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- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
platform, big but always playing catch-up to YouTube. There is an alternative hypothesis. TikTok may surprise us with innovation in unexpected directions. In particular, it could build on the devotion of its...
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by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 28 Mar 2024
- News
Rooms with a View
company or a small company,” he says, “you’d always run into this obstacle of scaling talent.” It seems like an obvious need, Mirza acknowledges. “But it’s usually an afterthought. There was no planning for it, no tools for it.” Mirza is...
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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Entrepreneurial Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Required Curriculum (FIRST YEAR) The Entrepreneurial Manager In order to “educate leaders who make a difference in the world,” the Harvard Business...
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- Portrait Project
Kate Kleinsman
“You can always come back home” said my mum as we lugged my suitcases into my college dorm room in the big city. ‘Why would I?’ I thought to myself. I come from a small town where a new bakery opening makes the local paper and you run...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more...
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- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
“There was not a single person or car,” he recalls. The eerily quiet scene was a jarring reminder that the pandemic was taking a huge toll on many businesses that saw sales and revenue figures abruptly plummet. Rouen and two fellow...
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by Lane Lambert
- 20 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Language Wars Divide Global Companies
more efficient, the use of such a lingua franca can add layers of complication and delay. And instead of fostering collaboration, it can create cultural fissures between employees. “It's volcanic, waiting for something to ignite it, and then it explodes” It turns out...
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by Kim Girard
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
judgment and competence (logic), and when they believe that you care about them (empathy). When trust is lost, it can almost always be traced back to a breakdown in one of these three drivers. You can find...
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by Kristen Senz
- 28 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
What's a Boss Worth?
multiplicative,” says Stanton. “If you have a better boss on a team, you get more out of each individual worker.” “These results suggest the most important peer is your supervisor” As a consequence, it may be tempting to assign more...
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
significant discretion. Corporate philanthropy is our setting to study how a differentiated structural element—the corporate foundation—constrains the influence of individual senior managers and directors on corporate strategy. Our...
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- 10 Feb 2020
- In Practice
6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy
involving artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and the Internet of Things are changing the way business leaders think about strategy. Here’s what they said: 1. Talent and data are more critical than ever “Traditionally, companies focused View Details
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by Danielle Kost
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
past will always trump the future—people prefer not to know about the future because it's so threatening to entrenched interests and to career competencies." Tushman has been focusing his research on...
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by Garry Emmons
- 24 Feb 2021
- Lessons from the Classroom
What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace
he says. Korean War (1950-1953): Action can’t always wait for ideal conditions After escalating tensions, Communist North Korea, supported by China and the Soviet Union, invaded South Korea. United Nations forces led by the US entered the...
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by Lane Lambert
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
earlier—the fact that surveyed employees respond as if their practical capacity were always fully utilized. The Impact of Practical Capacity This table shows the effect on cost assignment when we use rates...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
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Interviews - Recruiting
own interview logistics and communications. Start by posting a job listing on the HBS recruiting platform 12twenty . Click “+Post” to complete the required fields and submit. Conducting interviews at an early stage does not View Details
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
based on productivity, you’re going to tend to hire more of these individuals,” Minor says, adding that many companies value productivity above other traits. Longtime General Electric CEO Jack Welch had his own name for toxic workers,...
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by Roberta Holland
- Teaching Interest
Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD)
Professor Bernstein taught Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) from 2013-2016 (7 sections). This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise.
The course is divided into five modules:
- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
Good ethical practices don’t just happen; everyone within a corporation has to continuously work on them. “People are not always comfortable talking about ethics,” Nelson says. “Some have been dismissing...
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by Lane Lambert
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Dean Srikant Datar Statements & Speeches | About
we can, or should, soon forget. Freedom of expression and peaceful protest are rights we must always respect. Violence such as unfolded on Thursday can never be condoned. Published January 17, 2021 A Message...
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- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
intentions can provide good governance for a business, family, and ownership group. But unitary leaders, like the rest of us, only have so many hours in a day, and they can only focus on so many individual concerns before losing...
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by John A. Davis