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24 Jun 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Entrepreneurial Gap: How Managers Adjust Span of Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy

10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

they are “a good fit.” But that approach does a disservice to both the employee and the business, Frei and Gino say. The pair recently taught a short, intensive course for MBA students, “Anatomy of a Badass,” about learning to be... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

26 Sep 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

Elberse. "That was just three years ago, and now she is, by many measures, the biggest celebrity on the planet. Gaga is a marketing phenomenon." This fall, Elberse will teach a case on Lady Gaga's meteoric career in her popular second-year View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

22 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: November 22

PublicationsCompeting through Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart Publication:In Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, edited by Giovanni Battista Dagnino. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming An abstract is unavailable at this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2017
HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

Transitioning to next-generation leadership in a family-run restaurant business is a tricky recipe. Credit: ansonmiao Harvard Business School case studies are often set in large corporations, where the wide range of problems encountered by managers serve as lessons... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

solely defined by the transactional rhythms and white-hot speed of the marketplace. (My graduating MBA students talk of this concern frequently as they discuss job choices and sketch out their own career plans.) We can see this in the... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

(iStock) iStock SUMMING UP Does Diversity Really Enhance Performance? As I’ve pointed out in the past, a tenet of the MBA classroom is that if a case problem splits the class, it will produce a good discussion. This appears to have been... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

began to move into the position of dominance that it enjoys in the MBA curriculum today. Building on the foundational work of Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means on the separation of ownership and control in the large corporation, and of... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

Click to watch. “The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers,” says Harvard Business School Professor Thomas DeLong, who since 1997 has taught more than 20,000 MBAs and executives on campus and around the globe.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

22 May 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders

Business of Aesthetics to second-year MBA students and select applicants from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. The course looks at the role of aesthetics in strategy, organizational structure, succession planning, and investment... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Beauty & Cosmetics; Apparel & Accessories; Auto; Tourism

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

tell you that the world of business is not so different. “It really was all about the recognition of and comparison with their peers, and many of them were willing to pay for it.” "This is why MBA programs send out lists of average... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

really is less about managing content and more about managing or framing context, creating an environment in which these people can negotiate the best solution for the organization. Q: What is your advice for people who want to develop skills as a global manager? A:... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

20 Jan 2022
Op-Ed

3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

rebuilt successfully, it can come back even stronger. Sandra J. Sucher is the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and served as vice president of corporate quality at Fidelity Investments, where... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

Harvard Business School; Laidler-Kylander (HBS MBA '92) is a PhD candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Manda Salls: Any organization—profit or nonprofit— faces challenges when it goes global. What are... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

2013
Working Paper

Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases

By: Richard L. Nolan

This working paper reports on a major Harvard Business School project designed to enhance MBA and practicing executives in case learning. The work is built on the foundation of HBS field cases employing the monomyth "hero's journey" classic story structure along... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; CIO; CEO; Hero's Journey; Monomyth; Management; Practice; Cases; Theory; Innovation and Invention

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01 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

out that the sales and marketing folks were overtaxed, while the demands were too soft on software engineers. “The tool gave us insight for each job on how to improve it,” he says. Why that job is so hard Prior to developing the online tool, Simons used a paper model... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Jul 2005
What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

solution to bringing practical focus into the curriculum is "a year-long on-the-job exposure" for students after the first year of the MBA curriculum as well as "mandatory association with industry projects." "One... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

School who has created a new MBA course, Public Entrepreneurship. "The course allows students to consider the alternative that government can work—or they can help make it work." “We have many talented people in government, but... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

expressing an interest in studying its shift to a remote model. In a typical year, the organization, which the researchers didn’t identify, brought in about 3,000 undergraduate and MBA students to work for eight to 10 weeks at one of the... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

16 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

demands of consistent quality, innovative design, supply logistics, and the need for superior customer service, and it's easy to understand why David A. Birnbaum (HBS MBA '74), a private jeweler, would sound this cautionary note:... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

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