Group Selection - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

focus groups. "Focus groups tend to be like the law of the hammer," says Zaltman. "Teach a kid to hammer, and everything begins to look like a nail. You don't get a lot of depth in a focus group. People tend to say what... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail

23 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

where technology helps users combat mental health disorders by relaxing, meditating, and completing other mind-calming exercises. Competitors include meQuilibrium, Headspace, Big Health, and myStrength. The research team conducted an eight-week study, View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 1997
News

Short Takes

their time when contracting out their skills than when permanently employed. "This group clearly chose contracting as a way of working. This is not work of last resort," Bradach notes. The arrangement, he says, may give rise to a new... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

01 Apr 1996
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

jobs or embarking on new careers. Working with local club career advisors, the Office of Alumni Career Services, and the MBA Career Development Office, this group is looking at a variety of services that might add valuable resources to a... View Details

Keywords: Cathy Connett

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The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog

animosity toward others, so is there anything to be done without rejecting spirituality and faith altogether?” Requirements Attend one 2-hour class each week, for 12 weeks across term Attend six 90-minute Journey Group sessions across the... View Details

16 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice

experiment in which they showed a group of graduate students four laptop bags and had them choose which one they liked the best. All four bags were similar—same price, same color, generally the same quality—but each had different... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month | Baker Library

Business Leaders is a biographical guide of 96 Asian Americans who have had successful business careers. These life stories reflect individual triumphs as well as the trials of families and ethnic groups who have applied their skills and... View Details

25 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 25

specific assumptions about fairness principles or priority criteria, our method offers the designer the flexibility to select his desired criteria and fairness constraints from a broad class of allowable constraints. The method then... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

recommend creating two dedicated, IT-powered teams: a distributed innovation group (DIG) and an enterprise integration group (EIG). The DIG serves as the center of expertise for innovation techniques,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 1998
News

Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)

- a strategy, marketing, and athlete representation firm she founded - has been selected by the league's seed investors to create and manage the new league. The league's marketing strategy is "a hybrid of the ABL and WNBA women's... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Apr 1996
News

New Releases

Abraham Zaleznik. Grouped in three sections that address the future of organizations, the process of change, and the new role of management, the articles address topics such as how networks reshape organizations, why transformation... View Details

Blog

Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs

SETTINGS? AB: My classroom interactions were extremely relevant to the topic at hand. In the group discussions, we discussed the designated topics first and then opened up the discussion to allow open dialogue on other related topics.... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

The Way You See It

In response to a special Bulletin survey, hundreds of HBS alumni selected the people, products, and events that in their view have most affected business over the last 75 years. These intrepid respondents also did some crystal-ball... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

14 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 14

http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/management/9780199226009/toc.html Cases & Course MaterialsCapitaLand Ltd: CEO Selection Harvard Business School Case 410-055 In September 2007, the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 28

contains a selection of 42 foundational articles on the discipline of business history written between 1934 and the present day by scholars based in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. A wide-ranging editorial introduction... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

to become strongly mobilized to oppose any change. They can often do this successfully until the wall begins to collapse and a crisis allows leaders to overcome their resistance. Far too often, a select View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

When Protestors Knock at Your Door

a productive way for a company to respond? Spar: To be targeted is to be chosen by an NGO (or group of NGOs) for specific attack. When this occurs, NGOs use a range of tactics, from pickets to boycotts to "cut up your credit... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Jun 1996
News

Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

When HBS professor Leonard A. Schlesinger and the other architects of the new MBA introductory "Foundations" curriculum decided that a thorough understanding of capitalism's underpinnings was essential, they asked Professor Thomas K. McCraw and other members of the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

26 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective

evaluating companies. These projects include building and presenting a market map in an area of interest and working directly with a portfolio company. Projects are customized to align with company needs and students’ interests and experiences. “Students have a high... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Mar 2013
News

2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness

accessible energy supplies and a more level playing field in the international trading system also garnered strong support across the political spectrum. Liberal business leaders tended to support greater infrastructure investment, however, while View Details

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