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  • 2022
  • Book

Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies

By: Ranjay Gulati
This book offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms manage to get purpose right. Few business topics have aroused more skepticism in recent... View Details
Keywords: Purpose; Business And Society; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Performance Effectiveness; Organizational Culture
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  • Teaching Interest

Applied Business Analytics

Course Overview:

Business Analytics has become a core function in many firms today and is driving innovation in the form of new business and operating models. Data-driven decision-making requires understanding of statistics, computer... View Details

  • April 2023 (Revised September 2023)
  • Case

Levels: The Remote, Asynchronous, Deep Work Management System

By: Joseph B. Fuller and George Gonzalez
Levels is a highly innovative startup in the health care space. They intend to revolutionize health by linking behavior—eating, exercise, sleeping, etc.—to changes in metabolism. They believe metabolic health can be managed through careful monitoring of changes in... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Business Startups; Organizational Culture; Management Style; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 02 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • September 2019
  • Supplement

pymetrics (B)

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In March 2013, pymetrics CEO Frida Polli visited Harvard Business School to listen to a section of MBA students from the class of 2013 discuss her business plan and provide feedback on the tests they had taken to identify career opportunities. Polli had developed a... View Details
Keywords: BrainTech; Hiring; Hiring Of Employees; Recruiting; Personality; Personality Traits; Startup; Start-up; Startups; Start-ups; Employment; Strategic Evolution; Psychodynamics; Psychology; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Business Startups; Strategy; Personal Characteristics
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  • 2015
  • Article

What's so Institutional about Leadership?: Leadership Mechanisms of Value Infusion

By: Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn
Leaders are important social actors in organizations, centrally involved in establishing and maintaining institutional values, a view that was articulated by Philip Selznick (1957) nearly a half-century ago, but often overlooked in institutionalists' accounts. Our... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Organizations; Values and Beliefs
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  • 03 Oct 2019
  • News

How to Market Innovations to Small Mid-Sized Businesses

  • 16 Nov 2017
  • News

Perspectives, Part One: Five Forces, Politics and Porter & Gehl: “Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing America”

  • Program

Managing Health Care Delivery

subspecialty chiefs, nurse executives, and leaders from physician network organizations Administrative executives and those in functions such as innovation, strategy, information technology, finance, and human capital Because this health... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care
  • Research Summary

The Role of IT in Firm Scope Choice: Diversification or Specialization?

The use of IT can have two, actually opposing, effects on product diversification depending on how technologies are used by the firm. On the one hand, some uses of IT can increase specialization because they allow customers to research and order products remotely,... View Details

  • Web

HBS Recruiting Homepage

Employment Data Access Data Regarding HBS Talent Career Choices View and filter employment data by industry, function and location to help inform your organizations unique hiring strategy. Let's Work Together Career & Professional... View Details
  • Program

Women on Boards

contributing to corporate governance at the highest level. Details Build your readiness for a board position Explore how different types of corporate boards function Examine the best practices of high-functioning boards Gain insight into... View Details
  • 2016
  • Article

Scandal and Stigma: Does Corporate Misconduct Affect the Future Compensation of Bystander Managers?

By: Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin and George Serafeim
This paper explores whether a firm’s misconduct can affect the compensation of former managers who were neither at the firm at the time of misdeeds nor involved in the scandal. Results suggest that stigma may influence compensation of former managers, even in cases... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Stigma; Executive Compensation
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  • October 2018
  • Article

Strategy and the Strategist: How it Matters Who Develops the Strategy

By: Eric J. Van den Steen
This paper addresses primarily two questions. First, when (and why) should a company’s strategy be developed by its CEO versus by some outside analyst or other insider? Second, how does strategy interact with vision (in the sense of a strong belief about the right... View Details
Keywords: Strategy And Leadership; Strategy And Execution; Strategy; Leadership
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  • November – December 2008
  • Article

Holding a Mirror up to Marketing

By: John A. Quelch and Katherine Jocz
The Dove campaign addressed a common concern that crossed cultural boundaries. Confronted by standard visual stereotypes of beauty in the global media, many young women develop self-image and self-esteem problems. The Dove Real Beauty campaign rejected these narrow... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Advertising Campaigns; Welfare; Diversity; Emotions; Government and Politics
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  • September 2007 (Revised December 2008)
  • Case

Michael Fernandes at Nicholas Piramal

By: Michel Anteby and Nitin Nohria
Michael Fernandes, the Director of Custom Manufacturing Operations at the pharmaceutical company Nicholas Piramal India Limited (NPIL), schedules a meeting with three of his reports, whose interpersonal conflicts with one another are causing his business development... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Management Skills; Groups and Teams; Conflict Management; Cooperation; Pharmaceutical Industry; India; United Kingdom; Canada
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  • 11 Sep 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Chief Sustainability Officers: Who Are They and What Do They Do?

Keywords: by Kathleen Miller & George Serafeim
  • Program

Risk Management for Corporate Leaders—Virtual

Public relations executives Attendance by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the program's impact, particularly in the context of risk management requiring active collaboration between a staff function (the... View Details
  • Program

Preparing to Be a Corporate Director

effective as a corporate director. Details Maximize your contribution as a board director Confidently assume the role of corporate directors, including legal and fiduciary duties Develop the competence and knowledge to manage critical board tasks Appreciate the role... View Details
  • Teaching Interest

Strategy

By: Jan W. Rivkin

The objective of this course is to help students develop the skills for formulating strategy, and provides an understanding of:

  • A firm's operative environment and how to sustain competitive advantage.
  • How to generate superior value for... View Details