Publications

01 Jan 2003
News

30 Jul 2009
News

Harvard Business School Announces New Life Sciences Fellows

15 Feb 2012
News

Women In Business: Why You Don't Have To Be 'More Like A Man' To Get Ahead

September 1999 (Revised May 2003)
Case

Deloitte & Touche (B): Changing the Workplace

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner

Deloitte & Touche women's initiative changed the workplace culture at the firm, solved retention problems, and brought external benefits. Now a new CEO must decide how to take this a step further as competition for talent was even stronger, young people had different... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Planning; Organizational Culture; Accounting; Gender; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Loss; Change Management; Jobs and Positions; Resignation and Termination; Accounting Industry; United States

September 2006 (Revised May 2007)
Case

GE's Jeff Immelt: The Voyage from MBA to CEO

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Andrew N. McLean

GE believes its ability to develop management talent is a core competency that represents a source of sustainable competitive advantage. Traces the development of a 25-year-old MBA named Jeff Immelt, who 18 years later is named as CEO of GE, arguably the biggest and... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Leadership Development; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Energy Industry; Technology Industry

Profile

Jason A. Kilar

Such praise emanates from Kilar’s experience ingesting the countless business lessons he said he learned from Bezos. “I was so lucky to have him as my manager and I did my best to observe View Details

June 2024
Case

Metub: Scaling Influence beyond Vietnam

By: Paul A. Gompers and Shu Lin

Founded in 2014, Metub was a leading video and talent network in Vietnam. It managed over 3,000 channels on YouTube and more than 3,000 content creators. To expand creators’ income opportunities across multiple platforms, Metub had diversified beyond its original... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Business or Company Management; Brands and Branding; Competition; Diversification; Expansion; Recruitment; Entrepreneurship; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Viet Nam; Southeast Asia

04 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

business’s success. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54913 in press Management Science Communicating Warmth in Distributive Negotiations is Surprisingly Counter-productive By: Jeong, M., J. Minson, M.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

The HBS Executive Education course Leading Professional Service Firms (LPSF) is an intensive, one-week program that focuses on management issues unique to these firms. It provides a forum for participants from around the world to apply... View Details

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

July 11, 2024
Article

Research: New Hires’ Psychological Safety Erodes Quickly

By: Derrick P. Bransby, Michael J. Kerrissey and Amy C. Edmondson

Across industries, from manufacturing to health care, the luxury of waiting years to benefit from new talent is long gone. Thriving in today’s dynamic economy means bringing new hires up the learning curve faster than ever. Yet, the authors’ latest research suggests... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Learning; Interpersonal Communication; Employees

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17 Jan 2017
Blog Post

2017 Harvard Startup Fair

Are you a startup looking for talent? For the seventh straight year, Harvard is hosting the Startup Career Fair to showcase innovative startups developing diverse new products and ideas. This Fair is a recruiting opportunity for startups... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

August 2022
Case

In-Q-Tel: Innovation On A Mission

By: Joshua Lev Krieger and Josh Lerner

In 2022, the leaders of In-Q-Tel (IQT) considered what was next for the unique mission-driven organization. Since 1999, IQT had one mission: to be the most sophisticated source of strategic technical knowledge and capabilities to the U.S. government and its allies. IQT... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; National Security; Technological Innovation; Research; Geopolitical Units; Risk Management; Recruitment; Growth and Development Strategy; Venture Capital; Knowledge Management; Information Industry; Banking Industry