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26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

surrounding the success that organizations have in executing strategy is low. Our article, "The Office of Strategy Management," using data from a Bain Consulting study, notes that seven out of eight companies in a global sample... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 May 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

Many well-meaning companies want to diversify their workforces but face an all-too-common problem: They take great pains to hire more women and people of color, only to find that these employees don’t stick around long. At one midsize View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

merely consulting daily foreign exchange rates—many others require interpretations of ambiguous information. Auditors and their clients have considerable leeway, for example, in answering some of the most basic financial questions: What's... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services

August 2017 (Revised November 2021)
Case

Ryan Greene at Rainier Wearables

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Christopher Payton

This case provides a platform for discussing mental health and depression in entrepreneurship. Why do entrepreneurs have more mental health issues than other professions? What can an entrepreneur do if they face a situation where their mental well-being is being... View Details

Keywords: Mental Health; Depression; Entrepreneurship; Well-being; Personal Development and Career

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03 Jan 2023
Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

women earned only 83 percent of what men earned, while Black and Latinx women earned only 64 percent and 57 percent, respectively. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated challenges for women, particularly the many mothers who stepped back from View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

strategy consulting from a prior position in industry, government, or the nonprofit world—the MBA has long been viewed as absolutely essential. One dean, for example, noted that nearly 80 percent of students at his prior institution had... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

manufacturing and engineering firm, before pursuing a full-time career in academia.) That all takes time, of course, but Toffel argues that it’s time well spent. “Given the substantial time we already invest in any research project, a few... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

real sense of purpose and a "flatness"—in career and in life. They often go through patches of life without creating or enhancing meaningful relationships, and even lack strength to deal with life's failures. A former chief... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

chapters and a more prescriptive style to reflect today's world of expanding globalization, accelerated change, and increased complexity. This excerpt discusses the importance for young managers to continue to develop as professionals via wise View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

MBA student, Shapiro visited Levitt to consult about a possible career path in manufacturing. "It was the second time I went to see him," he recalls, "and Ted was visibly nervous. He said,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

09 Jun 2022
HBS Case

From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages

to restaurateurs as they decide which products to order. During the pandemic, many of these consultants were used to help restaurateurs apply for federal pandemic relief aid via webinars and one-on-one sessions. Once business began to... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

17 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709473 Exeter Group, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 409-001 Jonathan Kutchins and Mark Cullen, managing partners of IT consulting firm Exeter Group, Inc.,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance

consultancies and accounting firms already do this by putting “cohorts” of new employees on similar professional development tracks, with shared workshops, activities, and milestones designed to strengthen their connection. “People are... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

has spent a career studying power dynamics within corporations, political institutions, and other organizations. Power is intoxicating To bring social science research on power to life, Battilana and Casciaro conducted more than 100... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

20 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

signs: You have become the bottleneck. Employees are overly inclined to consult you before they act. People start using your name to endorse things, as in "Frank says " Surprise Three: It Is Hard To Know What Is Really Going On... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

Richard L. Nolan are professors at Harvard Business School while Shannon O'Donnell is a consultant with Cutter Consortium's Innovation Practice and a PhD fellow at Copenhagen Business School. The three teamed up via email for the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

when you're not in the room," he says. "The last thing we need when things are tough is to have people tell us what they think we want to hear." Manage Up "Remind your superiors about your added responsibilities," says Susan Battley, CEO of... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

unusual application of an economic term delighted Christensen, a management professor known around HBS and the globe as both a brilliant business thinker and a deeply religious man. For more than a decade he has been a go-to consultant... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

keep a tight rein on costs—but the dynamics of the budgeting process often undermine this effort. "In tough times like these, any significant real cost growth feels imprudent and is hard to justify for most businesses," writes Mike Baxter, a partner in the... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

14 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing

found in a group of people previously thought to have a crippling condition: autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In a new case coauthored by Austin, "Specialisterne: Sense & Details," an innovative consultancy in Denmark has... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services; Computer

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