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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Developing leaders who can handle complex business decisions
Professor William A. Sahlman (MBA 1975, PhDBE 1982) talks about case discussions and the transformative experience for students at Harvard Business School. (Published April 2014)
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- 24 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
My Classroom Experience During Harvard Business School’s Summer Venture in Management Program
Mobilizing Capital in Africa" case), I reflected upon my experiences being the grandson of an African political revolutionary and giving two TED talks by the age of 20 to...
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- September 2019
- Teaching Note
Gun Safety in America: Three Leaders Propose Innovative Solutions
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joseph Paul
This is a teaching note to the original case: Gun violence was a significant problem in America. Three Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellows Christy Wood, Russell Sternlicht, and Gareth Glaser each decided to do something about gun safety. They each used...
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Gun Violence;
Guns;
Advanced Leadership;
Advanced Leadership Initiative;
Innovation;
Innovation & Entrepreneurship;
Social Change;
Social Responsibility;
Leadership;
Change Management;
Experience and Expertise;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Values and Beliefs;
Policy;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Leading Change;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Social Issues;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
United States
- 25 Jul 2023
- News
Why Leaders with Big Egos Worry Wesfarmers CEO Rob Scott
In a recent profile in the Australian Financial Review, Rob Scott (AMP 179, 2010), CEO of Australian conglomerate Wesfarmers, discussed his career path and management philosophy. “I actually think that one of the biggest dangers in leadership is ego and hubris,” Scott,...
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Generative AI for Business Leaders - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Generative AI for Business Leaders Course Number 1301 Professor Suraj Srinivasan Spring; Q3; 1.5 creditsProjectQualifies for Management Science Track Credit Course Overview Generative AI (GenAI) stands at the forefront...
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- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
colleagues studied how experts judged contest entries and found that the greater an evaluator’s expertise, the more likely they were to nix less feasible proposals in favor of safer bets. “Who we select to do our evaluations and to pick...
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- 28 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration
New research sheds light on implications of using politically correct and incorrect speech and identifies five techniques to increase persuasiveness and diffuse conflict. Insights from two recent studies in an emerging field—the...
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by Kristen Senz
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
Live, on how to design an organizational experiment. They started by making sure the participants understood the practical importance of theory. “Behind every massive experiment there’s a theory,” Bernstein...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Research Summary
Mutiny in the Workplace: When Leaders Are Challenged From Within
My dissertation focuses on the rarely studied phenomenon of mutiny in organizations. Based on three recent cases of mutiny in professional organizations, I examine the process by which employee dissatisfaction transforms into collective mobilization... View Details
- July 2023
- Article
So, Who Likes You? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
By: Ravi Bapna, Edward McFowland III, Probal Mojumder, Jui Ramaprasad and Akhmed Umyarov
With one-third of marriages in the United States beginning online, online dating platforms have become important curators of the modern social fabric. Prior work on online dating has elicited two critical frictions in the heterosexual dating market. Women, governed by...
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Online Dating;
Internet and the Web;
Analytics and Data Science;
Gender;
Emotions;
Social and Collaborative Networks
Bapna, Ravi, Edward McFowland III, Probal Mojumder, Jui Ramaprasad, and Akhmed Umyarov. "So, Who Likes You? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment." Management Science 69, no. 7 (July 2023): 3939–3957.
- 29 Mar 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a Field Experiment
- 13 May 2021
- Blog Post
Zhalisa Clarke’s Sabbatical Story: Tech leader turned healer
went to Harvard Business School. Her experience at HBS enabled Zhalisa to step back, reflect, and strategize on what career path and location she felt was a better fit. After graduation, she set off to San Francisco to work in tech....
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- 14 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Future Leaders Dive into the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
to a host of entrepreneurship resources, including HBS’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Harvard Innovation Labs; the chance to experience five design cycles; and the opportunity to tap into...
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- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
policy issues, but whether business leaders are expressing enough “voice” about a matter that affects their talent pool as well as the overall growth rate of the US economy. The question arises at a time...
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by James Heskett
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
will experience food insecurity due to the pandemic, and a Brookings Institution analysis shows two in five households with mothers and children under the age of 12 unable to afford enough food. COVID-19...
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- 2017
- Article
The Energizing Nature of Work Engagement: Toward a New Need-Based Theory of Work Motivation
By: Paul Green, Eli Finkel, Grainne Fitzsimons and Francesca Gino
We present theory suggesting that experiences at work that meet employees’ expectations of need fulfillment drive work engagement. Employees have needs (e.g., a desire to be authentic) and they also have expectations for how their job or their organization will fulfill...
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Needs;
Motivation;
Work Engagement;
Disengagement;
Authenticity;
Self-Expression;
Employees;
Motivation and Incentives;
Behavior;
Human Needs
Green, Paul, Eli Finkel, Grainne Fitzsimons, and Francesca Gino. "The Energizing Nature of Work Engagement: Toward a New Need-Based Theory of Work Motivation." Research in Organizational Behavior 37 (2017): 1–18.
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Act Like a Scientist: Great Leaders Challenge Assumptions, Run Experiments, and Follow the Evidence
By: Stefan Thomke and Gary W. Loveman
Though they’ve been warned for decades about the dangers of overrelying on gut instinct and personal experience, managers keep failing to critically examine—much less challenge—the ideas their decisions are based on. To correct this problem they need to think and act...
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Thomke, Stefan, and Gary W. Loveman. "Act Like a Scientist: Great Leaders Challenge Assumptions, Run Experiments, and Follow the Evidence." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 3 (May–June 2022): 120–129.
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader
pace of change. Attempting Too Much It is important for the new leader to experiment to discover what works and what doesn't. But too much experimentation can deprive promise...
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by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins
- 17 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Video Blog: My Experience as a Veteran in the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
and policy. I think the GI Bill was a very powerful thing and I know I wanted to use all three years of that. And so I really wanted a place that I could grow, that I could develop, and ultimately, I wrote my essay about how I wanted to...
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