Leadership And Managing People - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark

management; in global research and scholarship; and in its commitment to values and leadership as core elements of its curriculum View Details

Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

Trade Act, which people widely believed was approved as a result of lobbying by the pharmacists. Gleason later said of working on the survey, “I left my store one day with only a toothbrush for baggage. I didn’t get back for six weeks. I... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

02 Apr 2014
What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

question for the month is that the leadership stars of today-Jobs, Bezos, Gates, etc.-should not cause us to change our time-honored ideas about great leadership. Among the notions advanced were that they: (1) are special, (2) are... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

06 Nov 2000
What Do You Think?

Succession at GE: What’s Next?

concerning GE's choice of a possible successor to Jack Welch? In your responses there was little of the talk heard in the media about whether it will be possible for someone to successfully succeed Welch. The prevailing opinion was that the kind of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

significantly reducing their emissions over the next ten years. "It's a major accord because for the first time in history, both countries are making commitments to limit their carbon emissions," Kirby said. "It's part of China being a responsible world... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

largely autonomous national organizations presided over by a cadre of 1,500 elite expatriate managers who championed the country-oriented approach. But as competition emerged in the 1960s and 1970s from... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

31 Jan 2005
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Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom

sent you to the Web site where you could see the films in their entirety, which starred the same dashing young actor driving BMWs amid all manner of car chases and plot twists. Because it was kind of an underground thing, young View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

06 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

brunt of the work/family trade-off decisions. And classroom discussions indicate that students just assume that's the way it goes. In the case, Nohria recalls his experience teaching the first-year required View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

16 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a joint project of HBS and Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also founder and CEO of the District View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

describes the purpose of boards is phrased very broadly. For instance, in Delaware, which sets the standard for other states, directors find little help in the statute that defines their job: "The business and affairs of every corporation... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

01 Jun 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

Nonprofit Accountability Working Paper. Nonprofit leaders face multiple, and sometimes competing, accountability demands from numerous actors, for varying purposes, and requiring differing levels of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

October 1993 (Revised December 1998)
Supplement

Erik Peterson (D)

By: John J. Gabarro

Implicitly raises the question of what Peterson should do to extricate himself from his difficulties. Should he consider resignation, go directly to the company's president to seek relief, or clarify the situation within the company? A redisguised version of an earlier... View Details

Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Resignation and Termination; Leadership

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03 Oct 2012
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Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

Summing Up Where Is the Leadership Necessary to Regenerate the "Industrial Commons" In their book Producing Prosperity, Gary Pisano and Willy Shih pointed to the lack of long-term thinking View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

October 2018 (Revised April 2019)
Teaching Note

Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.

By: Boris Groysberg and Matthew G. Preble

Teaching Note for HBS No. 418-011. View Details

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05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

on the 1040 form—but it's a start. Tufano is the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management at Harvard Business School. He is a senior associate dean of the school and serves as the school's... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

07 Jan 2015
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SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

the Internet? How many of us have then received offers for products that we didn't yet know we needed? Organizational transparency today most often is associated with good management practice There is a movement afoot to thwart personal... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents

Like many people interested in the tangled connections between health care progress and intellectual property rights, I avidly followed the Myriad Genetics case, decided by the Supreme Court this June 13. In... View Details

Keywords: by Richard G. Hamermesh; Biotechnology; Health

02 Sep 2019
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Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?

trade war continues (TonyO), leadership or lack thereof (Harry White), actions by the current US administration to encourage firms to bring jobs home and promulgate “America first” policies (Todd Z.),... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

03 Jan 2017
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5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

conduct sociological and psychological studies to get a true handle on what motivates people to do what they do—and what motivates them to do better. With that, we share some well-researched tips—based on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

June 2012
Case

Perfect Storm over Zurich Airport (A) (Abridged)

By: Michael L. Tushman and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Josef Felder, CEO of Zurich Airport, faces several crises as he tries to transform the Airport from a slow-moving, conflict-ridden, government-owned entity into a privatized, world-class airport. View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; State Ownership; Privatization; Air Transportation Industry

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