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- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
articles of 2020 for "Being the Agile Boss" (Fall 2020). Summer R. Jackson : Selected for the 2020 OB Doctoral Consortium by the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. Summer R. Jackson : Winner of the 2020 INFORMS... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
phones, computers/tablets, and investment advice are three such categories today. The Future Of Retail Clearly, this is a new world for store retailers. To compete with online competitors, retailers will need to be agile both in... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
These three courses cover different topics related to data and analytics and do so in different ways. Business Analytics teaches participants to apply basic statistics to real business problems and includes hands-on practice implementing... View Details
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
Summing Up Is Business Agility a Product of Top-Down or Bottom-Up Resource Allocation? Respondents to this month's column provided possible explanations for greater reliance on top-down resource allocation processes (RAPs) while reminding... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Net Positive
At LOVB, designing a “community-up” volleyball ecosystem, from youth teams to a professional league. (photo by Melissa Golden) Volleyball is the number-one sport for girls in the United States by participation, yet unlike soccer and basketball, it hasn’t had an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Kumbh Mela? The author shows how clever marketers have ridden the religion wave by tailoring their products and services accordingly. The Agility Advantage: How to Identify and Act on Opportunities in a Fast-Changing World by Amanda... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
and influencing, and their agility enables them to reach agreement when others would be stalemated. He explains how the best practices of diplomats like George Mitchell, the late dealmaker Bruce Wasserstein... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Action Plan: Finding Fluency
Photo courtesy of Cammie Dunaway Photo courtesy of Cammie Dunaway Every day of 2020, Cammie Dunaway (MBA 1990) has practiced her French using the Duolingo app. “It is something positive I can do for myself,” Dunaway says of the hobby she... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
important a great staff can be,” says Gruskin, who helped out at his mother’s busy OB-GYN practice when he was younger. But with nurses—and the health care sector, in general—under increasing demands, getting workforce management right... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
telling stories, how they make decisions that affect all students. Similarly, leaders have become teachers in knowledge-centric environments; they can’t just tell people what to do but must help them acquire ideas, information, and skills so they can be more... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
at essentially the same frequency as they target cash in segments related to alleged infringement. By contrast, cash is neither a key driver of intellectual property lawsuits by practicing entities (e.g., IBM and Intel) nor of any other... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
professor Michael A. Cusumano identify the common magic mojo management practices of a trio who were individually very different people but who shared a similar drive. “All three were enormously ambitious and dreamed big dreams—not so... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration. F. Warren McFarlan: Donations matter more than ever This is the time when tangible support really matters as the funding sources are drying up for so many social enterprises. Your support may be the margin of... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
book, Joseph Badaracco answers this question in practical and, at times, provocative ways. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/product/the-good-struggle-responsible-leadership-in-an-unforgiving-world/an/11540-HBK-ENG August 2013 Simon &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
organizations, and what managers must do to effectively lead the change process. Tushman and O'Reilly are the coauthors of Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal, Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
representatives from 12 European-based alumni clubs, provides club leaders the opportunity to share experiences, gain new perspectives, and learn about successful club activities and programs. This year’s conference focused on best View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)
governments to improve access to and uptake of malaria services in rural locations) to ensure they are agile and optimally positioned to help achieve and sustain malaria elimination. Why did you choose this internship for the summer?... View Details
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail
The “Know Your Audience” series on the HBS Recruiting Blog highlights trends in recruiting for various industries. Learn more about student interest, effective recruiting strategies, and best practices from HBS staff dedicated to your... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail