Publications

20 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care

first roles should be stretch roles,” Fitzpatrick says. “They enable your new leaders to show that they have what it takes to be successful.” Reflecting on the virtues of her own experience, Coyle attributes the success of the Redwoods... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

03 Aug 2017
Blog Post

“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”

start-up, that my role is not narrowly focused,” says Rahil. “I can get important skills, but also gain the big picture perspective of a founder.” He has a number of suggestions for other internship searchers, particularly those... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

Web

It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School - MBA

Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion... View Details

May–June 2015
Article

Back to the Future: Implications for the Field of HRM of the Multi-stakeholder Perspective Proposed 30 Years Ago

By: Michael Beer, Paul Boselie and Chris Brewster

Thirty years on from the seminal work Managing Human Assets (MHA) by Beer et al., we examine how the subject has developed. We offer a normative review, based on that model, and we critique the assumption that the business of HRM is solely to improve returns to owners... View Details

Keywords: Management; Human Resources

2018
Interviews

Flora Taylor, Zachary Green, and Diane Forbes Berthoud take us beyond rhetoric at the 2018 Gender & Work Symposium

16 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports

that mindset, he pursued an international opportunity as a Management Consultant for Kearney in London. This role allowed him to dive deeply into marketing strategy, brand partnerships, retail, and top-line transformation while obtaining an international View Details

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.

mindset, he pursued an international opportunity as a Management Consultant for Kearney in London. This role allowed him to dive deeply into marketing strategy, brand partnerships, retail, and top-line transformation while obtaining an international View Details

Jun 09 2017
Testimonial

Preparing to Make the Leap

08 Mar 2017
Blog Post

Education Sector Opportunities at HBS

there). However, there’s a lively and robust education sector community within Harvard Business School and you can learn a valuable set of skills and perspectives to take into the education field. For... View Details

24 Feb 2016
News

Why Do the British say 'sorry' so much?

11 Jun 2015
Video

HBS Leadership Fellows: Making an Impact

October 2018
Case

Learning How to Honnold

By: Eugene F. Soltes, Sara Hess and Dutch Leonard

Alex Honnold is the world’s most accomplished free climber. To many, climbing sheer vertical faces of rock—like the famed El Capitan—without a rope is viewed as not simply risky but reckless. Honnold contrasts this sentiment by presenting his perspective on risk taking... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Goals and Objectives; Personal Development and Career; Perspective

Educators

September 2023
Case

Trilling Foods: Managing People with Data

By: Alexandra C. Feldberg and Jeffrey T. Polzer

Trilling Foods, a regional bricks-and-mortar grocery chain, has recently provided its frontline managers with new tools for using data. Allison Andersen, Trilling’s VP of Data Science, has spearheaded these efforts. Yet, as she works with Kent Wade, the general manager... View Details

Keywords: Digital Transformation; Management Practices and Processes; Training; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry

Educators

May 2024
Article

The Effect of Configural Processing on Mentalization

By: Katrina Fincher, Ting Zhang, Asteya Percaya, Adam Galinsky and Michael W. Morris

Eight studies (N = 2,561) reveal that how we perceptually process a person’s face affects our capacity to understand their mind. Studies 1A and B indicate this relationship functions via two separate pathways: (a) indirectly by increasing our sensitivity to the... View Details

Keywords: Perception; Cognition and Thinking

TeachingInterests

Globalization and Emerging Markets

Globalization and Emerging Markets is designed for students who will be investing, managing a business or nonprofit, or working for a government in an emerging market. The unit of analysis of the course ranges from countries to multinational and domestic companies... View Details

March 1989
Background Note

Industrial Distribution Systems

A comprehensive description of industrial distribution systems. Written from the perspective of industrial products manufacturers, concerned about building and managing channels systems for taking products from point of manufacture to point of use. Covers: 1) channels... View Details

Keywords: Distribution Channels; Manufacturing Industry; Industrial Products Industry

Educators

November 2018
Article

Worthy of Swift Trust? How Brief Interpersonal Contact Affects Trust Accuracy

By: Oliver Schilke and Laura Huang

Organizational scholars have long underscored the positive consequences of trust, yet trust can also have dysfunctional effects if it is not placed wisely. Though much research has examined conditions that increase individuals’ tendencies to trust others, we know very... View Details

Keywords: Trust; Interpersonal Communication; Judgments; Perspective

September 2016
Teaching Note

Nuclear Energy: An Answer to Climate Change?

By: Michael W. Toffel and Glen W. S. Dowell

This case asks students to take the perspective of a nuclear energy industry association whose objective is convincing politicians and the public about the merits of its industry. The association is considering whether to approach environmental nongovernmental... View Details

Keywords: Nuclear Energy; Nuclear Power; Environment; Climate Change; Nonprofit Organizations; Environmental Protection; Environmental Strategy; Energy; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Partners and Partnerships; Alliances; Strategy; Energy Industry; United States