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  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

What Makes a Good Leader

latest developments in leadership to HBS alumni and other executives all over the world. What Change Demands of Us, a new Executive Education course developed by the... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • 21 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

susceptibility to competition. How to repair the rift? Two HBS faculty developed a CD-based program called Measuring Marketing Performance targeted at senior executives—namely CEOs, COOs, and CMOs. The... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2010
  • HBS Case

Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market

California retailing's best and brightest talent as it would assuredly do in the UK. Q: As sales remained under plan, Tesco execs halted development of new stores temporarily... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 08 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

Too often, there's a huge gap between a company's overall business strategy and the way its salesforce operates in the field. In fact, says Frank V. Cespedes, articles and books about strategy rarely take... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

highly talented employees, who produce great value for the organization but may go about it in ways that test normal work-day structures or departmental rules and cause internal conflict. With insight... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup

him onto the team were meaningful. “Everybody was so warm and welcoming, but also some of the sharpest technical, scientific, and business professionals that I’ve worked with,” he shared. “An awesome... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • January 2018 (Revised January 2020)
  • Case

People Analytics at McKinsey

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Olivia Hull
A private equity–backed fast food chain has hired McKinsey’s new People Analytics group to help it improve performance. As the final client workshop approaches, Associate Partner Alex DiLeonardo ponders the best way to present the team’s findings, especially those that... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Customer Relationship Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost Management; Human Resources; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Measurement and Metrics; Performance; Performance Capacity; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Consulting Industry; Service Industry
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  • 13 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

unpopular and very costly war in Iraq. Meanwhile, countries that used to be called "less developed" became emerging markets, and have invested much more in the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date

invasive,” Brooks says. Brooks, who has been fascinated by “why people don’t ask more questions” since grade school, has mulled over this topic in many discussions with her mother, whom she thanks in the study. “My mom, a talented natural... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 22 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

hoarders, who hold back their hardest workers from moving on. “Many of the best people are ambitious, and if they feel blocked from advancing, they’ll leave to look for respect and status,” Cespedes says.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • October 2020
  • Case

Michael Phelps: 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'

By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Michael Norris
In 2020, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in various swimming events, was now retired. As he looked back on his 20+ year athletic career, he considered what had gone into making him the greatest of all time—the highs and lows,... View Details
Keywords: Mental Health; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Health; Success; Performance Improvement; Personal Development and Career; Family and Family Relationships; Sports; Competition; Sports Industry; United States; Baltimore; Arizona; Sydney; Athens; Beijing; London
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  • Web

The Caring Company

benefits for employees are more likely to see better outcomes such as higher retention and better engagement. Read the report Media Coverage The Care Economy Joseph Fuller & Kayla Lebovits 26 Aug 2020 |... View Details
  • 18 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 18

Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing Socialization Around Newcomer Self-Expression Authors:Dan M. Cable, Francesca Gino, and Brad Staats Abstract Socialization theory has focused on enculturating new employees such that they View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

“Harvard Business School should be a place where the most talented future leaders can come to realize their potential. We want to remove the financial barriers that stand in their way and alleviate the... View Details
  • Web

Japan - Global

global impact. Located in Tokyo, the JRC's primary purpose is to support HBS faculty research and case-writing activities in Japan. The School strives to deepen faculty's understanding of and exposure to... View Details
  • 16 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Advice on Advice

In business, good advice is priceless. Managers who are anxious and confused when confronted with corporate challenges can find that a piece of sound advice from a colleague can instill a sense of calm and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

jump to different conclusions about a leader depending on whether the person shares slipups or not. Listeners who heard the entrepreneur talk only about her achievements automatically attributed the person’s success to talent alone, View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

of the Harvard Project on the Workforce and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He studies issues related to employment and income polarization View Details
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Career Change

way it did in other countries. That’s largely due to the predominant culture of lifetime employment, which ties workers to a single company and values years of service more than the development of skills.... View Details
Keywords: Michelle Cassidy; recruitment; demographics; Japan
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

safety, morals, and health could be protected. Article Intermediary Functions and the Market for Innovation in Meiji and Taisho Japan By: Tom Nicholas View Details