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22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

surprising to the researchers, it didn't seem to matter how much money was made available for the prizes—or even if any money was offered at all. In areas where a gold medal replaced a cash prize,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Dec 2004
What Do You Think?

Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?

predictable surprise. Important trends are identified as part of nearly every strategic planning exercise. But the effort to address them too often stops there. If the ability to act in a timely manner... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

Flows... Cash Conversion Cycle Time Value of Money Featured Exercises Balance sheet and financial ratios exercises Calculate net present value 6-7 hrs Module 3 Capital Markets Build a strong understanding of... View Details

19 Jan 2024
News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

What better way to drive people to work harder and more efficiently, you may ask, than to offer them a special carrot: more money for hitting specific company targets? The idea seems perfect. Managers want their employees to pull out the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

the history of work where the nature of work as we’ve known it has been disrupted, whether we embrace it or not,” says Neeley, author of Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere. “All or nothing is easy, when all are in the office... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Apr 2013
HBS Seminar

Gary Frazier, USC Marshall School of Business

2023
Article

Building the Business Case for an Inclusive Approach to Digital Health Measurement with a Web App (Market Opportunity Calculator): Instrument Development Study

By: Mitchell Tang, Yashoda Sharma, Jennifer C. Goldsack and Ariel Dora Stern

Background: The use of digital health measurement tools has grown substantially in recent years. However, there are concerns that the promised benefits from these products will not be shared equitably. Underserved populations, such as those with lower education and... View Details

Keywords: Demographics; Product Development; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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07 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Steve Jobs Legacy

emotions. Bruce Harreld (Entrepreneurial Management) I met Steve Jobs many times over twenty years, and one word always comes to mind—passion. Steve was always passionate about everything he did. No detail was too small to escape his... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Computer; Technology

11 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

to be more inclusive. "Inclusion always begets difference, but diversity may or may not beget inclusion." One of the reasons there hasn’t been as much progress on DEI as you would expect is that the... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint

22 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Section Life: Your HBS Family

Before I arrived at HBS, I had heard a lot about sections and how they really impacted people’s experiences as students here. People who graduated decades earlier told me how they still stay in touch with their section mates and how... View Details

31 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

The full cultural and sociological aftershocks of the earthquake in Japan—the worst disaster to hit the country since World War II—are washing like a tsunami across many industries as manufacturers and their customers scramble to replace... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Auto; Technology; Computer; Electronics

22 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Moving to the Lower 48 from Alaska for my MS/MBA

Moving anywhere is hard – but moving halfway across the world can come with even more challenges. MBA students come to HBS from every corner of the world, some with families, and some having never left their home country or state before. Kate Grosch (MS/MBA 2020)... View Details

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

of the common contracts people sign with themselves each year. If you have resolved to eat healthier, try ordering your groceries a week in advance of delivery. Internet delivery services make it all too easy to give into food cravings with the click of a mouse. The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

with a distinctive bell tower and columned façade by McKim, Mead & White, Baker is the largest business library in the world. More than 600,000 volumes span seven centuries and serve as a resource for the HBS community, View Details

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Our Values | About

alumni—is complete, we then will develop an action plan outlining specific steps we might take to address antisemitism at the School. The lessons we learn from this effort will help us examine other hidden forms of discrimination that persist at HBS, including... View Details

21 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

its 2021 fiscal year compared with 2020. While Slack’s revenue climbed twice as fast at 43 percent, Microsoft’s sales still dwarfed Slack’s $903 million. And Microsoft is on track to take in more than $200 billion in 2022. “So, you’re... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology

19 Dec 2016
Blog Post

The Making of An Internship: Impact

Join HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) as we follow three students throughout their summer internships, and learn best practices for creating a successful summer program. Internships by design are just ten to twelve weeks,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

09 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

register. It did for Trump, but not for Clinton. Close the sale. Political marketing requires you win a plurality of votes not every day but on a single day once in four years. Timing is everything. Trump learned what worked and what... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch

Portrait Project

Kate Kleinsman

“You can always come back home” said my mum as we lugged my suitcases into my college dorm room in the big city. ‘Why would I?’ I thought to myself. I come from a small town where a new bakery opening makes the local paper and you run... View Details

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