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  • 24 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

Launching a Career in Clean Energy

Established in 2010, the HBS Business & Environment Initiative (BEI) works to deepen understanding of the environmental challenges facing business leaders and inspire new ideas and practical, effective solutions. BEI has established a... View Details

    Randolph B. Cohen

    Randolph B. (Randy) Cohen is the MBA Class of 1975 Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. Cohen’s main research focus has been the identification of top investment managers and the prediction of manager... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; investment banking industry
    • April 18, 2013
    • Article

    Leading Clinicians and Clinicians Leading

    By: Richard Bohmer
    More effective models of care delivery are needed, but their successful implementation depends on effective care teams and good management of local operations (clinical microsystems). Clinicians influence both, and local clinician leaders will have several key tasks. View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; Performance; Leadership; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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    • September–October 2017
    • Article

    Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management?: Neither Great Leadership Nor Brilliant Strategy Matters Without Operational Excellence

    By: Raffaella Sadun, Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen
    A recurring message in business education is that you can’t compete on the basis of management processes because they’re easily copied. Operational effectiveness is table stakes in the competitive universe, it is often assumed, and thus cannot serve as a sustainable... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Effectiveness
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      Robert Simons

      Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. For 2024/25, he is teaching a... View Details

      • Research Summary

      Research Questions

      By: Anita Elberse

      One overarching question drives my research: What are effective marketing strategies for managers in creative industries?

      I focus on three sub-questions:

      1. How can managers in creative industries effectively manage products and product... View Details

        Joshua D. Margolis

        Joshua Margolis is James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration and the Unit Head for the Organizational Behavior unit. He is also Faculty Chair of the Program for Leadership Development. His research and teaching revolve around leadership... View Details

        Keywords: furniture; health care; insurance industry; nonprofit industry; pharmaceuticals
        • August 1999 (Revised February 2000)
        • Background Note

        What It Really Means to Manage: Exercising Power and Influence

        By: Linda A. Hill
        Describes the realities versus the myths of what it means to be a manager. In particular, it focuses on the limitations of formal authority as a source of power and identifies other sources of power that effective managers rely upon. Also outlines a framework of... View Details
        Keywords: Framework; Management Teams; Alliances; Power and Influence
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        • August 2012 (Revised October 2015)
        • Technical Note

        A Note on Trust

        By: Jim Sharpe and Charles H. Green
        The effective manager and leader understands and appreciates trust at both the personal and the organizational levels. Most managers focus more on being trusted than on trusting. The best way to be trusted is to be worthy of trust—to be trustworthy. View Details
        Keywords: Turnarounds; Leadership Skills; Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Trust; Management Style; Leadership Style
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        • 23 Dec 2002
        • Research & Ideas

        Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

        Often overlooked in essays on leadership is the role of the organization's measurement and management system. Effective leaders, however, know that measurement and management... View Details
        Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
        • 21 Dec 2021
        • News

        Classics for Christmas: The Best Books You Should Have Read

        • 23 Apr 2019
        • Blog Post

        HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders

        strengthen their own skills, educate managers to effectively lead their teams, and retain great employees. Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life Francesca Gino wants you to break... View Details
        Keywords: All Industries
        • 06 Oct 2014
        • Research & Ideas

        Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

        distinct competitive advantage. While sometimes difficult to implement, Neeley and Kaplan argue that organizations that effectively marry language strategy with their global talent management process gain a... View Details
        Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
        • 12 Apr 2004
        • Research & Ideas

        Operations and the Competitive Edge

        and the key supporting activities that have to be undertaken in order to prepare people to be effective team leaders (or team members). We also provide guidance as to how senior managers can View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace

          Thomas J. DeLong

          Thomas J. DeLong is a Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice and the former Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice in the Organizational Behavior Department at the Harvard Business School. He is an expert in leader development, organizational... View Details

            Michael L. Tushman

            Michael Tushman holds degrees from Northeastern University (B.S.E.E.), Cornell University (M.S.), and the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. (Ph.D.). Tushman was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, from 1976 to 1998 where he was... View Details

            • 04 Oct 2010
            • Research & Ideas

            Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees

            listen to or act upon them. An introverted leader, on the other hand, is more likely to listen to and process the ideas of an eager team. But if an introverted leader is managing a bunch of passive followers, then a staff meeting may... View Details
            Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
            • Teaching Interest

            Financial Reporting and Control

            By: Suraj Srinivasan

            Financial Reporting and Control (FRC) covers topics about how managers can design and use performance measurement systems for external reporting and internal management to build more effective organizations. Throughout their careers, business leaders are required to... View Details

            Keywords: Financial Reporting
            • 2016
            • Working Paper

            Managers' Cultural Background and Disclosure Attributes

            By: Francois Brochet, Gregory S. Miller, Patricia Naranjo and Gwen Yu
            We examine how a manager’s ethnic cultural background affects managers’ communication with investors. Using a sample of earnings conference calls transcripts with 26,430 executives from 42 countries, we find that managers from ethnic groups that have a more... View Details
            Keywords: Disclosure Tone; Individualism; Conference Calls; Ethnic Group; Management Style; Communication Intention and Meaning; Ethnicity; Corporate Disclosure; Financial Reporting
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            • 2009
            • Book

            The Adventures of an IT Leader

            By: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan and Shannon O'Donnell
            Becoming an effective IT manager presents a host of challenges-from anticipating emerging technology to managing relationships with vendors, employees, and other managers. Ultimately, a good IT manager must be a strong business leader, not just a technical... View Details
            Keywords: Books; Leadership; Crisis Management; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Safety; Information Technology
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