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  • Program

Finance for Senior Executives

Exploring the flow of financial resources, capital markets, and systems for financial management and control, this executive finance program positions you to drive new levels of profitability for your organization. This program is... View Details
  • August 2020
  • Article

Workplace Knowledge Flows

By: Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert and Christopher Stanton
We conducted a field experiment in a sales firm to test whether improving knowledge flows between coworkers affects productivity. Our design allows us to compare different management practices and to isolate whether frictions to knowledge transmission primarily reside... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Performance Productivity; Sales; Motivation and Incentives
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  • May 2005 (Revised January 2006)
  • Case

Mortgage Backs at Ticonderoga

Ticonderoga is a small hedge fund that trades in mortgage-backed securities--securities created from pooled mortgage loans. They often appear as straightforward so-called "pass-throughs," but can also be pooled again to create collateral for a mortgage security known... View Details
Keywords: Debt Securities; Mortgages; Investment Funds
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  • Career Coach

Connie Walsh

services for a healthcare NFP called Helping Hands. Prior to Staples, Connie worked in strategic marketing and brand management at Harvard Business School, Kraft Foods and Johnson & Johnson. Connie also spent two years at a start-up... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products; Retail; Social Enterprise; Technology
  • 11 Apr 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

MBA who wants an early general management role." For a more complete description of Launching Technology Ventures and a course syllabus, please click here. View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer
  • October 2003
  • Case

Henry Tam and the MGI Team

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Ingrid Vargas and Hillary Anger Elfenbein
Within a short time frame, seven diverse team members assemble to write a business plan for a new company and struggle to define their roles, make decisions together, and resolve conflict. Henry Tam, a second-year Harvard MBA student, who joins an aspiring start-up... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Business Plan; Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Jobs and Positions; Leadership Style; Human Resources; Management Teams; Conflict and Resolution; Diversity
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  • 06 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track

Author's Note: Why Leaders Lose Their Way, my article in the June 6, 2011, edition of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, generated a large number of very thoughtful and profound comments. The following article proposes an antidote... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George

    John D. Macomber

    John Macomber is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School. His professional background includes leadership of real estate, construction, and information technology businesses. At HBS, Mr. Macomber's work focuses on climate adaptation and the... View Details

    Keywords: waste management; waste management; waste management; waste management; waste management; waste management; waste management; waste management; waste management; waste management
    • 23 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

    notice a new name.” Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. Product upgrades make up the majority of corporate research and development activity.... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 01 Apr 2020
    • Blog Post

    The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1

    Ventures, who invented the Sprint process, and popularized it in the book of the same name.  Jake ran the first two days, then handed over to faculty co-chairs Alan MacCormack and Russ Wilcox.  The pressure was on the teams to make progress, rapidly building prototypes... View Details
    • January 2023 (Revised December 2023)
    • Case

    OhmConnect: Energizing the Future

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Jennifer Fonstad and Nicole Tempest Keller
    Founded in 2013, OhmConnect was a free consumer web app that alerted customers about peak hours of electricity demand, and paid them to lower their energy use at home during these periods. The company sold the aggregated reductions generated by thousands of households... View Details
    Keywords: App Development; Renewable Energy; Electricity Usage; Regulations; VC; Technology; Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC); Scalability; Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business Model; Venture Capital; Energy Industry; United States; California; Texas; Europe
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    • winter 2009
    • Article

    Creativity, Improvisation, and Organizations

    By: Colin M. Fisher and Teresa M. Amabile
    'Improvisational creativity' involves simultaneously identifying new challenges and generating responses, with little or no time to prepare. View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Management; Organizational Culture; Creativity; Theory; Performance
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    • 22 May 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Componential Theory of Creativity

    Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile
    • 30 Jan 2019
    • What Do You Think?

    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
    • Program

    Families in Business

    foundations. All three types of businesses will benefit from this program. Details Address the complex dynamics of a family business Manage expectations for the family's involvement with the business Develop plans for onboarding the... View Details
    • May 2011
    • Article

    Race at the Top: How Companies Shape the Inclusion of African Americans on Their Boards in Response to Institutional Pressures

    By: Clayton S. Rose and William T. Bielby
    Drawing on institutionalist theory, we conceptualize the racial composition of the boards of directors of large American companies as shaped in response to social and political norms. We use new longitudinal and cross-sectional data to test hypotheses about factors... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Governing and Advisory Boards; Race; Mathematical Methods; Government and Politics; Public Ownership; United States
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    • 23 Oct 2020
    • Video

    Entrepreneurship Opportunities in a Post-COVID World: The Future of Travel, Mobility and Hospitality

    • Web

    HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

    Forman 24 OCT 2023 | HBS Case What do Steve Jobs and Sarah Breedlove have in common? Through a series of case studies, Robert Simons explores the unique qualities of visionary leaders and what today's managers can learn from their... View Details
    • 04 Mar 2013
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

    Among the most popular elective courses at Harvard Business School is Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE). Developed by Professor Clayton M. Christensen, the course teaches future leaders how to use well-researched academic theories to understand... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
    • 11 May 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

    relatively little about IT? A: Among a few key differences between the management styles of Jim Barton (trained as a general manager) and his predecessor Bill Davies (trained as an IT specialist), the most... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace