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  • 12 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

can’t, consider how much time you may be wasting trying to force a situation that’s just not going to turn around. To lead or not to lead. Pay attention to first-time managers who hate View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • Web

Information Technology | About

gaining unauthorized access to a computer system or database, falsely obtaining electronic services or data without payment of required charges, intentionally intercepting electronic communications. and... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

surveys spanning HBS MBA indicate that 30% of alumni currently work in a firm that they founded, 46% have launched at least one company in their careers, and 31% intend to start a firm in the future. Among the founders, 36% launched their companies at the school View Details
  • 21 Aug 2013
  • Research & Ideas

What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

analysis. Jim Aisner To get some perspective, what kind of situation did Ron Johnson face when he became CEO of J.C. Penney in June 2011? Rajiv Lal: At that time the economy was just barely coming out of the Great Recession. Sales had... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail
  • 08 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

describes a selling situation, and the assignment is to plan a day, select target customers, and develop a sales pitch. The required work helps to check for motivation and preparation skills. At the interview, the candidate must explain his View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp - Research Computing Services

volume is too small for a person's code pattern when writing and/or merging a number of files a once, if Stata exits abnormally, or if a large number of Stata jobs land on one node and are doing lots of file work. Does This Affect You? If... View Details
  • 1990
  • Article

Social Influences on Creativity: Evaluation, Coaction, and Surveillance

By: T. M. Amabile, P. Goldfarb and S. C. Brackfield
Two experiments examined the effects of evaluation expectation and the presence of others on creativity. In both experiments, some subjects expected that their work would be evaluated by experts, and others expected no evaluation. Evaluation expectation was crossed, in... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Social Psychology; Situation or Environment; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Evaluation
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  • October 1976 (Revised February 1987)
  • Case

Cramer Electronics, Inc.

By: Michael E. Porter
Designed to be the second day of a two-day series on the electronic component distribution industry, following a day spent discussing Note on the Electronic Component Distribution Industry and Raytheon Co.: Diversification. The important teaching themes which this case... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Innovation Strategy; Management Style; Resource Allocation; Opportunities; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Distribution Industry; Electronics Industry
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  • 20 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Language Wars Divide Global Companies

"nearly all of them expressed feeling some anxiety about having access to appropriate words," particularly when the work became highly technical, conversations became emotional, or when the workers were tired. Language barriers... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 27 May 2022
  • Blog Post

Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

has your military experience set you apart from your non-military classmates? Being in the military makes you adaptable to any environment or challenges that you may face and helps put things into... View Details
  • 02 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

create a barrier, the technology has got to be hard to execute. Some companies have patents; some don't. We encourage them to have patents because it's a more litigious environment than it was ten years ago. We also look at the management... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
  • January 2009
  • Supplement

Live Nation Faces the Music (B)

By: Stephen P. Bradley, Frank V. Cespedes and Kerry Herman
In 2008, concert producer and promoter Live Nation, faces a decision about its strategy in light of the tumultuous changes in the music industry and the increasing power of the major artists. As the music business once again recreates itself in response to new... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Transformation; Revenue; Framework; Five Forces Framework; Demand and Consumers; Industry Structures; Relationships; Opportunities; Power and Influence; Business Strategy; Music Industry
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For Alumni - Entrepreneurship

their ventures. Harvard Life Lab Offering a fully equipped wet lab environment and other resources for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups that are founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars.... View Details
  • 2008
  • Chapter

Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model

By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis
Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior
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Knowing Your Students - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Teaching by the Case Method Knowing Your Students Preparing to Teach Getting Started Developing Instructor Style Shaping the Learning Environment Knowing Your Students Planning a Class Session Leading in the Classroom Providing Assessment... View Details
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Life at Harvard - Doctoral

Beacon Hill's cobblestone lanes to see how Boston looked during the Revolutionary War, or explore Newbury Street. Boston is also home to some of the country's most famous institutions, such as the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Symphony,... View Details
  • 09 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back

that will help you in your future endeavors?That regardless of where I am, I need to pay attention to others’ stories and encourage those conversations. Prior to coming to HBS I always felt that complex identities were something I could not discuss View Details
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Pre-Class Arrival - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

sense where they are in their hearts and minds on that particular day. From a practical perspective, early arrival makes it possible to attend to the physical environment of the classroom. Pre-class preparation may involve organizing... View Details
  • January 1994 (Revised February 2001)
  • Case

PepsiCo's Restaurants

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery
In 1992 PepsiCo is considering two opportunities to expand its restaurant business, Carts of Colorado, a $7 million manufacturer and merchandiser of mobile food carts, and California Pizza Kitchen, a $60 million chain in the casual dining segment. The discussion... View Details
Keywords: Management Systems; Organizational Structure; Opportunities; Business Strategy; Expansion; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 25 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

has a dark side, and if employees aren’t careful about how and when they express it, it can turn off colleagues or even make them feel threatened, according to new research. “You can’t just express passion and expect it will be jolly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman