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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
Resource Executive and the HR Technology Conference in 2020. Linda A. Hill : Awarded #5 in the Top 20 MIT Sloan Management Review articles of 2020 for "Being the Agile Boss" (Fall 2020). Summer R. Jackson : Selected for the 2020 OB... 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
Business? 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... View Details
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Leadership | Working Knowledge
Leadership Explore expert leadership insights, from Deion Sanders' disciplined team strategies to David Beckham's talent-driven success in soccer. Learn how businesses can empower talented women to lead, prevent Boeing-style crises, and quickly solve complex problems... 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
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Data Science for Managers 2 - Course Catalog
collections, analysis, and reporting. Students will be introduced to new tools (such as SQL) and new techniques (such as K-Means clustering, natural language processing, and Monte Carlo simulation). The course will also explore essential notions of data privacy,... View Details
- 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
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Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog
develop decision-support dashboards and guidelines, as well as agile teams, to enable employees to share best practices and achieve coordination, while preserving employees’ empowerment and ability to... View Details
- 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 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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