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  • 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

    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
    • 26 Apr 2024
    • HBS Case

    Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

    Leaders intent on boosting team performance could learn from the old-school, military-style approach of Deion Sanders, a former star athlete and now the unorthodox coach behind the revival of two college football teams. “When I’m teaching... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports

      David G. Fubini

      David G. Fubini is a Senior Lecturer in the Organizational Behavior Unit and leader of the Leading Professional Services Firm and Mergers & Acquisitions Programs for Harvard Business School’s Executive Education. His MBA teaching has concentrated on teaching the... View Details

      • 2023
      • Chapter

      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
      Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Management Teams
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      • 28 Sep 2020
      • News

      How the Former CEO & Chairman of Best Buy, Hubert Joly, Transformed the Company

      • 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

      • 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
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      • 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
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        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

        • 31 May 2019
        • News

        Americans feel a burden to future-proof their jobs, while the French are relying on government

        • 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
        Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology
        • 11 Feb 2014
        • News

        Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life

        • 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
        • 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
        • 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
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        • 30 Nov 2021
        • In Practice

        What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

        The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
        Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

          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

          Keywords: apparel; banking; brokerage; clothing; fashion; financial services; furniture; hotels ＆ motels; retail financial services; retailing; service industry
          • 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
          Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting
          • 31 Mar 2022
          • Op-Ed

          Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services

          But leaders should be cautious about ending up somewhere in between, suffering the costs of not formalizing appropriately without gaining from scale advantages. These are the firms that risk sinking in the “Bermuda Triangle.” A version of... View Details
          Keywords: by Ashish Nanda