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29 Feb 2016
HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

Weiss, a former chief of staff for the mayor of Boston, who now teaches a course at HBS on public entrepreneurship. Hard sell Weiss initially approached Bigbelly looking for a non-technology case about how... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

04 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

When does a star performer become a corporate nightmare? And what can you do about it? HBS Working Knowledge's Mallory Stark conducted this e-mail interview with Morten Hansen.Stark: Can you describe what you mean by "lone... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

21 Mar 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)

challenges. They have insights that no one else has. They also bring a certain energy to the room—everyone is more on their toes.” Click to watch. The executive education program has been offered twice—once each spring starting in 2014—and the next session will be held... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports; Media & Broadcasting; Education

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

at why some hybrid organizations succeed in achieving social success, while others fail. Click Here In this video, HBS professor Julie Battilana discusses the challenges of managing the duel missions of a hybrid organization. The secret... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 May 2020
In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

your non-tangible assets to show appreciation, which might be as mundane as providing staff with recreational opportunities to relieve stress. Showing that you care can sometimes make a critical difference in the organization’s ability to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

21 Mar 2016
HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

reviews unless you start doing things that are very, very fuzzy. For example, some hotels when you check out they ask how your experience was. And if you said, “Oh it was amazing, I loved it, the staff are so good,” then they give you a... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel

25 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

project has surveyed HBS alumni and other business leaders to assess perceptions about which aspects of the country, such as the economy or education, they see as thriving and which as lacking. The survey results consistently showed that... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. The U.S. healthcare... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

assistant professor at Harvard Business School; Patrick Rooney, an HBS research associate; and Jonathan Smith, a policy research scientist at The College Board. “The effects we see for widely covered scandals are large, which speaks to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

done to fix it—in the following interview, first published in Harvard magazine's Can America Compete? report. “That great American job machine started sputtering around 2000” Porter and Rivkin lead the School's U.S. Competitiveness Project, which collects expertise and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

work, no matter where they are. "Let's face it," writes HBS Professor Leslie Perlow. "When that phone buzzes, few of us have the mental fortitude to ignore it." In her new book, Sleeping With Your Smartphone, Perlow... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

benefiting small business Karen Mills, Former administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and now a senior fellow at HBS and at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. Having a... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

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