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23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Putting the Project Puzzle Together

simultaneously hit a particular organizational unit and require so much change that the unit is effectively paralyzed into inactivity. The portfolio approach forces all of these projects from different parts of the organization to be... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

especially in changing the culture of the School and the broader world. The W50 Summit in particular was a way to reach out to the women who "have sometimes felt disenfranchised, disconnected, unwelcome at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

more just, and greener society, and this entails reforming our economic system and the way businesses operate. Even though these changes that diverge from deeply rooted norms are challenging to implement, now is the time to push for them.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

Publisher's Abstract Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his international bestseller Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

some difficult twists and turns. Promotions, for instance, are typically much harder to come by in the early stages of their careers than they are for whites. And once they make the leap into middle and upper management, these... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

26 Apr 2016
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April 26

intermediaries—called outsourcing agencies—have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers are high quality. Workers affiliated with an agency have substantially higher job-finding probabilities and wages at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Mar 2018
First Look

March 13, 2018

February 2018 Management Science Laboratory Evidence on the Effects of Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women By: Baldiga, Nancy R., and Katherine Baldiga Coffman Abstract—Sponsorship programs have been proposed as one way to promote female... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 2025
Supplement

Joe Mazzulla and the Boston Celtics (B)

By: Linda A. Hill, James I. Cash and Lydia Begag

This case is a supplement to “Joe Mazzulla and the Boston Celtics” (A) and is set against the backdrop of the 2024 NBA Finals. It describes the impact of Mazzulla’s decision to rally his team with an aggressive “go for the kill” mindset instead of choosing language... View Details

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02 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

Gabarro, an expert on human resources management; Tom DeLong, who studies organizational change and globalization in professional service firms and served as Chief Development Officer of Morgan Stanley Group; Herminia Ibarra, who focuses... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

negative-return activities requires good links with changing market realities. On average, companies spend 10 percent of revenues on selling activities—often much more in many B2B markets, he says. But if executives don’t understand the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

Additionally, labor quality and the structure of demand and a long tradition of work in organizational behavior suggests that the successful adoption of productivity enhancing managerial practices requires complementary changes in the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

Malloy, and Felicia Marston Abstract Comparing two snapshots of the historical I/B/E/S database of research analyst stock recommendations, taken in 2002 and 2004 but each covering the same time period 1993-2002, we identify 54,729 ex-post View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

May 24, 2016
Article

Build a Culture of Health

By: John A. Quelch

Every company, large and small, has an impact on health. It does so in four ways: first, through the healthfulness and safety of the products and services it sells; second, through its attention to employee health and well-being in its work practices and benefits;... View Details

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2016
Blog

Building A Culture of Health - John A. Quelch: Creating A Culture of Health

By: John A. Quelch

All American companies are in the health business whether they like it or not. The private sector directly pays for one-fifth of the whopping 17.5% of GDP spent on healthcare in the United States. Rather than viewing health merely as an insurance expense to be... View Details

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17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

spoke about how glass ceilings don't apply to black women—when they look up, they see a concrete wall. And she argued for another conference on changing academic roles, to combat what she sees as fear among more junior professors to... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

characterize the direct effects that changes in that price index would have on retirees who differ in their initial wealth at retirement and in their mortality rates after retirement. I propose a simple but flexible theoretical framework... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

The growth and competiveness of emerging markets is a fundamental reality in global business today. Yet it is often forgotten just how much these countries have changed in a short period of time, how challenging their business... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

18 Oct 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities; Financial Services

11 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

And it is changing fast. Its size and importance to human, environmental, and economic health means that no system is viewed with as much suspicion by so many people around the globe. Changing societal... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

organization strategy to enable the different functions to work together to bring products to market more quickly. As Ludwig grappled with a way to jumpstart change at DIS, he began to suspect that people throughout the unit were talking... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

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Putting the Project Puzzle Together

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

First Look: January 27, 2009

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

April 26

March 13, 2018

Joe Mazzulla and the Boston Celtics (B)

Leading Professional Service Firms

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

First Look: April 14

First Look: February 12, 2007

Build a Culture of Health

Building A Culture of Health - John A. Quelch: Creating A Culture of Health

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

First Look: April 21

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

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