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- 14 Jul 2020
- News
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experience from Around the World
Keywords: COVID-19
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
that the traditional manager versus leader argument ("Clark Kent versus Superman," he jokes) tends to undermine the value of management. "There are lots of people who look and act like managers, who have excellent managerial skills, and... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
Screen Time
iStock/ST.art MBA 1982’s Section B had already formed a close-knit group that gathered often in the decades following their time at the School, when the pandemic appeared in the spring of 2020. Unable to enjoy one another’s company in person, the group didn’t miss a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
today, to apologize for bad behavior and, C, because I’ve been so open about it, I also know that a lot of people are kind of watching me and making sure that I’m not heading down that path. As it relates to the office, there was a group... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
and analytics with sound managerial judgment. If you look at the settings in which Max and I have been involved, it’s not that organizations weren’t using data; they were. But the economics and behavioral... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
corporation." The Cologne, Germany, native says she was drawn to the HBS program for its combination of rigorous training and applied research. "My field of interest is the intersection of behavioral economics and the theory of the firm,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
idea is that there are some problems that require collective input and cumulative knowledge-building. Open-source communities are a very powerful way to get that done. We used to think that software had to be developed by lots of engineers working under a strict View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Professors Thompson, Healy Remembered
Professors Lawrence E. Thompson and James J. Healy, who both retired from the faculty in 1981 after long and distinguished tenures at HBS, died in March and June, respectively. Thompson, a tax expert who began his HBS career in 1951, taught courses in finance, control,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Club Leaders Get a Boost from Campus Conference
managerial tasks while greatly enhancing its ability to communicate via the Web with its members and the worldwide alumni network. On day one, Professor V. Kasturi (“Kash”) Rangan led a case discussion on the particular strategy issues... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
It's easy to think that the 2010 disaster at the BP drilling platform Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico was the result of a chain of cascading events beyond the control of anyone to stop. But as the authors of Avoiding Corporate Breakdowns: The Nature and Extent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Pill, and Ingrid Vogel (World Scientific Publishing Co.) Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock-market booms and busts, and social and labor unrest is crucial in making informed managerial decisions. These... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
prayer as a point of distinction for the group, something special." Stuart also drew on principles he considers to be spiritually based to help him handle the sometimes overwhelming challenges he faced as a managerial leader. "I tried my... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams
AwesomenessTV was sold to NBCUniversal, the timing was right. “I was wearing many hats at the studio — from business development to finance to marketing and operations. I learned a lot on the job, but thought an HBS education would elevate the leadership and View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
the long term. Faculty Books Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling by Frank V. Cespedes (Harvard Business Review Press) Although US companies invest almost $900 billion annually in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
New Releases
behavior on the job and how that behavior propels change within the organization are the primary determinants of success. In his introduction, Kotter discusses the difference between leadership and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 23 Aug 2011
- News
New Kid in School
Perold, and Peter Tufano — which he said had a lot to do with his initial career decision to go to Wall Street. “Also, in my first year,” he says, “I was fortunate to have Nitin Nohria as my Organizational Behavior professor. He was... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
emotional reaction that leaves the conscious brain incapable of making a rational response. Understanding the irrationality of human behavior is essential for understanding how people relate - or do not relate - to each other, which is... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
comedy-mystery sketch that poked fun at Professor Gordon Rausser, who taught Managerial Economics. With his permission, several of us Section I-mates performed the sketch for the class. It was well-received but somewhat barbed, and I was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
then his HBS colleague, was already working on a concept he called “predictable surprises,” the collaboration that led to their widely read book by the same title was launched. A distinguished expert on managerial decision-making,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
enjoyed their own versions of success with the mega-retailer. Getting a ground-level view of how two companies achieved those positive outcomes illustrates the story-within-a-story of implementing corporate change. “Achieving that is where macro concepts, micro... View Details