Training - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Apr 2015
Blog Post

3 Reasons Engineers Thrive at Business School

brainstorming and idea generation. I am also often able to be the “voice” for other functions, such as Manufacturing and R&D, during case discussions. Guy: Being an engineer helps in several way in the classroom and at HBS in general. The engineering View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered

SCHOLAR, WRITER, TEACHER: Levitt, in a photo from 1983. His research tranformed the study and practice of marketing. The HBS community lost a legendary member of its faculty June 28 when marketing expert Theodore (“Ted”) Levitt died at his home in Belmont,... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

initial role was to capture lessons from the National Training Centers where troops engage in long, simulated battles to test their readiness and skills. As the Army's mission broadened to include 'operations other than war' such as fire... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

1943, when Martin V. ("Marty") Marshall arrived at Harvard Business School for wartime training to become a naval supply officer, he had no idea that he was beginning an association with HBS - as a student, academic, and administrator -... View Details

03 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

08 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

like training a muscle, and it’s exactly what we are training here. VARUN NAGARAJAN (MBA 2022) Nagarajan is a member of the HBS Show Club, Entrepreneurship Club, and the South-Asian Business Association. He... View Details

05 Sep 2014
News

Keeping Education in Check

successes of chess players to see why Berman thinks it’s a “no-brainer” to train children to play chess. Peter Thiel, PayPal’s cofounder, is a chess master. Douglas Hirsch, Seneca Capital founder, plays too. Ken Rogoff, professor of... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

several ways - they shared class notes with me, set up a meal train for my husband and I, and sent us gifts for our kids. I also loved being part of the MoMBA group where I received amazing advice from more experienced moms and made very... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

13 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

by the same firms from 2008 and 2017. They then trained a machine-learning algorithm on the text, letting it independently decide which words were most highly associated with eventual violations. The words that rose to the top ranged from... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

27 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?

effective on its own. Focus on situations and processes. Rather than train people to be less racist, companies should look for ways to remove bias from decision-making, he says. A recent study by Chang found that managers hire people with... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

August 2011 (Revised November 2012)
Case

Mary Griffin at Derby Foods

By: Anthony J. Mayo and Joshua D. Margolis

Mary Griffin, Vice President of Consumer Products, must provide feedback to one of her direct reports, Simon York. York is a strong performer, but he has displayed some poor interpersonal skills in the manner in which he interacts with his team and the production... View Details

Keywords: Outcome or Result; Training; Interpersonal Communication; Labor and Management Relations; Management Skills; Management Style; Management Teams; Managerial Roles

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06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

educating MBAs at HBS. Martha Lagace: Teachers are leaders, as you argue in your new book, and yet most managers don’t receive any training in teaching. How can managers approach their role in a new way? Thomas DeLong: Their employees... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

to Climate database, and Earth Warriors offered a free teacher training to all Subject to Climate teachers on how to teach climate change to young children which was attended by over 100 teachers. Earth Warriors is now partnering with the... View Details

Research Summary

The Toyota Production System: Rules for Activity, Connection, and Pathway Design and Improvement

Researchers have established that Toyota enjoys advantages in cost, quality, lead time, and flexibility when compared to its competitors in automobile assembly. Differences in generating value have been attributed to differences between the Toyota Production System... View Details

18 Dec 2017
Op-Ed

Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs

Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

17 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?

Training the cars to handle a wide variety of driving scenarios and testing them both in simulation and on real roads is key, De Freitas says. AVs, for example, should be able to handle possible situations like navigating around large... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

30 Oct 2017
Blog Post

How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA

This outlook has served me well, not only at work or at HBS, but also in life. That said, there are challenges that I have had to overcome. As an engineer, I have been trained to be risk-averse and to seek substantial amount of... View Details

06 Jun 2008
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

colleagues, trained to admire and teach action, would walk away shaking their heads and asking each other, "Is he alright?" It is perhaps no coincidence that Tony often came up with some of the most profound insights at faculty... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

3 Operator No. 4 Operator No. 5 From 1928 to 1932 Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger oversaw the process of conducting more than 21,000 interviews and worked closely training researchers in interviewing practices. Interviews, which... View Details

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