Middle Managers - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training

MIT and a conflict resolution program at Mercy Corps), McGinn and her colleagues laid the foundation for Girls Arise, expanding and strengthening it through rigorous field testing. Once refined, project managers Annika Rigole and Clément... View Details

Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn

01 Jun 2012
News

They Call Him Mr. China

Issue Focus: The Global Manager Perkowski Issue Focus: The Global Manager Around the World Think Locally, Act Globally Bringing Global Back Home On Wall Street, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) channeled capital to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Jun 2020
News

Post-Office

has been the inability for folks to be able to manage their personal family lives with kids studying at home. Not everybody has a setup where partners are able to split the work. But outside of that, there’s the benefits of lower stress... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

23 Oct 2019
News

Training Principals to Build Great Schools

Picture two schools with the same demographics—rural middle schools, for example, that serve equally high-need populations. Both use the same state-mandated curriculum taught by certified teachers. Why is one school thriving while the... View Details

Keywords: University Collaborations

21 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose

factory in the middle of the city, and it is probably the only city in India where you can drink clean water straight out of the tap. Both my grandfather and father worked at Tata Steel, the iconic steel manufacturing factory. I grew up... View Details

Career Coach

Sarah Bua

Sarah (HBS ’98) is an executive coach and career advisor with 15+ years of experience coaching students, alumni and executives at Harvard Business School. She has a diverse business background, having worked across multiple industries and functions, including View Details

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25 Feb 2020
News

Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller

William Kerr and Joseph Fuller at podcast studio in Klarman Hall on HBS campus (photo by Susan Young) HBS launched the Managing the Future of Work project in 2017 to advance research that business and policy leaders can put into action as... View Details

23 Jul 2016
News

The Art of Persuasion

When Radhika Piramal (MBA 2006) returned to India in 2009, she noted two developing trends with direct implications for VIP Industries, her family’s luggage and bag business. First, air traffic was increasing rapidly with the introduction of new airlines and a growing... View Details

05 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

highly bureaucratic, multilayered organizations that companies are using to execute their plans. There is so much pressure to realize short-term results that middle managers are consumed by making this... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

05 Apr 2021
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

middle managers, in particular whether it had made such jobs harder and more complex. It is the latest chapter in a long-running examination of the role of middle managers that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Aug 2013
News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

with a growing middle class in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi. We hope to become the world's newest 'tiger states.' Bureaucracy and lack of appropriate infrastructure are challenges, but most African countries are now... View Details

Keywords: Management; Management; Management; Management

December 1998
Case

Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (B): Education Reform in Union City

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne

The second in a five-part series about Bell Atlantic Corp.'s technology-in-education partnership with the Union City, New Jersey school system. Reviews the education reform efforts planned and implemented in the school system, which coincided with the partnership and... View Details

Keywords: Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Change Management; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Education Industry; Telecommunications Industry; New Jersey

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March 2021
Supplement

Snapp: Scaling Under Sanctions in Iran (B)

By: Meg Rithmire and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in November 2020 as Eyad Alkassar and Mahmoud Fouz, co-founders of Iran’s first and leading ride-hailing platform, Snapp, eagerly await the results of the U.S. presidential elections.
The case takes us through the challenging times between... View Details

Keywords: Sanctions; Change Management; Disruption; Volatility; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Government and Politics; International Relations; National Security; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Health Pandemics; Transportation Industry; Middle East; Iran

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29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

reached the executive level at his organization. Why did he make it when so many other minorities plateaued in middle management? First, Williams had the good fortune to be hired by Nathan Barrett, a white View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

of the younger generation abroad. I'm waiting to see how open the senior generation will be to these social changes. What's true in the Gulf region more than almost anywhere else in the world is that there's a huge expatriate work force View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

07 Sep 2021
News

One Degree of Difference

Competitiveness and Hurting America’s Middle Class,” by Professor Joseph Fuller and Manjari Raman, a program director and senior researcher at HBS’s Managing the Future of Work project. The impact of the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

13 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

interviews, I walked away deeply impressed by the managerial capacity in emerging markets. The domestic firms are very, very capable. Yes, they operate under particular constraints—we do not see the many middle View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2005
News

WATER Ltd.

In an age of global scarcity, water has become a valuable commodity in both the industrialized and developing worlds. With governments and communities increasingly unable to manage the complexities and expense of water treatment and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Waste Management and Remediation Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

significantly slower rate than their white counterparts as they ascended to middle management, moved more quickly from middle to upper management as they passed plateauing... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

29 Jun 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change

there is a danger that commitment to an organization can undermine work-life balance. Successful CEOs are good role models. In addition to open and honest communication and continued investment in HCHP management practices, corporations... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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