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  • September 2009
  • Module Note

Leading Teams Note

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer
This note, which describes the architecture and processes that characterize effective teams, begins by detailing the steps involved in designing a team, from diagnosing the complexity, interdependence, and objectives of the task to harnessing the key resources teams... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership; Business Processes; Groups and Teams
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  • 04 Oct 2021
  • News

Ambitious? Learn What Companies Actually Want in a CEO

  • 10 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

determinants of success. It was a function that provided the opportunity to be involved in the whole marketing process. To build my management skills and set myself on a path toward executive-level... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

bolster their bargaining power, and channeling the flow of the process through time. They understand that actions taken away from the negotiating table can be as important as what goes on at the table, if not more so.1 Specifically, View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
  • Apr 12 2017
  • Testimonial

Getting Back to Basics

  • September 2005 (Revised March 2009)
  • Background Note

Developing an Effective Living Group

By: Michael Beer, John J. Gabarro and Michael L. Tushman
Discusses the importance of living room groups (eight participants who share a living room) in Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program developing into effective learning groups. The diversity of the groups is a strength, but only a conscious and concerted... View Details
Keywords: Executive Education; Groups and Teams; Competency and Skills; Learning; Diversity; Growth and Development
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  • Research Summary

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

By: Sandra J. Sucher

In this research I develop cases and articles that provide thought-provoking, real-world examples of the ways in which social identity differences emerge and are managed in the workplace, and the skills needed to constructively engage with differences to create and... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Equity; Social Issues
  • 23 Feb 2022
  • News

‘From Strength to Strength,’ Lessons in Leadership, Happiness

  • January 2023
  • Article

Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

By: William R. Kerr and Martin Mandorff
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self-employment for dry cleaning than other... View Details
Keywords: Self-employed; Occupation; Entrepreneurship; Ethnicity; Immigration; Networks
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  • July–August 2014
  • Article

Becoming a First-Class Noticer: How to Spot and Prevent Ethical Failures in Your Organization

By: Max Bazerman
We'd like to think that no smart, upstanding manager would ever overlook or turn a blind eye to threats or wrongdoing that ultimately imperil his or her business. Yet it happens all the time. We fall prey to obstacles that obscure or drown out important signals that... View Details
Keywords: Accountability; Business Ethics; Cognitive Psychology; Human Behavior; Personal Ethics In Business; Business or Company Management; Ethics
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  • 15 Feb 2012
  • News

Professor Rob Kaplan Teaches in Haiti

  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

at the top than business acumen and "soft" leadership skills do. Members of senior management now have more in common with their peers than with the people they manage. To thrive at the C-level,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2023
  • Supplement

Clash of Two Giants Simulation Exercise

By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti
Many markets are organized around platforms that connect consumers with complementary applications and services. These platforms are two-sided because both sides - consumers and those providing applications or services - need access to the same platform to interact. A... View Details
Keywords: Customer Acquisition; Platform Strategy; Technology Platform; Digital Platforms; Competitive Strategy; Network Effects
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    Joseph B. Fuller

    Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and Entrepreneurship. He founded and co-leads the school’s project, Managing the Future of Work, as well as the Harvard Project on the Workforce. He currently leads the FIELD Global Capstone... View Details

    • Career Coach

    David Woodman

    David (HBS '92) uses his experience in starting and running media companies to assist students in matching their skills and interests with opportunities in the Media, Sports, and Entertainment sectors.Work Experience: General View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Sports
    • 29 May 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

    "Is talent management portable?" That's the question asked and answered in a recent Harvard Business Review article discussing issues surrounding how top managers can transfer their View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment
    • 02 Apr 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Employees Out Sick? Inside One Company's Creative Approach to Staying Productive

    struggling with widespread absenteeism. The researchers advised the factory’s CEO that senior managers should do whatever they could to build relationships between managers working not only right next to... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Fashion
    • 16 Feb 2022
    • News

    How Job Applicants Try to Hack Résumé-Reading Software

    • March–April 2017
    • Article

    Sink or Swim: The Role of Workplace Context in Shaping Career Advancement and Human-Capital Development

    By: Shinjinee Chattopadhyay and Prithwiraj Choudhury
    We develop and test predictions on how early-career challenges arising from the workplace context affect short- and long-term career advancement of individuals. Typically an organization’s decision to deploy a manager to one of several possible contexts is endogenous... View Details
    Keywords: Workplace Context; Career Advancement; Context; Situation or Environment; Human Capital; Personal Development and Career; Performance
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    • 05 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)

    the right people are confident, suggests recent research by Thomas Graeber, assistant professor at Harvard Business School. His work tested the effects of meta-cognition—essentially, whether more skilled people are also more confident... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin