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    Eight Business Books to Challenge Your Thinking

    We hope our readers are able to enjoy plenty of downtime this summer, as leisure and rest are an important part of preventing burnout and allowing ourselves time to develop new ideas.

    We’ve rounded up recommendations for eight books that have held our... View Details

    • 28 Jan 2020
    • News

    What Massachusetts can teach America

    • 01 Sep 2020
    • Blog Post

    6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

    increase self-efficacy. For example, our team found that a simple time-blocking exercise that encouraged employees to find blocks of time to focus on “important” but not “urgent” work each week reduced View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 05 Nov 2021
    • News

    The ‘Empathy Advantage’ of Great Women Leaders

    • 17 Feb 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

    or any other competitive or aggressive physical activity. This aligns with the fact that half of the sample considered daily meditation or prayer a crucial grounding element of their self-care. Connecting socially, safely. Nearly all CEOs mentioned that spending View Details
    Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg
    • 17 Dec 2018
    • News

    The Innovation Engine

    • 26 Jun 2020
    • Blog Post

    (PPE)ople First: Bringing Critical Personal Protective Equipment to Boston Hospitals

    dwindled, PPEople First became a way for all of us contribute to the community in a meaningful way. Each order we placed and each delivery we dropped off we saw immediately put to work on the front line. The urgency of it all was at times... View Details
    • 09 May 2021
    • News

    Should You Go Back to the Office?

    • 13 Oct 2021
    • News

    How Companies Can Improve Employee Engagement Right Now

    • 04 Jan 2016
    • Blog Post

    5 Ways to Motivate Employees After the Holiday Season

    Wednesdays: Health and wellness eases stress and promotes increased productivity. Every Wednesday, go for a walk as a team, take an exercise class, or ask employees to bring in a healthy lunch option and take the View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • January 2002 (Revised October 2005)
    • Case

    General Electric Medical Systems 2002

    By: Tarun Khanna and James Weber
    Discusses one of General Electric's flagship divisions--the world's leading provider of medical diagnostic imaging equipment. Provides an opportunity to examine a multinational confronting massive technological and demographic changes around the world. Genomics has... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Business Model; Change Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Genetics; Customer Value and Value Chain; Age; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; China; United States
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    • June 2024
    • Supplement

    Legacy Partners (B)

    By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
    Pre-abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details. Abstract: Stephen Holbrook and Austin Pulsipher (both HBS '19) had been leading Nutrishare since acquiring the company six months... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Nutrition; Supply Chain Management; Growth Management; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States; California
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      Kristin W. Mugford

      Kristin Mugford is the Melvin Tukman Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at the Harvard Business School and the Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community. She previously served as Faculty Chair for field-based learning and... View Details

      • 28 Aug 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need

      often caused by chronic stress in the workplace. Companies ultimately bear the cost of lost productivity through quiet quitting, as well as the expense of replacing miserable, burned-out employees who depart. With the costs of replacing... View Details
      Keywords: by Hise Gibson
      • June 2024
      • Supplement

      Legacy Partners (A)

      By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
      Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

      Stephen Holbrook and Austin Pulsipher (both HBS '19) had been leading Nutrishare since acquiring the company six months earlier in mid-2021.... View Details
      Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Nutrition; Supply Chain Management; Growth Management; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; California
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      • 2015
      • Discussion Paper

      The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change

      By: Claudia Steinwender
      A variety of empirical and theoretical trade papers have suggested and documented a positive impact of trade on the productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access to export markets,... View Details
      Keywords: Performance Productivity; Trade
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      • 01 Mar 2016
      • First Look

      March 1, 2016

      their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price changes and the asset’s degree of overvaluation. The two signals are in conflict, and investors “waver” over time in the relative weight they put... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 16 Jul 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Are You a Strategist?

      Montgomery equally stresses the importance of recognizing how a strategist lives and leads. To that end, in the book she cites not only economic gurus, such as Joseph Schumpeter, but also philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, military theorist... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • 13 Nov 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

      negative moments in the day as another key to happiness.” As incomes have risen in many countries over recent decades, more people have reported greater “time scarcity.” Those who feel time stress show signs... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
      • 01 Jun 2023
      • HBS Case

      A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

      crippling migraine headaches—at times landing in the emergency room in excruciating pain. This mental anguish continued for 40 years, growing more intense and frightening as time went on. “The View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories