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  • 25 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

high-growth group, or universities who weaken their academic achievements by admitting students who have earned high GPAs in high school without considering the ease of the schools' curricula. The research, published this week in the... View Details
Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment

    Linda A. Hill

    Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation. Hill is... View Details

    • 17 May 2018
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.

    evaluate candidates solely on past job performance, failing to consider the job's difficulty? Why do university admissions officers focus on high GPAs, discounting influence of easy grading standards? Researchers investigate the... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • October 1993
    • Case

    Analyst's Dilemma (A), The

    By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem
    A young investment banker returns home one night to find that her roommate and best friend has been laid off from Universal Bank because Universal is shutting down its capital finance group. Her roommate makes her promise to keep this information confidential because... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Leveraged Buyouts; Conflict of Interests; Decision Choices and Conditions; Risk and Uncertainty
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      Gerald Zaltman

      *Joined Harvard Faculty: 1991
      Prior Faculty Appointments: Northwestern University, 1968-75;
      University of Pittsburgh, 1975-91

      *Doctoral Degree in Sociology Received from: The John Hopkins University;
      MBA Degree Received from: The University of... View Details

      Keywords: advertising; apparel; automotive; beverage; biotechnology; consumer products; entertainment; financial services; food; health care; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; retailing; sports; telecommunications
      • 2017
      • Interviews

      Peter Glick

      • 2017
      • Gender Conformity & Nonconformity

      Organizational Culture as Masculinity Contest: Developing and Validating a Climate Measure

      • October 2020 (Revised March 2021)
      • Case

      Pete Carroll: Building a Winning Organization through Purpose, Caring, and Inclusion

      By: Ranjay Gulati, Matthew Breitfelder and Monte Burke
      Competing at the highest levels of the National Football League (NFL) requires tremendous skill, dedication and persistence. The most successful coaches in the NFL know how to draw out a higher level of performance and consistency from their players. This is typically... View Details
      Keywords: National Football League; Leadership Style; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Relationships; Performance; Success; Sports; Sports Industry
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      • March 2008
      • Article

      Is Yours a Learning Organization?

      By: David A. Garvin, Amy C. Edmondson and Francesca Gino
      This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. An organization with a strong learning culture faces the unpredictable deftly.... View Details
      Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Learning; Surveys; Leading Change; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Culture
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        David E. Bell

        David E. Bell is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS. He has taught marketing many times in the MBA program including as course head.

        During his career at HBS, David has taught a variety of other courses to both MBAs and executives, including risk... View Details

        Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; apparel; e-commerce industry; fashion; food; food processing; grocery; insurance industry; marketing industry; retailing
        • March 2024
        • Article

        Being Together in Place as a Catalyst for Scientific Advance

        By: Eamon Duede, Misha Teplitskiy, Karim R. Lakhani and James Evans
        The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated social distancing at every level of society, including universities and research institutes, raising essential questions concerning the continuing importance of physical proximity for scientific and scholarly advance. Using customized... View Details
        Keywords: Geographic Location; Power and Influence; Body of Literature; Research
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        • August 2005 (Revised December 2005)
        • Case

        Coach Knight: The Will to Win

        By: Scott A. Snook, Leslie A. Perlow and Brian DeLacey
        Successful college basketball coach Bob Knight was fired from his long-time role as basketball coach at Indiana University and hired in the same role at Texas Tech. Considers these events in the context of his long career and provides a context for discussing various... View Details
        Keywords: Resignation and Termination; Selection and Staffing; Leadership Style; Situation or Environment; Power and Influence; Sports; Indiana; Texas
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        • November 2002
        • Compilation

        Four Principles of Biomedical Ethics: Definitions and Examples

        By: Sandra J. Sucher
        Introduces four principles of biomedical ethics, excerpted from Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress (Oxford University Press, 2001). The principles provide a conceptual framework for the analysis and resolution of moral problems... View Details
        Keywords: Framework; Moral Sensibility; Health Care and Treatment; Distribution; Problems and Challenges; Research; Emotions; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry
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        • 09 Oct 2020
        • HBS Seminar

        Jeffrey L. Furman, BU, Questrom Sch of Business

        • 26 Nov 2001
        • Research & Ideas

        Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both

        HBS professor David A. Thomas hates the word "mentor." In his opinion, it's as empty a buzzword as "coach." In fact, when Thomas spoke to an audience of around 100 administrative managers at Harvard University... View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace
        • March 2009
        • Case

        Barbara Norris: Leading Change in the General Surgery Unit

        By: Boris Groysberg, Nitin Nohria and Deborah Bell
        Barbara Norris struggles to address the many problems facing her as a recently promoted nurse manager in the General Surgery Unit (GSU) at Eastern Massachusetts University Hospital (EMU). She has inherited a unit with the lowest employee satisfaction scores and highest... View Details
        Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Leading Change; Service Delivery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Groups and Teams; Motivation and Incentives; Satisfaction; Health Industry
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        • Research Summary

        Creativity and Innovation

        By: Teresa M. Amabile

        Starting in 2016, I undertook several new projects on creativity and innovation. The first, a revision of my 1988 componential theory of creativity and innovation, was coauthored with Michael Pratt (Boston College) and published in Research in Organizational... View Details

        Keywords: Creativity; Innovation
        • August 2021
        • Article

        Anger Damns the Innocent

        By: Katherine DeCelles, Gabrielle Adams, Holly S. Howe and Leslie K. John
        False accusations of wrongdoing are common and can have grave consequences. In six studies, we document a worrisome paradox in perceivers’ subjective judgments of a suspect’s guilt. Specifically, we find that laypeople (online panelists; N = 4,983) use suspects’ angry... View Details
        Keywords: Morality; Accusations; Deception; Guilt; Affect; Emotions; Behavior; Perception; Judgments; Decision Making
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        • 27 Feb 2006
        • Research & Ideas

        Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

        may be able to show employees the ways in which they are trying to sustain the values, while also managing business realities. (iv) Create a sense of psychological safety. Employees need to feel that it is safe for them to express... View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace
        • January 2024
        • Case

        Deion Sanders: The Prime Effect

        By: Hise O. Gibson, Nicole Gilmore and Alicia Dadlani
        In 2023, Deion Sanders, known as “Coach Prime,” became head football coach of the University of Colorado Boulder (CU). Sanders was tasked with leading CU’s struggling football program, which had only achieved one winning season in the last 15 years, back to glory. Many... View Details
        Keywords: Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Style; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Sports; Experience and Expertise; Sports Industry; United States; Colorado
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