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- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
punishment.” And: “Caregivers feel free to question the decisions or actions of those with more authority.” Three rounds of surveys were conducted from 2017 to 2021, allowing the researchers to track how individuals’ responses changed... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
input more valuable. Distributed supermodular complementarity (DSMC) exists when two or more independent actors can create complementary value by pursuing their own interests and will not find it advantageous to combine in order to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
outside firms, and that knowledge is diffusing in both directions." One implication for executives: Don't lock your scientists, researchers, and inventors in ivory towers. Your organization will benefit by the knowledge that flows to... View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of wrongful-discharge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
at Harvard Business School, and the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. The question central to the conference was posed midway through the first panel, Social Distribution, Advertising, and the View Details
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Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
reliability and value. Advertising professionals carefully crafted their copy. Nathaniel Fowler advised in his 1897 publicity manual. “There are some advertising lines, old as they may be, that will always live. . . . As the shortest... View Details
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Board Diversity: Pressure Leads to Action - Blog: RGE Report
Nasdaq requires companies listed on its exchange to have at least two diverse directors on the board or publicly explain why they don’t. The European Union has moved faster than the United States in pushing companies to include women on boards and by 2026, companies... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
1952)—convinced him to delay his application to HBS and hired him for Red Comet, their decorative-ceiling business. “My bosses said, ‘You’ll get in. You will have the background and experience,’” he recalls. “When my mom called to say the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
the other schools within Harvard. His challenges include attracting the best faculty and students, creating linkages across the university, and determining a strategy that will make Harvard engineering as well known as its other schools.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
Mushroom—and I made my way through it and was thrilled that it was over. It was my first cold call I ever got at HBS. And then we had our three-minute break before our next class, and I walk into the next class and the professor says, “Scott Schulman, View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
provider maintains control over the pricing of its own good. If the content provider sells its content outright and relinquishes control over its price, the content will tend to be exclusive unless there are sufficient market expansion... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
specialize in their respective niches—politely eying each other and making sure not to overlap too directly. Such niche specialization is a fixture of many other nascent markets. It remains to be seen whether more head-on competition will... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
they understand themselves differs from the standards society has set. These contradictions produce potent demands for what Holt terms utopian desires—the desire for imaginative constructions that will resolve the felt tensions. Brands... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
CEO announcing his plans for revitalizing the chain. Will his strategy work? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/pearle-vision-clearly-different/an/514015-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-048 The LEGO Group: Envisioning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
And HBS seemed to have sort of released me into the nature. So I went free and traveled more. April White: What is it about traveling that is so interesting to you? Zhang Mei: You know, travel for me, it's endless learning. In Chinese,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Health and Human Services Secretary, Tom Daschle, was an advocate of universal coverage. While few would deny that some kind of fundamental health-care reform is needed, many others contend that it will have to wait, given the nation’s... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
pursue her passion in technology and risk not seeing her family for a long time; or visit her family in Canada or the U.K., and risk losing her livelihood. The question she posed: Would I be willing to sign the ‘no-to-immigration-ban’... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “I definitely don’t think that virtual will ever cannibalize the real thing. I genuinely don’t see that happening. That’s some people’s fear. But I do think the benefit is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
club to a luncheon in recognition of winning the World B School Rugby Tournament at Duke University. 2007 Prince Albert II of Monaco hosts the HBS Old Boys at a luncheon featuring liveried servants, white gloves, and champagne in flutes. 2013 Some 200 former HBS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Their how-we-met story is the model—and the marketing—for the company, which launched as a website in late 2014. “We know this works,” says Jess Deckinger. Their love story is one of the differentiators that the Deckingers hope will set... View Details
Keywords: April White