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- 05 Jul 2012
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?
effectiveness and of achievement at all costs" (Liam); (3) "excessive turnover and continuous change" (Marlis Krichewsky); (4) leaders who "use ambiguity and weasel words in their... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Applying to HBS in Round 3?
“No one gets in during round 3.” That is something I often heard or read in blogs when I was making the decision to apply in the last admission round of business school. Some... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
product sped up the process of creating and following up on sales pitches, which resulted in 10 times more meetings for GroupTalent’s two sales reps, Medina says. But the influx of interest overwhelmed the... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
asset managers with over USD $3 trillion in assets under management. The Asset Stewardship team leverages engagements, proxy voting, and thought leadership to manage material environmental, social, and... View Details
- 05 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)
time to revisit outdated branding or stick with an established image? Executives aspire to project confidence in their decisions, lest they seem incompetent. “In teams, and organizations more broadly,... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
important leadership quality in these times. Roundtable discussions with about 200 executives echoed those findings. Our survey respondents also ranked creativity, curiosity, and comfort with ambiguity as... View Details
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
executive at eBay. "We live in a world where entrepreneurship drives massive change in the private sector, and we feel that can be true in the social sector." The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Advance Racial Equity in the Office
in our approach to diversity and inclusion when the commitment isn’t there,” Rice observes. Assign accountability. Five years ago, the tech sector experienced a racial awakening, realized it wasn’t doing well on this metric, and made some... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
time we were preparing for a program with a group of CEOs, about 60, that came here in June. I wanted to prepare a case to help kick off that one-day session. This seemed like one that was something that... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 03 Jan 2023
- Book
Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action
aimed specifically at dismantling inequities in the workplace. “Research has shown time and time again that some of the stereotypical feminine attributes, such as empathy,... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 29 Jan 2018
- Book
How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
is in process. Teaming, she says, is essential to organizational learning. In her new book Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership, Edmondson, the Novartis... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations
culture that impacts employee experience at an even deeper level, and can have a significant impact on the company’s bottom line, is psychological safety. WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY? In her book The Fearless Organization, Harvard... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 15 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review
alumni have navigated this past year and provide important insights about the strength of our community. Here is our roundup of notable posts published in 2020: Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles The Class of 2021 is... View Details
- 04 Jan 2017
- What Do You Think?
How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?
bureaucracies can be made more effective in what they do. One sentiment: Don’t confuse bureaucracies with deliberative (as opposed to intuitive) thinking, or with Daniel Kahneman’s ideas about “thinking... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
with a successful entrepreneurial track record and a Boston address. “I am a tech CEO.” With so few women in leadership roles in the information technology sector and a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
a trait. But I remember, like, my first job in sales. I was good, right? But why was I good? I could always see GE through my customers' eyes. And because I could do that, it made me much more effective to... View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Do Maintenance
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
the required Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (commonly known as LEAD), which focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of the enterprise. The Elements Of The... View Details
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
dynamics and leadership of effective teams. You’ll define psychological safety and cover various elements of leading effective teams, including decision-making, navigating... View Details