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- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
successful is first, you need enough structural separation. You do need the CEO and senior team connected, but you also need an individual leader who is able to be a change leader. You are not given the opportunity to be a corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
decades. Whether you adopt the one-leader model for your own family enterprise, as RBS has done, or whether you build a team of leaders, you still need to design, structure, and allocate all the necessary leadership roles. Why? Because... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
relationships. Contributions to understanding the decoupling of globalization processes and how organizations respond to institutional change are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-115.pdf When to Sign on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
- 22 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture
in which you invest. An organization's norms and values aren't formed through speeches but through actions and team learning. Strong cultures have teeth. They are much more than slogans and empty promises. Some organizations choose to... View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
In this uncertain economic climate, downsizing and layoffs are a sadly frequent occurrence. Although bad news is always painful to deliver and to hear, the process of conducting "necessary evils"—such as layoffs or firings—can... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS
struggle to make a career transition I came to HBS to explore new industries and I was concerned my experience put me in a “business analysis” box. However, HBS has a strong brand, vast alumni network, and a tireless career services team... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
behavioral indicator of liking. We trained a natural language processing algorithm as a “follow-up question detector” that we applied to our speed-dating data (and can be applied to any text data to more deeply understand question-asking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Globalization - Faculty & Research
poorer borrowers negatively moderate the relationship between social globalization and MFI interest rate, and positively moderate the relationship between economic globalization and MFI interest rate. This paper contributes to understanding how globalization View Details
- Web
Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Karla Bertrand The case describes the application of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) at a new tertiary hospital, operated by Partners in Health in Mirebelais, Haiti. A project team mapped the clinical View Details
- Blog
Your Coach Will Help You Become a Better Leader
different, all are designed to accelerate your growth as an individual, a team member, and a leader. Who are the coaches? Our executive coaches are seasoned professionals with proven success working with mid-to-senior-level executives.... View Details
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
more than 250,000 invitees, resulting in 150 research ideas and hypotheses. The goal of opening up idea generation and disaggregating the different stages of the research process was to expand the number and range of people who might... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family
results are outlined in a May article published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes called Are They Useful? The Effects of Performance Incentives on the Prioritization of Work Versus Personal Ties. Whillans coauthored... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
that is fully staffed and before new acquisition processes have been formalized, Reses must decide whether acquiring Stamped is a wise strategy. The case also considers the perspective of Robby and Bart and explores if selling Stamped to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2011
- What Do You Think?
So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?
levels, including that of the individual. We adapt by listening to and heeding customers. We adapt by delegating authority, often to teams operating at the lowest levels of the organization. We adapt by tracking, responding to, and even... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
is a good example of political risk exposure that you could not have foreseen 12 months ago.” What can the Harley-Davidson case teach us about managing in a politicized environment? What do you think? Original Column In August 2018 CEO Matthew Levatich and his... View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
life in a manner that says that nothing gets done unless I’m on top of it and pinning it down. And so this process and this transformation, for me, has allowed me to stay very present. I still set really, really high goals for our View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
solutions. Such a relationship is important, given that product architecture has been shown to be an important predictor of product performance, product variety, process flexibility, and even the path of industry evolution. We explore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
which was a recipe for disaster." Wasynczuk learned to enter into contract talks with a smile—and to rationalize away his own anger when a deal couldn't be struck. "If an agent was being greedy with me, they were probably being greedy with other View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
Activate Program Peter Gumulia Growing up in Indonesia, Peter Gumulia experienced life as a cycle of “school, athletics, homework, and repeat. Discipline played an important role early on in my life.” This pushed Peter onto the national golf View Details