Producing Managers - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2018
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Competencies and Credentials

pace of technological change, the emergence of a gig economy, and shifting global and labor markets. As faculty co-chairs of the Managing the Future of Work project, William Kerr and Joseph Fuller are leading efforts to prepare leaders... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller

have you shared the project’s wide-ranging research? WK: We produce the Managing the Future of Work podcast about every two weeks. It’s an amazing way to reach not only students and other faculty but also... View Details

05 Sep 2000
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Whither the Information Economy?

the end is better products and services. According to Bob DeNoble, "... information is a tool to help get the real work done. It enables us to produce food, clothing, and shelter, run our transportation and banking systems, and keep... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Dec 2024
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Solving the Underemployment Crisis

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details

19 Jun 2014
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Turning "Black Gold" to Green

two oil fields, have contracts to manage as much CO2 as is produced by a small city, and we have the financial backing to finish the job," Dawe says. "That's about as tangible as it gets." Dawe is the... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Mar 2008
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Classroom Legend

Graduate School of Business, the University of South Africa, and the Iran Center for Management Studies. His books on teaching, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership and Teaching and the Case Method, are studied by... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Roland Christensen; George Albert Smith; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Richard Meriam; Edmund P. Learned; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Mar 2008
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Baker’s Staff Gets a 21st-Century Name

Once upon a time, libraries collected books, and librarians checked them out. But those days are long gone as libraries have moved into the digital age. Baker Library, for example, also produces Web sites, View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Sep 2011
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‘Green’ Trailblazers

and Santiago, Chile For-profit conservationists David Blood (MBA 1985) Generation Investment Management London, New York, and Sydney Investment management that integrates sustainability factors and... View Details

Keywords: Management; Management; Management; Management

01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?

confronted with setbacks. Yet in a survey of 669 managers around the world, “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation, falling behind more expected (but less effective) carrots such as bonuses and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Management; Management; Management; Management

01 Jun 2010
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Admit It: You’re in Denial

marketing produced the legendary Model T, which put America on wheels and made Ford a business titan. More than 15 million Model T autos were sold in the two decades after its introduction in 1908. But something happened. By 1927, Model T... View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Management; Management; Management; Management; Management

01 Jun 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

Relationships edited by Susan Fournier, Michael Breazeale, and Jill Avery (Routledge) Senior Lecturer Jill Avery and her coeditors have produced a successor to their groundbreaking Consumer-Brand Relationships: Theory and Practice. It is... View Details

Student-Profile

Anil Doshi

TOM Program In working closely with TOM faculty, I have gained the skills to produce knowledge that is both academically rigorous and relevant to practice and society. A key strength of the TOM unit is the diversity of the faculty, in... View Details

30 Jan 2019
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Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

Summing Up: Which Schools Will Produce the Next Generation of Transformative Leaders? This month’s column featured two leaders who were able to build organizations that literally transformed the mutual fund and airline industries. In the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; Financial Services

01 Dec 2007
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Rediscovering America

traditional American strengths you talk about in the book, and you link it to “kaleidoscope thinking.” What is that? If you look back in history, we’ve never been the lowest-cost producer of goods and services, but we have been smart... View Details

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

01 Sep 2005
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WATER Ltd.

In an age of global scarcity, water has become a valuable commodity in both the industrialized and developing worlds. With governments and communities increasingly unable to manage the complexities and expense of water treatment and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Waste Management and Remediation Services

01 Apr 2001
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Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments

cost something on the order of $5 billion, not the $5 million one might expect for a typical start-up,” Esty explains. And all too often, he adds, they can turn out to be losing propositions. The managerial challenge is to make sure that $150 billion or so of annual... View Details

01 Sep 2006
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Redefining Health Care

that described why competition in health care had failed. Some health-care experts, he feared, would take offense at any critique written by mere management professors. To the surprise of Porter and coauthor Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, an... View Details

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

05 Jun 2013
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Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’

commented, ''No Surprises Management seems pretty obvious. Why in the world would you want the people you're counting on to help you achieve your objectives to be blindsided?" Roger Studer added, "Take care of those who take... View Details