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Leading Professional Service Firms

Summary As entry barriers rapidly disappear, competition is accelerating and reshaping the business landscape for professional service firms. Navigating this continual change successfully requires extraordinary leadership abilities. This... View Details
Keywords: Professional Services; Professional Services
  • February 2016
  • Article

Unearned Status Gain: Evidence from a Global Language Mandate

By: Tsedal Neeley and Tracy Dumas
Theories of status rarely address unearned status gain—an unexpected and unsolicited increase in relative standing, prestige, or worth, attained not through individual effort or achievement, but from a shift in organizationally valued characteristics. We build theory... View Details
Keywords: Status and Position; Equality and Inequality; Spoken Communication; Organizations; Japan; United States
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  • 2014
  • Book

Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy

By: Paul B. Brown, Charles F. Kiefer and Leonard A. Schlesinger
It used to be that if you studied and worked hard, you could be assured of an extremely satisfying career. But in a world of constant layoffs and dying industries, it has become increasingly difficult to "plan" your way to success. So what is the solution? Well, when... View Details
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    The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card

    What Color Is Your Parachute? meets Out of Office in this inspiring, practical playbook to achieve sustainable work-life balance while optimizing your happiness, personal growth, and bank accounts.

    Pouring yourself into a single... View Details
    • Program

    Rising Generation in the Family Enterprise

    retiring and rising generations Formulate and implement new-generation solutions that are right for today's—and tomorrow's—business, stakeholders, and family Take an entrepreneurial approach to new opportunities Balance opportunity and risk while View Details
    • 17 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees

    doesn’t have all the measurements that matter.” Don’t squeeze your workers If you squeeze your workers so that they are rewarded (in money and benefits and culture) barely above the amount necessary to attract them, then the job isn’t very sticky, Hall says. And they... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 23 May 2019
    • Book

    These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

    In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology
    • 11 Jun 2024
    • In Practice

    The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

    As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 2011
    • Book

    I Moved Your Cheese: For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in Someone Else's Maze

    By: Deepak Malhotra
    Now a Wall Street Journal Best-seller! If you were a mouse trapped in a maze and someone kept moving the cheese, what would you do? Over a decade ago, the best-selling business fable Who Moved My Cheese? offered its answer to the question: accept that change is... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Success; Personal Development and Career; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities; Creativity
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    • 18 Jan 2019
    • Blog Post

    Exploring the Tech World Through WesTrek

    post-HBS. The tech industry changes quickly, and we heard over and over how the case method - which forces us to take a firm position and make decisions with incomplete information - has contributed to alums’ success.   The Connections... View Details
    • 14 Feb 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

    leaders trying to recalibrate: 1. Be a catalyst, not a planner In the digital era, companies face a more dynamic competitive environment: key competitors are no longer the usual suspects, and customer and stakeholder expectations continue to evolve. The speed and... View Details
    Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology
    • 01 Feb 2023
    • Blog Post

    How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Jada Haynes

    my comfort zone (even if I knew I could fail because I had a safety net to fall back on). Did 2+2 change your path or alter your post-undergraduate plans? Not only did I change my View Details
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    Placement - Doctoral

    studies, are uniquely individualized. Factors like departmental fit, location preferences, dual career choices, and family needs shape these decisions. We celebrate when students secure a position that brings them joy! Students are... View Details

      Richard G. Hamermesh

      Richard Hamermesh was the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. While at HBS Richard served as co-chair of the HBS Healthcare... View Details

      Keywords: health care
      • 06 Mar 2018
      • Blog Post

      Peek: The People, The Experience, and The Case Method

      I was in the early stages of pursuing a career as an engineer. However, buried beneath all the Lagrange multipliers, Laplace transforms, and quantitative constants laid a piece of my future. Everything radically View Details
      • Web

      Managing the Future of Work

      Managing the challenges posed by the changing nature of work Managing the challenges posed by the changing nature of work Multiple forces of change – demographics, technology,... View Details
      • March 2021 (Revised August 2021)
      • Case

      Nayana Mawilmada: Transforming Urban Development in Sri Lanka

      By: Joshua D. Margolis and Mahima Rao-Kachroo
      In February 2018, Nayana Mawilmada (Nayana), investment head for the Sri Lankan government’s ambitious $40 billion Megapolis project, must weigh an attractive job offer to move from the public sector to the private sector. A massive government project aimed at... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Decision Making; Public Sector; Experience and Expertise; Strategic Planning; Work-Life Balance; Transportation; Risk and Uncertainty; Power and Influence; Personal Development and Career; Real Estate Industry; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; South Asia; Sri Lanka; Boston; Virginia; United States
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      • 21 Apr 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      The New Math of Customer Relationships

      customers. And they take time. So it's not surprising that not all of the organizations that have implemented parts of the concept have utilized it as a driving force for an entire business. Hardest of all is the cultural change that you... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • Research Summary

      Dissertation: Is the Ideal Worker Still Real? Sources and Consequences of Men's Professional Identities

      My dissertation examines the implications of men's changing lives for their work identities and for gender inequality in organizations. Current theories of workplace gender inequality hinge upon the widely-shared cultural image of an "ideal worker,"... View Details

      • 11 Apr 2023
      • Op-Ed

      The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

      additional changes three months in. Don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress. Signal your values. You might see mountains of food go to waste at your welcome receptions and decide that all food budgets should be slashed in half.... View Details
      Keywords: by John Quelch