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01 Mar 2014
News

Generation Next

family-run Indian conglomerate. Kahn, who worked for agrichemical giant Syngenta AG and knew the industry well, agreed to have a look. The subsidiary, Godrej Agrovet, had expanded beyond its core business of animal feed in recent years,... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

Why are women so dramatically underrepresented in formal leadership positions, and what can be done about it? That's the basic question contemplated in a book of essays called, The Difference "Difference" Makes, edited by Debra L. Rhode. In the book, Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

24 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

clocks, with a large display, that were placed throughout the five sites for all employees to easily see the time.” Training the locals was very important, Shah says. “Our role on the business side was to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

16 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

The importance of naming and addressing institutional racism has many people focusing on what can be done—as individuals and as employers—to improve diversity, inclusion, and understanding in an organization. Below are several resources and recommendations from experts... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and Harvard View Details

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

she set store standards, instituted training programs, and rejuvenated performance. Due to her success in operations over the next two years, this manager received two more challenging assignments. First, she became director of sales for... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

30 Oct 2017
Blog Post

How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA

This outlook has served me well, not only at work or at HBS, but also in life. That said, there are challenges that I have had to overcome. As an engineer, I have been trained to be risk-averse and to seek substantial amount of... View Details

05 Jul 2016
First Look

July 5, 2016

July–August 2016 Harvard Business Review Beyond the Holacracy Hype: The Overwrought Claims—and Actual Promise—of the Next Generation of Self-Managed Teams By: Bernstein, Ethan, John Bunch, Niko Canner, and Michael Lee Abstract—Holacracy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

long-term effort for us," he said. "Starting this month, my own speech will simply be in English." All workers were required to take a two-hour 200-question test to assess their reading and listening comprehension of View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

“Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.” The best entrepreneurs are taking this slower moment to re-examine their key business processes and make sure that they’re running them more effectively and efficiently. View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

decades thereafter, the NBA’s activity on the continent focused on grassroots development. Its international Basketball Without Borders program, which launched in Africa in 2003, featured athletic development and training as well as... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

24 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 24

Canada—grow its own retirement business, find a joint venture partner, or sell the business. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311023-PDF-ENG Delta Electronics Hybrid Power Train Willy Shih and Jyun-Cheng... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

might not take much effort to train ourselves to engage in thoughts during the commute that prepare us for the role ahead. Knowing that a long commute can make or break the job for some workers, the research team hopes View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsAvaya (A) Harvard Business School Case 508-048 Avaya's top management wants to improve demand generation. This requires an improvement in the relationship between Sales and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

"Four minutes," a triumphant Amy C. Edmondson exclaims as she arrives at her Harvard Business School office, clutching a bike helmet and explaining that her commute is 10 minutes faster by bicycle than by car. Edmondson, the... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

11 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

Kyle Leahy (MBA 2011) stepped into the CEO role of Glossier in May 2022 ready to take the brand to new heights. Since its founding in 2014, Glossier had disrupted the beauty industry, created a powerful community-driven brand, and was looking to build the View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement

different in terms of business model, scientific discovery, and time-to-patients, I see these modalities as bookends of scalable human health care–ranging from disease prevention, detection, and management to curing diseases completely.... View Details

25 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

sign up for the job to stare at a screen. They are doing this to provide care for people,” says one of the study’s co-authors, Joel Goh, a visiting scholar in the Technology & Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. “It... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

the right questions," says Kaplan, a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. "Most leaders spend a lot of their time looking for answers. Very often, they may feel isolated and alone. I want to help them... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Portrait Project

Ninad Kulkarni

I used to love making mistakes. At the age of six, I refused to have training wheels on my first bicycle. At the age of ten, I attempted to bake a cake sans adult supervision. At the age of thirteen, I proposed to the popular sixteen-year... View Details

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