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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Accounting & Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2024 Jonas Heese : Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 2024 Review of Accounting Studies Conference for “Variable Leases Under... View Details
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Building the On-Demand Workforce - Managing the Future of Work
digital talent platforms to access highly skilled freelancers. Read Employer Survey In 2019, Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute designed a survey to... View Details
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
and organizations, strategic planning, and operations management as we have come to know them. Professor Christopher Bartlett is faculty chair of the Program for Global Leadership. Executive Education recently invited him to discuss his... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 2014
- Working Paper
Learning from the Kursk Submarine Rescue Failure: the Case for Pluralistic Risk Management
By: Anette Mikes and Amram Migdal
The Kursk, a Russian nuclear-powered submarine, sank in the relatively shallow waters of the Barents Sea in August 2000 during a naval exercise. Numerous survivors were reported to be awaiting rescue, and within a week, an international rescue party gathered at... View Details
Mikes, Anette, and Amram Migdal. "Learning from the Kursk Submarine Rescue Failure: the Case for Pluralistic Risk Management." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-003, July 2014.
- 04 May 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
An Ounce of Prevention: The Power of Public Risk Management in Stabilizing the Financial System
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Battery Storage - Reshaping the Way We Do Electricity" with Serguei Netessine. Christian Kaps : Awarded Second Place in the 2023 TIMES Best Working Paper Competition from the Technology, Innovation View Details
- 13 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Entrepreneurs Needed for Long-Run Success
generations of the family are supposed to take care of and grow the founder's creation; they are not expected to be entrepreneurs themselves. Even attempting to reinvent the family company can be seen as disloyal by the family. This constraint often kills the family... View Details
Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
economies. It’s also testimony to a darker phenomenon. A recent study reported in MIT Sloan Management Review concludes that from April through September, the main reason for quitting in the US (10 times... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
system before my departure. I learned several things during my time at Uncommon Schools. First, veterans can bring our project management skill set into the workplace and make a huge difference to teams... View Details
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Future Positive - Managing the Future of Work
to embrace change and prepare for the future. Read Featured Article Your Workforce Is More Adaptable Than You Think Joseph B. Fuller, Judith K. Wallenstein, Manjari Raman & Alice de Chalendar MAY-JUN 2019 | Harvard Business Review Many View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
PeopleImages New business school graduates have now made their way from campus to workplace. For them, this should be a time of optimism and energy, of setting ambitious goals and testing new ideas. At Harvard Business School, where I... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
Summing Up Respondents to the December column produced such a lengthy list of reasons why managers fail to act on their predictions that it is a wonder that organizations are ever able to respond with the foresight needed to avert... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
2014, when George's branch obtained control and fired the CEO—who happened to be a cousin, Arthur T. Demoulas. Management was outraged, and the employees walked out in support of their CEO. The company lost tens of millions of dollars as... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- October 2021
- Article
Can European Electric Utilities Manage Asset Impairments Arising from Net Zero Targets?
By: Conor Hickey, John O'Brien, Ben Caldecott, Celine McInerney and Brian O' Gallachoir
This paper develops a framework to assess the ability of electric utilities to sustain the forced impairment of carbon emitting power plants and applies it to the European market. We present a new method to measure asset impairment, for both the company and the... View Details
Hickey, Conor, John O'Brien, Ben Caldecott, Celine McInerney, and Brian O' Gallachoir. "Can European Electric Utilities Manage Asset Impairments Arising from Net Zero Targets?" Art. 102075. Journal of Corporate Finance 70 (October 2021).
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work
few Irish natives living in England - to get to know each other in a casual atmosphere, giving them free time between planned activities. "We wanted to begin, in a small way, the process of building bridges between the communities and... View Details
- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
My Week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)
directors stressed that we must manage our time well in order to finish reading the 2-3 cases assigned each night to prepare for each day of class (14 cases total!). The case method approach to learning... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
or arrogance. Martina suggested that “pride in one’s organization stems from a collective reach for excellence, civility, and a humble perspective this is what is fostered by management teams who lead by example. Arrogance I believe comes... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- May 2010 (Revised April 2012)
- Teaching Note
Global Knowledge Management at Danone (TN) (A), (B) and (C)
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Natalie Kindred
Teaching Note for 608107. View Details
- 31 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Management
virtually. The Women in Investing Summit and the Investment Club Conference are also effective ways to get in front of students and participate in the student conversation around investing. With regard to timing for Investment View Details
Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund