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01 Jan 2005
News

Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

material rewards of business. They will come if you first take care to match your abilities with the opportunities that are available." CURRENT READING When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi, by David Maraniss When Joe O'Donnell talks, people listen. Last... View Details

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

Since then, the list has snowballed into an annual list compiled by an invite-only group of some 250 or 300 producers, script readers, and other film executives, who each nominate 10 scripts. The list’s creator then ranks the films by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

01 Oct 1996
News

Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

Foundation. "I'm working hard on becoming a ranked senior tennis player to make up for my nonathletic youth," Brody says. "I also enjoy coaching my eight-year-old son's soccer team on weekends." Brody, who has always relished a challenge,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Join the MOC Affiliate Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

impact in their home regions. Prospective MOC affiliate institutions are evaluated based on the following criteria: Institutional Requirements Accreditation status of the university by either international accreditation standards or national ministry of education View Details

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. MaShon Wilson is a technology operations leader and former management consultant, specializing in growth strategy and operational efficiency. Gibson and Wilson both served as officers... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Research in 2013. Raffaella Sadun : Named Harvard Business School Richard Hodgson Fellow in 2013. David B. Yoffie : Elected 2013 Fellow of The International Academy of Management due to outstanding contribution to science and management. 2012 David J. Collis : In 2012,... View Details

08 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

clocked 0.15 percent more hours. But the employees’ extra effort diminished as the difference in rank between employee and manager widened. In some cases, “We were looking at how employees responded to managers who were five promotions... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

together a group of alumni with experience in both climate and entrepreneurship and did a structured brainstorm with everyone typing into a GoogleDoc simultaneously, responding to structured prompts about unmet needs and ranking possible... View Details

February 1992 (Revised March 1995)
Case

Amelia Rogers at Tassani Communications (A)

By: Linda A. Hill

Describes a conflict that has arisen between an account manager and a creative director at Tassani Communications, a Chicago-based advertising agency which is making the transition from entrepreneurial to professional management. The client, the marketing director of a... View Details

Keywords: Rank and Position; Conflict Management; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Practice; Behavior; Creativity; Problems and Challenges; Advertising Industry; Chicago

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03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Box Office Power of Stars

to measure star power. When I looked closely at the data used in my study, I found that rankings of stars based on their past box-office performance can change dramatically over the course of just a few years. Star power is a highly... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

01 Oct 1997
News

Brice Cutrer Jones

eight years, in addition to ranking either first or second in popularity of all wines of any variety and origin. Jones credits his success to luck (white wine came into vogue just as he was harvesting his first crops); to the support of... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

May 2008
Teaching Note

Thomas Green: Power, Office Politics, and a Career in Crisis (Brief Case)

By: W. Earl Sasser Jr. and Heather Beckham

Teaching Note for 2095. View Details

Keywords: Superior ＆ Subordinate; Performance Management; Personal Strategy ＆ Style; Conflict Management; Communication; Personal Development and Career; Rank and Position; Performance; Power and Influence

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20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

demonstrated either busyness (“I have been working non-stop all week!”) or leisure (“Enjoying a long lunch break!”). The researchers then asked some 300 participants to rank Sally’s wealth and importance. On average, busy Sally was seen... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Erin Kaivan

military intelligence officer, serving two tours in Afghanistan culminating in a captain's rank as a Company Commander with responsibility for nearly 120 men and women in the 101st Airborne Division. On her first tour, she witnessed... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

01 Jan 2013
News

Thai Lee, MBA 1985

Purchases Software House 1993 Appointed Board of Trustees, Amherst College; first female president, Society of the Alumni 2011 SHI International opens new headquarters and cloud computing data center 2012 SHI International ranks 104 in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

their high rankings for education and low rankings for corruption. "The mandate of the UN on staffing is supposed to rest on three things: competence, integrity, and the third being national... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

publishes various "top 10" lists in numerous fields, ranked according to how many times the paper has been viewed, downloaded, or cited elsewhere on SSRN. Some scholars paid a lot of attention to the reported download counts of their... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Institute of Science in 2024. 2023 Prithwiraj Choudhury : Selected for the 2023 Forbes Future of Work 50 list. Amy C. Edmondson : Winner of the 2023 Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the Year Award for Right Kind of Wrong (Atria Books, 2023). Amy C.... View Details

09 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

skills, to give those people a meaningful pathway into an opportunity to have earned success.” "With OneTen’s backing, Black employees could move up the ranks and become role models for those who follow." Rometty and her team at IBM... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg

03 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details