Best Practices - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

we through our behaviors, it's the best way in which to protect ourselves and others right now. Frazier: That's absolutely the case. Neeley: This is also a global pandemic, the scale and the scope of what's happening is mind blowing to... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

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For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

in managing teams and organizations with best practices in educational leadership, to provide school leaders with frameworks, skills, and knowledge to effectively lead and drive change improvement in... View Details

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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

career (or establish a new one), the following practices can facilitate a smoother transition: Let others know Go beyond networking to let everyone in your circles (family, friends, acquaintances, and colleagues) know that you are... View Details

15 Dec 2023
News

The Musts of 2023

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details

31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

transformative research in developing markets, and ultimately with a broader objective to stimulate new conceptualizations, research, and best practices to transform consumer well-being. Three Cheers for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

entrepreneurial companies and was the past Chairman of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MTLC) and The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE) - two leading entrepreneurial organizations. He was selected by Business Week as one of the View Details

29 Sep 2022
Op-Ed

Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable

sound intuitive, but they can be difficult when working across differences. Throughout the day, we practiced these ideas with short exercises in the hope of building a muscle for discomfort. Discomfort and joy may seem incompatible. As it... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

priorities?; (3) Do I give subordinates timely and direct feedback they can act on? Have I developed a succession roadmap?; and (4) Is my leadership style still effective, and does it reflect who I truly am? This highly readable and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Oct 2019
Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

helps scholars and firms capture and analyze conversation data online. We sat down with Professor Brooks to discuss the "How to Talk Gooder" course and to get some advice on that very topic. What is the class “How to Talk Gooder” about? Even though we get... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

2023) Heung Kim Business Track Runner-Up & Crowd Favorite Winner A medical device company founded by surgeons to identify and solve problems that practicing surgeons face every day. Social Enterprise Track, 2022 CashEx Kingsley Ezeani... View Details

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Working Groups Update | About

norms for engaging in respectful, productive dialogue in the classroom and beyond, with the aim of strengthening these practices and ensuring that the norms remain helpful in times of extraordinary stress. In doing so, we anticipate... View Details

11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

on clinician productivity in ambulatory settings. Study Design: We examined EHR use in primary care practices that implemented a web-based EHR from athenahealth (n = 42) over 3 years (695 practice-month observations). View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

(2003): "Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited." Our paper received the Academy of Management Review's best paper award in 2003 and the decade award in 2013. We consider the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

J&J company performing well, and I tried to implement the best of what J&J did while avoiding the pitfalls it fell into. —Steven Newman (MBA 1992) Back to top “Heublein, Inc.,” aka the Smirnoff Vodka Case Smirnoff has 23 percent of the... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty Member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety

will tend to become more inclusive as a result. Learn More: In this Harvard Business Review article, 4 Steps to Boost Psychological Safety at Your Workplace, Amy C. Edmondson offers best practices for... View Details

21 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

Department, must decide if this approach is still the best way to fulfill his organization's goal of protecting and increasing the pension assets of 17 million Canadians. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Events - Business History

currently face." The book "draws illuminating comparisons to the trajectories of three Chinese contenders: Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, and the University of Hong Kong, which aim to be world-class institutions that can compete with the View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

Centers The globalization of business has long encouraged Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty to research international business practices and the effects of globalization. Seminal contributions - Christopher Bartlett on managing across... View Details

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

no longer hurt American interests—its incidence would fall on Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese manufacturers trying to sell into the highly competitive American market. Q: President Jimmy Carter ceded formal control. Why did our interest decline? Was it in our View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

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