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- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
Employees should think about work on the way to work by mentally mapping out a plan for their day. By using the travel time as an opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
enough" would later be carved into a wooden plaque and hung in the workshop. These themes of good play and quality products were both bedrocks and touchstones for future generations of LEGO toy makers. Godtfred Kirk Kristiansen represented the second generation,... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- HBS Case
College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need
everyone.” Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
businesses over the long run: companies such as Tata Group, founded in India in 1868, or Mexican bakery Grupo Bimbo, started in 1945. What sets these firms apart? What can leaders in developed markets learn from them? In the recent View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2023
- Book
Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target
knowledge that is in turn capable of explaining the new digital realities by leveraging existing strategy theories and tools and cultivating new ones. As such, our endeavor turns into a wonderful opportunity... View Details
- 23 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions
Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture? Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need Today Feedback or ideas to share? Email the View Details
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
significant population of lower-skilled, lower educational-attainment workers out there, many who speak English as a second language, who have worked in service industries that have been very, very badly damaged View Details
- 30 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?
Also Like: Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right? Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm Related reading from the Working... View Details
- 21 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
People Trust Business, But Expect CEOs to Drive Social Change
Public trust in business remains relatively unshaken amid economic turbulence and a lingering pandemic, even as faith in the media and government falters, but leaders could do more to address social issues, a new global opinion survey shows. However, not everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 04 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World
Opportunity: Customers’ Routines When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working View Details
- 27 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall
patients. “The extremely high profit margins in medical devices offers a setting in which the risks are often overwhelmed by the potential rewards to innovate, especially when competitors face their own product failures,” according to the... View Details
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
preserve that collaborative culture, the founder long resisted being acquired by a larger firm. Asset management companies typically are either publicly traded or are limited partnerships, in which top performers View Details
- 06 Oct 2023
- Book
Yes, You Can Radically Change Your Organization in One Week
provide business leaders with what they call “the secret memo” for quick, effective organizational change. The book, which is their third together, and Morriss’s recent TED Talk, are loaded with tactical tips and concrete examples from their View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 17 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto
Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 12 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify
clients by offering information sessions, teaching them financial principles and such has a much bigger effect” in terms of growth rates, Di Maggio says. You Might Also Like: Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income... View Details
- 29 Mar 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Entrepreneurs, Firms, and Global Wealth since 1850
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
the abuse of H-1B visas is as old as the program itself. “I had 3 trainees; each learned a different facet of my job. None of them had near the knowledge or experience as me. I was the lucky American who found View Details
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
be our people. It will be our humanity that drives our creativity, powers our competitive spirit, and keeps us out in front.” Technology changes the nature of work But at the same meeting, McMillon also acknowledged how technology changes... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
“Automating Mortality: Ethics for Intelligent Machines.” You Might Also Like: Struggling With a Big Management Decision? Start by Asking What Really Matters How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change What Happens When Business Owners... View Details
- 31 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World
of wisdom and many others were made famous by Benjamin Franklin in his 1758 essay known as The Way to Wealth, first published as a sermon delivered by “Father Abraham” in Poor Richard’s Almanack. “I’m... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna