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Leadership Fellows
expertise to roles where they produce immediate results and build long-term capacity within the organization while gaining exposure to senior leaders within the sector. Hear from Leadership Fellow students and organization participants...
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Courses | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Accountability (LCA) In this course, students learn about the complex responsibilities facing business leaders today. Through cases about difficult managerial decisions, the course examines the legal, ethical, and economic...
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
requirements are changing, and the changes have been accelerated by technology, the pandemic, rising interest rates, and inflation. But the managerial and resource-allocation implications of these developments for start-ups and...
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Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs ( Princeton University Press, October 2002)
By: Rakesh Khurana
In this book, I argue that the external CEO labor market was born in a burst of rhetoric about wresting control of corporations away from a group of self-interested insiders, as senior managers in the era of managerial capitalism had come to be portrayed. The rationale...
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- 2020
- Book
Management Accounting: Information for Decision Making
By: Anthony A. Atkinson, Robert S. Kaplan, Ella Mae Matsumura and S. Mark Young
An approach to management accounting from the perspective of a business manager.
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Atkinson, Anthony A., Robert S. Kaplan, Ella Mae Matsumura, and S. Mark Young. Management Accounting: Information for Decision Making. 7th ed. Cambridge Business Publishers, 2020.
- November 2021 (Revised November 2023)
- Background Note
Legal Analysis: Fiduciary Duties for Managers
By: J.S. Nelson and Trevor Fetter
This note describes the essential legal responsibilities of managers and company directors toward investors and other parties. These include basic fiduciary duties of loyalty, obedience, good faith and care, as well as duties that relate to...
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Nelson, J.S., and Trevor Fetter. "Legal Analysis: Fiduciary Duties for Managers." Harvard Business School Background Note 322-073, November 2021. (Revised November 2023.)
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
development programs have entered a period of disruption catalyzed by the digitalization of content, connectivity, and communication and are driven by renewed demand for high-level executive and managerial skills. Unlike other segments of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
Decentralize? Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy....
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Martha Lagace
- October 1995 (Revised September 2021)
- Case
Cambridge Consulting Group: Bob Anderson
By: Jay W. Lorsch and John J. Gabarro
Describes the situation facing the head of a rapidly growing industry-focused group within a consulting company. Highlights the dilemmas of being a "producing manager" (i.e., a professional who has both individual production as well as management responsibilities)....
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Lorsch, Jay W., and John J. Gabarro. "Cambridge Consulting Group: Bob Anderson." Harvard Business School Case 496-023, October 1995. (Revised September 2021.)
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
included some mention of peddlers and drummers in his 1977 book, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. He discussed them, though only briefly, within the larger context of the rise of mass distribution and mass...
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- 05 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast
Companies vying to fill entry-level roles should take a page from AT&T and American Express and offer aggressive advancement opportunities to workers without college degrees to help expand the talent pool, says a new report. According...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Publications August 2013 The Industrial Policy Revolution I: The Role of Government Beyond Ideology Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal By: Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton Abstract—In this paper we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- August 1999 (Revised June 2008)
- Case
Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty
Eighteen months after launching Nickelodeon Latin America, general manager Taran Swan must leave the company's Miami headquarters for her New York home because of complications with her pregnancy. Unable to travel for at least the next six months, Swan must decide how...
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Selection and Staffing;
Leadership Style;
Managerial Roles;
Organizational Culture;
Groups and Teams
Hill, Linda A., and Kristin Doughty. "Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (A)." Harvard Business School Case 400-036, August 1999. (Revised June 2008.)
- 2011
- Book
The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steve J. Kramer
The most effective managers have the ability to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives-consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine...
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Creativity;
Interpersonal Communication;
Employee Relationship Management;
Leadership;
Performance Effectiveness;
Emotions;
Motivation and Incentives;
Groups and Teams;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Leadership;
Working Conditions;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Skills;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Productivity;
Attitudes;
Behavior;
Happiness;
Perception;
Trust;
Time Management;
Resource Allocation;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Managerial Roles
Amabile, Teresa M., and Steve J. Kramer. The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work. Harvard Business Review Press, 2011.
- November 1993 (Revised September 2018)
- Case
Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International (A)
By: Linda Hill and Katherine Seger Weber
Explores the roles of CEO Rudi Gassner and the 9-person executive committee in leading BMG International. BMG International is the international music subsidiary of Bertlesmann, a German company that is the second-largest media conglomerate in the world. Describes a...
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Managerial Roles;
Management Teams;
Decision Making;
Business Plan;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Global Strategy;
Leadership Style;
Organizational Culture;
Business Subsidiaries;
Business Conglomerates;
Cost Management;
Change Management;
Music Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Germany
Hill, Linda, and Katherine Seger Weber. "Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International (A)." Harvard Business School Case 494-055, November 1993. (Revised September 2018.)
- 2020
- Book
Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear But Are Rarely Told
By: David G. Fubini
Hidden Truths delivers profound and rarely discussed insights about C-suite jobs that provide aspiring leaders with practical, new skills that will equip them for the immense challenges of their desired jobs. Through 14 illuminating chapters, accomplished...
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Fubini, David G. Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear But Are Rarely Told. Wiley, 2020.
- 26 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener
basic social capabilities are perceived to play a key role for the success of complex and information intensive organizations. It is unclear, however, whether the supply of social skills in the managerial...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
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Loan Reduction - Entrepreneurship
service-based for-profit ventures, both digital and physical. Products may include software, hardware, consumer goods, commercialized technology, etc. The program does not support professional services (e.g. consulting, advisory practices, funds, coaching, etc.)....
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Systems (4) Management Teams (51) Management (337) Managerial Roles (6) Market Design (7) Market Entry and Exit (4) Market Participation (1) Market Platforms (23) Market Timing (1) Market Transactions (3)...
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- July 2010 (Revised June 2016)
- Case
Erik Peterson at Biometra (A)
By: John J. Gabarro, Thomas DeLong and Jevan Soo
Describes the problems facing a recent MBA graduate in his job as general manager of a medical device company owned by a parent corporation. Raises issues of corporate divisional relationships and the difficulties facing an inexperienced manager who seems to be...
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Business Subsidiaries;
Leadership;
Managerial Roles;
Product Launch;
Organizational Structure;
Problems and Challenges;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Gabarro, John J., Thomas DeLong, and Jevan Soo. "Erik Peterson at Biometra (A)." Harvard Business School Case 411-031, July 2010. (Revised June 2016.)