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- 30 May 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Non-Standard Matches and Charitable Giving
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
done in the genuine interest of the greater good.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: iStockphoto/domin_domin] What should governments do to prepare for the next pandemic? Share your thoughts... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
work, firms should consider ‘hunting for talent’ with backgrounds and in locations they might have never considered even just a few years ago.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: alphaspirit]... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
write. About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: Pexels/Taras Makarenko] Do you think that autonomous vehicles will make roads safer? Why or why not? Share your thoughts in the comments below. View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
Faced with the need for massive change, most managers respond predictably. They revamp the organization's strategy, then round up the usual set of suspects—people, pay, and processes—shifting around staff, realigning incentives, and rooting out inefficiencies. They... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
In 2008, entrepreneur Brian Chesky and his two San Francisco roommates made the rounds of Silicon Valley VC firms with what they thought was a great idea: a website and mobile app that would allow homeowners to open their homes to strangers to sleep on their floor... View Details
- 25 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Secret Life of Supply Chains
of the supply chain economy will be a good way to keep America a leader in growth and innovation. [About the Author] Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. Image: VM Related Reading: Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Respond to a Worthy Cause
national and international artists, expand the marketing efforts, and make a bigger impact in the battle against domestic violence.” Brown and Dietz signed on, and HBS faculty members Michael Watkins and Max Bazerman agreed to be their... View Details
- 31 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do
Paul Bradbury American workers are usually a pretty busy bunch, yet their time spent idle costs employers an estimated $100 billion per year, according to a new study from Harvard Business School. “We suspected idle time might be more prevalent than most people would... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Did You Hear What I Said? How to Listen Better
It’s a common experience in the workplace: You leave a meeting feeling good about the discussion and believe everyone is on the same page. “Then you meet with someone two days later, and you realize they’re not on the same page at all,” says Hanne Collins, a doctoral... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
Corporations, Wells collects case studies from companies that have learned this lesson—some of them the hard way—and explains how all companies can strategize more intelligently. Michael Blanding: Why did you decide to write a book about... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
A colleague is out sick, and suddenly it's fallen on you to deliver a crucial client presentation. The saliva dries up in your mouth, your heart races. You briefly consider heading home sick yourself, before moving into the conference room to discover your boss has... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
Goals for influencing government should flow directly from the analytic frameworks that companies use to develop business strategies. As Michael Porter noted in Competitive Strategy, "No structural analysis is complete without a... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
Most of us tend not to think of capitalism as a moral system. The prevailing view of the free market, among laypeople and economists alike, is that it's one step removed from the law of the jungle. But the fact is that capitalism has always had an explicit moral... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
more cognizant of what I'm writing and how I'm writing it. What we choose to create is an extension of our selves, our ideals, our musings. Writing a script is not unlike living life: It's a series of choices. And what we choose to view is an expression of our taste,... View Details
- 17 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage
There’s a scene in the drama series Mad Men when junior ad exec Peggy Olson complains to her mercurial boss Don Draper, “You never say thank you.” Don peevishly replies: “That’s what the money is for!” Harvard Business School Professors Rawi E. Abdelal and Thomas J.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
In today's global work environment, it's a given that companies need culturally diverse teams to succeed. Both scientific studies and common sense tell us that having people with different viewpoints onboard increases the creativity that teams will employ in solving... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
Eacho, left, and Minnick (Getty Images) Congress is at a standstill over carbon. One side wants to regulate emissions as a pollutant; the other fears that any move to regulate oil and gas will impede growth and cost jobs. A compromise once pushed by the Obama... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
We all know people who seem able to perform at a higher level than those around them; and we've all had moments ourselves where we are firing on all cylinders and everything just seems to work. But how do you achieve that kind of excellence on a consistent basis, day... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
While the US Food and Drug Administration has chiseled away pharmaceutical review times over the years to speed innovative drugs to market, the opposite seems to have occurred in the agency's approval of medical devices. Instead of speeding innovative first-mover... View Details