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  • 27 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

Passion Works Against You 6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Looking Up and Looking Out: Career... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Aug 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Will Millennials Manage?

Summing Up Are we approaching a "millennial watershed" in management? The next generation of managers, comprising many "millennials," will be more adept at managing in a changing, global, View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 02 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

When discussing business leadership, a distinction is often made between good management and good leadership. Managers are thought to be the budgeters, the organizers, the... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young
  • Blog

What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?

As you rise in your organization and gain more management responsibility, you may be wondering what you can do to foster a more inclusive and equitable culture within your team... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

about the best location or locations for managerial talent, for instance, they should be aware that reallocating talent is neither costless nor easy. Interpersonal relationships and internal communication... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

In recent months several high-level leaders have mysteriously lost their way. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund and a leading French politician, was arraigned on charges of sexual assault. Before that... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • Web

Leadership Succession

Organizations recognize that proactive, disciplined succession planning is an important priority for current and future success. Manage talent as a strategic asset A steady... View Details
  • September 2019
  • Technical Note

Care Economy in the U.S. (Primer)

By: Joseph B. Fuller, William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Carl Kreitzberg
This case describes how caregiving responsibilities influence American employees, firms, and the broader economy. It details how sociodemographic trends in the late 20th century transformed the way that Americans balance their personal and professional lives, analyzing... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Talent and Talent Management; Demographics; Labor; Health Care and Treatment; Family and Family Relationships; Strategy; Management; United States
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  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

examining the strategies for change employed. Instead of this halfhearted approach, managers are better off picking a pure model: a clear Theory E approach with its benefits and costs or a pure Theory O... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

book excerpt Management Is Not Leadership From Chapter 4, Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World By John Kotter Listen to how most people talk in everyday conversation, and you'll... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
  • May 2024 (Revised May 2025)
  • Case

Hakluyt: From Corporate Intelligence to Trusted Advisors

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Lena Duchene
Established in 1995 by a group of ex-British intelligence officers, Hakluyt & Company (Hakluyt) was a corporate advisory firm that generated insights by leveraging a unique blend of internal expertise and a global network of well-connected individuals. Since 2019, the... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Talent and Talent Management; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Corporate Finance; Equity; Stock Shares; Corporate Governance; Business History; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Leadership Style; Growth Management; Management Succession; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Transformation; Consulting Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; England; London
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  • Web

Research - Global

region characterized... May 2025 Teaching Material Skills-First Talent Management: The Importance of Managers By: Boris Groysberg , Nicole Zelazko, Tom Quinn, Robin Abrahams, Izzy Yeoh View Details
  • September 1993 (Revised January 1997)
  • Case

Serengeti Eyewear: Entrepreneurship Within Corning, Inc.

By: David A. Garvin and Jonathan West
An entrepreneurial division within Corning, Serengeti Eyewear, has grown rapidly in its brief 10-year history. Now it must decide whether to launch a new line of sunglasses and take on the industry leader. The company has prospered by developing and cultivating... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Style; Competitive Strategy; Customer Relationship Management; Employee Relationship Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Talent and Talent Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 19 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022

Will They Ever Return to Normal? Research by Alberto Cavallo probes the complex interplay of product shortages, prices, and inflation. Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK Managers who... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • May 2019
  • Background Note

Developing Yourself as a Leader: A Framework for Millennial High Potentials & Emerging Leaders: How to PACE Your Self-Development

By: Ethan Bernstein and Kirstin Lynde
Millennials are redefining what it means to develop future leaders. In business organizations, leadership development—defined as “the expansion of a person's capacity to be effective in leadership roles and processes“—has traditionally been the work of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Management Skills; Management Style
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  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

lead their facilities to prioritize different external pressures and thus adopt different management practices. Specifically, we argue that external constituents who interact with particularly influential... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

Happiness, artificial intelligence, and climate change were just some of the themes that caught the attention of Harvard Business School podcast listeners in 2023. Here are some of the most-downloaded episodes of the year: Deep Purpose... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • January 15, 2015
  • Article

Surviving in a Family Business When You're Not Part of the Family

By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
Navigating office politics in a family-owned business can be challenging for non-family executives. Based on experience with various business families worldwide, this article offers strategies for success:

Play in your room: Non-family executives should... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Employees; Problems and Challenges; Talent and Talent Management
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  • 11 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One

years ago. There were two things that prompted me to do so. One is that I had written a book called Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right (HBS Press, 1997) which is about big... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

across their internal corporate departments lead their facilities to prioritize different institutional pressures and thus adopt different management practices. Specifically, we argue that external... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne