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- Other Unpublished Work
Punctuated Identities and the Careers of Professional Women
This paper proposes a punctuated equilibrium model of identity change to explain how professional women's career goals and attitudes can change rapidly and dramatically during mid-career years. Data collected from interviews of 43 women alumni of an elite business...
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- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/610031-PDF-ENG Revitalizing Dell Jan W. RivkinHarvard Business School Case 710-442 Dell Inc., with its vaunted Direct Model, defined success in the personal computer industry for more than a...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing
and disciplinary isolation led Duede to wonder whether the data they had collected could be used to understand the association of geographic and intellectual proximity on intellectual influence. The power of diverse interactions The study suggests that View Details
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by Ben Rand
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
the position of Brand Development Manager (BDM) to build the company's presence, sales, and relationships with its retail customers. After one year, the CEO, CFO and President must evaluate the impact of the BDM on retail customers, the type of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston's Walk Zones By: Dur, Umut, Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, and Tayfun Sönmez Abstract—Admissions policies often use reserves to grant certain applicants...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?
than the attention span of the organization—so long that other high priority initiatives by necessity will distract the organization from completing the effort. As venture capitalist John Doerr has said, “time is the enemy of...
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by James Heskett
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets...
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by Avery Forman
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
of all organizational units. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-030.pdf Future Lock-in: Or, I'll Agree to do the Right Thing Next Week Authors:Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When making decisions a person...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2015
- What Do You Think?
What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?
the opportunity to earn high compensation--but jobs that often become too demanding for some employees, particularly those with health problems or family obligations. Former employees complained about bosses who lacked empathy for their problems and that kicked back...
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- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?
to see if any of those are going to materialize into something significant financially. "Musk is at risk of losing or having already lost critical people in the background who make this whole thing work." For me, the No. 1 priority today...
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- 22 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution
Along with identifying a primary customer, you must also define your core values in a way that ranks the priority of shareholders, employees, and customers. Value statements that are lists of aspirational behaviors aren't good enough....
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by Robert Simons
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
government's Priority Sector Lending (PSL) requirements, unlike virtually all other private sector banks, which view PSL activity as a necessary but loss-making part of their portfolio. To do this, YES BANK created a distinct Development...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Being the Boss
the person up the chain be most responsible for whether you have a healthy relationship, but you're equally responsible. If you don't manage that relationship right, your team is not going to be able to do what it needs to do....
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by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
sectors of a developed economy cannot. He says, "jobs that create wealth are the absolute foundation for any economy this excludes most of the 'non-tradable' (largely personal service) jobs." While manufacturing jobs are among the most...
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- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
drain from the suburbs, and redefine demographics in many locations, says Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor at HBS. In The Changing Geography of Work: Priorities for Policy Makers, published recently by the Organisation for...
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by Kara Baskin
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
worked on by encouraging employees to develop a personal regime: Exercise at home, meditate, and make sure you reach out and talk to people, even if that socialization takes place virtually, just to make sure employees are happy, mentally...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
Francesca Gino: We can divide leaders out there into three buckets. The first bucket is executives who say, I want to bring more diversity into the organization and think about equity and inclusion, but this is not at the top of my View Details
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by Jen McFarland Flint
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
refinements or radical breakthroughs, improve the performance of established products and services along the dimensions that mainstream customers in major markets historically have valued. Examples: a microprocessor that enables personal...
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- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
concept of “maximal sustainable yield”—that is, the amount of goodness that a person can achieve over time without depleting their ability to do good in the future. He argues that mistakes and biases in our thinking keep us from realizing...
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by Michael Blanding
- 09 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
results for both sides. The person inflicting injury will almost always end up losing—psychologically, socially, and/or financially—as well. This is obvious in a negotiation between family members who want or need to keep a mutually...
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by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra