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- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
thirty to sixty days of entry. The facilitator is a leadership development executive who has a deep understanding of the leader's business issues and is familiar with the specific leadership team's interpersonal dynamics. The facilitator... View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
To illustrate the old adage that birds of a feather flock together, there may be no better example than the venture capital industry. A recent study finds that venture capitalists have a strong tendency to team up with other VCs whose... View Details
- Profile
Matthew Boys
Matt continued his music trajectory, getting a job as a booking agent in London. But, Matt says, “the day-to-day work of a booking agent just wasn’t that interesting." And in a journey more familiar to nascent business leaders, he... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
exchange form the foundation of the larger improvisation. Each of the six improvisations described below involves a specialized set of fundamental guidelines for interaction. Haggling, perhaps the most familiar negotiation improvisation,... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
provides, it forces senior executives to become more familiar with how younger, even entry-level, people think, how they work, and how and what they are consuming. To make it work, senior executives have to make themselves vulnerable to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Reflections and learnings
experience, go do something totally new, totally uncomfortable. As for me, between working at TATCHA, the small e-commerce beauty brand where I started the summer, and Sephora, I’ve definitely stepped outside my familiar zone, but in... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
feature the talents of artists drawn to the industrial aesthetic and photographers from the corporation’s engineering corps and local studios who had access to and familiarity with nearby company plants. The corporation’s PR campaigns... View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
companies have teams of economists, and lots of the smaller companies are starting to hire handfuls of them.” The list includes Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, Uber, Facebook, and numerous smaller companies. Tech companies are turning to sharp... View Details
- 20 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care
leaders and given special attention, such as seminars and direct exposure to senior leadership.” 2. Rotational Program: The most familiar model comes in two forms – an established general management program with fixed time periods across... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
enjoy that Some days I work with our CFO on food-spend projections, or help our COO build a multi-year strategic planning framework. Other days, I work with my team to coordinate food donations or manage inventory turns. Even though we... View Details
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
(conditional) gender gap is largest among faculty members at the highest status institutions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-014.pdf Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
HBS Online Certificate Programs Offer Unique Insight Into Business
individuals, and in some cases leadership teams, with deep insight into a particular business topic. As one familiar with game-changing environments, Professor Clayton Christensen signed on to develop the first course, Disruptive... View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
commit to funding of any particular transaction. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-106.pdf Leveraging Team Familiarity to Handle Uncertainty: A Resource-based View of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
teams often changes over time or between projects. In this paper, we use detailed data from an Indian software services firm to examine how such changes may affect the accumulation of experience within, and the performance of, teams. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
Drawing on lessons from the battlefield is common practice for business leaders seeking tested strategies to succeed against adversity. Today, the battle against COVID-19, an invisible enemy, feels to many observers like a military engagement. Readers View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
quantitative strategy, digging into numbers many ignore; others look deeply into industries or countries they are familiar with that many analysts don't understand. Successful investors learn how to put their unique knowledge to work... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
organizational negotia- tions. To add realism, the unit's faculty has scrambled the sections for this course so that students encounter both familiar and unfamiliar faces across their classroom bargaining table. "The role of informal... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
ER costs have dropped significantly. The Power Of Checklists Gawande also stressed the importance of implementing checklists in health care. (Gawande is the author of The Checklist Manifesto. Knowing that the manufacturing industry was View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
professor in Harvard Business School’s Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. Beshears is an expert in behavioral economics, which uses insights from psychology and economics to explain individual decision making and help people make wiser choices. “You’re... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
VEDP is to be a “super-collaborator.” Economic development is really a team sport, he says. The process was both familiar and unprecedented. “It was similar to any RFP in its elements, but the stakes were... View Details