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- 15 Oct 2020
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IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
Over the past few decades, information technology jobs worked their way into the popular imagination as among the most stable, fast-rising, and lucrative ways to make a living, bolstered in the 1990s by the dot-com boom. What astronauts... View Details
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
borrowing to the way preschoolers play. “Put aside your differences, and, like kids, find something that works,” he says. 3. Know when to ignore the data At a time when data analytics seem to be essential for decision-making, McDonald... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector
average it led to 15 new business partners and 6.5 more devices in the short term, or about 6 years, Greenstein says. Viewed another way, firms that became more open experienced a 37 percent increase in new business partners—and each 10... View Details
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Online Management Course | HBS Online
scenarios, and look at the management processes within each—what worked and what didn't—provided a unique method of learning, and incomparable to other course offerings available. Monica Higgins Account Director at Hollywood Agency... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
job."1 It was remarkable that the corporate image of a company whose brands were so well known, and whose operations were so widespread, was so indistinct. There were times between the 1960s and 1990 when Unilever appeared amorphous.... View Details
- 31 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher
and large retailers including Walmart and Target. Osher had taken for granted from the start that SpinBrush would be copied quickly by other companies. As a result of that planning he had designed Dr. John's to work on a View Details
- 28 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Profit Power of Corporate Culture
Corporate culture is often thought of as a hard-to-define, or soft concept in management circles. Soft not in the sense that it isn't important—most CEOs will tell you that their ability to inculcate values and mission into the DNA of a firm is among the most important... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Common Strategy Mistakes
"Michael Porter didn't get to be a giant in the field of competition and strategy by hunting small game." Joan Magretta begins her new book on Harvard Business School's Michael Porter's work by noting that, from the start of his... View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
Fox, the Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, analyzes efforts since the Kennedy administration to reform defense spending on aircraft, ships, submarines, tanks, missiles, satellites and other major weapons systems. The text is also available as a... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
Black venture capital and growth investors have a much harder time getting funding than white investors, because—despite efforts to bring more racial diversity to financial services—private equity’s gatekeepers remain mostly white,... View Details
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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting
Insights & Advice 26 Jan 2024 Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective Becca Carnahan Author HBS Team tag All Locations Company Perspectives Nonprofit / Government Summer Internships Why We Recruit Emerson Collective is an organization... View Details
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Shira Asa-El
what did you want to be when you grew up? A scientist. From a very young age I was not a “usual” girl: I hated dolls and anything pink, I had short hair, loved sports, and found comfort in numbers and solving problems. Thanks to my... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
roof and when it’s time to start saving for the next one. With that frame of reference, Kennealey listened to his friend over dinner and realized the systems he was having to replace weren’t lemons. They had simply run up against their... View Details
- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
Employees should think about work on the way to work by mentally mapping out a plan for their day. By using the travel time as an opportunity to get into the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
Assistant Professor George Serafeim, coauthor of the working paper Short-termism, Investor Clientele, and Firm Risk, with HBS doctoral candidate Maria Loumioti and Assistant Professor Francois Brochet. "We tend to make sweeping statements... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
the social apparatus may not work well because of discrimination." “The government and the bureaucracy and the social apparatus may not work well because of discrimination,” he says. “The state might be in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Making the Decision to Attend: Our Participants Share Their Stories
right time? Many find it challenging to make time for education but, once they attend, they discover that for significant career development this time is important to reenergize and gain a broader... View Details
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
landmark National Bureau of Economic Research working paper by Lerner and five colleagues at the University of Michigan, University of Maryland, University of Chicago, and the US Census Bureau cuts through some of the fog to reveal for... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
demanding than what the minimalist nature of duties of forbearance initially would suggest. 2014 Working Paper Finance and Social Responsibility in the Informal Economy: Institutional Voids, Globalization and Microfinance Institutions By:... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
should systematically work with community groups and local leaders so they feel intense personal and tangible stakes in the proposal. Detailed preliminary discussions with construction trades should make the huge amount of new View Details