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  • 11 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • Web

Program Policies - HBS Online

Leadership Principles, and Business Strategy. For Experienced Leaders in CLIMB, participants must earn a Certificate of Completion in: Dynamic Teaming, Organizational Leadership, and Strategy Execution) and earn a Certificate of... View Details
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

observe homophily in ethnicity and gender increases the probability of forming teams by 25%. Homophily in education and past working experience increases the probability of forming teams by 17% and 11 %... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

the type of organizational form surrounding innovation and influence when innovation is more likely to occur. These factors not only govern how much experimentation is undertaken in the economy, but also the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

influence how investors diversify their portfolios; the organizational and ownership decisions firms make; firm investment[PDF] decisions; and myriad financing decisions, including capital structure and repatriation. Perhaps, the biggest... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

features described by Donham. Typically, they average 10 to 20 pages of text, with 5 to 10 additional pages of numerical exhibits. The best cases describe real, not fictitious, organizations and real business issues. "A good case," Donham professor of View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

sufficiently broad to fulfill its mission or, on the contrary, whether it needed to be narrowed in order to eliminate organizational challenges and external perceptions of conflicts of interest. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

What’s Next

evolving into the future? Chris Cobb (MBA 1992), Miami, Florida Nitin Nohria: Many of us have a perspective that HBS exists—as you say, philosophically and physically—in splendid isolation from the rest of Harvard, with the river forming... View Details
Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

efficacy would lead to organizational impact. Moving vertically, quadrant #2 refers to organizations that have reached deeper into the target population by scaling their activities, reaching transformative scale. Moving horizontally to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Alumni Books of 2016

kind of generosity. Royalties from this book go to Christian ministries focused on spreading the Gospel and providing for those in need. Global Risk Agility and Decision Making: Organizational Resilience in the Era of Manmade Risk by... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

we test the prediction that novel rituals—arbitrary hand and body gestures enacted in a stereotypical and repeated fashion—can impact intergroup bias in newly formed groups. In four studies, participants practiced novel rituals at home... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2020
  • Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

organizational overhaul. Long-term coach Ron Rivera was fired and Matt Rhule was hired as the new head coach. Newton, having started only two games all last season, was in the last year on his contract. With his injury concerns, Carolina... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

Next Normal

Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration Tsedal Neeley heads the MBA required course Leadership and Organizational Behavior, cochairs the Executive Education offering Leading Global Businesses, and is the author of the... View Details
  • 07 Jun 2019
  • Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

network is key to performing this role well. Do You Use Your Network to Form Coalitions of Those Who Seek the Same Goals? A coalition is a collection of people who align themselves in pursuit of a common goal—a new strategy, a new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

also examine the strategic and organizational barriers that corporations face in making more efficient use of natural resources or deciding to invest in sustainable technologies. There are four major barriers: The first is that companies... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

rich-world domination over the poorer South or as a neutral mediator facilitating a tariff-free world of economic prosperity. This article instead analyses how the WTO has sought legitimacy for itself and for the underlying institution of free trade in the midst of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

fields of business administration, business economics, and organizational behavior. During the Class Day ceremony the day prior, graduates and their guests, families, and friends honored four Student Association Faculty Teaching Award... View Details
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

commodity boom that had asymmetric effects among states. These two effects generated variation in revenues per capita at the state level thanks to the extreme form of fiscal decentralization that the Brazilian government adopted in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

sacrifice long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on one form of long-term activities, namely investments in innovation as measured by patenting activity. We find no evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

Where Acros Dorados, an Argentina-based multinational, is facing new organizational challenges as it seeks to build on its recent turnaround and grow in Brazil and Mexico. Woods Staton and his management team have to make some hard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne