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- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
small things—for instance, 'Did I leave the coffeemaker on this morning?'—by bigger things like meeting with a colleague or a manager, or by very important things like job security or health." At its core, anxiety is about... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. [Image by: iStock Photo ] Other stories by Julia Austin Making the Right Technical Hire How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities Startup or Established Company? Which... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?
and Prosperity to New Cities Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/hapabapa View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
in the team. 4. Trust in experience and institutional knowledge One of the little changes Flick made in the team’s lineup was to rely on players with long club tenure. Unlike other turnaround coaches who decreased their team’s average... View Details
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
Editor's note: How does an organization hold on to its wealth of accumulated knowledge when the knowledge-holders depart? It's a very real dilemma made even more critical as Baby Boomers begin their mass exit into retirement. The new book... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
about presuming preferences. When predicting other people’s tastes, we tend to erroneously assume that liking one thing precludes enjoying another, dissimilar option, according to a recent set of studies by researchers at Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes
Something Rare? Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Illustration View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
Eisenmann says. “It also helps if the person who presided over a failure can thoughtfully discuss what really happened, what they learned from it, and how they’ll manage their next startup.” Danielle Kost is senior editor of Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 05 Jul 2016
- News
Mobilizing 'Big Teams' For The World's Biggest Challenges
Richard S. Ruback
Richard S. Ruback is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He is currently focusing his research in applied corporate finance, especially... View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
Business School and Harvard University jointly created the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, led by Professor Porter, to further his work. Professor Porter is the author of sixteen books and over 100 articles. Thomas A. Stewart... View Details
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
people, not to or at them. There is an opportunity to figure out ways to work in more meaningful ways with people. Book Excerpt Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire View Details
- 15 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?
doesn’t work. You Might Also Like: Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't Feedback or ideas to share?... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Cheers to the American Consumer
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. A recent Economist magazine includes a... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- Research Summary
By: Boris Groysberg
Professor Groysberg's research focuses on the challenges of managing professional service firms. In particular, his work investigates how a firm can be systematic in achieving a sustainable competitive advantage by leveraging its employees. In a number of related... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
generated by a machine, those very same recommendations were perceived as inscrutable. People are less willing to accept recommenders when they do not feel like they understand how they make recommendations.” POLL Do you consider these... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving
Review) What Quarantine Can Teach You About Spending and Happiness (Wall Street Journal) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Emerging trends Before the onset of COVID-19, a number of trends were... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
Column My column posted last week, “Under What Conditions Would You Hire a CEO ‘Displaced’ by #MeToo?,” raised much debate but also angry responses regarding the appropriateness of certain terms and labels. These prompted my View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
With more people working remotely right now, many of us have experienced a videoconference interrupted by barking dogs or hungry kids demanding snacks, punctuated, perhaps, by... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman