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  • 30 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

seven years, large teams of affiliated WMS analysts have interviewed managers at some 10,000 organizations in 20 countries, setting out to determine how and why management practices differ vastly in style and quality. Best Practices The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Article

Megastudies Improve the Impact of Applied Behavioural Science

By: Katherine L Milkman, Dena Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W Lee, Pepi Pandiloski, Yeji Park, Aneesh Rai, Max Bazerman, John Leonard Beshears, Lauri Bonacorsi, Colin Camerer, Edward Chang, Gretchen Chapman, Robert Cialdini, Hengchen Dai, Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, Ayelet Fishbach, James J Gross, Samantha Horn, Alexa Hubbard, Steven J. Jones, Dean Karlan, Tim Kautz, Erika Kirgios, Joowon Klusowski, Ariella Kristal, Rahul Ladhania, George Loewenstein, Jens Ludwig, Barbara Mellers, Sendhil Mullainathan, Silvia Saccardo, Jann Spiess, Gaurav Suri, Jaochim H. Talloen, Jamie Taxer, Yaacov Trope, Lyle Ungar, Kevin G. Volpp, A.V. Whillans, Jonathan Zinman and Angela L. Duckworth
Policy-makers are increasingly turning to behavioural science for insights about how to improve citizens’ decisions and outcomes. Typically, different scientists test different intervention ideas in different samples using different outcomes over different time... View Details
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  • 03 Oct 2018
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?

CamiloTorres What Are the Most Effective Management Approaches to Inclusion? Inclusion is important to an organization. But it is a challenge in the current day workplace climate, especially when it comes to such things as one-on-one... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 30 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?

of the rankings in a year before its parent company was acquired but ranked toward the bottom post-merger, the merger would seem to have a negative effect on quality. To that end, Sheen enlisted a team of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
  • May 2015 (Revised May 2017)
  • Case

Colgate-Palmolive Company: Marketing Anti-Cavity Toothpaste

By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
In October 2013, Colgate-Palmolive Company, the world's leading oral care company, was about to launch its new Colgate® Maximum Cavity Protection™ plus Sugar Acid Neutralizer™ toothpaste in Brazil. Oral care category accounted for 46 percent of Colgate's $17.4 billion... View Details
Keywords: New Product Management; Consumer Segmentation; Global Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility; Healthcare; Sustainability; Health Care and Treatment; Environmental Sustainability; Marketing; Segmentation; Product Development; Product Launch; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Product Positioning; Consumer Products Industry; Brazil; United States
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  • August 2011 (Revised October 2014)
  • Case

High Wire Act: Credit Suisse and Contingent Capital (A)

By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
Late in 2010, Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan and his team closed in on the decision of whether or not to issue contingent capital, which Swiss regulators would require by 2019. There were a number of substantial issues facing Dougan and his team, including whether... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Capital Markets; Financial Crisis; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; International Finance; Financial Liquidity; Risk and Uncertainty; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Switzerland
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  • February 2004
  • Article

Leader Behaviors and the Work Environment for Creativity: Perceived Leader Support

By: Teresa M. Amabile, Elizabeth A. Schatzel, Giovanni B. Moneta and Steven J. Kramer
This exploratory study investigated leader behaviors related to perceived leader support, encompassing both instrumental and socioemotional support. The study first established that leader support, proposed to be a key feature of the work environment for creativity,... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Leadership; Behavior; Working Conditions; Perception; Performance
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    Alan D. MacCormack

    Alan MacCormack is the MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a member of The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member... View Details

    Keywords: automotive; communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; high technology; information technology industry; internet; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; venture capital industry
    • Program

    Developing Yourself as a Leader—Virtual

    leader. These learning outcomes include crafting a more strategic and effective approach to your career trajectory grounded authentically in your strengths, experiences and, aspirations; readiness in communications, negotiations,... View Details
    • March 2015
    • Case

    Twine Health

    By: Robert S. Huckman, Ariel D. Stern and Matthew G. Preble
    In late 2014, Dr. John Moore (CEO), Frank Moss (chairman), and Scott Gilroy (CTO) of Twine Health (Twine) had to resolve several challenges that threatened to restrict the widespread dissemination of its sole product, Twine. Twine was a cloud-based platform that... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; Chronic Disease; Technology Adoption; Digital Health; Health Acceleration Challenge; Strategy; Disease Management; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Health Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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    • 2015
    • Chapter

    Leading Proactive Punctuated Change

    By: Michael Tushman, Charles O'Reilly and Bruce Harreld
    This chapter focuses on leading proactive punctuated change. Based on the institutional and organizational change literatures and our extended involvement with IBM between 1999 and 2008, we suggest that proactive punctuated change can be effectively managed through an... View Details
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    • 31 Jan 2018
    • Blog Post

    Tiffany Nida’s Amazon Journey: “I Continue to Grow Because They Keep Giving Me Responsibility.”

    At Amazon, Tiffany Nida (HBS MBA 2012) leads a fifteen-person team in her current role as Senior Manager, Product Management, in one of the company’s frontier business segments, Amazon Transportation. Her five-and-a-half year tenure... View Details
    Keywords: Technology
    • 21 Dec 2016
    • Blog Post

    The Best Little Secret of the Harvard MBA

    how effective both could be in preparing me for business life. A “case,” for those unfamiliar, is a narrative booklet that tells the story of a business and (usually) a protagonist in that business who is facing some challenge, dilemma,... View Details
    • 24 Aug 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: August 24

    competition, which puts pressure on policymakers to improve institutions; information, which provides necessary knowledge to citizens that can help them push for improved governance; trade in institutions, which allows effective... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Dec 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: December 12, 2006

    more, expanding companies are hiring high-functioning groups of people who have been working together effectively within one company and can rapidly come up to speed in a new environment. These lifted-out View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Profile

    Lauren Burrows

    work, but what I enjoy most is that I spend my days working with a small, entrepreneurial team helping to build companies that are working to solve some of the most pressing challenges we face in terms of energy and the environment. How... View Details
    Keywords: Energy / Extractive Minerals; Manufacturing; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services
    • 25 Feb 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

    be: Let’s find talented women and tell them, ‘Hey, you’re good at math. You got a really good score on this math test,'" she says. “But our results suggest that this feedback is less effective in closing the gender gap than we might hope.... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Research Summary

    THEME #2: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH VARIATION

    Prior work has yet to establish definitively the role that variation (e.g. in individuals' activities or organizational processes) plays in the development of capabilities.  Variation is usually either not considered (e.g., the learning curve examines... View Details

    • 08 Jan 2020
    • Blog Post

    Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Private Equity

    The “Know Your Audience” series on the HBS Recruiting Blog highlights trends in recruiting for various industries. Learn more about student interest, effective recruiting strategies, and best practices from HBS staff dedicated to your... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
    • 10 Jan 2018
    • Blog Post

    EXPERTS SHARE 5 TIPS TO BECOME A BETTER MANAGER

    How can you become a better manager? What are the steps you need to take to get there? Below, we've compiled five management tips from Harvard Business School faculty and industry leaders who are featured in the new HBX course Becoming a Better Manager to help you get... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries