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  • 1997
  • Book

Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices

By: Leslie Perlow
Why do Americans work so hard? Are the long hours spent at work really necessary to increase organizational productivity? Perlow documents the work life of employees who assume that for their own success and the success of their organization they must put in extended... View Details
Keywords: Time Management; Working Conditions; Work-Life Balance; Performance Productivity
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  • Web

Executive Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

This five-day program helps leaders from urban school systems drive improved performance by applying proven management concepts to the unique challenges of their districts.... View Details
  • Web

2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

in buying and selling, why understanding the difference matters, and the implications for areas such as sales hiring, training, pricing, use of new tools, and performance management. Slides How to Make... View Details
  • Web

About - Business & Environment

everything from being part of the deal teams to driving performance and innovation in Summa’s portfolio. Reynir is committed to being part of the solution to the significant... View Details
  • 18 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet

appoints the CEO, and most board members of public companies are professional board members. And the thing that they care about most is keeping their job,” Gompers says. “The private equity firm really just cares about View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • Web

Klarman Hall | About

ideas into action at HBS, throughout Harvard University, and far beyond. With its 1,000-seat auditorium, soaring atrium, and spacious corridors, Klarman Hall combines the elements of a large-scale conference center, View Details
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55749 forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare By: Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos, and John Van... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

Tracking Performance Indicators By: Beveridge, Christiana, Sofia Warner, Greg Leya, and Thomas W. Feeley Abstract—Given that accountable care organizations (ACOs) have not achieved the degree of cost... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Bridging the Gap

centers on a citywide effort to improve public education, led in part by an alliance of 50 business and community leaders. This focus on education is a new one for the partnership, which has historically... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs
  • 04 Jan 2017
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?

concluded that, “Bureaucracy in those examples was very effective.” Among the few suggestions for improving the functioning of bureaucracies was this from Guy: “If you want to have an efficient and effective... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
  • February 1999
  • Case

Volant Skis

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Matt Verlinden
Volant brought innovation to the ski equipment industry in 1989 by developing a stainless steel ski. He claimed the skis could turn more easily, could hold an edge in icy conditions, and were more stable than aluminum or fiberglass skis. The company's "soft-flex"... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Product Development; Performance Improvement; Quality; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation
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  • August 2019 (Revised April 2020)
  • Case

Transforming Hindustan Unilever

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Rachna Tahilyani
In October 2013, when Sanjiv Mehta had taken over the reins of Unilever’s business in India and the larger South Asia region, Hindustan Unilever (HUL) had been going through a difficult time. Caught in the midst of a weakening economy, falling consumer spending, and... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Leading Change; Performance Improvement; Consumer Products Industry; India
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  • 22 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

says Harvard Business School’s Frank V. Cespedes, the MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. “Every company has examples of people who View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

organization with no sense of priorities or impact from process improvements. Consequently, much effort does not show up in tangible results. Companies need a formal process for using strategic objectives to set priorities for where... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Project at Harvard Business School, Michael Porter has leveraged his expertise on competition and strategy to analyze the disappointing performance of the American economy. Dr. Porter’s fact-based effort has... View Details
  • 05 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

not only believing the entrepreneur was deserving of success, but also feeling motivated to improve their own performance. How to share your faults The research puts more credence behind interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 6, 2015

technology and improved digital communication have been explored in a variety of contexts, the impact on economic activity—from consumer and entrepreneurial behavior to the ways in which governments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 15

encouraged even relative strangers to hold each other accountable for progress. Thus the team scaffolds enabled the construction of group coordination processes among fluid groups. Quantitative analysis showed that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Profiles - MBA

data needed for improving the quality in all industries. I am specifically interested in the area of biological sensors and the power they have to convert a biological response into an electrical signal.... View Details
  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

teams perform better. “You can’t be what you can’t see” is one of the most striking quotes I’ve heard here. With a dearth of strong role models in careers like Finance, Tech... View Details