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  • June 2025
  • Technical Note

Skills-First Talent Management: Artificial Intelligence

By: Boris Groysberg, James Barnett and Izzy Yeoh
A note in a series of notes on how organizations manage skills-first talent-management chains. This note examines how artificial intelligence (AI) has shaped skills-first talent management at companies. Other notes in this series include “Skills-First Talent... View Details
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Overview

I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2014
  • News

Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy

  • 18 Jan 2010
  • News

Lessons from the Credit Crisis: Governing Financial Institutions

  • 17 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

and the right resources. We really think that's at the heart. The last piece is your team. That's about all the complexities of what it means to build a team—a team is different from just a group—and how you think about managing the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

    Stefan H. Thomke

    Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; automobiles; automotive; banking; biotechnology; chemical; computer; defense; electronics; health care; high technology; home video games; information technology industry; manufacturing; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; plastics; semiconductor; service industry; telecommunications; video games
    • 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:

    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Hidden Risk

    By: Daniel Barth, Phillip Monin, Emil Siriwardane and Adi Sunderam
    Since 2013, large U.S. hedge fund advisers have been required to report risk exposures in their regulatory filings. Using these data, we first establish that managers’ perceptions of risk contain useful information that is not embedded in fund returns. Investor flows... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Investment Funds; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Return; Communication Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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    • January 2008 (Revised August 2011)
    • Case

    ProntoWash: Washing the World's Cars to a Tango Beat

    ProntoWash management considers whether franchising and the Balanced Scorecard could be combined to help customer-facing employees provide consistent service across the world and capture relevant management information. In 2007, ProntoWash, an international car-wash... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Growth and Development Strategy; Balanced Scorecard; Management Systems; Franchise Ownership; Performance Consistency; Argentina
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    • September 2013
    • Case

    United Rentals (A)

    By: Jay W. Lorsch, Kathleen Durante and Emily McTague

    In December 1997 United Rentals (URI) went public on the NYSE. Ten years later, during the peak of the economic meltdown, the company's performance was in decline. United Rentals had experienced its share of problems in the prior years and was still struggling to... View Details

    Keywords: Board Of Directors; Board Dynamics; Accounting Fraud; Governance; Board Committees; Merger; Corporate Governance; Construction Industry; United States
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    • 23 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

    ideas, bring them together, and send out the best ones, while still trying to ensure that there is no layer of management to take control away from the nurses,” Bernstein says. Technology (BuurtzorgWeb) serves as the main way nurses... View Details
    Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health
    • 18 Oct 2022
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Chewy.com’s Make-or-Break Logistics Dilemma

    Keywords: Re: Jeffrey F. Rayport; Retail
    • 2006
    • Article

    Capital Budgeting: The Role of Cost Allocations

    By: Ian D. Gow and Stefan Reichelstein
    A common issue for firms is how to allocate capital resources to various investment alternatives. An extensive and long-standing literature in finance has examined various aspects of capital budgeting, including capital constraints, the determination of discount rates,... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Resource Allocation; Performance Evaluation; Cost Management; Research; Investment; Cash Flow; Risk Management; Performance Capacity
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    • 07 Jul 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    4+2 = Sustained Business Success

    average. Culture Corporate culture advocates sometimes argue that if you can make the work fun, all else will follow. Our results suggest that holding high expectations about performance matters a lot more. Inspire all View Details
    Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson
    • October 2008
    • Article

    Evaluating the CEO

    By: Stephen P. Kaufman
    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. After Kaufman became a CEO, he was struck by how perfunctory the board was in its... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives
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    • April 2010
    • Case

    George Martin at The Boston Consulting Group (A)

    By: Leslie A. Perlow and Kerry Herman
    George Martin, managing partner at The Boston Consulting Group, is worried as some of his best performers have recently pulled him aside to discuss the challenges they face managing the demands of their work lives with their desire for more predictable time with their... View Details
    Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Work-Life Balance; Management Teams; Interpersonal Communication; Jobs and Positions; Employees; Consulting Industry; Boston
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    Business Ethics

    By: Joshua D. Margolis
    Joshua Margolis is interested in how individuals can exercise leadership in the face of competing ethical and economic responsibilities, and how organizations can enable them to do that. In particular, how can managers and companies simultaneously advance... View Details
    • 05 Aug 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It

    when the feedback giver and receiver know each other well.” The results highlight a potential disconnect in the workplace: While many workers are eager for feedback, especially constructive feedback, in many cases managers may be... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • TeachingInterests

    Tuck MBA Program

    VG is the most popular teacher in the Tuck MBA Program. VG has been named in BusinessWeek’s Guide to Best Business Schools as an outstanding teacher. His current courses focus on Implementing Strategy and his research on Global Leadership's research on... View Details

    • 19 Nov 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    Allie Feldberg, Harvard Business School