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12 Jan 2023
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Managers, Stop Distracting Your Employees

01 Mar 2009
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Faculty Research Online

HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career Can you predict whether star... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Oct 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

to compete they need to innovate. But finding sources of innovation while still paying attention to the current business can be a struggle. The good news, says HBS professor Lynda Applegate, is that one of the forces that threatens... View Details

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Alumni-Authored Books | Baker Library

Psychological Tools for Reckoning with Our Past and Driving Social Change , Conflicts of Interest: Challenges and Solutions in Business, Law, Medicine, and Public Policy , Negotiation Theory and Research . Hall, Taddy: Competing Against... View Details

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Reunions: Accelerating Climate Solutions with Professor Jim Matheson (MBA 2001) - Blog - Business & Environment

transition calls for a new wave of leaders who can navigate the uncertainly, complexity and competing priorities of today’s world, and embrace the challenges inherent in this transition. HBS alumni, faculty and students are well... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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New Releases

professor Sumantra Ghoshal. In The Differentiated Network: Organizing Multinational Corporations for Value Creation, Nohria and Ghoshal assert that the traditional, hierarchical "spoke-and-hub" forms of organization do not provide the flexibility required to View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 1998
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Short Takes

companies with such plans do not perform better financially. Further analysis prompted Beer and Katz to conclude that the real role of bonuses is simply to attract highly qualified executives to a corporation. "Companies are forced into incentive systems to View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey

01 Oct 2000
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After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective

industrial model to the new information economy, said CEOs of incumbent (pre-Internet) companies are trying to compete with dot-coms, "but they get dot-com vertigo. They trust their senses, even after realizing they're wrong, and they get... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2014
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Case Study: Declawing the Competition

excellent customer service. However, we know this is a race that others can compete in, too, and that—with enough investment—our differentiators are replicable. What fundamental changes can we make to this market dynamic and/or our... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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Porter Appointed to University Professorship

is particularly important to me since the scope of my work has broadened considerably over the years." Porter's first area of interest examines how firms compete in industries and gain competitive advantage. The next focuses on locations... View Details

Keywords: Doug Gavel; University Professorship; C. Roland Christensen; Sumner H. Slichter

01 Oct 2002
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Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.

Harvard Square retail community, the Coop's number was almost up when Murphy arrived on the scene. As an old-style department store that carried everything from refrigerators to intimate apparel, the store was struggling to compete in the... View Details

22 Jun 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation

Questions To Be Answered What's the best bonus program to boost sales productivity? Can companies inspire heroism in employees? Can employers promote moral behavior? Does money lead to creativity? What's The Best Bonus Program To Boost Sales Productivity? Do Bonuses... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

December 2007 (Revised February 2009)
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Don Jenkins: Resigning from the Firm

By: Boris Groysberg, Geoff Eckman Marietta and Steven Manchel

Don Jenkins, a star event planner at a large firm, resigns to take a position at a boutique firm. However, Don may have made some mistakes when departing that could be trouble later on down the road. The case can be used to teach the business and legal aspects of... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Law; Service Industry

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2008
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Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship

By: Ramana Nanda and Jesper B. Sorensen

We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity is related to the prior career experiences of an individual's co-workers, using a unique matched employer-employee panel dataset. We argue that coworkers can increase the likelihood that an individual... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence

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01 Mar 2010
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Sunshine State

GREENE: Sitting pretty after hedging his bets. Carl Juste/Miami Herald Riffing off the famous opening lines of the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, reporter John Dorschner set the stage in the Miami Herald (December 7, 2009) for the saga of Jeff Greene (MBA ’79):... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

05 Feb 2016
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The Wheel of the World

Photography by Jason Minick At the age of 16, Fortunat Mueller-Maerki (MBA 1975) was given his first clock, a Viennese desk model from the late 18th century. It came to him from the estate of a distant relative, and wasn’t particularly valuable. Mueller-Maerki put it... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2013
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Banking on Africa's Future

Tope Lawani Tope Lawani (MBA 1995) is a man on a mission—make that two missions, actually. The cofounder and managing partner of London-based Helios Investments, Lawani says his firm aims to reward investors with "attractive, risk-adjusted returns that at the same time... View Details

08 Nov 2010
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Going the Extra Miles

Keywords: New York City Marathon; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

30 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 30

Search, a Google travel search service, we identify and measure the impact of diverting search away from non-paid algorithmic links to competing online travel agencies. Controlling for search intent, we find that Google's differential... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Sep 2020
Blog Post

New Life for Old Tech: Startup Provides Network Security Solutions for Obsolete Devices

specific legacy device. The company is one of 20 startups selected to compete in the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield. “Every organization has a really old device that they think they can’t part with. They feel a responsibility to keep it... View Details

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