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Strong Leadership and Teamwork Drive Culture and Performance Change: Ohio State University Medical Center 2000–2006

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger, Fred Sanfilippo, Neeli Bendapudi and Anthony Rucci

Several characteristics of academic health centers have the potential to create high levels of internal conflict and misalignment that can pose significant leadership challenges.

In September 2000, the positions of Ohio State University (OSU) senior vice... View Details

Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Organizational Structure; Performance Improvement; Customer Satisfaction; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Service Delivery; Satisfaction; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Ohio

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20 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from run-of-the-mill managers. What Makes Innovators Different? So what makes innovators different from the rest of us? Most of us believe this question has been answered. It's a genetic endowment. Some people... View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

25 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

frequently that psychologists have a name for them: "fundamental attribution errors." Unable to know every aspect of a stranger's backstory, yet still needing to make a primal designation between friend and foe, we watch for... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

an organizational purpose—or, frankly, with anything related to their jobs—if they’re holding back important parts of their identities or personalities. “Who are those people who can’t wait to leave work every day, who are leaving right... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

15 Aug 2022
Book

University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

at least from its public institutions, China has shown an unmatched ambition to build more of the best, ‘world-class’ universities than anyone else. To this effort it has mobilized both state and private resources, and it has at hand more of the best View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

27 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

Organizations and Human Resources at Université du Québec à Montréal; and Wharton doctoral candidate Serenity Lee. "Sharing information about one’s personal lifestyle and beliefs online with the wrong colleague may expose employees to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

22 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

Setting the right sales targets for employees is a difficult balancing act, with long-term consequences on growth and morale. Setting a target too low, making it easily achievable, might cause an an employee to not put in the effort.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

higher education His stand on workplace deregulation raises concerns about continued protection of women’s (and men’s) human and civil rights A reshaped Supreme Court could roll back protections to the View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

Treaty tacked on to ensure that the United States retained the right to return should canal operations be threatened. President Carter's national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, said it best when asked by Congress what would happen... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

07 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 7

commitment dedicated to online marketplaces. In Greylock's view, 2014 was a special moment in time for online marketplaces, the beginning of a boom in the space that was being catalyzed by mobile technology and social identity. Rothman was the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

Careers Balancing Work & Life Careers Balancing Work & Life Achieving the right work-life balance is important, and sometimes it takes practice to achieve what works best for you. Striking the balance between work and life can be a... View Details

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Events - Business History

16 16 Nov 2018 Business History Seminar Selling the Revolution: Communist China's Capitalist Ambassadors, 1949-1966 Christopher R. Leighton, Harvard Business School Nov 5 05 Nov 2018 Business History Seminar A Social History of Urban Expertise: Between... View Details

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

Health Pandemics ; Medical Specialties ; Programs ; Human Needs ; Welfare ; Health Industry ; California Citation Read Now Related Knox, Margae, Elizabeth A. Hernandez, Daniel M. Brown, Jennifer Ahern, Mark D. Fleming, Crystal Guo, and... View Details

16 May 2023
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Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2)

felt different and out of place. In 2019, I watched The Farewell at a movie theater in Brooklyn. It centers on Billi (played by Awkwafina) who travels back to China with her family to reconnect with her grandma. In one early scene, Billi... View Details

November 2008 (Revised March 2011)
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a-connect: In Search of Talent Partners (A)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Dilyana Karadzhova

a-connect was started in 2002 by three former McKinsey partners who wanted to develop an alternative business model consulting firm, which they have positioned as a high-end staffing company. The company has been very successful, growing to revenues of CHF 30 million... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Initial Public Offering; Selection and Staffing; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketplace Matching; Expansion; Consulting Industry

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29 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

results are outlined in a May article published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes called Are They Useful? The Effects of Performance Incentives on the Prioritization of Work Versus Personal Ties. Whillans coauthored... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

but at this stage, if you don’t have the confidence and the right people to do things without you, it will be a rough ride. In fact, when founding CEOs don’t learn to step up into their roles and empower their leaders, investors and board... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

09 Apr 2024
Research & Ideas

When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details

Keywords: by Glen Justice

01 Dec 2019
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of naming names in the music industry are still playing out today, she says. But for all the costs associated with speaking her piece, the #MeToo movement inexorably altered the direction of Dixon’s life, right up to this moment where she... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

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