Interactions - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

mock class to a lecture hall full of their colleagues, who play the roles of students and mentors in providing feedback after the fact.) Interactive learning through office norms Less formally, however, managers can create more View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?

into these questions, we studied four organizations selected to reflect a wide range of attributes—for-profit and nonprofit, large and small, North American and European. We asked people to indicate how often they had work-related View Details

Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo

08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

stimulating, and growing community, especially as the new cohorts come in. What was something you did not expect coming into HBS, but found? The openness of the students and the supportive community. The people I have interacted with and... View Details

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Alumni Career Guide - Alumni

Guide? Serving as an Alumni Career Guide is a great opportunity to interact with students and reconnect with HBS. Additionally, you can add "HBS Career Guide" to LinkedIn or your resume to indicate that you are actively helping to expand... View Details

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

this topic, I'm beginning to wonder if there are ways of salvaging brilliant jerks and preserving the energy, ideas, and performance they can bring to an organization? For example, in larger organizations is reassignment a solution? Will a job with fewer View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Financing Innovation

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda

Teaching Interest

Negotiation

By: Kevin P. Mohan

Managerial success requires the ability to negotiate. Whether you are forging an agreement with your suppliers, trying to ink a deal with potential customers, raising money from investors, managing a conflict inside your firm, or resolving a dispute that is headed... View Details

01 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

refers to the amount of time and attention a person in a particular job must devote to interacting with others and nudging people where they should go, including collecting data, probing for new information, or attempting to influence the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee

LinkedIn to connect with fellow HBS alumni Join local or global online networking groups Attend interactive webinars and follow up with speakers/fellow participants Related Resources Informal Communication Strategies from GitLab Virtual... View Details

Teaching Interest

Data Science for Managers

Served as a teaching fellow; assisted MBA students with classroom coding exercises.
Developed course materials, including new case studies, technical notes, and code notebooks students used to analzye case data.
Developed interactive web... View Details

Research Summary

Moving Beyond Direct-to-Consumer

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

Changing consumer behaviors have redefined what it means to be direct to consumer ("DTC"). What once began online a decade ago as a distribution and disintermediation strategy has since evolved into a multifaceted approach for the modern-day brand.

The... View Details

Research Summary

Consumer-Brand Relationships

Susan M. Fournier is conducting extensive research into the relationships consumers form with brands. Her work builds on the premise that, although marketers espouse the notion of relationships in current thought and practice, none have theoretically maximized the... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal

club. But I was reminded that there is a great openness here and a wide diversity of backgrounds.” He looks upon the role as an opportunity to interact with new people and a new culture. “Montreal is a city on a very human scale,” Dolan... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

top priority. They must feel secure when they walk into the classroom. They must feel secure as they fulfill class assignments outside of class. Second, students need to know that teachers care about them and their work. They learn this through feedback, View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

01 Mar 2024
News

The Internet's Next Frontier

While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Frequently Asked Questions - Research Computing Services

limit, or # of interactive sessions). If the compute grid is busy, there many not be enough RAM or CPUs on any of the compute nodes to run your application. Open a terminal session and type bjobs on the command line (details here). Look... View Details

20 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

their families, neighborhoods, or social clubs. “The same trend showing up in the workplace is worrisome because it means we have even fewer opportunities to interact across partisan lines,” she says. “It could accelerate the growing... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

01 Mar 2024
News

Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

stories, about which most people do not know the details, can be lethal. "What about the Teledix project [which no one has ever heard of] and the competitive strategy we have for the TX line of products [a strategy that half the people in the room know nothing... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

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Summer Associates | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

one-on-one mentorship Regular meetings throughout summer, and mid-summer and end of summer feedback sessions Interaction with other members of staff and key constituencies, including clients, board members, and partnering organizations A... View Details

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