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06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

managing through the pandemic. The topics: people and personal management, strategy, marketing, and organizational design. PEOPLE AND PERSONAL MANAGEMENT Tip: Guide your team to create new norms, protocols, and purpose. Leaders need to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

Efforts to restrict women’s sexual behavior date back centuries in virtually every region of the world. Now, the end of Roe v. Wade in the United States has returned such limitations on women to the contemporary spotlight. Yet, the desire... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

from virtual onboarding to managing anxiety and stress. Over the next few months, I will try to tackle them one by one in this space. COVID-19 has turned many companies into federations of remote workplaces, but without much guidance on... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

25 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

originally appeared in the Harvard Gazette. You Might Also Like: Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes. Lessons from the NFL: View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

a Google doc or Slack. This is how virtual companies work. If you and I are working as a team, I can work in a Google doc and explain what I’ve done, and you can wake up in a different time zone or city, open it up, and see the work I’ve... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

is poised for a drastic, historic change, says Harvard Business School Professor Prithwiraj Choudhury. What’s more, the normalization of virtual work that began with the COVID-19 pandemic is creating meaningful perks for local economies,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

virtualization of work. While some employers have embraced remote work as part of future professional arrangements, others have been holding their breath. Companies will have to consider how best to serve all of their stakeholders with... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

reported that, “ my entire team has reported registering for virtual conferences but not really feeling they could fully set aside time to engage fully as they would if they traveled to a conference.”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

already a bunch of other well-established, public companies that have figured out that what you don’t want is a brick-and-mortar facility. What you want is more of a virtual relationship with your doctor. And so, if that’s really the... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

venture to connect principals with resources they needed—and was immediately greeted with suspicion and virtually ignored. She realized she needed a better and deeper story, plus some specific demonstrations. Silverthorne: You mention... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

As the COVID-19 virus pandemic began to sweep across the world, Doug McMillon and his team at Walmart watched in horror. Suddenly, they realized, tomorrow would be nothing like “business as usual” and everything in the company’s marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

Bojinov says. “That’s not something managers had to think about [before the pandemic]. Now, they do.” About the Author Lane Lambert is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: iStockphoto/SDI Productions] Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Unfinished... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

17 Jan 2023
Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

procedures, foreign corrupt practices, and virtual currency. The book speaks to “how organizations are actually held criminally accountable,” says co-author Eugene F. Soltes, the McLean Family Professor of Business Administration at... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

driving our results. Gender Stereotypes in Deliberation and Team Decisions By: Coffman, Katherine B., Clio Bryant Flikkema, and Olga Shurchkov Abstract— We run an experiment that features a novel task with deliberation to explore how... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

inequities resulted in team members being unable to bring their whole selves to work, which meant that organizations were operating with sub-optimal contributions. Also, excessive hierarchy that sought to drive efficiencies actually... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

percent of employees suffered a 20 percent salary reduction. Case wrote: “Throughout this trauma, our team has demonstrated incredible resilience. We all understand the gravity of this crisis and recognize the important role Aon plays in... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

coordinating role to help bring strategy to fruition. For this e-mail Q&A, Kaplan, the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, teamed up with colleague Andrew Pateman, Principal of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

When our team reached out to 600 CEOs during the pandemic’s early stages to ask them about their greatest concerns, many cited communication with employees. While the right communication strategy has been critical during the pandemic, it... View Details

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

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

Business School) How to Make Furloughs More Humane (Harvard Business Review) Coaching Your Team Through Uncertain Times (Harvard Business Review) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge If risk of contagion persists substantially... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

27 Sep 2016
First Look

September 27, 2016

selecting investments, VCs see the management team as more important than business-related characteristics such as product or technology. They also attribute more of the likelihood of ultimate investment success or failure to the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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