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- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
sorting work into departments, product divisions, and regions. Trouble is, managers in hierarchical organizations don't promote or reward risk and innovation—they rely on routine, and turn to the same trusted people to run key... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 04 Nov 2009
- What Do You Think?
What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?
commits itself to democratic capitalism . Our focus should be on sorting out these tensions rather than clinging to a notion that 'free markets' are efficient (good) and 'government' is inefficient (bad)." Several commented on the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
restructuring their lives and letting go of a big part of their identity as employed people. Although most welcomed the freedom and flexibility, many retirees described unexpected feelings of being at loose ends, and it typically took from six months to two years (or... View Details
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
gained higher levels of education and workforce integration, leading analysts to blame ingrained bias and “occupational sorting” for the difference. Occupational sorting occurs when people select jobs based on their demographics. For... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
TripAdvisor, which doesn't have such accountability. On the other hand, Luca approves of the more extensive options that TripAdvisor provides for sorting and categorizing reviews of hotels—for example, business travelers can find reviews... View Details
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Conversational Leadership
not just that one person is both talking and listening, it means that there is a real sort of back and forth where the act of listening actually changes what you think and say," Slind explains. "As your company gets larger, that gets more... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2023
- News
On the Move: Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016)
proud of) prize money is equal for men and women. Will you be relocating? We will be staying here in NYC! DUMBO to be exact. What’s your morning routine? I start my day around 5:30 or 6 a.m. by walking our Golden Retriever puppy (Khione). I then try to get a workout of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
together people from the same city, some of whom may not have met before, YALP is designed to accelerate the sort of relationship-building that will make it easier to pick up the phone back home, ask for help, and bring about change more... View Details
- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
event from the day that stood out in their minds. For the average participant, we have about eighteen weeks of daily diaries. As we read and analyzed the nearly 12,000 daily reports we gathered, we noticed that one of the most frequent events reported was some View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture
from some 250 million online job listings, sorting them into categories including country, city, job type, and industry. San Francisco and Boston lead remote offerings The pattern in all categories? Variety. “Remote-work posting shares... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Jun 2013
- News
How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case
response north of the border to the 1980 Canadian board game, Trivial Pursuit, which was only just then being introduced in America. Reiss realized that other sorts of trivia games could be big sellers, too. With no introduction or... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
Investment Company, a Connecticut-based hedge fund.280 Banks rarely take a fee for this sort of entertainment. They make their money on trades and other services that are now a big source of revenue to the banks. Hedge funds began in... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
of doing good. I feel far more alive today than I’ve ever been in my whole life.” Industrial and sleek, Evolve academies feature plenty of glass and brushed steel. It’s a professional, we-mean-business sort of look that could be... View Details
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
culprit is what he calls the fixed-performance contract. "The targets for sales, costs, and key ratios that are spelled out in the budget become an implicit contract," he says. A recent Hackett survey found between 60 percent and 90 percent of the top 2,000... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
would be wonderful to have that sort of involvement with a team. How would you describe the value of Internet stocks today? Psychological. The same stock could theoretically trade at $2, $20, $200, or $2,000 a share, which is why I view... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
Employers are dangling all sorts of sparkling lures to capture hot job candidates in the battle for top talent: Generous compensation. Stock options. Lofty titles. But Harvard Business School research suggests that many companies fail to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
genuinely good plan, pursuing a great idea, or making a needed vision a reality might be filled with frightening risks—even though that is not really the case. There are all sorts of ways to create fear. You have seen a half dozen in the... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
things by seeing the abuses. In the United States in particular, there are all sorts of labor contracts that appear not to be legal. The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlaws involuntary servitude. We ruled it out along with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
and didn’t warrant that kind of price. And I think it was against that backdrop that he then turned to his 25-year-old son, fresh out of business school, cocky, and asked him if I could straighten out the problem, fight off Mr. Donut, and View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade