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13 May 2019
Blog Post

The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS

excited when we shared the news that we were expecting. I had friends offering me their on-campus apartment to take a quick nap between classes if I was tired, others organizing the cutest baby shower for... View Details

August 2016 (Revised May 2018)
Module Note

Strategy Execution Module 1: Managing Organizational Tensions

By: Robert Simons

This module reading lays the foundation for executing strategy using performance measurement and control systems. Properly applied, these systems can overcome the organizational blocks that impede the potential of all people who work in modern organizations. This... View Details

Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Strategy Execution; Performance Measurement; Profit Planning; Organization Design; Profitable Growth; Management Attention; Organizational Conflict; Human Behavior; Strategy; Ethics; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Design; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance; Measurement and Metrics

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12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management

or an old idea applied to a new setting. (More broadly and more famously, he described capitalism as a form of "creative destruction," often involving the dismantling... View Details

Keywords: by Howard H. Stevenson & Teresa M. Amabile

29 Jul 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Who Is Governing Whom? Senior Managers, Governance and the Structure of Generosity in Large U.S. Firms

Keywords: by Christopher Marquis & Matthew Lee

01 Sep 2016
News

The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

2015
Working Paper

A Normative Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategy, Know-How, and Competition

By: Gary P. Pisano

The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971), attempts to... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Organizations

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01 Mar 2018
News

Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

Collaboration Leads to New Programs for Business and Education Two new programs developed and led by HBS faculty in collaboration with colleagues from across Harvard University—one in business analytics and... View Details

20 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

The Power of Ordinary Practices

Teresa M. Amabile's research centers on how the work environment can influence the motivation, creativity, and performance of individuals and teams. A recent study focused on the influence of team leaders on... View Details

Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile

Uncovering the roots of innovation

firms. Through the Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism course and the seminars of the Business History Initiative, my time at Harvard also immersed me in a vibrant, interdisciplinary, and intellectually stimulating community. Such... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

Managing the Business of Life

Broadcasting shortly afterward, however, Dodi's division was dissolved. Still under contract, she found herself with eight months of paid "vacation." "The time off helped me get the kids settled into a new... View Details

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Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide

The organizational theory of the multinational firms holds that foreignness is a liability, and specifically that lack of embeddedness in host-country social networks is a source of competitive disadvantage; meanwhile the literature on labor market discrimination... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firm; Multinationals; Labor Market Discrimination

17 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Through The Eyes of The Patient: A Recap of The 13th Annual Health Care Conference

afternoon keynote session, Cardinal Health Chairman and CEO George Barrett spoke about the difficulties of defining value in health care, and over what time period, as well as how his organization is making... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

observes Willis Emmons (HBS MBA '85, PhDBE '89), director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at HBS. "We welcomed 38 new faculty to the School this year and hope to have a... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

01 Feb 1999
News

Newman's Own Brand of Charity

With the understated charm that has won him legions of fans on the big screen, Hollywood legend Paul Newman came to HBS in mid-October to talk about his successful second career as a social entrepreneur. During his daylong visit, Newman... View Details

17 Feb 2022
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When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

What’s a company’s purpose? Too often it has been hijacked by one extreme or the other claiming it’s either the unbridled pursuit of profit on behalf of shareholders or it’s anything but profit. I also take... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

20 Jan 2023
Blog Post

The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang

mentoring, coaching, or sponsoring) is something that organically develops. Rather, it needs to be cultivated. When we work with organizational partners, all of them are enthused about creating programs... View Details

28 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

the issue in a new research paper, "Bringing Ethics into Focus: How Regulatory Focus and Risk Preferences Influence (Un)ethical Behavior," in which they distinguish between two ways a company can encourage ethical conduct among... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

Teradyne and HP forced their organizations to focus on these new technologies. The CEOs of both companies got involved, creating separate, financially autonomous divisions for... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

04 Sep 2021
News

Companies Need More Workers. Why Do They Reject Millions of Résumés?

13 May 2014
Working Paper Summaries

The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty

Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro, Francesca Gino & Maryam Kouchaki; Legal Services

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