Senior Leaders - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

nurturing an influential internal champion on the other side who would truly benefit from added quality and service. The supplier might induce such an advocate to persuade the agent on her behalf, directly or via links to senior... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

execution is paramount. Surveys should be short and focus on a few key points to encourage employee engagement. To promote the most candid dialogues, an organization should segment members by seniority and leadership levels. View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

04 Apr 2022
What Do You Think?

As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?

“many are upset that we didn’t speak out against the bill.” He stated that leaders in the company were opposed to the bill, but chose not to speak out, instead working behind the scenes to stop it, “engaging directly with lawmakers on... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

no one knows which half. "On the Web, we can tell you which half isn't working," asserts Barry M. Salzman (MBA'89), president of the international division of New York-based DoubleClick, Inc. In just five years, DoubleClick has become the industry View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

Web

Electricity - Business & Environment

early-stage advanced nuclear power and geoengineering ventures.” Joseph Lassiter Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired, Harvard Business School Nora Hennings HBS MBA 2016 Senior Manager,... View Details

24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

Viroopa Volla is currently a third year in the JD/MBA program at Harvard. Before starting the program, Viroopa worked at McKinsey as a Senior Business Analyst and at Walmart as a Senior Manager. She... View Details

08 Nov 2021
News

New Director Named for Mid-US Research Office

international business, communications, and finance. As director of the Mid-US Research Office, she will develop and extend relationships with business leaders and others across the region to contribute to the development of intellectual... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

to become so skilled as problem solvers, they had to be led through their training by a capable team leader and group leader. The team leader and group leader were capable of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

25 Mar 2020
Blog Post

Black New Venture Competition and Black Tech Master Series Recap

interactive workshops, dynamic panel discussions, and networking opportunities. The event featured a lineup of leaders including Jewel Burks Solomon, the head of Google for Startups, HBS Senior Lecturer Jeff... View Details

09 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

leaders grappling with improving racial equity in the workplace, important changes need to go beyond actively recruiting, hiring, and promoting more minority employees—and toward implementing workplace policies that challenge the... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, reflected on her research and its impact in an essay in Perspectives on Psychological Science, Educating Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World (pdf). More recently, she... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

12 Mar 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO

Editor's note: This is part of a series of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. In this article, Davis discusses when to make changes at the top. No one needs convincing that the... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

Repeated and, as of this writing, ongoing revelations of corporate wrongdoing over the past two years have eroded public trust in business institutions and executives to levels not seen in decades. A recent Gallup poll indicates that Americans now have no more trust in... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

ventures I was advising as the senior advisor for social entrepreneurship at the Harvard Innovation Labs. They said: “Hey, we’d like to learn more about that solution, and we think our colleagues might too.” So they set up a pitch day for... View Details

01 Oct 2014
What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

people to do senior managers all want innovation and risk taking in principle, but they don't have ways of measuring and evaluating it in the short term. So focus generally wins in larger, well-established organizations " What to do... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

take root? It starts with the leader and senior team taking a hard look at management or organizational barriers, including the senior leadership team itself. To do this, they... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

08 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

Entrepreneurship Club, and the Women In Investing Club. After graduation she will be joining Amazon as a senior technical product manager in Amazon Web Services (AWS), where she completed her internship last summer. What do you remember... View Details

03 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 3

records of all one-on-one meetings between senior management and investors for an NYSE-traded firm, we investigate the impact of private meetings on investor decisions. We find that when investors meet privately with management they make... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 29

are increasingly examining the adoption and impact of ERM, but the studies are inconsistent and inconclusive, due, we believe, to an inadequate specification of how ERM is used in practice. Based on a ten-year field project, over 250 interviews with View Details