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- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
collaboration encouraged by today’s communication tools like Slack and Skype good or bad for finding the best answer? “I don’t want there to be zero communication, but I do think that transparency and communication do have downsides"...
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by Roberta Holland
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
Ebola. Furthermore, in the interest of efficiency, we've decreased the number of beds available for extreme cases, leaving ourselves unable to admit patients in the face of an epidemic. There's a constant trade-off between efficiency and View Details
- 13 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams
less productive. ©iStock/Uberimages “We were afraid teams would spend less effort finding households of different ethnicities, and they would spend all of their time trying to register their own people in order to gain power,” says Pons....
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a...
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- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture
years as a time to experiment, to learn to launch something, but also to gain the skills on the operational side, and to expand my network. I was great at finance, I understood the healthcare market, but there was a lot of opportunity for...
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- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
since the early part of the twentieth century, he believes the time may be right for significant change. He's not alone. Theodore Zeldin, a British historian who has spent a great deal of time studying the...
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by Jim Heskett
- Web
Countdown To Remote Learning - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
get 1,900 students—who had scattered around the world—ready to learn online,” says Srikant Datar. “It was daunting.” The School quickly convened a task force from across campus. “Most of us didn’t know each other, but there wasn’t time...
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- 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...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship
Development has gathered best practices from companies who crafted remote internships for the first time in 2020, and those who have managed virtual teams for years. Using these strategies and tools will help set your company up for an...
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- 25 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset
volunteer opportunity to organizations like MBAs Fight COVID-19 and the National Student Response Network, as well as email listservs, and Slack channels. As word spread through the tight-knit HBS community, we received tremendous and...
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MBA 2024 Alumni Transition - Alumni
Section and Class Email List access ends Zoom Pro access ends Please download and store your Zoom cloud recordings before access is lost. Once your access to HBS Zoom ends you can still attend HBS Zoom events by using a free Zoom account. July 17: Class Card access...
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- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
lean inventories and just in time deliveries, there is not a lot of slack in the system to act as a buffer. This disaster promises to be quite a test. Consider, for example, Shin-Etsu Handotai, one of the...
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- 31 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
that's where the good stuff happens. That's where the answer lies at that intersection.” Many guests expressed their desire to hire candidates who understand the interconnectivity of climate challenges and can translate complex climate topics into simple terms. They...
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- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
Cohen It was quite an adjustment. "I had to update my skills and relearn about business," Fishman Cohen said. She found a job at Bain and devoted herself utterly and full-time to her career while her husband worked three-quarters View Details
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by Wendy Guild
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
in Sweden. For decades, the company had compensated sales people with a base salary and a monthly quota. But anecdotes from regional managers indicated it might be time for a change—largely thanks to the weather. “In Sweden what happens...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
the shopping cart.” This year’s Alumni NVC was the Hue team’s third time in the New Venture Competition. “We were finalists both years we were at HBS,” says Shah. “We won crowd favorite in our first year, and made the top four in our...
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Margie Kelley
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
deftly: “How to most effectively communicate with all employees remotely and show empathy, while running around with [my] hair on fire trying to save the current business while at the same time trying to shape the future of the company in...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
is the only way to identify the whereabouts of the otherwise invisible virus, similar to collecting enemy intelligence in time of war. From its experience with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in 2015, South Korea from...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across...
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- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
the COVID-19 fallout and instead focus on today, say Brooks and Leonard A. Schlesinger, the Baker Foundation Professor. “This is such an impermanent state of affairs that we just have to do as best we can,” Brooks says. Make time for...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost