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  • 04 Apr 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

productivity, mainly by eliminating commute time, the evidence thus far suggests two things: We don’t yet know how to measure productivity changes from remote work and that, even when we learn, the impact may not be very significant. Many... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

    Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance

    Get to better, more effective strategy.

    In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is their secret? In "Better, Simpler Strategy," Harvard... View Details
    • June 2014
    • Article

    The Price of Wall Street's Power

    By: Gautam Mukunda
    Over and over again, executives make decisions that aren't in their companies' best interests, in response to pressure from Wall Street. Though many believe this happens because firms have a "fiduciary duty" to maximize shareholder returns, U.S. executives do not, as a... View Details
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    • 2022
    • Article

    Science-based Entrepreneurship in India: A Policy Glass (as yet) Quarter-Full

    By: Tarun Khanna
    India is celebrated for a resurgence of de novo entrepreneurship in recent decades. Entrants have engaged in creative risk-taking to provide market-based solutions for private or social needs despite not being scions of wealthy industrial or business families. In this... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Science; Policy; Investment
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    • 16 Apr 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: April 16

    integrated services to corporate clients in 2001, JLL created Corporate Solutions, a group that aimed to draw connections between JLL's semi-autonomous service lines. Despite initial success, by 2005 the group was finding it challenging to foster integration. Account... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Nov 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

    and even foolhardy. Some in tech suggest there’s more of a “move fast, break things” strategy to it than perhaps meets the eye. How does it look to you? Wu: We shouldn’t be surprised by the management style... View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology
    • July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
    • Case

    Rosalind Fox at John Deere

    By: Anthony Mayo and Olivia Hull
    Rosalind Fox, the factory manager at John Deere’s Des Moines, Iowa plant, has improved the financial standing of the factory in the three years she’s been at its helm. But employee engagement scores—which measured employees’ satisfaction with working conditions and... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Change Management; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Gender; Race; Engineering; Geographic Location; Globalized Markets and Industries; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Style; Management Teams; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence; Status and Position; Trust; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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    • March 2023
    • Background Note

    A Primer on OKRs

    By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan (Jason) Ni
    The OKR framework is a popular goal-setting and strategy execution tool that uses goal setting through “Objectives” and measuring performance using “Key Results” on a periodic basis to measure and drive performance. The OKR framework has been adopted and practiced at... View Details
    Keywords: Business Organization; Talent and Talent Management; Framework; Corporate Governance; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Management Systems; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Performance Expectations; Performance Productivity; Performance Efficiency
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    • 12 Aug 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

    bottom line is that there are people on your team who will grow beautifully as the business grows, and there are those who just don’t do well in a mature environment. Some tips on how to manage this... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Austin
    • 30 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    The Future of IT Consulting

    ensure that the group stays on the leading edge of the subject matter. Related to this third driver is the focus that a separate consulting firm can maintain in managing a highly talented group of knowledge... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting
    • 11 May 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

    of Barton's talented security specialists performs with his jazz ensemble. This leads to a discussion about how to manage real-time collaboration between highly skilled people, View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part - Recruiting

    racial injustice of this kind, but the six friends and talented professionals wanted to do their part to make them the last. Starting the Anti-Racism Fund It was from these deep discussions around how they... View Details
    • 14 Sep 2021
    • HBS Seminar

    Dashun Wang, Northwestern

    • 02 Jun 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: June 2

    medical schools continue to focus on the basic sciences, to the exclusion of such managerial topics as running effective teams. The approach to executing reform appears to assume that practice managers and... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 22 Feb 2021
    • Book

    Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

    Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing, Cespedes, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, offers research-based insight and context, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 16 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

    overhaul of how policymakers, educators, and employers devise, construct, and manage career pathways, which are the routes aspiring workers take as they graduate from education... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology
    • 11 Oct 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

    opportunity seems obvious: If you operate in a sexist country full of educated, experienced women with expertise on their home country, then it makes sense to hire those women into management roles. "You can tap into their... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    How Major League Baseball Clubs Have Commercialized Their Investment in Japanese Top Stars

    By: Isao Okada and Stephen A. Greyser

    When a Major League Baseball club signs a Japanese star player, it obviously tries to commercialize its investment in the player. The initial focus is on home attendance (ticket sales) and television audiences, plus merchandise sales. These elements are similar to... View Details

    Keywords: Commercialization; Sports; Revenue; Sports Industry; Japan; United States
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    • 21 Aug 2023
    • Book

    You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance

    multiplicity of skills, networks, industries, and irons in the fire—and that might also mean multiple income streams,” Wallace says. From a managerial point of view, diversification means being open to reallocating View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 07 Sep 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Sept. 7

    use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give larger loans to small firms... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne