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  • May 1990 (Revised April 1995)
  • Teaching Note

Karen Green, Teaching Note

By: Linda A. Hill
The video depicts Karen Green, a manager in her early thirties, on a company retreat. She is being considered for a project manager position, a promotion she does not receive. During the retreat, the circumstances that influenced the decision become evident. The... View Details
Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Power and Influence
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  • Profile

Fereshteh Zeineddin

Why was earning your MBA here important to you? I was at a point in my career when I wanted to transition into brand management. I knew that to become a great brand manager, I needed to gain a better understanding of all aspects of... View Details
Keywords: Retail
  • 17 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Teaming in the Twenty-First Century

is the engine of organizational learning," says Edmondson. From Theory To Practice In the book, Edmondson makes the case for managers to shift from holding a static view of teamwork to this dynamic one. Real-world examples drawn from her... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 28 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need

well-being, and their sense of purpose. To support employees, companies should: Increase access to services that drive efficiency and save time. Organizations should offer services, such as childcare, elder care, career coaching, personal... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson
  • April 2016
  • Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Junko Yoda and Her Collaboration to Address Sex Trafficking in Asia

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone and Tessa Natanay Hamilton
Following a successful career as the first female Vice President of Goldman Sachs in Asia, Junko Yoda became a 2010 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University. During her fellowship, she set out to promote awareness, and prevent and alleviate the effects of human... View Details
Keywords: Crime; Business And Community; Community Impact; Communities; Economic Development; Innovation; Leadership; Change Management; Crime and Corruption; Social Entrepreneurship; Business and Community Relations; Gender; Asia
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  • 2016
  • Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek—Lighting Liberia

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Teaching Note for Case 313-032. After successful careers as lawyers and Fellows in Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative, Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek set out to tackle a large-scale infrastructure challenge in a complex environment by ultimately using advanced... View Details
Keywords: Solar; Solar Power; Electricity; Clean Technology; Scaling-up; Economic Development; Partnerships; Sustainability; Innovation; Leadership Skills; Renewable Energy; Energy; Infrastructure; Information Technology; Economy; Partners and Partnerships; Distribution; Innovation Leadership; Leadership; Social Entrepreneurship; Change Management; Energy Industry; Africa; Liberia
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Performance Capital Flows in DC Pensions

By: Bryan Gutierrez Cortez, Victoria Ivashina and Juliana Salomao
Are defined contribution (DC) pension funds' capital flows sensitive to performance? We examine pressures from individual account holders who can switch their pension managers. Using novel data on retirement accounts for nearly 10 million individuals, we analyze... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Retirement; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Management; Investment Portfolio; Financial Services Industry
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  • March 2021 (Revised August 2021)
  • Case

Nayana Mawilmada: Transforming Urban Development in Sri Lanka

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Mahima Rao-Kachroo
In February 2018, Nayana Mawilmada (Nayana), investment head for the Sri Lankan government’s ambitious $40 billion Megapolis project, must weigh an attractive job offer to move from the public sector to the private sector. A massive government project aimed at... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Decision Making; Public Sector; Experience and Expertise; Strategic Planning; Work-Life Balance; Transportation; Risk and Uncertainty; Power and Influence; Personal Development and Career; Real Estate Industry; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; South Asia; Sri Lanka; Boston; Virginia; United States
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  • Profile

Pam Chan

Pam Chan began her career in consumer products, starting with one of the biggest CPG companies in the world, Procter and Gamble. "In school, I knew I wanted to be a marketer involved in brand management... View Details
Keywords: CPG; Tech
  • 16 May 2023
  • HBS Case

How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

Instead, when the company wouldn’t pay them for their lunch hour, they intentionally scheduled deliveries to show up midday, when there wasn’t anyone working to receive them, sabotaging the project. “Top management have to be willing to... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 2012
  • Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Shelly London and Ethics Education—'Strengthening Our Moral Compass'

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Anne Arlinghaus
Shelly London and Ethics Education — 'Strengthening Our Moral Compass' 2009 AL Fellow
Following a successful career as a Senior Vice President, Vice President, and Chief Communications Officer at two large corporate companies, Shelly London set out to promote... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Skills; Ethics Education; Initiatives; Morality; Moral Compass; Prima Facie; Grassroots Movement; Ethical Reasoning; Decision-making; Social Media; Media Relations; Family Dinner Project; Public Conversations Project; Laura Chasin; Computer Games; Video Games; Quandary; Organizational Structure; Infrastructure; Ethics; Education; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Decision Making; Leadership; Innovation and Management; Education Industry; Service Industry; North and Central America
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  • 24 Jul 2014
  • Blog Post

Create a Content Marketing Strategy for your Talent Acquisitions Team

As a talent acquisitions manager or a marketing manager within a human resources team, you’ve probably asked yourself how to reach large quantities of high quality candidates in a thoughtful and meaningful... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

company you may start yourself. Which comes first in your journey? For those doing early career path planning and knowing they want to do both a startup and a mature company at some point, there’s always the question of which should come... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • Program

Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation—Virtual

presented jointly by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative and The Hauser Institute for Civil Society at Harvard University. Key Benefits With a stronger performance management strategy in place, your organization will be better positioned... View Details
  • 26 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 26

positions were significantly more likely than others to repatriate dividends to parent companies in the United States. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18107 How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

States has often turned to cutting-edge technology solutions to solve strategic and operational challenges. “Costs tend to rise in all organizations unless managers and their staffs are skilled in industrial View Details
Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service
  • Web

Help - Alumni

Current qualifying programs include: Advanced Management Program (AMP) Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) General Management Program (GMP) Joint Program with Harvard John A. Paulson School of... View Details
  • 12 Feb 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

minute—and the decision of whether to ride it out and hope for a recovery or to blink and 'puke their position' (pardon the phrase but it's how actual traders describe it)—to be an extremely harrowing experience," says professor Joshua Coval. And that's the point.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education
  • 20 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say

Bhargav Srinivasan (MBA 2019) is a Senior Manager at Bain & Company. If you were to describe your HBS experience in 3 words what would they be? Unforgettable, reflective, and thought-provoking. Was an HBS MBA worth it? It was 100%... View Details
  • 28 May 2024
  • In Practice

Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

New graduates entering the job market will face a very different landscape from even a year ago, with a murky economy and potentially more limited career prospects. Though unemployment figures in the US remain near historically low... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne