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- March 2002
- Background Note
Forget Me Not
Aphorisms intended to remind managers of some simple but easily forgotten truths about people behavior, learning, thinking, communication, change, and relationships. A list of well known verities that need constant reminder. View Details
Tagiuri, Renato. "Forget Me Not." Harvard Business School Background Note 902-427, March 2002.
- 25 Apr 2014
- Video
Charles Foster - Making A Difference
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
White people often feel anxious about interacting with non-Whites, and they go out of their way to erect barriers to reduce contact with minorities, according to new research. When routinely making choices about where to live, work,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
McKinsey Tries to Recruit Mothers Who Left the Fold
Leslie K. John
Leslie K. John is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Currently, she teaches on the topics of Negotiation, Marketing and Behavioral Economics in various Executive Education courses, including in the Program for Leadership Development.... View Details
- 05 Sep 2023
- Book
Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs
lot of pressure to publish and get things right,” Edmondson says. By setting up an environment where failure is the norm, Heemstra takes away some of that pressure and prompts people to discuss mistakes, rather than hide them. Edmondson... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Oct 2012
- News
Get employees behind your unified strategy
Lakshmi Ramarajan
Professor Ramarajan is the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research examines the management and consequences of identities in organizations.
She teaches the... View Details
Keywords: nonprofit industry
- October 1996
- Background Note
Building Effective One-on-One Work Relationships
By: Linda A. Hill
Addresses how to build effective one-on-one work relationships. Spells out the importance of analyzing your network and understanding on whom you are dependent. Also provides some criteria for assessing the quality of your relationships. Finally, it discusses how to... View Details
Hill, Linda A. "Building Effective One-on-One Work Relationships." Harvard Business School Background Note 497-028, October 1996.
- May 2002 (Revised January 2006)
- Case
SG Cowen: New Recruits
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
Chip Rae, director of recruiting at SG Cowen, must decide which recruits to keep after the final interview process for new outside associate hires. Along with team captains assigned to each school, he reviews the criteria used to make hiring decisions. Their new... View Details
Keywords: Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Decision Making; Management Practices and Processes; Service Industry
DeLong, Thomas J., and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan. "SG Cowen: New Recruits." Harvard Business School Case 402-028, May 2002. (Revised January 2006.)
- 14 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career
His research comes at a time when an increasing number of people report being worn out on the job, with 43 percent of middle managers reporting burnout in the US and 70 percent of C-suite workers considering... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
Randolph B. Cohen
Randolph B. (Randy) Cohen is the MBA Class of 1975 Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. Cohen’s main research focus has been the identification of top investment managers and the prediction of manager... View Details
- 09 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing
interactions that matter most are not with the people you work with closely every day, such as people in your home department. Instead, the real influence comes from colleagues whose intellectual pursuits... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
like computers in financial models. Behavioral finance replaces these idealized decision makers with real and imperfect people who have social, cognitive, and emotional biases. My work focuses on how the resulting inefficiencies in the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- July 8, 2022
- Article
How to Conduct a Great Performance Review
Dissatisfaction with performance appraisals is pervasive, but they remain an essential managerial responsibility. The purpose of performance reviews is two-fold: an accurate and actionable evaluation of performance, and then development of that person’s skills in line... View Details
Cespedes, Frank V. "How to Conduct a Great Performance Review." Harvard Business Review (website) (July 8, 2022).
- 25 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Collaborating Across Cultures
and different ways of operating (government control over filmmaking, for instance) can lead to unforeseen setbacks and delays, threatening the success of creative business ventures. Vital Skill Learning to work with people from other... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings
Work-from-home employees whose days seem longer, with more meetings and emails than ever before, may find a new Harvard Business School study validating. An analysis of the emails and meetings of 3.1 million people in 16 global cities... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 08 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
CS50 for MBAs: Coding at HBS
would have to manage and interact with people who do. The lessons and exercises in CS50 for MBAs departed dramatically from the case method in terms of pedagogical method and philosophy. The lessons were... View Details
- May 2013
- Case
Bridgewater Associates
By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Heidi K. Gardner
Bridgewater Associates was the world's largest hedge fund with approximately $120 billion in assets under management in mid-2012, and its leaders attribute its record-beating performance to the firm's culture of "radical transparency." The founder, Ray Dalio, was... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Performance; Leadership Style; Investment; Financial Services Industry
Polzer, Jeffrey T., and Heidi K. Gardner. "Bridgewater Associates." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 413-702, May 2013.
- 09 Jan 2024
- In Practice
Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year
This partnership offers a reimagined competitive edge, where the embrace of human-AI collaboration becomes a strategic imperative for forward-thinking firms. Jacqueline Ng Lane is an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations View Details