Orientations - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

offices. There is also change in leadership expectations. New organizational roles are emerging, including chief health officers, chief climate gurus, chief diversity and inclusion czars, and other roles oriented to changes in the wider... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

purchasing departments. The process transforms these from functionally oriented cost centers into strategic partners with the line-operating units and the company. This alignment is often accomplished with a service agreement that defines... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

"Dutch" Leonard Periodical:California Management Review 51, no. 1 (fall 2008): 77-102 Abstract What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Program Policies - HBS Online

on-demand access end-date. Course calendars are not provided for On-Demand Programs. Each Program’s syllabus outlines the assignments and Key Exercises required to complete each Program. In addition, the Orientation Guide and course... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

Reaching Out

of the summer, Weenick recalls, one of HLW's program directors gradually began to use some of the "business-y" vocabulary she had introduced concerning issues of quality and efficiency. "It was instructive for me that it was not an 'ah-ha' moment," she says. "As time... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

work more effectively, and accomplish the objectives it sets out to achieve. This idea applies to organizations across sectors. The difference for public school districts is in the orientation of strategy development. As we mentioned... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

way to be on the right side of history is to be a good-ish— rather than good—person. Good-ish people are always growing. She helps us find our “ordinary privilege,” the part of our everyday identity that we take for granted, such as race for a white person, sexual... View Details

19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207005 The Dubai Ports World Debacle and Its Aftermath Harvard Business School Case 707-014 Describes the political ramifications in the United States of Dubai-based DP World's acquisition of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53441 forthcoming Operations Research Letters Orienteering for Electioneering By: Kallenbach, Jonah, Robert Kleinberg, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—In this paper, we introduce a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

Financial Economics (forthcoming). Abstract This study identifies the effect of a key cultural dimension—egalitarianism—on a set of international investment outcomes. Egalitarianism expresses a society's cultural orientation with respect... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

These changes did not—as often assumed—result in the decline of family businesses but instead gave rise to a different kind of competitive and internationally oriented "Mittelstand." The study integrates approaches from new... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2022
News

Blissful Thinking

different orientations and different timelines. HBS students tend to have a very long time horizon, because they’ve deferred a lot of gratification. The students in my Leadership and Happiness class are very interested in the following... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

in the kinds of capabilities (e.g., line management skills), connections (e.g., ties with international governments), confidence (e.g., learning-based efficacy) and cognition (e.g., an orientation toward bottom line results) they... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

organizations transition to these strategies, there may be tensions and multiple conflicting institutional logics. Additionally, we consider four strategic leadership topics and how they relate to transitions to platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies:... View Details