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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
Program for Leadership Development, discuss the fine points of leadership development. Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5512.html. What’s Behind the Private-Equity Boom? More... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
pharmaceutical, medical product, hotel, banking, and building product industries, the authors examined the findings of twelve profiles conducted in four companies. In those organizations, the same six issues arose time after time: unclear strategies and conflicting... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
and mix freely. It hummed with activity. On a tour that first day, she was struck by just how animated the animation studio was—with frank discussions and heated arguments in every corner. And yet, as she spent more time there, she began... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
set-in-stone deadline. So far, the negotiation seems to be going well—the procurement manager communicated the order's specs, and you promised your company could fill them. When the discussion turns to price, you give what you believe to... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
aligned with the effort, and a strong and well-articulated business case for action. IBM's diversity task forces benefited from all four. Demonstrate Leadership Support It's become a cliché to say that View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
real business opportunity to invest in companies with high-growth potential and at least one woman in a leadership role that were being overlooked by the traditional VC community. Sometimes, in order to see an opportunity, you have to be... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
different needs, or some other reasons? What do you think? Original Article Leadership is being examined in all its facets these days. An entire issue of the Harvard Business Review was devoted to it last month. Books galore explore the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
discussion of “Group Process in the Challenger Launch Decision (A)” “They’re trying to make a life-or-death decision through a forum that’s not equipped to make decisions of this magnitude. There are so many players involved; they’re... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
The Evolving Case Method
Simulations and role-plays complement and reinforce the power of traditional case method instruction and have become fixtures of several courses. Professor David Garvin explains how this has worked in Leadership and Corporate... View Details
Keywords: the case method
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
of Leadership and Management; Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna ; and Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor. Speaking Up Recognizing problems in the workplace is commonplace. Speaking up about those problems is... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study
management to review. "Behind all this," Austin explained, "are teaching goals. What does this case stimulate? How does it allow students to learn, and how does it lead students into discussion of certain areas?"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Wan Heads HBSP
director, David Gergen, and executive director, Barbara Kellerman. Said Gergen, “We see this line of books as a valuable means of jump-starting vital discussions on the role of public leaders and leadership... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
something lasting,” said Josh Kraft, who is president of Kraft Family Philanthropies. The fund has raised nearly $30 million to support community groups and coalitions that fight racism and racial inequity in Massachusetts. Among its core View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
including a renewed commitment to responsible behavior by those individuals and (surviving) firms whose actions created excessive risk in the first place. The crisis is often discussed as purely a technical mishap involving housing... View Details
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
impact. Professor Linda Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the HBS Leadership Initiative: As part of a January 2008 Harvard Business Review article titled Where Will We Find Tomorrow's... View Details
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
sure people (managers in particular) don't get seduced by others' speaking skills. For example, in the article we discuss a manager for a global bank's Japanese subsidiary who promoted an individual he believed to be charismatic, based on... View Details
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- Profile
Rakhi Mehra
communities around me," Rakhi says. "The intensity of intellectual discussion and debate gave me a new perspective on my home country. I felt a new sense of responsibility for the effects of growth on India." Applying an... View Details
- Profile
Maria Brewer
business that is hard to obtain from sitting in a lecture or discussing with experts. My MBA from HBS gave me an entire library of information and a network of peers to call on when trying to move decisions forward in any organization I'm... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
Many cases discussed by MBAs require students to project themselves into CEO-level situations that could be a number of years away. The opposite is true of “Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC,” which chronicles the dilemmas faced by a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Philly Club Hosts Nonprofit Execs
best practices. HBS lecturer Stacey Childress, a cofounder of the Public Education Leadership Project at Harvard, led a case discussion focusing on selecting the right management tools to implement nonprofit... View Details