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Nancy F. Koehn

Nancy F. Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Her... View Details

Keywords: beauty products; clothing; consumer products; entertainment; fashion; marketing industry; retailing; health care; advertising; media

20 Oct 2015
News

Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper Have Us Wondering: Why Don’t More People Discuss Their Compensation?

01 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Choose the Best Deal

Jim, a well-regarded residential developer operating outside Philadelphia, has been scouting around for a site for his next project. Two properties seem promising. The Abbott estate consists of seventy-five acres of woodlands and some overgrown fields. The executor of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

30 Apr 2020
News

A Harvard Professor Calling for Us to ‘Reimagine Capitalism’ Says COVID-19 Has Revealed 3 Fault Lines in Our Economy

20 Dec 2011
News

The problem with green rankings

07 Feb 2018
News

What Abraham Lincoln and Rachel Carson can teach us about leadership

20 Aug 2021
Video

Career Vision Workshop: Signature Skills

03 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description

Crafting a simple yet effective job description is a fine art. Many organizations miss the golden opportunity to write job descriptions that captures their culture, conveys what makes them unique, and describe the practical details of the... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

04 Dec 2013
News

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

03 Feb 2019
News

A Harvard professor says most of us squander 5-minute opportunities to be happier every day

April 1988 (Revised July 1989)
Case

Precista Tools AG (A)

A young woman manager in a Swiss family firm finds that her role as a managing director becomes bitterly unpleasant once her older brother decides to leave an engineering career and join the family business. That is what the father, who was head of the business had... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Gender Characteristics; Switzerland

Citation

Educators

Purchase

11 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers

Marissa Mayer's decision to ask Yahoo! employees to work from offices rather than at home has at least two potentially negative consequences, one for her and one for her employees. But she can mitigate both by linking personal and professional identity for herself and... View Details

Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan; Publishing; Web Services

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

era are especially in need of this kind of updating. 1. Forgo stewardship for entrepreneurship. A steward, writes Robert Hargrove, co-CEO of Masterful Coaching, based in Brookline, Mass., in E-Leader, is someone who conserves the existing... View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

10 Apr 2018
News

'More than 600 apps had access to my iPhone data'

08 Sep 2014
News

Study Raises Red Flags for Economy

20 Feb 2006
HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

The best and brightest executives in the world are common visitors to the MBA classrooms at Harvard Business School, giving students a personal opportunity to talk to the likes of Ann Fudge, Lou Gerstner, Meg Whitman, and Jack Welch. Still, when Professor Nancy Koehn... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

05 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

The story behind Dean Kamen's Segway scooter, and his combustive meeting with the kingpins of Apple and Amazon. Excerpt from Code Name Ginger. 5. Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan Harvard Business School professor William... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

June 28, 2011
Article

Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates

By: Katherine L Milkman, John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian

We evaluate the results of a field experiment designed to measure the effect of prompts to form implementation intentions on realized behavioral outcomes. The outcome of interest is influenza vaccination receipt at free on-site clinics offered by a large firm to its... View Details

Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Nudge; Libertarian Paternalism; Public Health; Flu Shot; Behavior; Consumer Behavior; Health Care and Treatment; Cognition and Thinking