Leader Experience - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

I gained first-hand experience with product management in the gaming industry, including identifying a market need, creating a game design document, coding in a game engine, fostering a Reddit and Discord community with over 100 alpha... View Details

Profile

Peggy Mativo-Ochola

additional tutors and have to make do with what’s available." Through Pacemaker, local youth support professional teachers by mentoring younger students and engaging them in a variety of afterschool activities. "The idea is improving education today while... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

Blog

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

research on leading complex organizations and scaling businesses, I've chosen Unleash Your Transformation by Marco Van Kalleveen and Peter Koijen. This book offers valuable insights and practical strategies for leaders who are driving... View Details

Web

Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

Benefit Experienced Team Leaders Entrepreneurs Leadership Principles Past Participants Prepare for the next phase of your leadership journey, whether you’re expanding your overall scope of responsibilities or taking over a larger... View Details

16 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Advice on Advice

how a leader can make critical big decisions without getting advice." Plus, many executives believe that if they seek advice, they will be viewed as incapable of making decisions on their own. Research shows that people who seek too... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

efforts in two recent cases, “The Brand Management of Places” and “Israel at 70: Is it Possible to (re)Brand a Country?” Success without a roadmap Government and business leaders hoping to shift the conversation about their regions might... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism

09 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

nowhere near de-escalation. My personal assessment is that it is likely to get worse." Since the conflict seems poised to get worse before it gets better, what impacts should businesses and consumers expect to experience as a result?... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy

Web

Esteves Hall | About

lighting to create a timeless design that will deepen the learning experience for thousands of participants annually from around the globe. About the Name André & Lilian Esteves Esteves Hall is named for André Esteves and his wife,... View Details

Web

Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment

MBA Experience Funding Opportunities 1ms Career Support While many options exist to address environmental issues through traditional for-profit careers, some students make their marks on the world through other types of organizations. The... View Details

16 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

investment of a founder’s time" Koning’s working paper, released in May, is titled Learning to Manage: A Field Experiment in the Indian Startup Ecosystem. The coauthors were Aaron Chatterji and Sharique Hasan, both of Duke... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 May 2020
Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

Capital and Private Equity Club (VCPE) often are contacted by alumni or major firms looking for interested MBA candidates. While all career leads are registered with HBS’ Career and Professional Development (CPD) office, clubs allow students to develop relationships... View Details

Web

Class or Section Secretary - Alumni

LEADERS & IDEAS GIVE TO HBS INVEST IN LEADERS & IDEAS Give to HBS Learn about Planned Giving Recognition for Your HBS Giving According to our records, you have not made a new gift or pledge in recent years... View Details

Web

Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

Our flexible, online programs are designed to bring the Harvard Business School classroom to you, and are built around three key characteristics: Real-World Cases Apply your learning through real-world examples and experience Harvard... View Details

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

underlying your strategy and analyze how it's implemented through your business processes and structures. Drawing on decades of research into performance management systems and organization design, Seven Strategy Questions is a no-nonsense, must-read resource for all... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

School Professor Julie Battilana. The crux of the problem is that CEOs and other leaders often get such a power trip that they lack empathy and humility, which inhibits their ability to understand and respect what their employees value.... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

Web

2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

customers are partitioned away from the operation, they are less likely to fully appreciate the work going on behind the scenes, causing them to place a lower value on the product or service being offered. To address this problem, leaders... View Details

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

strategy management system that we make a rather bold claim that leadership is both necessary and sufficient for successful strategy execution. The necessary condition comes from our experience with the more than one hundred enterprises... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Web

Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

group dynamics and improve team performance through tools and processes designed to enhance collaboration and iteration in development Guide teams to draw from a wide range of professional experiences and backgrounds and create stronger... View Details

01 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

presented us with the problem of figuring out whether there was anything we could do to reduce turnover," Gino says. "We thought it was the perfect environment to test whether we could make a difference just by changing something minor in the onboarding process."... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Future of IT Consulting

outsourcing is still an established practice, companies have gained experience and can now do much more for themselves that they have looked to outsiders to do in the past. Managers know more about IT, more about the business and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting

Publications