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Help Salary Data & Statistics Access alumni compensation data to help inform your next move. Learn More Past Program Resources The Challenge of Negotiating Inside Your Company Michael Wheeler Retired Professor of Management Practice Our... View Details

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

transfer doesn’t quite happen that way, and organizations that practice watch-and-learn vicarious learning run the risk of undertraining their key employees, says Myers. He challenges the theory in a new... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

14 Aug 2006
HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

practices as can be imagined—Snook asks students to confront their basic assumptions about human nature, motivation, and preferred styles of leading. Bobby Knight, also known as "The General," is the head coach at Texas Tech... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

transformative research in developing markets, and ultimately with a broader objective to stimulate new conceptualizations, research, and best practices to transform consumer well-being. Three Cheers for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

found that managers engage in redundant communication; that is, they send the same message to the same recipient through two or more unique media sequentially. Given how busy most managers are, and how much information their subordinates receive on a daily basis, this... View Details

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For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

education, CSML integrates world-class faculty and research in managing teams and organizations with best practices in educational leadership, to provide school leaders with frameworks, skills, and knowledge... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

president of Ava Labs, a Web3 company that helps traditional businesses use crypto-based innovations in their products. When he was a student at HBS, Wu couldn’t have imagined such a business. Ava Labs built the blockchain network, Avalanche, to streamline the View Details

Keywords: April White

19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

priorities?; (3) Do I give subordinates timely and direct feedback they can act on? Have I developed a succession roadmap?; and (4) Is my leadership style still effective, and does it reflect who I truly am? This highly readable and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Sep 2022
Op-Ed

Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable

sound intuitive, but they can be difficult when working across differences. Throughout the day, we practiced these ideas with short exercises in the hope of building a muscle for discomfort. Discomfort and joy may seem incompatible. As it... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

career (or establish a new one), the following practices can facilitate a smoother transition: Let others know Go beyond networking to let everyone in your circles (family, friends, acquaintances, and colleagues) know that you are... View Details

10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

(2003): "Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited." Our paper received the Academy of Management Review's best paper award in 2003 and the decade award in 2013. We consider the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

the committee has steadily broadened its purview, now advising on a broad range of issues including innovation and acquisitions in addition to labor practices and resource sustainability. A close examination of Nike's experience has led... View Details

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Educator Resources - Race, Gender & Equity

collections and course materials, articles on the best practices for building diverse courses,and exclusive editorial content to help educators cultivate inclusive learning environments. Cases with Women... View Details

03 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Physicians Off the Beaten Path

everyone in the medical space. They also knew their content should be interesting, easy to consume and eye-opening to all the possibilities there are outside of medicine. They realized the best media would be a podcast lasting 30-45... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Practice Award with Murali Narayanaswamy, Philip Roizin, Jonathan Waggoner, Bin Hong Alex Lee, and David Simchi-Levi for "Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization." Antonio Moreno : Winner of the 2014... View Details

11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

on clinician productivity in ambulatory settings. Study Design: We examined EHR use in primary care practices that implemented a web-based EHR from athenahealth (n = 42) over 3 years (695 practice-month observations). View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

ways for using the theoretical foundations I already had. Carolina Ragolta MBA Student at Stanford Graduate School of Business Gain data literacy and hands-on practice interpreting data and implementing analyses in Excel. Professor... View Details

15 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

theory, known as the “strength of weak ties,” has been an influential principle in the business world and the practice of networking. Acquaintances, the thinking goes, are more likely to have information that you don’t already have access... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

Department, must decide if this approach is still the best way to fulfill his organization's goal of protecting and increasing the pension assets of 17 million Canadians. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

non-competes hurt employees by limiting their job mobility and sending them on “career detours” where they may have to accept lower compensation than appropriate for their experience level. More important, departing employees are often View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

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