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Hillary Mann

Hillary Mann (MBA, Babson ’15; University of Michigan ’04) is a Corporate Relations Director who manages relationships with organizations in Consumer Products, Retail & Luxury Goods, Hospitality, Agribusiness, and Sustainability. Hillary brings over 10 years of... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Education; Entertainment / Media; Hospitality; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Real Estate; Retail; Social Enterprise; Sports; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship

09 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

up from 73 percent in 2008. Mikes and her colleagues first examined the banks' "risk management tool-makers." Often viewed as risk "compliance champions," these functional experts don't influence decisions directly. At first sight, they... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking

05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

Prior to 1992, college football teams were matched for post-season play up to several weeks before the end of the regular season. Since 1992, the market has reorganized to postpone this matching. We show that the matching of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Program

General Management Program

leadership. Ideal candidates include: Functional leaders at large organizations whose role is significantly expanding Executives who will soon become business-unit, divisional, cross-functional, or regional leaders Top executives at... View Details

12 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Reading Between the Lines: How to Spot the Skills You Need Among the Resumes You Get

There can be a protean quality to great talent, a capacity for shape-shifting that enables them to succeed in a wide variety of functions within a broad range of industries. But the virtues you need – in both hard skills and “soft”... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

28 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Duolingo

At Duolingo, one of the main operating principles is “learners first.” To achieve that goal, Duolingo needs a product team who understands, empathizes with, and reflects their users, and this is exactly why they turn to Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Technology

January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
Case

School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg

In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details

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August 2019 (Revised April 2021)
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Unifying Divisions: Joro's Mission to Preserve the Planet

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Marilyn Morgan Westner

The case focuses on the initial startup team and Founders’ agreements. In March 2018, Sanchali Pal proposed renegotiating the informal founders’ agreement and equity split she and her co-founders had drafted the previous spring. They had been working together for over... View Details

Keywords: Founders' Agreements; Business Startups; Climate Change; Agreements and Arrangements; Conflict Management

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Agility Hacks

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ranjay Gulati

In the past 20 years, the agile approach to improving products, services, and processes has swept the business world. Rooted in software development, agile has spread to many other functions, and some companies have turned much of their organization, including the... View Details

Keywords: Agile Practices; Agile Project Management; Projects; Management Practices and Processes; Groups and Teams; Innovation Strategy

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25 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 25

alongside those offering a larger number of candidates, even though the existing literature on network effects suggests that the latter should always dominate the former. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-098.pdf Varied Experience, View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Leading in the Digital Era

leadership approach, behaviors, and capabilities to enable your organization to become digitally mature Lead and build a culture of collaboration, empowerment, and inclusion that bridges across generations, geographies, and functions... View Details

03 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

function and authority to CEOs. Because coaching records, player statistics and team performance are readily accessible, measurement and comparison of organizational performance in the NFL is reliable and... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

02 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

Think Team Stars don't shine alone. As Harvard Business School's Boris Groysberg and Linda-Eling Lee reveal in new research, it is imperative that top performers as well as their managers take into account the quality of colleagues.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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By: Jorge Tamayo

Professor Tamayo’s research focuses on theoretical modeling and structural estimation of firm decision-making and productivity.

Professor Tamayo studies dynamic competition for customer membership. Generally, firms that implement a membership model charge a... View Details

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

functions that, over time, become integrated capabilities. For example, when Lauder was starting out, she was the company's only salesperson. She was an extremely gifted spokesperson for her products—warm, knowledgeable, and interested in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Jan 2018
Blog Post

Tiffany Nida’s Amazon Journey: “I Continue to Grow Because They Keep Giving Me Responsibility.”

At Amazon, Tiffany Nida (HBS MBA 2012) leads a fifteen-person team in her current role as Senior Manager, Product Management, in one of the company’s frontier business segments, Amazon Transportation. Her five-and-a-half year tenure... View Details

Keywords: Technology

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Organizational Behavior - Doctoral

School are prepared to pursue an interdisciplinary inquiry into issues that are broadly related to the functioning of individuals within groups, at either the micro or macro level. Graduates of our program go on to become the leading... View Details

21 Feb 2024
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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management

For Harvard Business School students eager to make a positive impact on the world, one exciting path forward is investing in mission-centered businesses. Areas like healthcare, education, energy, and the environment attract innovative and entrepreneurial minds, and... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

07 Jan 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

managers can team with creative talent in six "culture industries": Fashion, publishing, art/architecture/design, film, music, and food. Her subjects include fashion pioneer Chanel, publishers Penguin and Atavist, film icons... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

January 2008 (Revised January 2008)
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Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model

By: Robert G. Eccles

Two Brattle Center (TBC) is a struggling for-profit private mental health clinic based in Harvard Square. Its founder, Dr. Joan Wheelis, is a nationally recognized practicing psychiatrist who has developed outpatient treatment programs based on Dialectical Behavior... View Details