Crisis Response Plans - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

could convince some companies to rethink the equity of their own compensation plans and the level of salary transparency they wish to maintain. For example, it may be more effective to structure pay raises based on promotion rather than... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Harvard Business School

assistant buyer and rose to overseeing buying in Europe and Asia. He was one of the first Black executives at Macy's. Wilkinson later moved to the New York City Transit Authority, becoming executive officer for surface transit with operating View Details

04 Nov 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

Summing Up Three themes appear to characterize many of the responses to this month's column: (1) leadership talent is portable, (2) the reasons that we chase stars are traceable to human nature, and (3) women have qualities that explain... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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MBA Program - Alumni

highlighted in this video. Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path Professor Nien-hê Hsieh wrote and teaches a case that explores the “gray area” of leadership—that uncomfortable and common space where leaders face difficult trade-offs across their View Details

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

Accountability, a required course for first-year MBA students that examines the responsibilities business leaders have to their shareholders, customers, employees, and to society Click Here Cote visited Boston for the occasion, sitting in... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

operations that Guide Dogs had been responsible for, such as running hotels and holiday programs for the blind. "She sought partners who would have the capability to take ownership and continue running those programs. The contract... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Jul 2017
HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

the case mentions the father’s long-standing relationship with the Vietnamese American franchise owners and the common sense of purpose and responsibility shared by the Vietnamese community as a whole. “None of these decisions are... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

to the bone, miserably hot, terrified, freezing cold, furious, battered, blistered, and bruised at various stages of my career—often experiencing several of these at once. I have been hopelessly lost in both the woods and the desert, and perpetually overwhelmed by the... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

the risk of flooding.” In addition, a number of seemingly futuristic sustainable technologies are already being deployed commercially, including photovoltaic cells built into the “skin” of buildings and electrochromic windows that darken automatically in View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

07 Jul 2003
What Do You Think?

Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?

global economy and the Internet were cited by some as being responsible for the current dilemma. John van Heteren paraphrased several respondents when he opined that "I believe that the existing definition in your article was not... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Profile

Erin Kaivan

military intelligence officer, serving two tours in Afghanistan culminating in a captain's rank as a Company Commander with responsibility for nearly 120 men and women in the 101st Airborne Division. On her first tour, she witnessed... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

“shots-in-arms” problem. In the United States, polls suggest that about 40 percent of adults prefer to not take the vaccine. In France, Russia, South Africa, Japan, Italy, Spain, and Germany, between a third and half of adults do not plan... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

04 Aug 2011
What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

conditions don't prevail, watch out. At risk of oversimplification, that sums up the responses to this month's column, in which most readers accepted to some degree author Duncan Watts' description of how common sense fails us. First... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

vuvuzelas competes with the arena’s mix of American hip-hop and regional hits. It is a distinctly regional take on an iconic American export. The league is a core pillar of NBA Africa, a two-year-old venture whose value NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has estimated at... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

The company is facing its largest crisis since its inception in 2004. What should it do next? The genius of the Facebook business model, similar to strategy used by other internet giants, was that it was free, paid for by advertising... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

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Alumni Career Guide - Alumni

Guide? Serving as an Alumni Career Guide is a great opportunity to interact with students and reconnect with HBS. Additionally, you can add "HBS Career Guide" to LinkedIn or your resume to indicate that you are actively helping to expand knowledge of your industry.... View Details

22 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Case Protagonists at HBS

and confidence at once because of the huge responsibility we feel to share our relevant work experiences with the class, and the authority bestowed on each of us for having said experiences. Moreover, I dare you to try and sit through an... View Details

18 Dec 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

according to Sasser, a Baker Foundation Professor. These employees enjoy access to talent-identification systems. Big organizations can point to formal programs led by individuals whose sole responsibility is to find and mentor... View Details