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  • 06 Mar 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

Business School, the philosophy has long been to eschew formal training in time management, instead overloading students purposely to force them to learn for themselves how to prioritize and become better time managers.) Why the current... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 11 Jan 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

organizationally. Q: What impact do these changes in the marketplace and organization have on the roles of today's managers? A: The seemingly endless waves of restructuring, downsizing, reengineering, de-layering, empowerment, and View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 04 Nov 2002
  • What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

Summing Up Those offering insights into ways to make the corporate brain function more effectively suggest that the corporate brain may be as complex as its biological counterpart. Respondents alternatively focused on learning, constant usage, and memory. Where View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • January 2025
  • Case

Ontra: Embracing GenAI in the Legal Technology Industry

By: Christopher Stanton and George Gonzalez
Ontra built a network of legal professionals to enable financial institutions to outsource contract negotiations. The rise of generative AI inspired the company to build software solutions to streamline its processes through automation. Now company leadership must... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; AI and Machine Learning; Applications and Software; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Technology Industry; Legal Services Industry; United States
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Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog

(ii) designing incentive systems, broadly defined, that motivate both individual performance and organizational behavior. Students will learn to apply these concepts to enhance their own productivity while... View Details
  • August 2011
  • Supplement

Interview with Raj Datta, Former Chief Knowledge Officer of MindTree

By: David A. Garvin
MindTree is a mid-sized Indian IT services company known for its knowledge management practices, its collborative communities, and its strong culture and values. The CEO has a set a goal of becoming a $1 billion company by 2014; to reach that goal, employees must... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Learning; Values and Beliefs; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry; India
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  • 14 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition

successful T-shaped manager must learn to live with, and ultimately thrive within, the tension created by this dual responsibility. Although this tension is most acute for heads of business units, any T-shaped manager with operating unit... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
  • 03 Aug 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

and well-being of others.” He thinks these virtues are not often reflected in what actually happens in real organizational life. Instead, the leaders he sees commonly exhibit immodest, inauthentic, dishonest, untrustworthy, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 03 Oct 2018

HBX Becoming A Better Manager

Maximize your managerial effectiveness by shaping and influencing processes in the critically-important treetop level between 50,000 feet (strategy) and ground level (daily tasks and activities). Program Dates: October 3, 2018 - November 28, 2018 View Details
  • 9 AM – 10 AM EST, 09 Jan 2019
  • HBS Online

HBS Online Management Essentials

Maximize your managerial effectiveness by shaping and influencing processes in the critically-important treetop level between 50,000 feet (strategy) and ground level (daily tasks and activities). Program Dates: January 9, 2019 - March 6, 2019 View Details
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System

specification, it is establishing a hypothesis that is then tested through action. This approach — the scientific method—is not imposed on workers, it's ingrained in them. And it stimulates them to engage in the kind of experimentation that is widely recognized as the... View Details
Keywords: by H. Kent Bowen & Steven Spear; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

articles from the Wall Street Journal and The Economist they learn about "decision rights" and alienability and how these institutional devices solve the control problems in a capitalist society. The second portion of the course,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Marked Managers

and getting rewarded for it — then you are likely to want to get to know them better and to learn from their success. Those lessons and relationships are likely to stick with you and be influential throughout your career. Do you think... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Career Imprints; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 10 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

inequality in the workplace. In particular, the book makes clear how organizational roles and structures shape unequal access to opportunities, resources, and advancement. In a wide-ranging conversation, Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
  • Article

On the Origin of Shared Beliefs (and Corporate Culture)

By: Eric J. Van den Steen
This article shows how corporate culture, in the sense of shared beliefs and values, originates (often unintentionally) through screening, self-sorting, and manager-directed joint learning. It shows that such culture will be stronger among more important employees and... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Learning; Values and Beliefs; Employees; Decisions; Power and Influence; Performance; Perspective
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  • 12 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

in improving processes. Retailers can certainly learn from the auto industry's experience. Like in manufacturing a few decades ago, there is a lot of low-hanging fruit in retail operations today. However, to harvest these fruits retailers... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto
  • February 6, 2024
  • Article

Find the AI Approach That Fits the Problem You’re Trying to Solve

By: George Westerman, Sam Ransbotham and Chiara Farronato
AI moves quickly, but organizations change much more slowly. What works in a lab may be wrong for your company right now. If you know the right questions to ask, you can make better decisions, regardless of how fast technology changes. You can work with your technical... View Details
Keywords: Technology Adoption; AI and Machine Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Analytics and Data Science
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  • 08 Oct 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?

out, "There is already available in proxy statements what the compensation is. It's supposed to be public knowledge, except few of the public learn of it, and few investors, apparently, get upset." Ravindra Edirisoorlya said... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Web

Getting Involved - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Involved Videos Books Getting Involved Getting Involved Through Value-Based Health Care Delivery, we can improve long-term patient outcomes, reduce costs, and create organizational structures, management practices, and payment models that... View Details
  • 27 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

masculinity in the workplace. A resulting working paper, "Unmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Male Identity," not only explores how organizations influence the way men enact their gender, but also looks at... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities