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- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
of Psychological Science Advisers' By: Teachman, Bethany A., Michael I. Norton, and Barbara A. Spellman Abstract—On September 15, 2015, President Obama issued an Executive Order recommending that executive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Health Care Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Health Care Courses Health Care Courses Executive Education Courses Health Care Curriculum Residents & Fellows Course Strategy for Health Care Delivery... View Details
- 2013
- Book
What You're Really Meant To Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
How do you create your own definition of success—and reach your unique potential? Building a fulfilling life and career can be a daunting challenge. It takes courage and hard work. Too often, we charge down a path leading to "success" as defined by those around us—and... View Details
Keywords: Career Planning; Vocational Guidance; Job Satisfaction; Satisfaction; Personal Development and Career; Customization and Personalization
Kaplan, Robert Steven. What You're Really Meant To Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential. Boston, MA, USA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2013.
- 2002
- Book
Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
By: Rakesh Khurana
Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Selection and Staffing; Personal Characteristics; Experience and Expertise; Investment Activism; Corporate Strategy
Khurana, Rakesh. Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
existing products. We find that ambidextrous organization designs are significantly more effective in executing innovation streams than functional, cross-functional, and spinout designs. Further, transitions to ambidextrous designs were... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Endless Possibilities
offers five choices, with 70 percent choosing monogamy (other options include “ethical non-monogamy” and “open to exploring”). “Tinder won’t tell you who to date or how to date,” says Iosotaluno, a longtime consumer tech executive who was... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
Hui at Boston Ballet By: Edward H. Chang , David Allen and Annelena Lobb This case asks how Ming Min Hui, the newly appointed executive director of Boston Ballet, should ensure that the company stays true to its art form yet relevant to... View Details
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What is FIELD Global Immersion? - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
questions to reflect the corporate perspective, especially when large sums of money are involved and conditions are highly uncertain; and create a new context that allows top executives to circumvent the regular resource allocation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2021
- Book
What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins
makes the leadership and management of all kinds of change easier. There is a catchy, popular, oft-repeated view that “culture eats strategy for lunch.” This implies a relationship that is not helpful. Culture and strategy are not in some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- February 2010
- Supplement
Organization and Strategy at Millennium (B)
By: Julie M. Wulf and Scott Waggoner
This case examines Millennium's strategic and organizational responses to the rapid evolution of the biopharmaceutical industry. In the early 2000s, as Millennium's competitive advantage in early-stage research slipped away and its losses mounted, founder CEO Mark... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Crisis Management; Competitive Advantage; Commercialization; Selection and Staffing; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Pharmaceutical Industry
Wulf, Julie M., and Scott Waggoner. "Organization and Strategy at Millennium (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 710-418, February 2010.
- 07 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back
Most companies fail. It's an unsettling fact for bright-eyed entrepreneurs, but old news to start-up veterans. But here's the good news: Experienced entrepreneurs know that running a company that eventually fails can actually help a career, but only if the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
About | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
sectors to tackle society’s toughest challenges and make a difference in the world. Leadership Shawn Cole Initiative Chair; John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Shawn Cole is a professor in the Finance Unit and has taught... View Details
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Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration
By: Ethan S. Bernstein, Jesse Shore and David Lazer
In this article, we summarize our research on the value of intermittency for complex problem solving at work and give practical advice on how organizations can improve the rhythm of their people's collaboration. Executives have been counseled to be collaborative... View Details
Bernstein, Ethan S., Jesse Shore, and David Lazer. "Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration." MIT Sloan Management Review 61, no. 1 (Fall 2019).
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Student Association - MBA
feedback, planning social events, and, offering products and services to students (e.g., yearbook and the HBS Survival Guide). All members of the MBA student body are members of the SA. Structure The SA is composed of the Executive... View Details
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The Messy but Essential Pursuit of Purpose
By: Ranjay Gulati
Most forward-thinking executives have embraced the notion that purpose-driven companies can solve social and environmental problems while also generating wealth, creating win-win outcomes that benefit everyone. But ideal solutions are rare. Many purpose-driven... View Details
Keywords: Purpose; Sustainability; Mission and Purpose; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Profit; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Decision Making
Gulati, Ranjay. "The Messy but Essential Pursuit of Purpose." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 2 (March–April 2022): 45–55.
- 08 Sep 2022
- Book
Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?
Bill George boasts long and successful executive stints at Honeywell, Litton Industries, and Medtronic—plus, he coined the term “authentic leadership.” Now, he says he and his fellow Baby Boomers need to pass the torch to a new generation... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 24 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?
executive teams can be world class or “legacy” leaders who can’t move with the times. There are many tradeoffs when factoring leadership into the decision process of startup versus mature. Startup founded by... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
your computer screen and take a break from accomplishing task after task. Another suggestion involves simply slowing down physically in order to slow down mentally. One busy executive who managed 1,500 people said when she had meetings... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details