Publications

04 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

leadership roles: Focus on smaller, short-term goals. While many organizations are working to change people’s attitudes in the long term, for example, by conducting diversity training to inform broad hiring... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

2023
Book

Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia

By: Meg Rithmire

Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian regimes. Many accounts of rapid growth alongside monopolies on political power have focused on crony relationships... View Details

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Systems; Crime and Corruption; China; Indonesia; Malaysia

Angela is the Executive Dean for Administration at Harvard Business School, leading an organization of nearly 2,000 staff with an operating budget of $1 billion. She oversees the execution of the School’s strategy ranging from academic programs to research, and the... View Details

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Positions

dollarDEX (1998-2007)

Retired chief executive, non-executive chairman

One of world's top 30 in online finance (Institutional Investor, March 2003). Wealth management firm in Asia, and has... View Details

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Becoming a Board Member - Alumni

needed and then create a list of organizations and their directors. After that, you'll be ready to: Get the word out - inform your network of your interest in joining a board Leverage family/friend... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor

organizations such as the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, the Wilderness Society, and the American Museum of Natural History, increasingly became an asset in his banking career. In 2007, Roosevelt was tapped to chair the Council... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; climate change; investment banking; leadership; carbon tax

18 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers

organized deposits by high-to-low ordering as of 2016, according to a report by the Pew Charitable Trusts. "We always thought of banks as being the good guys and payday lenders as being the bad guys." At least a quarter of US households... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

29 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side

need to keep creative thinking in their organizations even as time pressures increase. Silverthorne: What was the genesis of the project? What fascinated you about the question of time pressure and creativity? Amabile: Over the course of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Fine Arts

February 1999 (Revised March 2000)
Case

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: Coordinating Patient Care

External cost pressures are motivating the adoption of case management (CM) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), but several of the organization's key professional groups are working against it. President and CEO David Dolins must decide whether CM is... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Boston

August 2023
Case

Augmenix: Space to Think Differently

By: Satish Tadikonda and Sidhant Jena

Amar Sawhney, a serial medtech entrepreneur, had founded Augmenix to develop and commercialize a hydrogel-based medical device called SpaceOAR as an adjunctive technology to core radiation therapy. This technology was used to protect organs at risk (OAR) during... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Technology Adoption; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Commercialization; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

05 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)

Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. “People seem to be using this strategy because in their minds, they’re telling the truth, so they think they’re being honest. But the people... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases is written for students and managers who desire an overview of contemporary information systems technology management. This new edition examines... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Organizational Behavior Curriculum - Faculty & Research

look at successful leaders in action to see how they: Develop a vision of the future. Align the organization behind that vision. Motivate people to achieve the vision. Design effective organizations and... View Details

April 2020
Teaching Plan

Malcolm Turner at Vanderbilt

By: David G. Fubini, Amy Klopfenstein and James Barnett

This teaching plan serves as a supplement to the case “Malcolm Turner at Vanderbilt,” HBS 420-024. The case examines the early decisions of Vanderbilt University’s new athletic director, Malcolm Turner. A newcomer to college athletics, Turner made a series of... View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Sports; Planning; Strategic Planning; Education; Higher Education; Leadership; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Education Industry; Sports Industry; Tennessee

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All Locations - Recruiting

75th Percentile Base $30k 35% Receiving $50k 56% Receiving All Locations 100% $150k 25th Percentile Base $175k Median $192k 75th Percentile Base $30k 53% Receiving $48k 65% Receiving Please note salary information is self-reported by... View Details

Profile

Joy Chen

she studied government and economics. “I wanted to manage organizations that changed people’s lives for the better.” While there, she cofounded local chapters of two nonprofits, in education and healthcare respectively. “It solidified my... View Details

April 2008 (Revised April 2009)
Case

Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc.

By: Robert G. Eccles and David Lane

As CEO of leading executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles for the past 18 months, Kevin Kelly was pleased with his accomplishments so far but concerned about threats he perceived to Heidrick's position at the highest levels of the executive search business. In... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Recruitment; Disruptive Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Employment Industry; Service Industry