Southwest Airlines versus... View Details