CORe - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2021
What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

conveyed the sense that the challenge is substantial. They suggested, among other things, that organizations need to change their value structure, training, hiring, and measurement. Danny commented that “Diversity and inclusion must be clearly spelled out in the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

on MATLAB's memory usage. Cores Quick Tips for Choosing Cores: More is not really better, since this is a shared resource. Use fewer cores (1!) for interactive work, especially if you plan on having a... View Details

Portrait Project

Auden Laurence

joy in this mission. I will spend my life serving others, just as serving my sister taught me. I will lead with intention, staying true to my core values of empathy, impact, and service to others. And I will live life as a grand... View Details

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

to go in the future." Launched in autumn 2006, GMP is a new executive education comprehensive leadership program designed to address the needs and concerns of precisely these managers. GMP's innovative teaching philosophy and methodology are driven by a View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Nov 2016
HBS Seminar

Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein, Stanford University

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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

Compute Cluster Scaling Work 7ms There are numerous ways to scale up your work on the HBSGrid, including parallel processing and GPUs . Parallel Processing Also commonly called parallel computing or multicore processing, using multiple View Details

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

Series How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership Protect the core... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

fundamentals more broadly, CORe program participants progress through the three courses in tandem, and the program concludes with a final exam. What are the learning requirements in order to successfully complete Economics for Managers,... View Details

08 Feb 2023
Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

allowed some companies to hire from a broader pool of candidates. Cutting so many barriers has been disorienting for some executives—it’s tempting to go back to what’s familiar. But the lack of structure can also be liberating, freeing one to focus on the View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

percent of core employees participate, with the ability to pull the trigger independently to virtually test anything at any time. To illustrate that point, Thomke describes the time an incoming CEO called a meeting to present a new logo... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Business in Global Society - Alumni

HBS Fund supports core priorities and new initiatives, and donors have the option to direct their gift specifically to business in global society . To learn about leadership giving opportunities to support the Institute for Business in... View Details

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Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description - Recruiting

How does the organization support an employee's goals? What are the organization's core values, and how are they reflected in its culture? Speak to your organization’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging practices Is this role... View Details

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Consumers for Health Care Choices. Lynn S. Paine : Recipient of the 2007 HBS Global Research Fellowship. 2006 Leemore S. Dafny : Received the Chairs' Core Course Teaching Award, Best Instructor for Management & Strategy, from the Kellogg... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf

around the ambitious goal of "being the leader in the worldwide fragrance market and becoming the coolest, most cutting-edge company in the cosmetics business" by focusing on three key areas: core brands, fixed costs, and working capital.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

successful. They should pursue situations in which their strengths are really needed, important weaknesses are not a serious drawback, and their core values are consistent with those of the organization; in other words, the stretch should... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

02 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

April 14, 2017 Harvard Business Review Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It By: Deighton, John A. Abstract—United Airlines has pledged to improve its training programs and empower its employees to put customers first... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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What You Can Support - Alumni

gifts to the HBS Fund provide flexible resources that the School can use immediately to advance core priorities and pursue new initiatives. Although HBS’s endowment provides a strong foundation, it does not cover all of the School’s... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

Frederick Taylor's application of scientific methods to the study of physical labor had begun to be extended to the organization of industry as well as to spheres such as higher education and government. While Taylorism was quickly jettisoned as the View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

the strategic choice to pivot my venture in the latter stages of the summer. Engaging in conversations with NGOs and migrants across Europe enriched my understanding of various facets of a migrant's journey and the core challenges they... View Details

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing, Cespedes, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, offers research-based insight and context, and presents sales productivity not only as a core way to increase... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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