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- 05 Nov 2014
- HBS Seminar
CV Harquail, Authentic Organizations and Stevens Institute of Technology
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By: Roberto Verganti
Roberto’s research focuses on how to create innovations that are meaningful for people, for society, and for their creators. He explores how leaders and organizations generate radically new visions, and make those visions come real. His studies lie at the intersection... View Details
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Managing Human Capital
The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future general manager (not just the human resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and her or his own career with optimal... View Details
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Organisational Learning in Software Requirements Engineering and Management
The current research project addresses the continuing low success rate of software development projects, which has been frequently reported in empirical studies. For example, the 2004 Chaos Report by the Standish Group found that only 29% of 9,236 application... View Details
- 14 Dec 2016
- HBS Seminar
Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
country's lead in innovation. “R&D is a critical part of the innovation process, but it is not the whole thing” In this excerpt, Pisano and Shih discuss the concept of the "industrial commons." In the past a commons—a shared farming... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
Can leaders anticipate disaster? How Does Disaster Change Leadership Goals? Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival On a trek across Antarctica, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance became trapped in ice. How did Shackleton lead his... View Details
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List of Videos by Professor Bower
By: Joseph L. Bower
Bower, Joseph L. "Interview with Bertrand Collomb, Honorary Chairman and Director, Lafarge." Succession Series. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School, 2008. Video.
Bower, Joseph L. "Interview with Reuben Mark, Chairman & CEO, Colgate Palmolive Co."... View Details
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
Editor's note: With the death of Nelson Mandela, the words of the Roman poet Horace (65 - 27 BC) seem particularly appropriate in celebrating his life and achievements in freeing South Africa from the oppression of apartheid and leading... View Details
- 09 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Enterprise Risk Management
include: having top management lead risk management; creating a culture of risk management where it is part of all decisions; setting clear risk parameters and having them broadly adhered to; having the discipline to make risk management... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
styles differ. It is a common fallacy that there is only one style that leads to leadership success." Pradip Shroff added: "The simple fact is that leadership is an art and science of blending various styles based on the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage describes organizations that, Beer says, "are diametrically opposite to the firms we saw fail on Wall Street. The book's perspective also View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Overview
Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details
- April 2023 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco
By: Emily Truelove, Michelle Zhang and Alpana Thapar
Dena Almansoori, the first female and one of the youngest members of the United Arab Emirates-based e&’s leadership team, joined in 2020 just before e& began a strategic transition from being a regional telecommunications company to becoming a global technology... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Culture; Transformation; Technology; Telecommunications; Employee Mobility; Talent; Leading Change; Human Resources; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry; Middle East; United Arab Emirates
Truelove, Emily, Michelle Zhang, and Alpana Thapar. "Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco." Harvard Business School Case 423-040, April 2023. (Revised July 2023.)
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
leads us to undervalue risks. In addition, people overly discount the future, reducing our willingness to invest in the present to prevent some disaster that may be quite distant. People also try to maintain the status quo, creating a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- November 1998 (Revised October 1999)
- Case
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (A)
Du Pont's chief executive must decide what steps to take as his company expands from commodity and specialized chemicals into biotechnology. View Details
West, Jonathan. "E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 699-037, November 1998. (Revised October 1999.)
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
Takeuchi, a professor of management practice who leads the annual excursion. He tells students that the course "focuses on the links between strategy and innovation that prove useful in rebuilding a region post disaster." Over... View Details
- April 2021 (Revised February 2023)
- Case
Mahatma Gandhi: Changing the World
By: Robert Simons and Max Saffer
This case traces the rise of Mohandas Gandhi from his early days in British-controlled India to the inspirational martyr who, through personal deprivation and leadership, inspired millions and became the catalyst for India to break away from Britain. The case describes... View Details
Keywords: Mission And Purpose; Values And Beliefs; Personal Characteristics; Power And Influence; Diversity; Leadership Development; Work-life Balance; History; Leadership Style; Leading Change; India
Simons, Robert, and Max Saffer. "Mahatma Gandhi: Changing the World." Harvard Business School Case 121-069, April 2021. (Revised February 2023.)
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
cinema," Khaire says—establishing a criteria of quality and providing a stamp of approval. In workshops, selected filmmakers were mentored to realize their projects. "I find it hard to believe that merely having an iPad will View Details