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Breaking the Code of Change
In a hyper-competitive business environment in which investors expect profits and a return on their investment, senior executives are faced with a dilemma, how to meet investor expectations without destroying intangible assets such employee commitment and team-work. In... View Details
- Teaching Interest
Overview
Professor Mukunda teaches Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD.) This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise.
The first modules examine teams, individuals, and networks in the context... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Book
Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer
desperate to get the toy fixed. “At any other store, they would have been directed to the toy aisle to buy a replacement,” says Hubert Joly, Best Buy’s former chairman and CEO, who is now a senior lecturer of business administration at... View Details
Michael Beer
MICHAEL BEER
Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details
- July 2020
- Article
Yiqing xia zhongguo qiye de duice xuanze [Lessons from Chinese Companies' Response to COVID-19]
By: Das Narayandas, Vinay Hebar and Liangliang Li
China was weeks ahead of the rest of the world in dealing with the pandemic and its fallout. To understand what's next, the authors conducted a series of 20 in-depth, in-person interviews, as well as a large-scale survey of more than 350 senior executives to ascertain... View Details
Keywords: Management; Innovation and Management; Health Pandemics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Asia; China
Narayandas, Das, Vinay Hebar, and Liangliang Li. "Yiqing xia zhongguo qiye de duice xuanze [Lessons from Chinese Companies' Response to COVID-19]." Hafo shang ye ping lun [Harvard Business Review, Chinese edition] (July 2020): 118–125. (Also appeared online, in English, at Harvard Business Review, June 5, 2020.)
- June 2015
- Article
You Need an Innovation Strategy
By: Gary P. Pisano
Why is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to articulate an innovation strategy that aligns innovation efforts with the overall business strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy
Pisano, Gary P. "You Need an Innovation Strategy." Harvard Business Review 93, no. 6 (June 2015): 44–54.
- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
The COVID-19 pandemic made remote work more the norm than the exception, and now many companies are struggling to map out a hybrid plan that both managers and employees can embrace long term. With return-to-work policies in flux, this is “a fragile period” in which... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Jun 2023
- Op-Ed
Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't
large organization or can be developed by being given responsibility for a domestic or international expansion effort, merger, or acquisition. Organizations need both generalists and specialists To create T-shaped leaders at scale, the... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson
- 19 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition
led me to pursue opportunities in the investment and technology sectors while at HBS. During the recruiting process with Shell, I had the opportunity to interact with senior leaders and learn about the... View Details
Sandra J. Sucher
Sandra Sucher, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, is an internationally recognized trust researcher. The Power of Trust, her third book, is based on two decades of global research on how companies build stakeholder trust and how,... View Details
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
Pressure to increase gender diversity in C-suites is so intense that companies are trying to draw women candidates with higher salary offers, a phenomenon that is closing the gender pay gap among senior executives, research shows. Female... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 11 Feb 2014
- News
Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life
- June 2001 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
Boston Lyric Opera
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Dennis Campbell
The Boston Lyric Opera was the fastest growing opera company in North America during the 1990s. Having successfully completed a move to a larger facility in 1999, the board and general director recognize the need to develop a formal strategic planning and governance... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Strategic Planning; Arts; Growth and Development Strategy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Fine Arts Industry; Massachusetts
Kaplan, Robert S., and Dennis Campbell. "Boston Lyric Opera." Harvard Business School Case 101-111, June 2001. (Revised July 2001.)
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
The explosion of "computer-to-computer" communication in the twenty-first century is triggering a growth phase for IT consultants. Harvard Business School professor Richard Nolan and HBS Interactive Senior Vice President Larry... View Details
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
Joseph L. Bower
JOSEPH L. BOWER, Donald K. David Professor Emeritus, has been a leader in general management at Harvard Business School for 51 years. He also served on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School during its first decade. He has served in many administrative roles... View Details
- March 2014
- Article
Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life
By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
Work/life balance is at best an elusive ideal and at worst a complete myth, today's senior executives will tell you. But by making deliberate choices about which opportunities they'll pursue and which they'll decline, rather than simply reacting to emergencies, leaders... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams. "Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 3 (March 2014): 58–66.
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
companies, and, more often than not, business leaders remain silent on the issue. That cloak of silence from the top tends to enfold all employees. Ellis Cose, an author of several books about race and public policy, writes that young... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman