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16 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

imitate, McGinn says. So when these daughters grow up, they often follow in the footprints of their working mothers. “Having an employed mom makes daughters think that employment is compatible with parenting,” McGinn says. “If you’re... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Dec 2017
News

Finding Opportunities to Grow and Lead

Ilene Lang (MBA 1973) is the former president and CEO of Catalyst, where she worked to promote women in leadership in business and beyond. In this interview she talks about finding and creating opportunities for growth and leadership. “I... View Details

23 Jan 2020
News

Managing the Trickiest Parts of a Family Business

09 Feb 2015
News

Uber Needs Our Permission to Grow

Keywords: Uber; regulation; society; Transportation

01 Dec 1998
News

Research Grows from Asian Financial Crisis

study's focus and is now examining how the various companies are adjusting to the crisis, what lessons they learned, and what changes they are going to make in their management strategy and systems. To date, Yoshino reports, "We are... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

March 2018 (Revised November 2018)
Case

Managing Religion in the Workplace: Abercrombie & Fitch and Masterpiece Cakeshop

By: Derek van Bever

Challenges related to managing religion in the workplace are on the rise, as are religious discrimination claims and monetary settlements, in the United States and around the world. This case examines two incidents of alleged religious discrimination that made their... View Details

Keywords: Religious Discrimination; First Amendment; Religious Freedom Restoration Act; Business Ethics; Religion And Business; Management; EEOC; Ethics; Religion; Conflict Management; Retail Industry; United States

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Parks Management is People Management | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Aug 04 2015
Testimonial

Taking Time to Learn, Reflect, and Grow

April 2007 (Revised November 2007)
Case

Bankinter: Growing Through Small and Medium Enterprises

Surveys the overall sequence of processes needed for the success of a strategy based on customer analytics. In particular, it charts the formulation and implementation of this strategy by a Spanish bank that decided to expand into the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME)... View Details

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Data and Data Sets; Knowledge Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Segmentation; Banking Industry; Spain

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Managing Business Enterprises After Communism, Sample Course Module

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24 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Growing the Seeds of an Early-Stage Startup

donations. Amid exams and interviews, it gradually became clear in my heart that this was the one – I was going to New Orleans! I was offered the role of a Business Development Intern, but I quickly learned that like many early-stage... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

November 2000
Background Note

Running and Growing the Small Company: Team Project Guidelines

Requires participation in a team research project. Each team should have three to four members. The goal of the project is to acquire first-hand knowledge of how a particular business process is managed at a small company. View Details

Keywords: Small Business; Groups and Teams; Projects

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21 Jul 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Managing Human Capital—Global Trends and Challenges

Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 13, 2008 Moderator: David H. Thomas, HBS faculty... View Details

Keywords: Re: David A. Thomas

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Managing Human Assets: The Groundbreaking Harvard Business School Program

By: Michael Beer, Bert Spector, Paul R. Lawrence and D. Q. Mills

Keywords: Management; Assets; Higher Education; Programs

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November 2007
Article

Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders

By: Joseph L. Bower

This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Planning

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August 2019 (Revised August 2024)
Module Note

Why Aspiring Executives Should Care About Management Theory

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Rory McDonald and Shaye Roseman

Managers often make significant business decisions based on little more than convincing book jacket blurbs. They should hold themselves—and the experts—to a higher standard. View Details

Keywords: Management Theory; Management Practices and Processes; Leadership Development

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15 Sep 2011
News

Why green jobs have been slow to grow

17 Nov 2021

Top Business School Discussion Series: Women in Management

Join Columbia Business School, Chicago Booth School of Business, Harvard Business School, Kellogg School of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business, The Wharton... View Details

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Managing Turbulence

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Even before the global pandemic, businesses and their leaders struggled with the extraordinary challenges of technological change, rapidly evolving consumer tastes, and a reconfiguration of the global economic order. COVID-19 added further turbulence, disrupting... View Details