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Doug Lester
and wellness, tech, and mission-driven organizations. In addition to coaching at HBS, Doug works with individual and corporate clients through his private coaching practice Career Narratives. He writes... View Details
- 24 Mar 2012
- News
Praise Is Fleeting, But Brickbats We Recall
- 11 Feb 2015
- Video
Inside a FIELD Global Immersion
- 27 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance
practices that had been recognized by consulting firm McKinsey & Co., they began surveying large and random samples of companies to understand how well best practices were being used. In the first 10... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- February 2021
- Background Note
Jobs to Be Done: A Toolbox
By: Derek C. M. van Bever, Bob Moesta, Iuliana Mogosanu, Shaye Roseman and Katie Zandbergen
The Jobs to Be Done methodology is both a theory and a practical approach for understanding customer behavior and why people make the choices they make. Many practitioners, whether they work for startups or incumbent businesses, find Jobs to Be Done useful because it... View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Choices and Conditions; Knowledge Acquisition; Attitudes; Perception; Theory; Behavior; Customer Relationship Management
van Bever, Derek C. M., Bob Moesta, Iuliana Mogosanu, Shaye Roseman, and Katie Zandbergen. "Jobs to Be Done: A Toolbox." Harvard Business School Background Note 321-095, February 2021.
- 03 Oct 2013
- News
What it Really Means to Give Back
- 25 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of Teaming
learning and process knowledge, and explains why these are important concepts for today's leaders. Teaming is a verb Sports teams and musical groups are both bounded, static collections of individuals. Like most work teams in the past,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson
- Research Summary
Family Business Governance
Davis's other current work explores family, business, and ownership governance in the family business system. A book on this topic is in process. Included in this body of work is a large-scale survey project on corporate governance of Brazilian family companies and... View Details
Jaylon Sherrell
Jaylon Sherrell is a doctoral student in the Micro Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School.
Leveraging qualitative and quantitative approaches, Jaylon has gained experience working on multiple research projects, as well as... View Details
Leveraging qualitative and quantitative approaches, Jaylon has gained experience working on multiple research projects, as well as... View Details
Joseph B. Fuller
Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and Entrepreneurship. He founded and co-leads the school’s project, Managing the Future of Work, as well as the Harvard Project on the Workforce. He currently leads the FIELD Global Capstone... View Details
Six Myths of Product Development
Many companies approach product development as if it were manufacturing, trying to control costs and improve quality by applying zero-defect, efficiency-focused techniques. While this tactic can boost the performance of factories, it generally backfires with... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Video: Unleashing courage in tomorrow’s leaders
Abby Falik (MBA 2008), founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year, is rethinking the traditional gap-year experience for high school graduates. In ten years, Global Citizen Year has supported nearly 1,000 fellows in experiential, community-level View Details
- November 2005 (Revised July 2006)
- Case
Two Tough Calls (A)
A young female manager must decide whether to terminate two poorly performing managers who work for her. Shows the practical and ethical issues involved in firing decisions. View Details
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "Two Tough Calls (A)." Harvard Business School Case 306-027, November 2005. (Revised July 2006.)
- 24 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Data-Driven and in Demand
After graduating at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012, Chloe Ho (MBA 2019) began her post-undergrad career in New York working for Morgan Stanley. While there, she served in a strategy and analytics role, View Details
- July–September 2024
- Article
Psychological Ownership for Overcoming Departmental Barriers to Innovation: A Study of Innovation Handoffs
By: Alf Steinar Sætre, Amy C. Edmondson, Oda Dregelid and Sofie Rud Zimmer
Effective collaboration across departments in an organization is critical to innovation success. Our purpose was to investigate factors contributing to successful innovation involving multiple organizational departments. We employed a multiple-case design with three... View Details
Keywords: Psychological Ownership; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Management; Groups and Teams; Organizational Design
Sætre, Alf Steinar, Amy C. Edmondson, Oda Dregelid, and Sofie Rud Zimmer. "Psychological Ownership for Overcoming Departmental Barriers to Innovation: A Study of Innovation Handoffs." Journal of Engineering and Technology Management 73 (July–September 2024).
- 15 Dec 2017
- News
Patient-Powered Precision
Allen S. Grossman
Allen Grossman was appointed a Harvard Business School Professor of Management Practice in July 2000. He joined the Business School faculty in July 1998, with a concurrent appointment as a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He... View Details
- Research Summary
THEME #1: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH TEAM FAMILIARITY
Are organizational capabilities simply the aggregation of individual skills and experience, or do they also depend on particular connections between individuals developed through prior work experience? Since a capability consists of the accumulated... View Details
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
for an effective combination of different project management practices involving people from various national and organizational cultures, who are enriched by different experiences and management theories,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne