end of life care - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

“Having empathy in day-to-day interaction with employees, customers, vendors, investors, etc. is always an important leadership skill, but this empathy is dramatically heightened during a crisis that is impacting everyone personally and professionally. Keeping in mind... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

27 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

ingredients for a romantic dinner, but ends up spending an hour comparison shopping for organic dog food and craft beer. A college student resolves to spend every Wednesday evening studying in the library, only to spend most View Details

Keywords: Re: Francesca Gino

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

include bodies as varied in scope as the Financial Accounting Standards Board on one end to the DSL Forum on the other. On the tech side, SSOs work both with technology sponsors and users to develop a set of... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

A host of organizations — among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines — have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting workforce. Books... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

use people analytics to improve how people work. These badges, and the multiple sensors inside of them, allow careful tracking of interactions in the workplace. Ben was kind... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

25 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

testing the idea with an experiment. Cook felt bad about his initial response not because the idea ended up succeeding—it didn't—but because he believes strongly in cultivating and maintaining a culture of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

02 Sep 2010
What Do You Think?

How Transparent Should Boards Be?

Gogula put it, "While protecting the short term interests of shareholders and avoiding a depression of stock prices may be a tempting recourse for a Board member to take, long-term shareholder interest... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

still true in our society that women are much more likely to take the primary responsibility for what's going on in their children's lives. We do have some wonderful examples of men who are the primary care... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2000
What Do You Think?

Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?

government and not thought much about. There seems to be an increasing feeling among consumers that much of this ended with the deregulation and privatization of these... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

of the twentieth century, the first twenty-two years of my life seemed to revolve around an unending series of tests designed to rank me versus... View Details

08 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation

liquidation process. “We don't spend enough time thinking about the death or liquidation of businesses” "When we were first exposed to the issue of store liquidations, we didn't have a sense View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

02 Aug 2024
HBS Case

How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture

says. “Being a founder is all about maximizing learning and learning is all about making consequential decisions. Have you led a life where you've learned a lot?” Act on your vision now, not later. “A lot of... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Information Technology

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

The belief that business life entails personal choices is a "vocal" element in the School's context. Q: Can morals be manufactured, as the title of the book suggests? A: The term... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

12 Nov 2024
HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

truly reintegrate into society if few firms will hire them? And, how can society—especially at a time of rising prices and low unemployment—afford to exclude the roughly one in three working Americans with criminal records from the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

capital from the outside. It's been coming down tremendously," he said. "And capital is very expensive, on average, the spread is 700 basis points," he said. Investors have also grown weary of putting money into supposedly... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

away, we're going to end up with a very different world, where we will have more hybrid organizations in terms of people working in the same space or not. Hopefully this book provides a blueprint for how... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

into living groups of 8 people each, with careful attention paid to the balance of expertise and geographical representation. Each living group "pod" includes a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

20 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts

covering world-class brands, innovative start-ups, and social enterprises, and the most popular of the more than 30 episodes produced in the past year are listed below. The Amazing Life View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

02 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Spending on Happiness

additional income to suddenly make this person fulfilled, without a care in the world? (You can also think about whether such changes in your own income really make you happier with your life on a day-to-day... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

08 May 2020
In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

care Over these challenging times, the need for organizations that form part of the social support net is key. Yet, it is at these times that social impact organizations are the most vulnerable. The first... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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