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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 16 Jun 2020
    • Blog Post

    Delivering Solutions During a Crisis: an Interview with Hans Kristian Furuseth

    delivering the solutions people need to stay healthy and safe during a global health pandemic. During these unprecedented times, Furuseth’s story of translating his experience to a new industry, utilizing his skills, and putting View Details
    • 11 Jul 2023
    • Blog Post

    Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

    In 2015, Steve Kloeblen retired and thought he was done with the corporate world. A graduate of HBS Executive Education’s General Management Program, Kloeblen had more than 30 years of experience with IBM, culminating with his transition... View Details
    • April 2023 (Revised July 2023)
    • Case

    Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco (Abridged)

    By: Emily Truelove, Michelle Zhang and Alpana Thapar
    Dena Almansoori, the first female and one of the youngest members of the United Arab Emirates-based e&’s leadership team, joined in 2020 just before e& began a strategic transition from being a regional telecommunications company to becoming a global technology... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Telecommunications; Employee Mobility; Leading Change; Human Resources; Organizational Culture; Transformation; Change Management; Employee Relationship Management; Leadership; Talent and Talent Management; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry; Middle East; United Arab Emirates
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    • 14 Jun 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

    Ebrahim explains. You can count the number of people being fed, sheltered, and clothed. “The implication for managers is to figure out where their organization sits in the contingency framework.” "A more... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • July 2020
    • Article

    Who Should Select New Employees, Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain

    By: Carolyn Deller and Tatiana Sandino
    We examine how changing the allocation of hiring decision rights in a multiunit organization affects employee-firm match quality, contingent on a unit’s circumstances. Our research site, a U.S. retail chain, switched from a decentralized hiring model (hiring by... View Details
    Keywords: Control; Selection; Decentralization; Company Values; Retail Chains; Employees; Selection and Staffing; Local Range; Business Headquarters; Decision Making
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    • 14 Sep 2021
    • Blog Post

    Top 5 Myths About HBS

    Chad Losee, Managing Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, recently sat down with Cyril Straughn-Turner, second-year MBA student and Chief Admissions Ambassador, for a “Busting HBS Myths” event aimed at demystifying what business... View Details
    • 11 Apr 2011
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

    doing that, and waste a lot of money on sales and marketing trying to sell that wrong product," says Tom Eisenmann, a professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. "It takes a lot of time, time... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer
    • 29 Mar 2021
    • News

    Continuing employee development in the face of budget cuts

    • 25 Jan 2019
    • News

    Time for Happiness

    • Web

    Alumni

    Remote Manager and Employee Over the past few months, companies around the world have shifted to remote work. As you navigate a remote work environment, keep the following best practices in mind to set yourself and your team up for... View Details
    • 04 Feb 2014
    • What Do You Think?

    Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

    Summing Up When Is Listening Not a Good Strategy? Like a good case debate, the discussion of the question of whether listening is a lost art was not one-sided. What was clear was how important people felt listening is to effective... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 18 Jul 2023
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Diversity and Inclusion at Mars Petcare: Translating Awareness into Action

    Keywords: Re: Katherine B. Coffman; Food & Beverage; Health
    • 17 Oct 2023
    • Blog Post

    HBS Section I Celebrates Parents, Mentors, and Partners Day

    If there’s one thing our LEAD (Leadership and Organizational Behavior) Professor David Fubini (MBA 1980) tried to drill into the MBA Class of 2024 Section I, it’s that we should take the time to thank the people who got us to HBS –... View Details
    • 01 May 2020
    • Blog Post

    5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

    potential cold calls, and understanding campus food options can feel overwhelming. Having the option to join a club that mirrors any facet of who you are helps greatly in the transition to life as an MBA student over the next two years. Having View Details
    • December 2004 (Revised August 2005)
    • Exercise

    Orientation to the Public Image Assessment Exercise

    By: Robin J. Ely
    The Public Image Assessment exercise acquaints students with the ideal images they hold of themselves, the actions they engage in to convey these images, and the benefits and costs of these behaviors to themselves and to others. Social psychologists call this process... View Details
    Keywords: Reputation; Perception
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    • 06 Jul 2015
    • News

    The Condensed Guide to Running Meetings

    • 08 Feb 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Team Scaffolds: How Minimal In-Group Structures Support Fast-Paced Teaming

    Keywords: by Melissa A. Valentine & Amy C. Edmondson
    • 29 May 2020
    • Op-Ed

    How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

    COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
    Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness
    • June 2003 (Revised April 2004)
    • Case

    Mercy Corps: Global Social Entrepreneurship (A)

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Daniel F. Curran
    Neal Keny-Guyer, CEO of Mercy Corps International, built his organization by following the advice of Theodore Roosevelt: "Be smart enough to hire good people and have sense enough to get out of their way." For eight years, Keny-Guyer helped Mercy Corps grow in size and... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Government and Politics; Selection and Staffing; Leadership; Organizational Structure; Opportunities; Afghanistan; Iraq
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