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- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Strategist?
"What are the first three words that come to mind when you hear the word 'strategy'?" That's the free-association exercise Cynthia A. Montgomery gives to mid-career business leaders in her Executive Education classes at Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Teaching Interest
MBA Required Curriculum Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD)
By: Rakesh Khurana
This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise.
The first modules examine teams, individuals, and networks in the context of:
- The determinants of group... View Details
- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
The COVID-19 pandemic made remote work more the norm than the exception, and now many companies are struggling to map out a hybrid plan that both managers and employees can embrace long term. With return-to-work policies in flux, this is “a fragile period” in which... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- April 1998 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
NEC: A New R&D Site in Princeton
In 1992, Daizburo Shinoda, a senior R&D manager at NEC, has to deal with a succession issue regarding the leadership of NEC's R&D site in Princeton, N.J. In deciding whom to appoint as the next leader of NEC's most important R&D site abroad, Shinoda has to consider a... View Details
Keywords: Management Succession; Corporate Strategy; Research and Development; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Information Technology Industry; New Jersey
Kuemmerle, Walter, and Kiichiro Kobayashi. "NEC: A New R&D Site in Princeton." Harvard Business School Case 898-027, April 1998. (Revised April 2004.)
- April 2021 (Revised July 2021)
- Case
Public Equities Impact Investing at BlackRock
By: Shawn A. Cole, Vikram S. Gandhi, Michael Norris and John Masko
In early 2021, BlackRock—the world’s largest asset manager with $9 trillion in assets under management (AUM)—sought to become a leader in promoting environmental and social sustainability. Over the previous ten years, CEO Larry Fink had written an annual open letter to... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Equity; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Investment Return; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Services Industry; United States
Cole, Shawn A., Vikram S. Gandhi, Michael Norris, and John Masko. "Public Equities Impact Investing at BlackRock." Harvard Business School Case 221-066, April 2021. (Revised July 2021.)
- 04 May 2021
- Book
Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer
desperate to get the toy fixed. “At any other store, they would have been directed to the toy aisle to buy a replacement,” says Hubert Joly, Best Buy’s former chairman and CEO, who is now a senior lecturer of business administration at... View Details
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- March 2014
- Article
Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life
By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
Work/life balance is at best an elusive ideal and at worst a complete myth, today's senior executives will tell you. But by making deliberate choices about which opportunities they'll pursue and which they'll decline, rather than simply reacting to emergencies, leaders... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams. "Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 3 (March 2014): 58–66.
- 14 Jun 2023
- Op-Ed
Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't
large organization or can be developed by being given responsibility for a domestic or international expansion effort, merger, or acquisition. Organizations need both generalists and specialists To create T-shaped leaders at scale, the... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
Pressure to increase gender diversity in C-suites is so intense that companies are trying to draw women candidates with higher salary offers, a phenomenon that is closing the gender pay gap among senior executives, research shows. Female... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- June 2001 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
Boston Lyric Opera
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Dennis Campbell
The Boston Lyric Opera was the fastest growing opera company in North America during the 1990s. Having successfully completed a move to a larger facility in 1999, the board and general director recognize the need to develop a formal strategic planning and governance... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Strategic Planning; Arts; Growth and Development Strategy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Fine Arts Industry; Massachusetts
Kaplan, Robert S., and Dennis Campbell. "Boston Lyric Opera." Harvard Business School Case 101-111, June 2001. (Revised July 2001.)
- Teaching Interest
Overview
Professor Mukunda teaches Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD.) This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise.
The first modules examine teams, individuals, and networks in the context... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- Op-Ed
Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services
But leaders should be cautious about ending up somewhere in between, suffering the costs of not formalizing appropriately without gaining from scale advantages. These are the firms that risk sinking in the “Bermuda Triangle.” A version of... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
companies, and, more often than not, business leaders remain silent on the issue. That cloak of silence from the top tends to enfold all employees. Ellis Cose, an author of several books about race and public policy, writes that young... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- July 2020
- Article
Yiqing xia zhongguo qiye de duice xuanze [Lessons from Chinese Companies' Response to COVID-19]
By: Das Narayandas, Vinay Hebar and Liangliang Li
China was weeks ahead of the rest of the world in dealing with the pandemic and its fallout. To understand what's next, the authors conducted a series of 20 in-depth, in-person interviews, as well as a large-scale survey of more than 350 senior executives to ascertain... View Details
Keywords: Management; Innovation and Management; Health Pandemics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Asia; China
Narayandas, Das, Vinay Hebar, and Liangliang Li. "Yiqing xia zhongguo qiye de duice xuanze [Lessons from Chinese Companies' Response to COVID-19]." Hafo shang ye ping lun [Harvard Business Review, Chinese edition] (July 2020): 118–125. (Also appeared online, in English, at Harvard Business Review, June 5, 2020.)
- 2023
- Chapter
Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life
By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
Work/life balance is at best an elusive ideal and at worst a complete myth, today's senior executives will tell you. But by making deliberate choices about which opportunities they'll pursue and which they'll decline, rather than simply reacting to emergencies, leaders... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams. "Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life." Chap. 1 in HBR's 10 Must Reads for Business Students, 1–15. Harvard Business Review Press, 2023.
- June 2015
- Article
You Need an Innovation Strategy
By: Gary P. Pisano
Why is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to articulate an innovation strategy that aligns innovation efforts with the overall business strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy
Pisano, Gary P. "You Need an Innovation Strategy." Harvard Business Review 93, no. 6 (June 2015): 44–54.
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
The explosion of "computer-to-computer" communication in the twenty-first century is triggering a growth phase for IT consultants. Harvard Business School professor Richard Nolan and HBS Interactive Senior Vice President Larry... View Details
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent
repeatedly show that businesses respect and care about their most important assets: their employees. About the Authors Hise O. Gibson is a senior lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. MaShon... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson