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- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees' Career Development
are trying to get out of their current roles. For example, Fitzpatrick explained, “Is this role a means to an end and they are trying to get to the next rung on the ladder, or are there certain skills they are looking to acquire so they... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
supply by a record 5.3 million units. Harvey with two young beneficiaries of affordable housing. (photo: courtesy Bart Harvey) "Affordable housing is a problem that increasingly affects companies and employers, as well as the overall... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
"Right now we're letting the ends of the ideological spectrum and the entrenched power of legacy interests stalemate a path to the future," Lassiter says. "That's a thing worth fighting." “Right now we're letting the View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say (Part 2)
those two years getting more experience. The problem is that most people who hear that argument have only experienced a tiny fraction of the universe of career possibilities. I believe that the key to a View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
Jeffrey Madrick (MBA '71) has for many years been an award-winning economics and financial writer and editor in both print (Business Week, Money) and broadcast (NBC, ESPN) journalism. The author of, most recently, The End of Affluence... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
it’s not drug problems or throwing a stapler at the assistant. It’s missing a delivery date. A veteran I worked with told me, ‘Your job isn’t to make it great; your job is to get it in by Tuesday.’ ” Dick’s prime-time résumé includes The... View Details
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
to enjoy their presence but ended up feeling genuinely heartbroken at each departure. Getting ahead of myself, but I, a vegetarian, cooked Midnight a full chicken breast on his final morning with me. I came to learn that Midnight would... View Details
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
process including military services, industry, and Congress, hardening them against change, Fox says. The book excerpt below looks at how previous reform studies have fallen significantly short of correcting significant problems in... View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
can induce ethical behavior in their employees. For example, another series of experiments showed that moving the signature line from the end to the beginning of a self-reported form leads to an increase in truthfulness in the answers. A... View Details
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
unit. "But actually, it's not so good for consumers." Edelman explains the problem in the paper Price Coherence and Excessive Intermediation, co-authored with Julian Wright, an economics professor at the National University of Singapore.... View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
observations to analyze problems facing the United States in recent years and to create an agenda for renewing American strengths through returning to core American principles—but in new ways suitable to 21st century conditions. On the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
created value in the for-profit marketplace and want to take a similar approach with philanthropy," Emerson asserts. Joining this group of philanthropists are baby boomers, who are "entering their retirement years very engaged," Emerson notes. "They are not going to be... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
problems for learning and for change." Jensen believes this tendency is the source of most so-called people problems in organizations. Jensen's model defines two regimes of behavior: the Resourceful,... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Inauguration Day, 1933 Creativity, a quality more traditionally associated with artistic... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
through grants and advocacy. The organization seeks to end the school-to-prison pipeline through disciplinary reform and ensure that schools with high needs receive the necessary resources and funding to achieve their goals. “There is... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
the smartest people in the world who run the major Wall Street firms not understand that these products were toxic and end up getting caught with them on their books? As Fed chairman, did Alan Greenspan have a hand in creating the current... View Details
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
organizations are, at once, on many right tracks and wrong tracks. “The right question is therefore not the amount of ‘rebel talent’ but how to focus it on the right causes.” David Wittenberg concurred. As he put it, “organizations should hire and assign rebels to work... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
question, “What business are you really in?” How would you respond? When people come to a matchmaker, their natural expectation is “find me the person I’m looking for.” That is not at all what I consider to be my job. I’m in the happiness... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
sort of take us through a day at Burning Man, particularly the day that the man actually burns? Raiser: Burn day is really kind of our New Year's Eve. So people all throughout the day will greet you with happy burn day. And it's this... View Details