Filter Results
:
(1,988)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,988)
- People (5)
- News (725)
- Research (935)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (16)
- Faculty Publications (183)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,988)
- People (5)
- News (725)
- Research (935)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (16)
- Faculty Publications (183)
- 16 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity
- 09 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages
workers. “There’s a lot of things you can do around the edges,” Bell says. “But I think in the long term, the industry could use a plan for radically changing the way they deliver food to restaurants.” Radical changes may View Details
Keywords:
by Pamela Reynolds
- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
Tips for Applying to Business School
There’s no doubt that applying to business school can be a stressful process. Researching MBA programs, taking the GMAT, writing essays, chasing after recommenders (often while also trying View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
was such a nice person. People would come in and say, Mr. Estes, my mama just died and I don’t know what to do. We don’t have no insurance and we don’t have no graves or anything like that. In the area that we’re in, it’s poverty. And my...
View Details
The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million
The Sales Acceleration Formula provides a scalable, predictable approach to growing revenue and building a winning sales team. Everyone wants to build the next $100 million business and author Mark Roberge has actually done it using a unique methodology... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
preclude considering the option of knocking down and starting all over again if that's what is best for the business ... (but) Kaplan & Foster [authors of the book] seem to be recommending destruction...
View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 15 Feb 2022
- Book
When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
be more rewarding. The book weaves in the stories of high-achieving musicians, philosophers, religious leaders, scientists, and Olympic athletes—some who gracefully jumped to the second curve and others who...
View Details
Keywords:
by Avery Forman
- 09 Nov 2023
- HBS Case
What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?
impervious to mental health struggles. What can be done to better support people at the top? Cohen: This is a great point. There was a paper...
View Details
- 10 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
8 Tips to Help You Prepare for the Case Method
have 2-3 cases a day. Three case days can be gruelling but if you have multiple three case days back to back, then just know that the Chao Center serves coffee until 11:00 PM. 7. Always Carry Your Cases...
View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Demotivate Your Best Employees
awards are more effective when they recognize good behavior in the past, rather than behavior going forward. Plus awards for past performance aren't likely to see as much gaming, he says. "It's motivational View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
If we value achievement and adopt celebrity standards, we will certainly fall victim to our own excess. Nothing will be enough, and success will never satisfy. If we're high achievers, we may View Details
Keywords:
by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- May 2020 (Revised January 2022)
- Case
Michael Ku and Global Clinical Supply at Pfizer Inc.: Bringing Hope to Patients (A)
By: Linda A. Hill, Allison J. Wigen and Emily Tedards
Michael Ku joined Pfizer in 2011, after the company had undergone three large-scale mergers and acquisitions. His mission was to drive the digital transformation of the company’s clinical supply chain, but he knew he had to start with the culture. Over the next eight...
View Details
Keywords:
Innovation;
Digital;
Change;
Culture;
Management;
Talent;
Pharmaceutical Companies;
Customer-centricity;
Collaboration;
Cross-functional Management;
Purpose;
Leadership;
Innovation and Invention;
Transformation;
Organizational Culture;
Change Management;
Talent and Talent Management;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Supply Chain;
Decision Making;
Mission and Purpose
Hill, Linda A., Allison J. Wigen, and Emily Tedards. "Michael Ku and Global Clinical Supply at Pfizer Inc.: Bringing Hope to Patients (A)." Harvard Business School Case 420-108, May 2020. (Revised January 2022.)
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Get to Know Class Day Speaker Adán Acevedo
sectors, and work towards a career in content acquisition. With technology and AI changing how media is consumed and created, he wants to ensure that it is being done ethically...
View Details
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
caution that it’s a mistake to dwell on the familiar for too long, because the real audience is looking for “what is new, fresh, and unique.” 7. Focus on the job to be View Details
Keywords:
by Lane Lambert
- 16 May 2023
- HBS Case
How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’
Instead, when the company wouldn’t pay them for their lunch hour, they intentionally scheduled deliveries to show up midday, when there wasn’t anyone working to receive them, sabotaging the project. “Top...
View Details
Keywords:
by Avery Forman
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
Many cases discussed by MBAs require students to project themselves into CEO-level situations that could be a number of years away. The opposite is true of “Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC,” which...
View Details
- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't
I think, rather than asking what type of person is going to give, the more helpful question is to ask what can be done View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
references can be helpful, but only if done correctly. “This is something we continue to do, even with mid-level hires in mid-stage companies when the founder feels like a...
View Details
Keywords:
by Julia Austin
- Article
The Decreasing Value of Our Research to Management Education
By: Jone L. Pearce and Laura Huang
For centuries we have expected the best teachers also to be scholars. The practice of scholarship should do more than make scholars more humble teachers; scholarship is expected to be more than an activity done for its own sake. Here we present evidence that our...
View Details
Pearce, Jone L., and Laura Huang. "The Decreasing Value of Our Research to Management Education." Academy of Management Learning & Education 11, no. 2 (June 2012): 247–262.
- 27 May 2020
- News
Prepare to Exit
the synergies Wall Street was expecting,” he writes in a LinkedIn post called, “I Got Laid off and I’m Done Sugar-coating It.” When it happened to him, Tran felt the sting. It took him weeks View Details