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Drug & Alcohol Policy | About
synthetically-produced drugs often have unpredictable emotional and physical side effects that constitute an extreme health hazard. Students, faculty, and staff should also weigh the seriousness of potential loss of View Details
- 02 Aug 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?
functions and levels in the organization. Why isn’t the human resource function dealing with it? Is HR too buried in operating details, recruiting, and training to be concerned about engagement? Are...
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by James Heskett
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
remote work tech tools. Find a colleague who has used Slack and Zoom and set up a tutorial and get a sense of how to use these tools and what their functionality is like. Hopefully the virus will go away soon, but those tools will stay...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
required three kinds of specialists: business managers, country managers, and functional managers, with a group of senior executives to coordinate the efforts of the specialists. In 2003, as globalization has become a much more pressing...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
made a series of upward and lateral moves that entailed a number of tough assignments across many functional areas. Beginning as the director of regional operations in New England, this manager had profit and View Details
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by Linda Hill
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
Economic Perspectives, the authors find that Smith's insights from 1759 can contribute to modern thinking on everything from our fascination with celebrity to the theory of loss aversion. In fact, says Ashraf, Moral Sentiments presages...
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by Ann Cullen
- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
the highest rates of job loss since the Great Depression,” says co-author Raymond Kluender, an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. “At the same time, we saw a decline in consumer...
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by Rachel Layne
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
one way or another, grieving. According to David Kessler, an author and grief expert quoted in a recent HBR article, “The loss of normalcy; the fear of economic toll; the loss of connection. This is hitting...
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- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
Firestone's bottom-up capital budgeting process functioned flawlessly, quickly converting Ford and General Motors' demands into concrete commitments to radial production capacity. In a November 1972 Executive Committee meeting,...
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- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
uncertainties of the future and the strains of the present." Acknowledge the feelings. When sharing difficult news—or even beginning an ordinary staff meeting, some days—acknowledge the uncertainties of the future and the strains of the present. Likewise, when team...
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- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
Japanese company's equity. It then concentrated on enhancing its functional capabilities in product development, production, and marketing. These learned capabilities permitted it to enter related electronic commercial, industrial, and...
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- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
large operating losses into positive operating margins, while achieving levels of patient care and satisfaction that were ranked best in their category. Having constructed the high-level strategy map and scorecard, leaders cascade the...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
to “flatten the curve” and reduce the number of bankruptcy filings, at least by enough to allow the existing system to function effectively. Massive financial support available to distressed businesses under the CARES Act and various...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’ CEOs of global companies increasingly mandate that their employees learn English. The problem: these workers can experience a loss of status and believe they aren’t as effective in...
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- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Gaining Ground on ALS
Bucket Challenge to support the Phase 3 trial of a promising investigational drug that is designed to slow the loss of lung function and muscle strength in patients with ALS. “Clinical trials cost tens to...
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- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
Summing Up September 11 was no "tipping point" for acceleration in the loss of privacy. That's the conclusion to be drawn from responses to this month's column. Rather the loss of privacy is a...
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by James Heskett
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
Questions To Be Answered: What are the best techniques for fostering innovation in multicultural teams? I want my functional experts to influence high-level strategy. How can managers get the best thinking out of support staff? What role...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
have long understood that private markets for risk don't always function adequately on their own, Moss said, adding that "involving the federal government in the management of terror-related risks would in no way constitute a radical...
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- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
their three college-aged children. “Everything was going along just great,” Sontag recalls. “Then came the evening of June 24, 1994, and our entire earth came apart.” That night, Susan had a stroke that left her with short-term memory View Details
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April White
- 07 Jan 2022
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Learning to Fight
Courtesy Rick Sontag In 1994, Rick Sontag’s (MBA 1968) wife, Susan, was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. Thanks to an experimental treatment, Susan survived, though she continues to experience significant loss of cognitive View Details