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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
compelling vision. Great leaders help people get in touch with their own aspirations and then will help them forge those aspirations into a personal vision." Regarding communication: "Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly View Details
Keywords: Management
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
In a remote village in the Mexican state of Chiapas, 13 women gather in an open-air community space. Each has arrived at their weekly meeting with a small deposit for El Banco—“the bank”—as the women have named the savings club they’ve formed with the assistance of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
Colleen Ammerman, director of the Gender Initiative at HBS. And yet it hasn’t been thoroughly studied in the context of organizational behavior and social psychology. But with more scholars investigating the View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
Illustration by Valerie Chiang Illustration by Valerie Chiang In many states, you’re required by law to get your car inspected annually, and if there’s something wrong, you get the car serviced, says Professor Leslie Perlow. But how many of us bring that level of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
pervasive and least-understood fail point that threatens to kneecap even the best-laid scaling plan: organizational friction. Bier reveals why organizational frictions take hold as you grow and how they slow... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
information technology and management, or organizational behavior. That broad range of choices, coupled with the satisfaction of conducting research in the field, generates an extraordinary demand for the handful of available places each... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
Your personal accountability is laid on the line, and the anxiety level is likely to be quite high, as is the amount of social reinforcement for doing well. How much of imprinting can be attributed to the relationships that are formed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Derek Bouchard-Hall (MBA 2004)
strategic form of endurance competition. It’s bit of a cliché, but the most memorable moment was at the starting line at the Sydney Olympics, as the clock beeped down to the start of the race. I always knew there was going to be something... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Scott Clark
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
evidence that links organizational success or failure to “primal leadership.” They argue that a leader’s emotions are contagious and must resonate energy and enthusiasm if an organization is to thrive. Cultivating Communities of Practice:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Talent: The Best Employee Perk?
alongside them,’ wrote Patty McCord, the company’s chief talent officer from 1998 to 2012. ‘Excellent colleagues trump everything else.’ Netflix hires ‘fully formed adults,’ self-sufficient people “who feel responsible for the company,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
New Releases
creative departure from the current wisdom, Bradach focuses on a powerful organizational arrangement he identifies as the "plural form"; that is, chains composed of both company-owned and franchise units. Plural View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
by Assistant Professor Myra Hart. Working in self-selected teams, students may now spend up to a year on projects that explore organizational problem solving, industry or country analysis, or business plan development. A new field study... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
into three interrelated parts. First, students learn about the legal, ethical, and economic responsibilities of companies and their leaders. Next, they look at organizational systems and governance structures that can foster responsible... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a degree in chemical engineering, believes SA presidents must be able to form a bridge linking students with faculty and administrators. “Part of it is being able to match student requests... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
Ferracone replies, “I think so. A good leader is accountable for the performance of the organization and stands up to it in every respect, including with his or her compensation. If a leader’s compensation is excessive relative to the market for CEOs, then that’s a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
Managing Across Borders by Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal (Harvard Business School Press) A decade ago HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett and London Business School professor Sumantra Ghoshal proposed a revolutionary new View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
resources -- what we call social capital." Organizational behaviorists have known for years that third-party endorsements are critical to a young firm's success. Higgins and Gulati wanted to understand the origins and nature of these... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
of work in their lives. And Richard Whiteley observes that corporations, too, are seeing things differently. "Previous activities that have been intended to create organizational vision and purpose have indeed View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
deliver everyday tangible results. To that end, Meyer, deputy director general for The Private Office, has guided Mbeki's merger of the president and deputy president offices to form the Office of the Presidency. The new entity, which... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker