preparation - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Language Wars Divide Global Companies

and employee reactions. Managers must prepare for the communications challenges brought on by a new lingua franca system and watch for coping aids used by employees to avoid embarrassment, such as not attending meetings. Create a safe... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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Online Management Course | HBS Online

to understand organizational behavior. Alex Glavkov Technical Program Manager at Amazon Robotics Start preparing for a future managerial role through access to best-in-class tools and frameworks. Meet Raymond, a Management Essentials... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Digital Transformation

and thus prepare students to be effective business leaders. “The work that is being done at HBS is going to drive change and help all our lives in a positive way over the next 5 to 20 years,” he observes. “Today’s managers need to be far... View Details

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Why Your Gift Matters - Alumni

Giving Why Your Gift Matters Giving Why Your Gift Matters Far-Reaching Impact Your support helps HBS prepare leaders to change the world Contributions from alumni and friends are critical to Harvard Business School’s ability to fulfill... View Details

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CEO Leadership - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

their workshops for new CEOs, held at Harvard Business School in Boston, the authors have discovered that nothing--not even running a large business within the company--fully prepares a person to be the chief executive. The seven most... View Details

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie's book A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System (ILR Press, 1991). The head of a manufacturing firm was preparing to initiate talks with the leadership... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

conquering the weight-loss market. With approval seemingly coming soon, Gaur had to decide what his strategy should be in continuing to grow Allurion, dealing with the challenges of the GLP-1 craze, and preparing for long term success.... View Details

13 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Take a Seat in the Case Method Classroom

Classroom Video Student Perspectives Video HBS students share what it’s like to learn via the Case Method style of teaching, and reflect on its defining role in the HBS experience. View Student Perspectives Video Faculty Perspectives Video HBS faculty share what it's... View Details

March 2024
Supplement

Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble (B)

By: N. Louis Shipley, Stacy Straaberg and Tom Quinn

In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Valuation; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina

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March 2013
Teaching Note

Nestlé: Agricultural Material Sourcing Within the Concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) (TN)

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Matthew Preble

In December 2012, Hans Jöhr, Nestlé's head of corporate agriculture, was preparing to meet with the company's board of directors to discuss its vision for the future related to sustainable agriculture. Nestlé's continued success depended on its ability to access the... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Agribusiness; Environmental Sustainability; Food; Nutrition; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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Executive Education - Business & Environment

Executive Education Executive Education Executive Education provides advanced curriculum to corporate and nonprofit executives from all over the world to prepare them for new levels of leadership in their careers and within their... View Details

23 Oct 2019
Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

high. What recommendations do you have for our audience (many of which who are starting jobs, going on interviews, and networking) So many! Don’t be afraid to prepare personalized topics before your conversations, ask more questions... View Details

24 Feb 2021
Lessons from the Classroom

What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace

The 2020 debut was popular: Approximately 100 second-year MBA students took the class, with 10 spots reserved for students from outside of HBS. His main goal in creating the course wasn’t necessarily to provide his students with business skills, but to View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

facilitates discussions about real-life problems encountered in business, to prepare students for roles as leaders, managers, and decision makers. The case method encourages students to plan a course of inquiry—analyze, listen, compare... View Details

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

one of six cases they will read over the course of the year. Each day the students read a portion of the same case used in Moss’s HBS classroom, nine pages in preparation for the first class, just four or five on the subsequent days. Part... View Details

Keywords: April White

23 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

considered a hypothetical scenario in which a well-known firm is preparing to launch a new version of its color printer. The participants, who were split into two groups, received a list of seven successive model names. For the first... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2021
News

Fueling the Faculty Pipeline

Private Equity Group, and executive chairman of the firm’s private equity business in Asia. Melwani’s support for the School stems from the deep impact his two years in the MBA Program have had on his life as well as his belief in the School’s mission. “HBS was the... View Details

20 Nov 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurship and Business Groups: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey

Keywords: by Asli M. Coplan & Geoffrey Jones

Research Summary

Growing as a Purposeful Leader

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

Leaders today have to lead in the context of extraordinary changes and challenges. The demands of today's stakeholders have risen significantly, and what is expected of senior leaders is quickly evolving in terms of their mission (more than profit),... View Details

2019
Article

Overcoming Cultural Resistance to Open Source Innovation

By: John Winsor, Jin Hyun Paik, Michael Tushman and Karim R. Lakhani

Purpose: This article offers insight on how to effectively help incumbent organizations prepare for global business shifts to open source and digital business models.
Design/methodology/approach: Discussion related to observation, experience and case studies... View Details

Keywords: Open Source Innovation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Model; Technological Innovation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention