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- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
Conant, he taught in a leadership course that he had designed for the company's high-potential managers. In all cases, higher-ambition leaders identified future leaders and developed them—usually through cross-functional and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
You Make It Published: September 20, 2010 Nervous about an upcoming presentation or job interview? Holding one's body in "high-power" poses for short time periods can summon an extra surge of power and sense of well-being when... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
and provides insights into the attitudes, skills, and subject matter expertise necessary to be successful in this role. Insights into how Everson does this job are provided by both PwC and client personnel. As is often the case, Everson... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9889.html Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss Authors:David I. Levine, Michael W. Toffel,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
and subsequent frustration of Red Sox Nation.) Groysberg contends that the "plug and play" mentality about stars simply doesn't work, whether the playing field is a baseball diamond or a trading floor. In addition to an employee's innate talent, View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
resource management, which emphasized job rotation and minimal hierarchy. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/812134-PDF-ENG RentJuice Thomas R.Eisenmann and Liz KindHarvard Business School Case 811-069 RentJuice, founded in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
businesses, each of which was not performing up to its full potential, it was uncompetitive. The chairman of the group, Ratan Tata, creatively reorganized the business to make it survive in the new open global economy, and then challenged his group of companies to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
experience. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50573 2015 Shaping Entrepreneurial Mindsets: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Leadership Development Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving By: Datar,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 2025
- Case
Thrivent: From Insurance Agents to Financial Advisors
By: Hubert Joly, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Tom Quinn
Thrivent, a midwestern financial services company with a centuries-long history rooted in Lutheranism, had reached $10 billion in revenue mostly by selling life insurance. In the 2020s, however, CEO Terry Rasmussen began a transformation process centered around the... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Forecasting and Prediction; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Job Design and Levels; Human Capital; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Insurance Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Minneapolis
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Newman Abstract This paper shows that product prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen by stakeholders to mediate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
School Case 809-063 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are best friends who enjoy pulling pranks together and talking about electronics. After several small collaborations, Jobs pitches Wozniak on starting a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
faster in sequential auctions conducted with a standard second price auction mechanism than with a clamped second price auction mechanism. We conclude that while it is important for mechanism designers to think more about creating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
will be opposed by some business interests, but making progress on such issues will improve society, and there is a growing recognition that business is not distinct from society. Healthier, more financially secure workers are more productive on the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Harvard Business School Case 909-010 Pat Fili-Krushel has agreed to take on the job of first executive vice president of administration for AOL Time Warner, leading corporate human resources, internal communications, real estate and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
accelerate growth. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509049 The Jenner Situation Harvard Business School Case 809-070 Dr. Bill Lemont is the new chief medical officer of a large academic medical center. During his first week... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
Aid Afghanistan for Education and a for-profit company, Boumi, that manufactures and distributes products for the home such as curtains, cushion covers, tea cozies, coasters, bedclothes, and bathroom accessories. The mission of Boumi is to create View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
strategy (and some consultants who advise on strategy) is that they assume that once you design strategy it gets executed. They don't look inside the process and realize that it's much more complicated. Bower: It's almost as if they think... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
new ones by going for walks on the same route every day or designating certain nights to playing games. Preliminary data from a new study by Norton and HBS doctoral candidate Ximena Garcia-Rada shows more than half of parents have... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
says. By allowing everyone to feel safe about reporting bad behavior, the onus is taken off of only women to step forward and encourages men to speak up, too. Similar to how the idea of a designated driver took hold to combat drinking and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
option leads to a fourteen-fold increase in the ex-post licensing rate. Two additional experimental interventions are designed to reduce search costs for (i) price and (ii) product information. Both intervention—immediate price comparison... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman