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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media by Catherine J. Turco (MBA 2003) (Columbia University Press) A fast-growing social media marketing company, TechCo encourages all of its employees to speak up. By... View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
their own goals, appraise their own achievements, and reach their own conclusions about how to improve. Managers should also spend more of their time inspiring (through stories) and devising engaging activities from which View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
Duncan for the company’s Hack Week competition, in which employees are invited to spend a week pursuing a passion project. Their idea for a personality-forward voice assistant won an award and, with it, some funding. “Seeing that Spotify... View Details
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
offer front-line employees access to learning, coaching, and training that propels growth for individuals and their employers. While outside of the investing space, the business model is perfectly aligned with how Mbanusi wants to address... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I wanted to ask a quick favor. We’re running a two-minute, ten-question listener survey to help us continue to bring you these great, View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
from disparate backgrounds.” During his final year at HBS, he heard a talk by WWF president and CEO Carter Roberts (MBA ’88). “In Ghana,” says Murphy, “I had come to the conclusion that sustainable business development was key, and Carter’s talk focused on View Details
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
strategic planning, advancing institutional effectiveness, serving as liaison to Human Resources, and leading diversity-focused community engagement and campus-wide initiatives. As a member of the Vice Chancellor's leadership team, she... View Details
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
Directorship 34, no. 2 (April - May 2008) Read article: http://www.directorship.com/the-leader-within Help Employees Give Away Some of That Bonus Authors:Michael I. Norton and Elizabeth W. Dunn Periodical:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
Psychology The Downside of Downtime: The Prevalence and Work Pacing Consequences of Idle Time at Work By: Brodsky, Andrew, and Teresa M. Amabile Abstract—Although both media commentary and academic research have focused much attention on the dilemma of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
turbulence in talent markets that isn't ending anytime soon. "There's been a fundamental shift in the marketplace, where employees have more power than they had in the past," says Kwok. "So companies are asking, ‘how do we attract and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
professor Carl Kester, a member of the Class of 1977, has engaged many students in discussions about leadership. So it seemed fitting for the Bulletin to ask him to coordinate an exchange of views on the topic among a small group of the... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
deconstruction of gender inequality in organizations. Why Employees Are Afraid to Speak Up Authors:J. R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Harvard Business Review 85, no. 5 (May 2007) Abstract In a word—self-preservation. And... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
or Hands: How Do Employees Respond to a Radical Global Language Change Over Time? By: Reiche, Sebastian, and Tsedal Neeley Abstract— To understand how recipients respond to radical change over time across cognitive, affective, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
that some of the hardest leadership decisions are the ones that have moral or ethical stakes. For example, while on the board of a nonprofit, I was approached by an employee—a whistleblower—who accused the program director of manipulating the organization's books. The... View Details
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
offer such services but don't really have the technology or expertise to back up the claim. Rather, look for a company whose employees have a healthy, skeptical respect for neuroscience. "The rubric for picking a good [firm] is... View Details
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
their urgency (pressing to deferrable). Learning and living by two such seemingly straightforward principles is difficult. One must be willing to say no to colleagues and friends, overcome procrastination, engage in hard tasks, and subdue... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
Artist Support | Baker Library
within the history of art curriculum at Smith. (7) Another contributor to the debate was photography historian Beaumont Newhall, a friend and colleague of Land and Morse, who gave lectures at Polaroid to company employees and wrote... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
algorithms. So much richer, in fact, that my engagement with a particular brand might be very different than yours, because it’s customized to each of us. I can also imagine this predictive learning being combined with new user... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
executive at a company where the numbers say you need to close a factory, which you know will have a devastating impact on the employees affected. If you don’t do it, however, your whole company may collapse. This dilemma mirrors the... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
China's economy in context; and finally (3) "China and the Global Economy" shows how China's engagement with the global economy has changed overtime. These materials should be of interest to observers and participants of Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace