Career Advancement - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Aug 2016
First Look

August 30, 2016

agility, ensuring the continued alignment of a firm’s capabilities with a changing business environment. Despite advances in our understanding of the role of IT, however, we lack robust empirical data on the precise mechanisms by which IT... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

powerful. Despite numerous advances in the Indian economy, reduced birth rates, higher levels of female education, and other promising signals (this year saw the highest-ever number of women elected to Indian Parliament) the number of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

combining several of my favorite issues. Rosabeth Moss Kanter (@RosabethKanter) holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. She is the author of Think Outside the Building: How View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

04 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

The old boys’ club is alive and well in the workforce, as male employees regularly schmooze with their male bosses during coffee breaks, after-work drinks, and golf outings. All this socializing gives men a huge career advantage over... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

since little of the upside tends to flow back onto corporate balance sheets. To that end, Nagle says, “Can we design systems and regulations to allow a company to get some of those benefits?” One model for the future: Free and open source software Drawing on his... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

Grove's management and leadership? A: Grove's career has innumerable lessons for the business executives of today and tomorrow. But if I had to select one, it would be "point of view." He has an uncanny ability to abstract... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

04 Jun 2018
What Do You Think?

Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

decision, a board’s “focus should be on advancing all of the women whose careers were derailed by these arrogant, narcissistic, powerful, PROTECTED men.” It raises the question: How does a board introduce to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

to experiment to see what works best for them. Datar: We also believe that it is important for schools to broaden the types of research that faculty conduct at business schools. The discipline-based research of the last 50 years has certainly View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

You're a successful senior executive with 20, 25 years of experience under your belt. You've made your mark and stand just 1 or 2 rungs from the position of CEO. Now what? As faculty chair of Harvard Business School's Advanced Management... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

Bohlen, and Kennan. They had similar educational backgrounds (Groton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton). Four had successful private sector careers as well as extensive public service. They shaped the post-WWII international scene while serving... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

to best negotiate in an uncertain environment? Michael Wheeler advises looking to military science for winning strategies. Career Advancement without Experience Lacking experience, contract workers find it... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

sides of the aisle. As a doctoral student at Harvard he completed all his MBA coursework and went on to earn a master's in sociology and a PhD in organizational behavior. Now he teaches in the MBA and doctoral programs and knows the issues that students today face as... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

accelerate the advancement of women leaders who make a difference in the world," Nohria said. Indeed, the anniversary has spawned a survey of several thousand alumnae on work-life balance and a new case study on the female experience... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

16 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

illustrate the complexity of modern weapon systems. The Air Force F-22 is an advanced fighter aircraft that replaces the F-15 as America's front-line, air superiority fighter. Thirty-nine percent of the F-22 aircraft is fabricated with... View Details

Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service

15 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 15

system of expense allocation, and anti-inversion legislation—reflect the intuition that building "strong fences" around the United States advances American interests. This paper examines the interaction of a strong fences policy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How to Hire a Millennial

picturesque suburb. Instead, global workplace surveys portray a generation that yearns for more flexible work arrangements and prioritizes work-life balance over career progression. Millennials want to View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

29 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying

While all of these countries are part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and all have high income per capita and advanced health care systems, each was affected differently by the pandemic. The United States,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

career in investment banking/investment management are associated with exposure drafts perceived as decreasing accounting "reliability"; and FASB members' affiliations with the Democratic Party are associated with proposing... View Details