Exercise - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

surprisingly, local governments exercise the greatest control over urban land in cities that adopted market reforms earliest. Slavery's Scientific Management: Accounting for Mastery Author:Caitlin C.Rosenthal Publication:In Slavery's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

interactive analytical module that allows students to simulate factory scheduling and operations. Upton then demonstrated the School's revolutionary Web-based video system that provides full-motion digital video on demand with random access to a desktop or a classroom.... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

15 Jun 2021
News

From Das’s Desk

and pivot into a substantial unknown. In-person gatherings were canceled—and everyone wondered, what comes next? To their credit, the staff who decamped to their homes across the greater Boston area and beyond quickly regrouped and began the untested View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Oct 2002
News

Sam Hayes

independent and sharp-eyed accounting firms — the alternative would be a disaster of bureaucratic gridlock in the form of line-by-line audits by the federal government. Can Wall Street's leaders restore trust in the markets' integrity? Yes, I think they can. But they... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2012
News

Taking Time to Make Time

not productive to sit in a room and try to figure out where you want to be in 10 or 20 years. Instead, think about what you can do in the next year or two to broaden your learning, experiences, and choices. Career planning should be an View Details

Keywords: Time management

25 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 25

Supplement 210-067 "CityCenter (D)" follows the (A), (B), and (C) cases with subsequent chronological events through CityCenter's grand opening in December 2009 and financial results through March 2010. The case includes a simple valuation View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

numbers, a way of mobilizing support and negotiating from a position of greater influence. [ ] Few organizations decide issues by vote, but every senior leader understands the risks of acting in opposition to many voices speaking in unison. Do You Use Your Network to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs

is higher than the exercise price of the option) within the agreed upon time frame, the likelihood can be so slight that they no longer provide much incentive. Hall has found that when options fall out of the money in this way, one of two... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

02 Apr 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

are, at the same time, exercising cost-cutting efforts (such as low wages, poor benefits, no health insurance for many employees in the case of Wal-Mart, fines for safety violations in the case of BP) in dealing with their employees.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

balance of power between stores and vendors who provide them with merchandise. "I think obviously the power should be shifting to the retailer," Petsch answered. He believes that with the pricing leverage already being exercised... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail

Web

Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals Course Number 2261 Professor James Sebenius Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Exam or Paper Requirements : active, insightful class and negotiation exercise... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Sister Soldier

sense. And, finally, what really struck me is the women don’t care. They’re not at all apologetic about exercising power or running things. They don’t care if men feel good about it or they don’t. That’s what is different. Are there any... View Details

11 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)

challenge of an unstructured search, Sheil put her own structure to it by mapping out how much time she would spend on her search each week, which helped her stay on track. Her search was also an exercise in patience, managing sustained... View Details

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

is often a function of the quality of all the other people who stand beside them to exercise leadership. At Continental Airlines, Gordon Bethune gave the speeches and appeared in the Rodney Dangerfield "respect" videos, but he... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

Blog

When Generations Learn Together

exercises together, either on the same team or across the table from each other in negotiations. We tried to make sure that our development was complimentary. We did talk when not formally involved in the course or social time with other... View Details

01 Sep 2024
News

The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge

potential for increasing the diversity and complexity of our stories and reaching people who are just not picked up by the media, such as indigenous people in Latin America or Dalits in India. Khanna: The whole point of this exercise is... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

03 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

private assets, and personal saving, represent exercises in linguistics, not economics. Technological Innovation and Organizations Authors: Josh Lerner and Pierre Azoulay Publication: In Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited by... View Details