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What Managers Need to Know About Social Tools: Avoid the Common Pitfalls So That Your Organization Can Collaborate, Learn, and Innovate

By: Paul Leonardi and Tsedal Neeley
Workplaces have adopted internal social tools—think stand-alone technologies such as Slack, Yammer, and Chatter, or embedded applications such as Microsoft Teams and JIRA—at a staggering rate. In an ambitious study of 4,200 companies, conducted by the McKinsey Global... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Social Tools; Social and Collaborative Networks; Knowledge Sharing; Performance Improvement; Management
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

Jayant Sinha (MBA 1992) , Member of the Indian Parliament and Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance Dan Stephens Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company What money do we need and what skills do we need to finance a decarbonized... View Details

    John A. Quelch

    John A. Quelch is Executive Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University. He is also John DeButts Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.  Between 2017 and 2023 he was the Leonard M. Miller University... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; broadcasting; consumer products; e-commerce industry; fashion; fast food; federal government; financial services; food; food processing; health care; high technology; marketing industry; media
    • 03 Apr 2025
    • HBS Seminar

    Ziad Obermeyer, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

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    Hiring Organizations

    Equity Partners, LLC Maximon Maya Chia MBTA McKinsey & Company MCR Hotels Medley Medtronic Meesho Megafire Action Mentmore Capital Partners Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team Meridiam Infrastructure MERIT Merit America Meritic Meta... View Details
    • November 2008 (Revised March 2011)
    • Case

    a-connect: In Search of Talent Partners (A)

    By: Robert G. Eccles and Dilyana Karadzhova
    a-connect was started in 2002 by three former McKinsey partners who wanted to develop an alternative business model consulting firm, which they have positioned as a high-end staffing company. The company has been very successful, growing to revenues of CHF 30 million... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Initial Public Offering; Selection and Staffing; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketplace Matching; Expansion; Consulting Industry
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      George C. Lodge

      Professor Lodge had been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1963. Before his retirement in 1997, he taught a number of courses in the MBA Master's Program and in various HBS executive programs. in the MBA program these included: Business,... View Details

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      Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

      Group, 1974–1995 Elizabeth E. Boit Winship, Boit, & Company, 1888–1928 J. Chadbourn Bolles Chadbourn, 1936–1970 Fred J. Borch General Electric Company, 1963–1972 Lawrence A. Bossidy AlliedSignal, Inc., 1991–1999 Marvin Bower McKinsey &... View Details
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      Podcast - Business & Environment

      For transcripts and other resources, visit climaterising.org. Decarbonizing Aviation with McKinsey 17 JAN 2024 | Climate Rising This episode in our hard-to-abate series features aviation expert Robin Riedel, a Partner at View Details
      • 05 Aug 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It

      better. A McKinsey survey of 12,000 managers indicated they consider “candid, insightful feedback” critical to career development. Another international employee survey found that 72 percent of respondents rated “managers providing... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • 02 Mar 2007
      • What Do You Think?

      What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

      don't help them. With this much room for possible improvement, the incentives should be sufficient to foster changes in behavior. A recent McKinsey study estimates that more than half of the $98 billion of excess administrative costs it... View Details
      Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
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      Latin America - Global

      executive education, and immersion programs. Fernanda is based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Prior to joining Harvard Business School, Fernanda was a Senior Director and Leader for LATAM Business Development at Merck and senior consultant at View Details
      • 27 Feb 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)

      devised five studies involving more than 4,000 participants to probe how consumers feel about companies’ disclosure decisions. While the data is collected at the job level, whether a company chooses to disclose it in aggregate or break it out by job matters. For... View Details
      Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
      • 15 Nov 2022
      • Book

      Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work

      earning billions, kept churning out its pills. By now, this story is a familiar one. But what is less well known is that the company had help not only from management consultant McKinsey & Company, which sold advice to Purdue on how... View Details
      Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
      • 2022
      • Book

      企業初心 未來企業的新領導準則

      By: Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert
      A remarkable turnaround by a leader with a remarkable philosophy: Find your noble purpose. Put people at the center. Unleash human magic.
      "It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
      Keywords: Capitalism; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Leading Change
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      • 2022
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      The Heart of Business (ハート・オブ・ビジネス)――「人とパーパス」を本気で大切にする新時代のリーダーシップ

      By: Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert
      A remarkable turnaround by a leader with a remarkable philosophy: Find your noble purpose. Put people at the center. Unleash human magic.
      "It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
      Keywords: Capitalism; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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      Managing Marketspace Service Interfaces

      By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

      Jeffrey F. Rayport is focusing on the strategic challenges that face businesses selling information-intensive products and services. A key strategic issue in such businesses is the dematerialization of information-intensive products and services as a consequence of... View Details

      • 01 Feb 2023
      • Blog Post

      How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Jada Haynes

      defer your 2+2 admission? I deferred for 3 years. HBS MBA students matriculate with 5 years of full-time work experience on average, so I wanted to get as close to that as made sense for me. What job(s) did you have during your deferral? I started my career as a... View Details
      • 2022
      • Book

      L'entreprise, une affaire de cœur

      By: Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert
      A remarkable turnaround by a leader with a remarkable philosophy: Find your noble purpose. Put people at the center. Unleash human magic.
      "It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
      Keywords: Capitalism; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Leading Change
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        The Heart of Business—Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

        How to unleash “human magic" and achieve improbable results.

        Having recently stepped down as Chairman and CEO of Best Buy, Joly shares the leadership principles – illustrated by multiple vivid and concrete stories -- that underpinned... View Details