Execution Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

onboarding strategy and to dedicate twice as much effort and time to executing that strategy as compared to an in-person process. According to our research, when executives are asked to score their companies... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

crowded classroom, including a Harvard graduate student and former high-school teacher who was the course’s head teaching fellow last year; a historian who has coauthored some of the course’s 24 new cases; and a member of the Executive... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Beth Clark | About

previous work in public policy and advocacy fortified her dedication to the pivotal role of higher education in society. Beth is an ardent advocate for cultivating diverse and innovative teams within complex, distributed environments. She... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

successful,” says one Miami YALPer. Improving education for the city’s poorest populations could change that equation—but the ballot measure to fund the schools didn’t pass by a long shot. What went wrong? A participant from Minneapolis–St. Paul comments on the number... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

The last few months have been trying for Maureen Park, the managing director of a small portfolio management firm. The firm's parent company, a large financial services concern, was performing below forecasts, and morale among Park's understaffed, overworked View Details

Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Health Care Courses Health Care Courses Executive Education Courses Health Care Curriculum Residents & Fellows Course Strategy for Health Care Delivery... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

team concluded that learning directly from these leaders about what was important to them and how they had developed would give us much richer insights than prior studies. Indeed, this proved to be the case, as we discovered the paramount... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases Published CSV Cases Published CSV Cases Please find below a selection of the cases taught in our senior executive... View Details

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

its own initiative—responsibilities that were formerly not performed by any person or unit in the organization. So, early on the BSC team fills a gap in the management of the organization. While many of our examples are from Balanced... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

Achiever, fills the senior executive ranks. These leaders rarely fail to achieve their goals and often exceed sales quotas, create generous profits, and are frequent stars at merit-award dinners. The Achiever, to use Peter Drucker's... View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

19 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract In this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

from 260 employees to 38 in 10 days,” one CEO shared. “Decisions had to be made swiftly. It was heart-wrenching. My mindset has changed. Priorities have changed, personally and professionally.” Executives have turned to a handful of... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni

to navigate this shifting and complex landscape. To mark the launch of BiGS, the School brought together senior executives in industry, academia, government, and the nonprofit sector for a day of discussion around current practices,... View Details

07 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 7, 2015

The (B) case reveals that Sharer decided that Amgen should enter the emerging biosimilars business. However, he took the better part of a year to syndicate the decision across the senior team while in parallel investing in some... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Site Credits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Library Search Search Search Lehman Brothers: 1850 - 2008 Resources Site Credits Site Credits EXHIBITION TEAM Laura Linard Melissa Banta Melissa Murphy Michelle Jarvis Liat Spiro Jennifer Skarbek Christine Riggle Tim Mahoney CONSERVATION... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

A World of Difference

organization, teach them how to be more inclusive.” “If you want to skyrocket performance in any organization, teach them how to be more inclusive.” Francesca Gino: We can divide leaders out there into three buckets. The first bucket is View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

overlook our most powerful tool for effecting change: our own thoughts. Through a variety of exercises called Think Keys, Zaltman guides the reader through the mind’s most important unconscious and conscious dynamics. Zaltman has used these techniques with View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

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