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GMP Reinvents the Experience by Going Virtual

The General Management Program (GMP) is about shaping the future of outstanding leaders. During these extraordinary times you're facing extraordinary challenges, and GMP will provide the skills you need now... View Details
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Relational Contracts and Organizational Capabilities

By: R. Gibbons and R. Henderson
A large literature identifies unique organizational capabilities as a potent source of competitive advantage, yet our knowledge of why capabilities fail to diffuse more rapidly-particularly in situations in which competitors apparently have strong incentives to adopt... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Contracts; Competency and Skills; Relationships; Complexity
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  • November 2008 (Revised January 2011)
  • Exercise

Breaking Through Action Plan

By: David A. Thomas and Karen J. Watai
The "Breaking Through Action Plan" is a developmental tool based on the book, Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America by David A. Thomas and John J. Gabarro. The Action Plan was originally designed as part of a facilitated session but... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Power and Influence; Trust
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  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

HBS and Stanford in Online Collaboration

His counterpart at Stanford Business School, Dean Robert Joss, added, "The worldwide need for management skills has never been greater, and the demand for innovative approaches to View Details
Keywords: HBS Interactive; e-learning; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Redefining Health Care

diagnosis right saves a lot of wasted and unnecessary treatment, so costs go down. Avoiding errors reduces costs. More skilled or less invasive surgery allows the patient to go home quicker, and costs go down. The lowest costs of all... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • 16 Apr 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

Sloan School of Management, Harvard Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, the University of South Africa, and the Iran Center for Management Studies. His books on teaching, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education
  • 04 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

While managers feared that all the top talent would leave, instead Recruit grew to become a $20 billion tech company (roughly the equivalent of Salesforce) that employs 50,000 people globally. They have created a suite of products... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Redefining Success: Women & Work.

managers are making strides toward finding new career models that better suit their reality. If not the "perfect answer" to the parenting/ career dichotomy, their approach at least validates their dual desire to care for their families... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 25 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

skills building boot camp, a global immersion field study, and a team-based entrepreneurial project designed to integrate knowledge from the first year curriculum—FIELD teaches students that what they have learned about business in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

A Force for Good

financial ones. To do so, we need to support managers who want to learn how to fulfill both goals.” —Julie Battilana, Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, HBS; Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation, Harvard... View Details
  • January–February 2025
  • Article

Location-Specificity and Relocation Incentive Programs for Remote Workers

By: Thomaz Teodorovicz, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Evan Starr
The precipitous growth of remote work has given rise to a new phenomenon: the emergence of relocation incentive programs that localities use to compete for the physical presence of remote workers. Remote workers with high general human capital may create value for... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Motivation and Incentives; Geographic Location; Talent and Talent Management; Human Capital; Tulsa
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Use Purpose to Transform Your Workplace

By: Leena Nair, Nick Dalton, Patrick Hull and William Kerr
Is keeping pace with the future of work incompatible with using purpose to guide the organization? Unilever is stretching its well-known commitment to purpose for a new and daunting challenge—the transformation of its workforce of more than 149,000 employees. Its... View Details
Keywords: Future Of Work; Purpose; Unilever; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Talent and Talent Management; Transition; Decision Making; Transformation
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  • 02 Feb 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

purpose itself evolutionary? Does it change as organizations grow? Does it change from one generation of management to the next? How can it be made as tangible to employees as profit? Can we aspire to a strong sense of "know... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Profile

Bruce Gago

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I came to HBS with a background exclusively in real estate finance, and I knew I needed to gain a broad set of managerial and entrepreneurial skills in order to become more successful... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Real Estate; Services
  • 13 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

skills do we need to teach managers of such businesses? Where you have massive uncertainty, you can't rely on a lot of the traditional tools of analysis to support decision making. But, once we get outside... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology
  • January 16, 2023
  • Article

40 Ideas to Shake Up Your Hiring Process

By: Joseph Fuller, Nithya Vaduganathan, Allison Bailey and Manjari Raman
Many companies today are struggling to hire and retain talent, but more often than not the problem is self-inflicted: They’re simply not using a broad enough array of tools, sometimes because they don’t even know the tools exist. In this article, the authors list 40... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Retention; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Global Talent and U.S. Immigration Policy

By: William R. Kerr
Talent is a critical resource for today’s knowledge economy. The United States has benefited substantially from high-skilled migration since the 1970s, especially with respect to innovation and entrepreneurship. This chapter reviews data on these immigrant... View Details
Keywords: Global Talent Flows; Immigration; Policy; Talent and Talent Management; Global Range; United States
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  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Inside the Partnership

savvy and organizational skills to the man Wall Street loved to hate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as detailed in this excerpt from the chapter “The Long Road Back.” Having tasted politics in 1932 by working for Franklin D. Roosevelt... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • Web

Professor Julie Boatright Wilson, Harvard Kennedy School Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details
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Barry Puritz Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details