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Brice Fodouop

Brice acquired operational experience in the company’s facilities in Albany (Oregon), Baltimore, and Chicago. “I wanted to know: what are the best practices in manufacturing?” From manufacturing to management After obtaining an... View Details
  • 28 Nov 2018
  • HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

meanwhile, managed a startling recovery from its five-year slump. The company’s third-quarter sales increased by more than 5 percent over last year, and in August online revenue showed especially high growth of a whopping 41 percent—the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

engineering step forward. “This is going to be really important as we confront adapting to climate change, an area the Mittal Institute is exploring in a deep way with the Salata Institute.” Gazette: What does this moon landing mean to India? Khanna: The country is... View Details
Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace
  • Research Summary

The Unexpected Effects of Workplace Connectivity

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

While investigating how workplace transparency and privacy shape organizational behavior and performance, I wondered about the related effects of workplace connectivity. As new digital tools and organizational forms make it far easier for employees to communicate... View Details

Keywords: Human Behavior; Performance; Virtual Work; Hybrid Work; Office Space; Workplace Design; Organizations; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Networks; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Communication
  • Research Summary

Building Capabilities in Professional Service Firms

One of the most distinctive aspects of professional service firms is that the vast majority of the people who work in them are directly involved in serving clients.  Long-term success in a professional service firm requires obtaining and developing the right... View Details

  • Web

Curriculum - Business & Environment

MBA Experience Curriculum 2ms Required Curriculum (1st Year) Cases Environmental opportunities and challenges are embedded in most Required Curriculum courses so that all students understand the importance of the natural environment to their roles as View Details
  • 14 Apr 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces

Keywords: by Jesse Shore, Ethan Bernstein & David Lazer
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

expressed extremely negative views about people in her community, she wonders whether the company is the right place for her. Should she meet with the CEO to share her experience, or continue to conceal her sexual orientation while... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • 25 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

to become better employers. “Throughout my career, I have explored how private capital and public resources can be leveraged to ensure people living in historically marginalized communities have the opportunity for economic mobility,”... View Details
  • 02 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

When Goal Setting Goes Bad

domains. But we are concerned about the simple specification of stretch goals that permeates the goal setting and management by objectives literature. Q: How can goal setting go wrong? A: When people focus... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • January–February 2017
  • Article

Africa's New Generation of Innovators

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Efosa Ojomo and Derek van Bever
With a young, urbanizing population, abundant natural resources, and a growing middle class, Africa seems to have all the ingredients necessary for huge growth. Nevertheless, a number of multinationals have recently left the continent, discouraged by widespread... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Economic Growth; Africa
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  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

meager supply of life jackets, neglecting to keep one for herself. When the boat sank, she used her skills as a former lifeguard to save people in the shark-infested waters, but hundreds of others drowned. Fashioning a flotation device... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

What were the management trends in 2009? Fascination with social networking and rethinking common wisdom about goal setting. Here are the Top 10 articles and Top 5 working papers that appeared in HBS Working Knowledge in 2009. Enjoy! TOP... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 16 Jun 2015
  • Blog Post

Military Alumna Reflects on Time at HBS

my new friends caught up on the Forum’s discussion, as well as their HBS cases that day— a LEAD case about a protagonist facing a management turnaround, a TOM case about a restaurant’s operations, and a FIN case valuing a Pharma company.... View Details
  • 13 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 13

Publication:MIS Quarterly Executive 11, no. 1 (March 2012) Abstract The Chinese management software and IT services industry has grown dramatically over the past two decades and today is about the size of the Indian industry a decade ago.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2009
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

information moves where needed and not everywhere it can." [This reflects a complaint I came across recently from a senior manager that a problem with the latest generation entering business ranks is that "everyone reports to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News
  • Web

Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

for Managers Economics for Managers will enable you to drive critical business decisions. Explore how businesses approach pricing strategy, evaluate market demand, and differentiate their offerings, and how... View Details
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans

By: Doug J. Chung, Thomas J. Steenburgh and K. Sudhir
We estimate a dynamic structural model of sales force response to a bonus based compensation plan. The paper has two main methodological innovations: First, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2010) to accommodate unobserved latent... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society and often posing irreconcilable... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Capital; Globalized Firms and Management; Labor; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Practice; Conflict of Interests; Social Issues; Theory
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  • 02 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

of time focused on the CEO and the members of the management team: the quality of the people they attract, their biases, their strong points, and their overall depth. We've also done some analysis that... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley