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- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
is to think ahead. Here's how he described it to me: "I might rest key players for a game that is less important. There is a risk element in doing that, and it can backfire, but you have to accept that. You have to trust your squad." When... View Details
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
people, not to or at them. There is an opportunity to figure out ways to work in more meaningful ways with people. Book Excerpt Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire By Thomas J. DeLong How Teachers Create Covenants This is a subject about which I’m... View Details
- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
possible that the employee was still confident that he would win the case because he did not trust the executive or the firm's record keeping. How could the executive educate the employee regarding his prospects for winning in court?... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- 03 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Physicians Off the Beaten Path
engineering and was required to spend equal amounts of time at a laboratory, in front of a computer and at the hospital. “Doctors,” this professor said, “won’t trust you if they know you are engineers.” I later came to know he was being... View Details
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
name is REVOK. “James would often have an outrageous means of approaching the situation that didn’t immediately seem obvious and sometimes you thought was a little bit crazy,” said Williams, now a Detroit-based painter. “But based on past experiences with him and this... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
moves beyond the spreadsheet and provides a hands-on approach for demystifying the data science ecosystem and making you a more conscientious consumer of information. Starting with the questions you need to ask when using data for decision-making, this course will help... View Details
- Web
Research - Race, Gender & Equity
Good for the Buyer and Good for Society: Sampo-yoshi, Sustainability and Trust at ITOCHU By: Sandra J. Sucher and Bethelehem Y Araya In 2024, ITOCHU CEO Masahiro Okafuji was at a crossroads. As the thirteenth CEO since ITOCHU’s founding... View Details
- March 2017
- Case
Intellectual Ambition at Harvard Business School: Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Amram Migdal
This case, set in the 1920s and 1930s, discusses the contributions of Harvard Business School (HBS) Professors Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger to management research and to the Human Relations Movement in management scholarship. The case focuses on their research... View Details
Keywords: Education; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Executive Education; Higher Education; Interdisciplinary Studies; Learning; History; Business History; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizations; Practice; Relationships; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Rank and Position; Research; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Behavior; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Status and Position; Trust; Society; Social Issues; Theory; Education Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Illinois
Rivkin, Jan W., and Amram Migdal. "Intellectual Ambition at Harvard Business School: Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger." Harvard Business School Case 717-469, March 2017.
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
and understand the input needed and the internal workflow used by businesses in order to trust AI’s judgments and validate results. Organizational shift: Towards a more open and experimental culture. ML/AI engineers are still a novelty in... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t CrooksWhy Good Audits Go Bad
fundamental changes to the way accounting firms and their clients operate. If we are really going to restore trust in the U.S. system of auditing, we will need to go well beyond the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. We will need to... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
called to our teammates. Flying isn’t about airplanes. It’s about people working together to make a mission happen. My fellow aviators came from every state, every type of background, and every walk of life. It was the trust and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
mutual trust that the rep establishes with others in the company. Further, the effects of successful talent management seem to be cumulative: good people learn from each other. Again, this is especially true in sales, where modeling... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
ramifications for Facebook’s long-term business success. But can Facebook avoid changing its business model? What do you think? Original Column Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, one of the most dominant firms on the internet with 2.2 billion users, has come... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America
and people need to trust those brands without knowing them,” Azuero says. “Getting that first client, that first user, is harder.” Still, he and Izquierdo are bullish on their prospects, as are investors: Last summer, the company raised... View Details
- June 2009 (Revised February 2010)
- Case
Cirque du Soleil -- The High-Wire Act of Building Sustainable Partnerships
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Maxime Aucoin
The case describes the history and business model of Cirque du Soleil (CdS). The case allows for a rich discussion and analysis of Cirque du Soleil's business model with an emphasis on how it interacts with that of MGM Mirage. Le Cirque and MGM's business models... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Investment; Profit; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Partners and Partnerships; Trust; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Maxime Aucoin. "Cirque du Soleil -- The High-Wire Act of Building Sustainable Partnerships." Harvard Business School Case 709-411, June 2009. (Revised February 2010.)
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Harvard Business School
of Boston who served in World War II, Herb Lyken became a professor of Finance and Accounting at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and taught for 15 years. He was also a founder and board member of the Unity Bank and Trust in... View Details
- 27 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Video: Inspirational Women in Business
was the first cold call in my section. So, my excitement was on another level talking about her. Whitley Cargile: Sandra Horbach, the Americas co-head of corporate private equity at Carlyle. I chose to join Carlyle to work with her. I also View Details
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
before dropping the veneer of perfection: Will the disclosure reveal a solvable operational problem? Any trust that an airline might gain from including a flight’s delay rate would likely evaporate if it seems like many flights spend... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
an inventory of the most important shared software and potential vulnerabilities and is the first step to understand more about these projects so that we can create tools and standards that result in trust and transparency in software.”... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
securitized, and professionalized. There are over $5.5 trillion of securitized home mortgages, $500 billion of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and $200 billion of real estate investment trusts (REITs), much of which did not... View Details