High Blood Pressure - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

decisions. The Everest analysis suggests that leaders must pay close attention to how they balance competing pressures in their organizations, and how their words and actions shape the perceptions and beliefs of organization members. In... View Details

Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto

06 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

important issues. Values-centered Leadership Leading is high stress work. There is no way to avoid the constant challenges of being responsible for people, organizations, outcomes, and uncertainties in the environment. Leaders who move up... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

middle-skill career fields,” he says. Respiratory therapist Michelle Powell (above) trains Howard School students Rudy Vasquez and Junior Juan in how to take a blood pressure reading; below, Shakaya Finley... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

12 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

percent in 2017, Alfaro notes. Yet, the step back from business with China did not represent a retreat from global trade; US good imports hit an all-time high of $3.2 trillion in 2022, according to the US Census Bureau. That indicates... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

26 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress

Our work can literally make us sick. Long hours, impossible demands from bosses, and uncertain job security can take their toll on our mental and physical well-being, leading to stress-induced aches and pains and anxiety. In extreme cases, the consequences can be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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Partners - Case Method Project

2 of 5 Suzanne Bailey Virgil Grissom High School Huntsville, AL AL 3 of 5 Marcee Hinds Baker High School Mobile, AL AL 4 of 5 Michele Olejnik Huntsville High School Huntsville,... View Details

01 Nov 2017
What Do You Think?

What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?

Fargo was asking its sales force to sell 8 products (‘Going for gr-eight’) to customers that needed fewer products.” This was coupled, as Thomas Dean put it, “with high, high pressure on line employees to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Banking

Profile

Merve Ciplak

wanted to find a way to “marry the fast pace and high intellectual caliber of the private sector with my inherent interest in giving back to the global sphere.” Long attracted to law school as a way to pursue her “interest in morality and... View Details

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

approach these leadership roles to withstand the pressures that can divert behavior away from the espoused purposes and ethical standards of medicine? July–August 2014 Article How the Other Fukushima Plant Survived By: Ranjay Gulati ,... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

for nearly two decades, the festival was scarcely profitable. Rising cost pressures pushed the team to introduce premium ticketed programs, sparking a debate about compromising its original ethos. How could the festival learn from... View Details

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

John H. Patterson created an intricate system of management to monitor and train company salesman. He gave them scripts to memorize and assigned them territory to cover. He held conventions and thematic sales contests, and pressured... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

Corporation Harvard Business School Case 808-075 Teaches students to diagnose the circumstances under which time pressure can facilitate or hinder creativity. A team's creative "genius", Miles Grady, who previously... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Profiles - MBA

areas of interest: bioinformatics, healthtech, universal design, cloud computing, tech ethics, AI/ML Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: I co-founded a startup in high school, developing a thin, film-like... View Details

18 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

Burnout, retention, and renewed labor organization are critical challenges for leaders, especially amid COVID-19 and a looming recession. Leaders must ask themselves: What is it about my organization’s culture that is contributing to such a View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson

13 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 13

investments in employee training significantly increase after the adoption of MCSR laws and regulations. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1799589 Cases & Course MaterialsHGRM: Bringing Back High Touch Hospitality Lynda... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2023
Book

Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology

27 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

performance Several factors corresponded with higher management scores. Those with the best scores faced a high degree of competition within their industries—possibly due to badly managed firms being weeded out and better managed firms... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

necessarily need to be done in person,” Huckman says. In fact, Huckman says, many doctors have realized that remote medicine can open up new possibilities for the ongoing care of patients—for example, allowing patients to consistently monitor View Details