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- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I...
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by Kathryn Haviland
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
gets lost in this conversation is the extent to which the US needs immigrants. We need their youth, their willingness to work at any job, their productivity, their contributions to a social security system being weighted down by the...
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by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is...
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by Christian Ketels
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
cover debt payments owed to creditors. This could set up the perfect storm for a huge wave of bankruptcies in the weeks and months ahead, says Stuart C. Gilson, the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?
(iStockphoto/PeopleImages) An organization’s mission is widely recognized as its reason for being. Enlightened leaders have long known and believed that the heart of an organization’s culture is described not just by “how we do things...
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by James Heskett
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
in New-Employee Orientation Employee orientation programs ought to be less about the company and more about the employee, according to new research by Daniel M. Cable, Francesca Gino, and Bradley R. Staats....
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by Staff
- 21 Mar 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Advancing Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research Through Open Innovation Competitions
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
named him assistant secretary of labor for international affairs, a position to which he was reappointed several years later by President Kennedy. In 1962, Lodge, who had strong views about issues such as foreign aid, unemployment, and...
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by Staff
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
anticipate that it will continue indefinitely unless derailed by possible but unlikely international conflicts. At the core of Asian economic development is its business leadership—managers and entrepreneurs who sustain and create Asian...
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
product should have been, says HBS entrepreneurial management professor Thomas R. Eisenmann. In his new MBA course, Launching Technology Ventures, Eisenmann introduces students to the idea of the lean startup—a methodology that has proven...
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by Staff
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
School, who coauthored the study. “[It] means not only that the pool of potential human capital for startup companies began declining when COVID started, but also that the quality of the pool has deteriorated,” he says. “The incumbent [companies], just View Details
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by Rachel Layne
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
onto patients. To work, a public plan must be regulated and have independent governance, and, if it is well-designed, it might inspire competition from private insurers—leading to better value for patients. Regina E. Herzlinger, The Nancy View Details
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
Many high-tech companies in the United States look overseas to fill talent gaps in their employment ranks by hiring skilled immigrants, often sponsoring the visas these workers need to live in this country. Critics say this can create an...
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- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
What They Are Reading Jeff Bussgang Two of my books during the “summer of COVID” have been a deep case study into perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz View Details
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by Staff
- 17 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price
Think of the last time you went shopping. By the time you decided to buy a product, you knew both what you were buying and how much it cost. But was your decision affected by whether you saw the price or the...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 01 Apr 2013
- News
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
- 01 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love
him, revealed him to be a master of using intrinsic rewards as motivational tools. Here are four ways to be a better coach of individuals based on his wisdom: 1. Boost self-confidence Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Timothy Gallwey...
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- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
better success getting job interviews, according to research by Katherine DeCelles and colleagues. Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle It used to be that we equated power and prestige with a leisurely, luxurious lifestyle....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
values must speak to D&I.” Steve Hopkins added, “I am encouraged by (the) mention of attitude. I would suggest one verb further; behavior Results are not realized in how an organization thinks or feels about diversity (or any other...
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by James Heskett