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curriculum. Existing first–year required courses such as "Human Behavior in Organizations" and "Planning and the Business Environment" started to incorporate case studies on Black entrepreneurship and corporate expansion into urban... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Chai Ling
the West, Chai hopes a more favorable political climate will allow her to return home. Chai's leadership and organizational abilities were honed early. When she was ten, her mother and father, both military doctors, put her in charge of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
industry while working as director of operations at Beacon Communications Corporation in Acton, Massachusetts. "I studied the factors that made some companies successful," he says, "and discovered that the few companies that stay on the A... View Details
Keywords: Eileen McCluskey
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
improve their ability to approach the public, make plans, and set goals." Baxter worked at the "Grandma's" cookie division of Frito-Lay before coming to Interbake Foods in 1987. His earliest priorities included updating production technology and redefining View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
that there's actually a cost of privilege," Neeley says. "People often think that they need to cater only to those who they perceive are on the losing end of something that is spurred by an organizational change. This View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
Education offerings that teach scientists business and organizational fundamentals? What about joint MBA/Ph.D. programs? How about science/business seminars, more science-based cases, and more science-savvy faculty to teach them? We don't... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
professor Deepak Malhotra. "These might all increase the likelihood of overbidding due to auction fever." This research comes from a recently published paper, coauthored with Gillian Ku, "Towards a Competitive Arousal Model of Decision Making: A View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
employee loyalty in organizations with large numbers of workers in direct contact with customers. The new movie Moneyball (and the book on which it is based) extol the virtues of employing nontraditional thinking and measurement in major league baseball. The Oakland... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
participants to understand how their role encompasses all organizational disciplines; to learn to manage up, down, across, and outside the organization; to perform a working assessment of their organizations; and to formulate solutions to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine. The results of our comparative study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
Employee theft and fraud: $600 billion. "The costs to business and society are striking," she said. Gino, an associate professor and behavioral economist at HBS, studies ethical decision making and the psychology of moral... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
Q: What is the compensatory consumption thesis and why did you want to challenge it? A: The academic goal of the study was to confront what we call the compensatory consumption thesis, which is widely accepted both by academics and the... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
not employment, at 10 times the rate of organizations lauded in studies described in the books, Built to Last (Citicorp, Procter & Gamble, General Electric, etc.) and Good to Great (Abbott, Gillette, Nucor, etc.) Authors of these... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
non-market strategy. While there have been excellent studies highlighting the importance of preemption in Private Politics, political ties in Public Politics, and forum shopping in Integrated Political Strategy, it is unclear if these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
customers to deliver services in a rapidly changing, uncertain, and complex environment (e.g., hospitals)—play an important role in the economy. Organizational learning studies in these settings have largely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
constructive dialogue between environmentalists and the rest of society. His own career path could have been a case study for the book. After graduating from Harvard Business School, Tercek spent 21 years as an investment banker at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
changes in its workforce and shifts in the broader social narrative," she observes. "This type of study adds to our understanding of how organizational and societal practices work together." McGinn notes... View Details
- 14 May 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams
Organizations increasingly rely on teams to carry out critical strategies and operational tasks. How do teams learn, and what factors are most important to team learning? This paper reports on current perspectives and findings that address these questions, looking at... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 10 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Why the MBA is Still Relevant
First, the MBA at HBS emphasises leadership, and is an incomparable immersive study into how to become a leader. Few young professionals get to sit in the chair of an executive: making difficult decisions, managing teams, and executing a... View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
goals to be successful, they should be specific and challenging, and countless studies find that specific, challenging goals motivate performance far better than "do your best" exhortations. Lisa D. Ordóñez, Maurice E.... View Details
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