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The Value of Trading Relationships in Turbulent Times

Our recent work investigates dealers' trading behavior and pricing strategy in the corporate bond market to shed new light on the role of the network of existing relationships among dealers in shaping the transmission of risk and influencing market liquidity. We show... View Details

December 2020 (Revised October 2021)
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Responsive Working at PepsiCo UK (A): Streamlining a Turnaround

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Nancy Boghossian Staples

Facing a significant decline in revenues in 2016, David Gwilliam, Head of Transformation at PepsiCo UK introduced a new way of working (“Responsive Working”), which encompasses a set of work practices and some new team structures. The work practices comprise a set of 9... View Details

Keywords: SLAM Teams; Turnaround; Groups and Teams; Employees; Training; Decision Making; Planning; Performance Improvement; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United Kingdom; Europe

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Timing - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

extra time to go into more depth in the following segments or pursue additional topics. If the discussion has proceeded more slowly than expected, they can draw on questioning, listening and responding techniques to speed up the... View Details

15 May 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Women Find New Path to Work

find out if they really wanted to go back to the work force. If so, in what way? And how could HBS help? In 2001, we introduced a program just before reunion, called Charting Your Course. We invited anyone coming back to reunion to come... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

04 Jun 2008
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Whistle While You Work

also has a famous second career, that of motivational speaker. In that role, Zander has appeared several times at the World Economic Forum in Davos as well as at old-age homes, middle schools, Fortune 500 corporations, and now HBS. Music... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

15 Nov 2021
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Putting Your Corporate Purpose to Work

17 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Why Global Brands Work

Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Ford has finally woken up to what Toyota knew a long View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Auto

31 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do

Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. “But that $100 billion figure astounded us.” Amabile co-wrote a paper on the topic, The Downside of Downtime:The Prevalence and Work Pacing Consequences of Idle View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2019
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Turning Point: One Story at a Time

tears, they were not tears of anger or admonishment—her main fear was that I would have a very difficult and lonely life. The thing about coming out is that it’s not one conversation, one time. I had already told my older sister; in time... View Details

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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

need to make the obligations you have. Can you work from home, at least part of the week? Is there wiggle-room in work hours and scheduling? Can you trade travel for time off?... View Details

01 Mar 2020
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How Coronavirus Is Creating A Watershed Moment For Remote Work

11 Sep 2017
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7 Lessons from My Time at HBS

How many times have you missed an opportunity because you were shy? It happened to me many times both at work and in my personal life. During a sales class at HBS, a Professor... View Details

16 Jun 2015
Blog Post

Military Alumna Reflects on Time at HBS

American Battle Monuments Commission—which manages America’s overseas cemeteries, monuments, and memorials. This was a similar to a board role and as such, I was able to do this while working full time... View Details

21 May 2020
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4 Rules for Identifying Your Life’s Work

02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

sought could include aid from one country to another, the sale of national assets, and the deferral of commitments to allow time for a work out. A sizeable minority, however, took the view that lenders,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Mar 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension

Beth Thoren (MBA 1992) was a teenager in Japan the first time she saw the ocean. “I thought it was the most beautiful and fragile thing I’d ever seen,” she recalls. The experience sparked a lifelong interest in the natural world and led... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2020
News

Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)

She filed away what she learned and took a job working at IBM in downtown New York. “My colleagues were the sons and daughters of firemen, policemen, and this was the first white-collar job in their families,” recalls Burton. “The word... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Leading the way in times of crisis

inspiring to see ordinary people respond with courage and humanity,” recalls Lhota, who worked to get New York’s business community up and running. This battle-tested native New Yorker’s leadership experience also includes managing major... View Details

13 May 2019
News

Making History More Relevant, One Case At A Time

15 Mar 2021
Blog Post

REFLECTIONS ON MY TIME AS BEI DIRECTOR

about business and environment for nearly five decades, and much of this work has been highly influential. But from my perspective, at least three things are very different now compared to when I began five years ago. First, our mission.... View Details

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