Functions - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Trying Out New Career Options with SIPs (Short Intensive Programs)

in case discussions and workshops with current and past CEOs aimed at uncovering the reality of how to best prepare to become CEO and how to function effectively in the role. The course starts by analyzing the pros and cons of early... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY

Creativity’s reputation as a mysterious, unknowable trait (something of a myth in itself) has led to some erroneous ideas about what it is and how it functions in organizations. Here, Professor Teresa Amabile quashes some of these... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Management

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

learning must be more interactive" The limitations of traditional forms of knowledge management come from two sets of assumptions, he argues. The first assumption is that the most important elements of a job function are observable,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

whether or not the problem is within that person’s purview. As a result, salespeople have to bring those other functions together. Similarly, multichannel selling changes competencies. For one thing, reps who were successful individual... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

Current 21% Executive Education Tuition 14% MBA Tuition & Fees 6% HBS Online 3% Housing, Rents, & Other MBA Tuition and Fees Tuition and fee revenue from the MBA program increased by 11 percent to $152 million in fiscal 2023 from $137 million in the prior year. This... View Details

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

complete strangers inside your home. Washio offered convenience, but at a price. Considering the benefits and costs, smart entrepreneurs try to layer on top of their digital business idea an innovation that transcends mere digitization, and that produces a View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

Research Summary

Reverse Innovation

VG and Chris Trimble reveal a bold discovery with far-reaching implications in REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press; April 10, 2012;... View Details

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

introducing the work of leading photographers into its feature articles. Fortune “used the intersections of fine art and mass culture . . . to position the engines of capitalism as critical to the functioning of a healthy economy but also... View Details

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

they find, in the late Steve Jobs's words, "the key, underlying principle of the problem" and then the "beautiful, elegant solution that works." Once the problem has been defined and the desired target established, there are two key View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

20 May 2022
Blog Post

Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research

across the nation, to create a cohort. Then over the spring give them mentorship, workshops, and resources they need to create a functioning company. The dream is that by the end of the program, the teams we make are able to turn to the... View Details

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

define and understand its common goal by empowering members to discover how a challenge affects other functions beyond their own and the company as a whole. In other words, members need to adjust their perspectives to encompass the needs... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

“professional people person,” his work involves leadership development; talent management; diversity, inclusion, and equity; and more in creating sustainable competitive advantage through human capital. “The relevance of human resources as a strategic View Details

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

understanding of the facts on the ground, the plans going forward, and the rationale behind those plans. In times of crisis, this function is—in a turn that should surprise no reader by now—more important than ever. Gianpiero Petriglieri... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

18 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

functioning of the team. Together with Leigh Plunkett Tost of the University of Michigan and Richard P. Larrick of Duke University, Gino explores this question in When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of Leader Power on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

very surprising to a lot of people. And I think it raises a lot of questions,” says Kluender, who studies the causes of financial distress among American households and how government, private insurance, and credit markets should function... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

16 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

ongoing assessment of the appropriate balance between a product's form and function and how that fits with the way people live today. In the past, she notes, it was de rigueur to set a table with coordinated china, flatware, and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

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HBS OnBoard | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

nonprofit founders, CEOs, funders, and board members. Effective Fundraising December 15, 2021 A key function of an organization's board is to ensure adequate resources to fulfill the mission. And yet, many board members do not have... View Details

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

Mintzberg argues that the best kind of leader doesn't try to effect much change. Rather, she functions like a queen bee, which "does nothing but make babies and exude a chemical that keeps everything together." It is the other... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

25 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

function more at the center of things and avoids a risky conversation with the CEO about why training might not solve the problem. “It is threatening, which is why most people don’t want to go through what we call an honest collective and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

John C. Mulliken

Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor. Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details

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