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  • 15 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

required three kinds of specialists: business managers, country managers, and functional managers, with a group of senior executives to coordinate the efforts of the specialists. In 2003, as globalization has become a much more pressing... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy's collapse, from the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 28

  PublicationsManager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers Authors:Francois Brochet, Lucile Faurel, and Sarah McVay Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

through three examples: the design of medical residency matching programs, a scrip system to allocate food donations to food banks, and the recent "Incentive Auction" that reallocated wireless spectrum from television broadcasters to telecoms. Our lead examples show... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 6

style game of asking yes-or-no questions about a group of faces pictured, half white and half African-American. The authors suggest that people's discomfort and avoidance of referring to race imposes costs in terms of information... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 03 Jun 2024 Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description Molly DeCastro Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Recruiting Advice Recruiting Strategies Crafting a simple yet effective job description is a fine art.... View Details
  • 27 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

southeastern United States, was an early adopter of a team-focused structure that many emergency departments are now implementing. The research showed that temporary teams mimic the behaviors of more permanent teams, which have definitive boundaries around a View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health
  • 15 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

ownership support of the business are just too important to ignore or take for granted. We also know that strong performance of the business, the ownership group, and the family depends on the effective leadership of each group. This... View Details
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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

Jobs to be Done Case Practice The Godrej Group Applying Jobs to be Done to You Featured Exercises One-on-One Discussion & Interview Assignment: Discovering Customer Jobs to be Done Team Discussion: Innovation in Yogurt 5-6 hrs Module 3... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

openness, patience, and a tolerance for ambiguity. Thus formal processes or forums for discussing, analyzing, and applying the lessons of failure elsewhere in the organization are needed to ensure that effective analysis and learning from... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
  • February 2022
  • Case

Leading The UK Vaccine Task Force

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Claudia Pienica
This case describes the first six months of the UK Vaccine Taskforce, under the leadership of Kate Bingham. With a career spent in the private sector as a biotech investor, Bingham’s appointment within the government was considered unusual. The overarching brief given... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Vaccine; Government; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Science; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Leadership; Decision Making; Government and Politics; Health; Innovation and Management; Governance; Change; Government Administration; Health Industry; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; Europe; United Kingdom
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  • 16 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

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

their attitudes and perceptions, and those of their husbands." The study’s findings showed a clear uptick in women working outside the home, with the strongest results seen for women who were more socially constrained (women who at baseline had reported not... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 25 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

training typically doesn’t yield the return on investment in improved organizational effectiveness and performance that companies expect. “Individual development has to take place in the context of a larger change process motivated by the... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education
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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

Participant Prepare for a managerial role and position yourself for advancement by learning how to effectively implement strategy. "What I found most valuable were the methods and tools, which were useful and practical. I’ve already... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

viewed as “decision factories,” in which effective leaders are “decision architects,” enabling those around them to make wise, ethical choices consistent with their own interests and the organization’s highest values. Turning the Great... View Details
  • 07 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 7, 2016

likelihood of meeting or beating analyst expectations. Collectively the results shed light on the effect of increased ownership concentration on tax avoidance. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51123 June... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

gone. This is an opportunity to learn Slack and Zoom and have a mentor teach you how to use these tools. The second thing is, working remotely is very effective if you can also restructure the organizational processes for how... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

organizations to leverage peer effects to improve the performance of their members. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55775 Pre-published online, October 2018 The Oxford Handbook of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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FAQs - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

and maintain connections with student leaders throughout the term. In addition we conduct interviews with student groups for use in our research and programs with faculty.Does the Christensen Center offer training in case method teaching... View Details
  • 30 May 2023
  • News

Finding PRIDE

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services