Shaping the Waves - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

career shaped my view of climate change and the energy transition because it showed me that technology alone isn’t enough and that several stars must align to make real impact. It is critical to consider... View Details

02 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Women, Work, and the "M" Word

health issues. The fact they continued to do so into my adult life was not lost on me. These experiences highlighted for me the gaps in women’s health, and women’s rights overall. Eventually, they View Details

29 Mar 2018
HBS Seminar

Prithwiraj Choudhury, Harvard Business School

01 Oct 1997
News

Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development

sector both domestically and abroad. "The complex web of factors that shape and govern communities in need, whether here in the United States or in the developing world,... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

These Are the Good Old Days

Given her unique perspective as head of a publishing powerhouse, Moore seemed the ideal member of the MBA Class of 1978 to provide an overview of major trends that have shaped... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

rewarding to have the opportunity to help shape public policy in a way that’s beneficial to them." Yet social norms are a significant factor when it comes to the success... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Market Research Meets the “People Factor”

Deshpandé in the introduction to Using Market Knowledge. Though managers make decisions based on professional experience and common sense, scientific research will continue to play a key role in shaping... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Takeaways from the Peek Women's Colleges Cohort

business, but in fact enrichens your experience and allows you to shape your unique perspective on complex problems, which can in turn, inspire your peers. This final lesson was one that I treasured the most... View Details

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Tell Me Who You Want Me to Be: The Role of Collective Endorsements in Leader Identity Development

By: Christopher G. Myers

Research examining 'leader' as an individual role identity has gained prominence in recent years, yet our understanding of how individuals develop these leader identities in organizations is still relatively limited. Drawing on a qualitative interview study of leaders... View Details

Keywords: Identity Construction; Talent Management; Selection; Leadership Development; Talent and Talent Management; Organizations; Identity; Singapore

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The Challenges Ahead in the field of impact investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

working... Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are Shilla Kim-Parker 2009 As if foreshadowing the career path ahead of her, Shilla Kim-Parker (MBA 2009) wrote her HBS application essay about her desire to serve View Details

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

When discussing business leadership, a distinction is often made between good management and good leadership. Managers are thought to be the budgeters, the organizers, the... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young

01 Mar 2008
News

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

TUMULTY: “Rather than challenge voters, politicians look for the lowest common denominator.” In the following article, the first in a series of occasional opinion pieces by HBS... View Details

Keywords: Government

February 2012
Article

CEO Relational Leadership and Strategic Decision Quality in Top Management Teams: The Role of Team Trust and Learning from Failure

By: Abraham Carmeli, Asher Tishler and Amy C. Edmondson

In this study, we examine a complex pathway through which CEOs, who exhibit relational leadership, may improve the quality of strategic decisions of their top management teams (TMTs) by creating psychological conditions of trust and facilitating learning from failures... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Development; Decisions; Management Teams; Trust; Learning; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Managerial Roles; Failure

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12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

with the unsexy title, A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

06 Oct 2011
What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

New York Times, October 2, 2011, p. BU6 James L. Heskett, Is Profit as a "Direct Goal" Overrated? Working Knowledge, July 2, 2010 James L. Heskett, The Culture Cycle: How to Shape View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

develop a folding bicycle with the look and feel of a traditional bike," Tripsas remarks. "But if you mention a folding bicycle, most people conjure up an image of a small-wheeled, oddly shaped... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Sep 2017
News

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

Rockefeller Center, on August 22, 2015, the house lights dimmed at Madison Square Garden, a few blocks away. Music pulsed and multicolored strobes illuminated cheering audience members, many waving signs... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

06 Nov 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

drew attention to the resource allocation process (RAP) with his seminal study of four organizations in 1970. He concluded that a bottom-up process of idea generation begun by operational managers and shaped... View Details