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- 22 Jun 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation
Thomas Steenburgh and Doug J. Chung and K. Sudhir of the Yale School of Management. Can Companies Inspire Heroism In Employees? HBS Cases: Terror at the Taj Under terrorist attack, employees of View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
previously worked at the same company—even if they hadn't worked there at the same time. In cases where investors had attended the same... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
common. Case in point: In March 2019, doctors told Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Corey Knebel that it was up to him whether to end his baseball season early to get a partially torn ligament in his elbow repaired. Doctors likely would have... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
emotions, intuition, and training. Cases & Course MaterialsWhat Happened at Citigroup? Harvard Business School Case 310-004 What went wrong at Citigroup? In 1998, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
observing teams for the case studies I used a fly-on-the-wall method: I tried to blend into the background so the teams would behave as naturally... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
sources—both large and small banks—has yet to return to pre-recession levels. This has created policy challenges for lawmakers and regulators, and also, I believe, economic challenges when it comes to the tepid job growth we have... View Details
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
Politicians, Minor analyzes whether risk preference is a good predictor of misconduct, using members of Congress as his subjects. He delved into the politicians’ financial records, determining what percentage of their portfolios was... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
of the cornerstones of motivation is that managers should not dictate people's methods " Tony Murphy issued an interesting challenge when he said, "Folk remedies based on a cookie-cutter, one size... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
inventory by setting a single inventory policy for all SKUs at seven weeks. In the case of blazers, the inventory of the 43-regular is just about... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
valuable balance for the welfare of the country, one could make a similar case for the balance achieved by the... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
reimagined what it looks like in the online world, Anand said. HBX opted for active, edge-of-the-seat learning by including short video lectures and cases mapped out through videos in which people describe... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
perfectly suited to Gerstner's Harvard-McKinsey pedigree. That's not the case here. SMA is, still, a company of engineers, building and delivering things that have to work. And, if View Details
- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
jump from their corporate job to start the social venture they've been dreaming about. Our findings suggest that if you're working in business to get the business mindset, there may be a View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
is currently working on a study of byzantine banking behavior toward individual investors. But in the case of structured loans, he argues that a borrower need not be a financial expert to realize View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
good for the investment projects it is pursuing, and the solo firm is probably particularly good for its projects." But just because a firm decides to form an alliance in one View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
How do once-thriving centers of innovation slow down, falter, and in some cases all but grind to a halt? That's a question that fascinates HBS professor Donald N. Sull. In a new working paper describing his in-depth research, Sull focused... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
need for Western managers to learn from the Japanese experience. Simply adopting Japanese management techniques is not a recipe for success, as the recent experience shows. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
senior researcher in the Global Research Group who has been working recently with a number of faculty members to develop Asian-based cases for the School's curriculum.... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
International Political Economy in Post-Soviet Eurasia," nationalism powerfully influences the world economy, particularly in post-imperial societies. National identities can—and in the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
meet in person on Days 3 and 4 for substantive negotiations. By giving yourself time to think things through, you'll be in a better position to apply System 2 thought throughout the negotiation process. In most View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra