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  • 12 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia

demands on their time, funding, salaries, and other socio-demographic and household-related factors. They found that professors’ responsibilities and the time they are able to devote to research vary depending on their position, a... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Education
  • 03 Apr 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Working (From Home) During a Crisis: Online Social Contributions by Workers During the Coronavirus Shock

Keywords: by Prithwiraj Choudhury, Wesley W. Koo, and Xina Li

    Jaya Y. Wen

    Jaya Wen is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on issues in development economics, political economy, and firm behavior.

    Professor Wen has a Ph.D. in Economics... View Details

    • October 2018 (Revised July 2023)
    • Case

    Innovation at Uber: The Launch of Express POOL

    By: Chiara Farronato, Alan MacCormack and Sarah Mehta
    Set in March 2018, the case follows ride-sharing company Uber as it develops and launches a new product called Express POOL. This product offers a reduced price to riders willing to carpool, walk a short distance to/from their pick-up and drop-off points, and wait a... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Decision Making; Technology Industry; California; San Francisco
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    • 31 Jan 2024
    • News

    Know Your HBS Staff: June Dever

    • 05 May 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance

    day than the other groups, who had spent that time reflecting and sharing instead. Gino hopes that the research will provide food for thought to overworked managers and employees alike. "I don't see a lot of... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • November 2012
    • Article

    The Organization of Firms Across Countries

    By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
    We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to local... View Details
    Keywords: Decentralization; Social Capital; Theory Of The Firm; Firm Objectives, Organization, And Behavior; Business Economics; Management Of Technological Innovation And R＆D; Technological Change: Choices And Consequences; Diffusion Processes; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Trust; Technology Adoption; Multinational Firms and Management
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    • November 2005 (Revised March 2007)
    • Case

    Leadership Development at Goldman Sachs

    By: Boris Groysberg, Scott A. Snook and David Lane
    In November 1999, 11 of Goldman Sachs' finest gathered to put the final touches on a revolutionary leadership development plan. Following Goldman's explosive growth during the 1990s and its eventual IPO in 1999, a diverse group of leaders from across the firm were... View Details
    Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Skills; Organizational Design; Planning
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    • November–December 2022
    • Article

    Number One in Formula One: Leadership Lessons from Toto Wolff and Mercedes, the Team behind One of the Greatest Winning Streaks in All of Sports

    By: Anita Elberse
    Toto Wolff, the team principal for Mercedes-AMG Petronas—arguably the most impressive team in F1 racing history—has led his organization to unparalleled success. Mercedes earned the Constructors’ Championship (for best overall team performance) every year from 2014... View Details
    Keywords: Formula One; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Management Style; Success
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      Christopher A. Bartlett

      Professor Christopher A. Bartlett received an economics degree from the University of Queensland, Australia (1964), and both the masters and doctorate degrees in business administration from Harvard University (1971 and 1979). 

      As a practicing manager prior... View Details

      Keywords: management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting
      • 01 Mar 2013
      • News

      Bringing It Back Home

      Image by C.J. Burton Since the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) program was launched at HBS 17 years ago, it has provided nonprofits with something they need but can rarely afford: executive training. SPNM, which is... View Details
      Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; SPNM; Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management; Roadtrip Nation; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
      • May 1992 (Revised August 1996)
      • Case

      NIKE in Transition (A): The Ascendancy of Bob Woodell

      By: Christopher A. Bartlett
      Explores Bob Woodell's tenure as Nike's first COO. Describes development of Woodell's management style, his attempts to develop the organization, and his responses to unforeseen business problems. Changing market forces, new competitors, a build-up of low-end... View Details
      Keywords: Conferences; Crisis Management; Management Style; Marketing Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Competition
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      • September 2024
      • Article

      Sales Coaching and Value Creation

      By: Frank V. Cespedes
      Despite the prevalence of “coachability” in firms’ stated hiring criteria, managers over-estimate the amount of time they actually devote to coaching their people. For example, research indicates that only 15% of sales managers even spend as much as 25% of their time... View Details
      Keywords: Competency and Skills; Employee Relationship Management; Management Practices and Processes
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      • 28 Aug 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need

      While companies may tout their wellness programs as a way of investing in their employees’ well-being, many are overly focused on reducing healthcare costs, so they tend to offer step challenges and gym discounts that workers don’t have View Details
      Keywords: by Hise Gibson

        Ranjay Gulati

        Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. His pathbreaking research, which focuses on unlocking organizational and unleashing... View Details

        Keywords: biotechnology; computer; financial services; industrial goods; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; retailing
        • December 2020
        • Supplement

        France Télécom (C): An Unprecedented Trial

        By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and Ashley V. Whillans
        In the C case we learn that former CEO Didier Lombard, Deputy Chief Executive Louis-Pierre Wenes, Human Resources Head Olivier Barberot and France Telecom itself were charged for institutional harassment by French authorities, a first for a CAC 40 company. In December... View Details
        Keywords: Human Behavior; Human Dignity; Human Resource Practices; Corporate Change And Sustainability; Corporate Culture; Strategic Corporate Decisions; Strategic Change; Strategic Decision Making; Emotion; Management Challenges; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Crisis Management; Law; Courts and Trials; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Management Practices and Processes; Employees; Well-being; Telecommunications Industry; Europe; European Union
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        • 20 Nov 2019
        • Video

        Shinta Widjaja Kamdani

        Shinta Kamdani, owner of Indonesian-based consumer products and energy company Sintesa Group, describes the logic of the Group’s diversification strategies which seek to balance consumer industries which... View Details
        • 14 Feb 2011
        • Research & Ideas

        Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing

        says. He adds that this marketing paradigm comes with the additional benefit of being difficult to rip off. Nobody, for example, has managed to copy IKEA, which helps its customers do the job of furnishing an apartment right now.... View Details
        Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Service; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage
        • 20 Oct 2008
        • Research & Ideas

        The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

        By significantly expanding our understanding of the dynamics of competition, Michael E. Porter's Harvard Business Review article "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy" launched a business management revolution among academics... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

          David E. Bell

          David E. Bell is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS. He has taught marketing many times in the MBA program including as course head.

          During his career at HBS, David has taught a variety of other courses to both MBAs and executives, including risk... View Details

          Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; apparel; e-commerce industry; fashion; food; food processing; grocery; insurance industry; marketing industry; retailing