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12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

The Three Components of Family Governance

strengthening business-family communication and bond. A family constitution—the family's policies and guiding vision and values that regulate members' relationship with the business. This written document can be short or long, detailed or... View Details

May 2021
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Making Doctors Effective Managers and Leaders: A Matter of Health and Well-Being

By: Lisa Rotenstein, Robert S. Huckman and Christine K. Cassel

The COVID-19 crisis has forced physicians to make daily decisions that require knowledge and skills they did not acquire as part of their biomedical training. Physicians are being called upon to be both managers—able to set processes and structures—and leaders—capable... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Management; Leadership; Health Pandemics; Health Industry

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03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

of its wheels. Free to be lifted unencumbered. And not just one trailer, or two of them, or five, or a dozen, but hundreds, on one ship." In many ways, McLean's vision was nothing new. As far back as 1929, Seatrain had carried... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

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Tata Hall | About

Hall in December 2011, former Dean Jay O. Light called Tata, who serves on the HBS Dean’s Board of Advisors, “an amazing leader with vision and focus.” Dean Nitin Nohria underscored the new building’s role in creating more opportunities... View Details

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MOC Affiliate Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

microeconomic perspective. The MOC Affiliate Network The MOC Affiliate Network is a group of more than 100 educational institutions around the world that teach the MOC curriculum and collaborate in the area of competitiveness. The network was developed with the View Details

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Spreading the Word – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and... View Details

23 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

breakthrough performance from those that tried it but never delivered the results? When Bob McCool became head of Mobil NAM&R in 1992, he made it clear that the performance of the past was not acceptable; things had to change. Working with his leadership team, he... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

28 Mar 2024
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Rooms with a View

Alexander Mirza (MBA 1997) has spent two decades in the hospitality industry, opening and growing major hotel brands, including Hilton, Starwood, and Caesars, with locations around the world. And with each new project, Mirza faced the same primary challenge. “It didn’t... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Christina Gandolfo; Hospitality

13 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles

different from managing their work. Leading is fundamentally about identifying where the group needs to go (developing a compelling vision for the future), strategizing how to get there, and getting people to change in order to get there.... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

However, we also heard that restaurateurs remained steadfastly committed to their goal of nurturing and nourishing people, providing a place of succor and community in a strange new world. Our conversations with the panel and our field research inform our View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

periscopic vision and access to broader sets of solutions.” Defend/Depend The drive to defend, though primitive—it’s rooted in the basic fight-or-flight response—is nonetheless complicated. Animals are concerned only with “mine” and... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

30 May 2024
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How to Have Effective Conversations

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling books The Power of... View Details

20 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

"That was the moment of truth whether he was going to be a product company or a platform company," says Yoffie. "In the end, the opportunity to build an ecosystem was more important." Interestingly, Jobs stubbornly held out the longest in his View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

01 Feb 2022
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Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

Although Carol was a scientist by background, along with many of the leaders she hired, it had not been her vision that started the unit. She focused intensely on the mission and vision for the venture,... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

for our second module: Resourcing the Business Model . Leading the firm by: 1) making tough tradeoffs when setting strategy, resolving cross-functional conflict, and making hiring/firing decisions; and 2) communicating a vision that... View Details

13 Feb 2020
Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

Iterate between advocacy and inquiry. Leaders should start these honest, public, and collective conversations with employees by advocating where they want to take the organization, then ask for input on the strategic plans. “Leaders should be the guiding mechanism,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Jan 2018
Blog Post

How Can I Prepare to Apply for Financial Aid at HBS?

financial burdens or obligations). HBS Summer Fellowships offer students the freedom to pursue internships between their first and second year that help them to realize their unique career visions without feeling limited by compensation... View Details

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

Lisle, IL Subjects: AP U.S. Government, College Prep/Honors U.S. History NC Scott Nolt Gray Stone Day School Misenheimer, NC NE Brittney Norton Boys Town High School Boys Town, NE ID Toni Norton New Vision High School Post Falls, ID NY... View Details

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

Launch Lab, the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab fosters the cross-disciplinary approach to entrepreneurship that will enable deeper impact and outcomes. “We are so very grateful to Judy and Steve for their gift that made this project possible. And we are equally grateful for... View Details

17 Mar 2021
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The Art of Perseverance and Resilience: Reapplying to HBS

vision that I am now pursuing. I wove a narrative of an audacious moonshot dream, of literally going to mine the moon--combining my professional and academic experiences as a mining engineer and my personal interest as a space enthusiast.... View Details

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