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Peter Gumulia

reliant on its skilled labor force,” he explains. “But as it moves forward, the labor force is not prepared for this change. My goal is to upskill and empower young Indonesians, so that they are ready to participate in this increasingly... View Details
  • 31 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

Any parent can tell you that a surefire way to turn joy into rage is to offer your child a big candy bar—and then turn around and offer an even bigger one to his sister. Suddenly, a special treat turns into a great injustice. "Hey! How come she got more? That's not... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 23 May 2018
  • News

Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988

comfortable are probably not paying enough attention,” she says. As someone skilled at balancing accolades and apprehension, Abby Johnson seems to be in just the right place. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1961... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • November 2005 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

Leadership Development at Goldman Sachs

By: Boris Groysberg, Scott A. Snook and David Lane
In November 1999, 11 of Goldman Sachs' finest gathered to put the final touches on a revolutionary leadership development plan. Following Goldman's explosive growth during the 1990s and its eventual IPO in 1999, a diverse group of leaders from across the firm were... View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Skills; Organizational Design; Planning
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  • December 2013
  • Article

How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management

By: David A. Garvin
High-performing knowledge workers often question whether managers actually contribute much, especially in a technical environment. Until recently, that was the case at Google, a company filled with self-starters who viewed management as more destructive than beneficial... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Human Resource Management; Managing Change; Organizational Change; Analytics; Management; Leadership; Human Resources; Talent and Talent Management
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Global Business Course | HBS Online

helped a lot. It’s one of the reasons Aphrodite supports 50 currencies now. Daniel Dietzel CEO of Aphrodite at Aphrodite Gain the skills and knowledge needed to grow your business internationally and more effectively manage global teams.... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

By day, managers run themselves ragged worrying about their A players: their stars, their rainmakers, their top 15 percent. By night, the same managers fret over their C players—their bottom 15 percent of staff. The C players are those employees, incompetent by... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • News

Warrior Spirit

highly trained athletes will use every martial arts skill at their disposal—karate, jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, judo, and boxing, among others—to score a win by knockout, submission, or points. Face lit by the glow of his smartphone, ONE FC... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services
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Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Care explores the best practices for reorganizing and coordinating care, improving process efficiencies, implementing new reimbursement approaches, and integrating care delivery across practices. You will return with the frameworks and View Details
  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

Bridging Business and Engineering

Erez Perelson (MS/MBA 2020) hopes to build on his technical background and hone his entrepreneurial and management skills in the new joint degree program. (photo by Susan Young) Erez Perelson (MS/MBA 2020) hopes to build on his technical... View Details
  • 07 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Art of Haggling

intent on dominating, and who refuse to engage in problem solving. Skillful negotiation starts with having a clear sense of when to walk away, in order to avoid being browbeaten into accepting unreasonable terms, he explains. It also... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

People skills make all the difference at senior levels. How have your priorities changed since 1974? After graduating from HBS, I embarked upon a very career-centric existence, and I have to admit that it has paid off. But since having... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • March 2004 (Revised February 2005)
  • Case

Emerging Business Opportunities at IBM (A)

By: David A. Garvin and Lynne Levesque
By June 2003, IBM had made significant progress in changing the way it managed new, emerging businesses. Describes the development of a separate management program at IBM designed to identify, fund, and shepherd new businesses through growth. Traces the history of the... View Details
Keywords: History; Business or Company Management; Talent and Talent Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy
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  • 08 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

currently in the process of writing a case together with one of the panelists, which could potentially serve as part of the future MBA curriculum. Third, through developing new skills in a low-risk environment. One of my major goals... View Details
  • 03 Dec 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

interpersonal skills often." Grant Stanley said "rather than dismiss them I have been able to use their skills and abilities to create training materials to share their best practices." Todd... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

inefficient as the "benchmark" HR group? Obviously, this is an absurd comparison. The HR group that is spending 0.2 percent of revenue is probably producing few employees with the skills required to implement its strategy,... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service
  • September 2023
  • Article

Top Talent, Elite Colleges, and Migration: Evidence from the Indian Institutes of Technology

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ina Ganguli and Patrick Gaulé
We study migration in the right tail of the talent distribution using a novel dataset of Indian high school students taking the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), a college entrance exam used for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). We find a... View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Immigration; Talent and Talent Management; India
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  • 28 Mar 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

too-commonly used term, not mine) are tradable on international labor markets. They especially follow the migration of manufacturing activity involving jobs requiring lower skills and compensation. Efforts to revive high value-added... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 02 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

entrepreneur's skill and luck as on anything else. Recommendations Successful convergence deals seem to follow a sequence of steps. First, the acquirer's accounting-and-control systems are installed at the target company. Next, the... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
  • 16 Aug 2018
  • News

Working with a Giver’s Spirit

that we call the ‘high-impact entrepreneur.’” There are three things that define high-impact to Endeavor. First is having the commercial skills to create something that’s large and successful, creating a lot of jobs and revenue. Second is... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman