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  • 10 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

major design firm in Europe. Business school students, I think, have a tendency to say that a firm's employees should be more "customer-oriented." Our design case was about the designers not wanting to show an idea to clients... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
  • 16 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Faculty Books Published in 2020

the misuse of social media, and cyberattacks—these are just a few of the threats to continuing prosperity that we see dominating the headlines every day. How can capitalism be sustained? And who should spearhead the effort? Critics turn... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • July 2013
  • Case

Slicing Pie with a Razor: Ockham Technologies' Founding Agreement

By: Noam Wasserman and Yael Braid
Ockham Technologies' three founders are about to craft their founding agreement and split the equity among themselves. Uncertainty lingers over each member's future contributions, though—how is the team to devise a durable and effective split? Jim Triandiflou and Ken... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Conflict Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Employees; Management Teams; Product Development; Technology Industry
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  • February 2004 (Revised March 2004)
  • Case

Ockham Technologies: Living on the Razor's Edge

By: Noam T. Wasserman
Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board of directors, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Conflict Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Employees; Management Teams; Product Development; Technology Industry
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  • 08 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief

“might have a perverse incentive to allow underperforming employees to keep underperforming because it makes it easier to decide whom to lay off,” Hagerty says. Let the doctor decide The idea for the research came from Barasz’s personal... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 03 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

As we start to think about returning to work, shopping, and recreation, there is much talk about transformed workplaces and innovative social distancing designs. But how will companies, workers, and customers have confidence that these... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate
  • February 2005 (Revised March 2008)
  • Case

Shinhan Financial Group (A)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ryan Raffaelli
Mr. Young Hwi Choi, president and CEO of Shinhan Financial Group, embarked on an unconventional post-merger integration strategy with recently acquired Chohung Bank. The strategy focused on integrating traditional operations while attending to employees' reactions to... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Change Management; Employees; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Emotions; Integration; South Korea
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  • 29 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

are, after all, employees not partners; the decision and accountability ultimately accrue to the chief executive. As for the board of directors, only a stream of wrong decisions is likely to stir its concern. In contrast, in a PSF, the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

employees undeniable proof that the Industrial Age corporate culture is gone, and that you are creating an environment for the future. The way to do that is to blatantly and offensively break with the past through loud statements of... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
  • 28 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

safety of the employees who make the goods that the retailer sells? No need to feel awkward if your answer is no. Most people do not think about the harms created by indirect actions, that is, behaviors that hurt others indirectly, such... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail
  • 24 Jun 2015
  • HBS Case

Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality

already established four schools in San Francisco, with 115 employees (including 45 engineers) continually working to build and improve AltSchool's infrastructure and grow the business. As a testament to the strength of his idea, the... View Details
Keywords: Re: John Jong-Hyun Kim; Education
  • 03 Feb 2011
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

leadership, governance, innovation management, the networking of organizations, and social responsibility—as the "single most important development(s) in the area of management in the just-ended decade of the new century."... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

country and firm-level data. Using data for 58 countries, we show that after the adoption of MCSR laws and regulations, the social responsibility of business leaders increases and both sustainable development and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Departments | Employment

set up of the office. Staff members need to occasionally enforce unfavorable policies to faculty, students, employees and non-employees. Global Initiative Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty conduct research and develop cases that... View Details
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

stronger. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-051.pdf Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers (revised) Authors:David I. Levine and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

of doing things" and shape its international organization structure and processes. Business historian Alfred Chandler has traced the influence of the cultural values and social structures on British management practice. For reasons... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

had 45 employees and over 5 million users and was valued in excess of $100 million. However, many competitors, including Facebook, Twitter, and Yelp, developed competitive services requiring foursquare to respond. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense Against 24/7 Work Culture By: Padavic, Irene, R. Ely, and Erin M. Reid Abstract—It is widely accepted that the conflict between women’s family obligations and professional... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

and social posts in 2018. Tell us in the comment section below what you thought were the most interesting business trends of the year and what you expect in 2019. Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults In earlier research, Kathleen... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

in social structure, in economic strategy, and in government" A: You could see the social fabric wearing thin in a number of places over the past several years. The fact that so many factory workers had... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg