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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
well, to the point where you have to wonder whether Americans have simply become unleadable. Leadership used to mean giving people a sense of being something larger than themselves, and convincing them that, with a clear sense of what unites them, Americans are capable... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
local produce available to locals, and to revitalize the town’s Main Street, a modest collection of struggling businesses. Reade’s “retirement” after a successful career in the investment business was gradual and accidental. Seeking a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
undergraduate degree from MIT, she worked in Washington as an economist and as a consultant before pursuing her doctorate at HBS. Photo courtesy of Baker Library Historical Collections Did you feel extra pressure to succeed because you... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
supplement the new home-sharing rules was not materializing. Turner was hearing that the company’s proposed commitments that spanned education on regulations, enforcement assistance, and tax collection might not be enough to secure what... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
resources bundles, and to deploy them in ways that maximize their contributions. Such decisions were collectively defined by Holcomb, Holmes Jr., and Connelly as resource synchronization. The researchers analyzed team performance (team... View Details
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
they are operating. In this toolkit, we present three methods for collecting and analyzing information about these marketing environments firms face: Five C's Analysis, Porter's Five Forces Industry Analysis, and SWOT (Strengths,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
governments worldwide collected fees and taxes. To use the company's own phrase, govWorks was about "all payments for all governments." (The film Startup.com featured the company.) Soon after Herman and Tuzman set up shop, they... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
challenges. As a Harvard undergrad, she helped launch an environmental action committee. Working with faculty and staff, she collected some 2000 signatures to create the environmental science and public policy concentration. In 1995, she... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
12, bought his first sailboat with money saved from collecting and recycling his neighbors’ newspapers. Although he dreamed of being a marine biologist, Frey’s academic passion was engineering, which sprang from working in a machine shop... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
volunteer projects, a school partnership program that allows employees to take off up to eight hours per month to volunteer, and frequent food and clothing collection drives. John Ince: One World, my company, is a nonprofit devoted to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
being: The Optimist. Leaders are the ones with a can-do attitude; people are rarely inspired by pessimists. The Curator. Leaders know what they don't know and undertake a deliberate search to collect information that fills the gaps. The... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
made it far enough to launch a spring and fall collection and received widespread media coverage. The brand was slowly starting to gain traction with customers, too. But by the end of 2012, the startup—running low on cash and plagued by... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
challenge of upward voice. We first undertook in-depth exploratory research in a knowledge-intensive multinational corporation in which employee input was considered crucial. Qualitative data collected in 190 interviews with employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
says McAfee. Another reason the governance structure works, adds Lakhani, is that it is transparent—everyone's edits can be read and commented upon by anyone else. But the real basis of Wikipedia governance is a collection of policies and... View Details
- 16 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
visiting scholar at HBS, and David A. Thomas, president of Morehouse College and a former professor at HBS. “These African American executives never reported feeling, even during the Obama years, that race was no longer relevant or that we had somehow View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
layering of political polarization that we will collectively come to our senses in the next generation. The other generational hope that I have is for the younger people. Kids these days are not on Facebook. That’s for grandpa. They don’t... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
time to run young biotech firms; and so preferred people coming out of Baxter to those who had worked at Abbott or other firms, such as J&J and Merck. This preference is reflected in the archival data I have collected over the past... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
Edited by Julia Hanna and Dan Morrell Above: Josh Escher, hard at work as father Peter supervises. (photo by Michael Hanson) The phrase “work-life balance”—that mythical equilibrium between career and family responsibilities—has been firmly embedded in the View Details
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
minutes or increase wait times to five minutes in the six newly launched cities. The decision is complicated by the fact that Uber’s data science team normally places a five-week moratorium on changes to any new product, to allow robust data to be View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
were actually collected by the researchers. Each had an identification number embedded in the puzzle that could be used to identify the participant and whether they were telling the truth about the number they’d completed. Finally, before... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding