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- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
specialists—including a professional climber, a doctor, and a photographer—each of whom scored points according to how many of their individual goals were met. For each group, the researchers designated a formal leader. In some cases they created feelings of power by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
associate Arthur McCaffrey. It's also one they are passionate about and determined to solve. As they write in a new working paper that they're preparing for an academic journal, there are more than three billion people in the world who... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
Model-Linker to the open source community to help the Linux community write software to connect Linux with Hewlett-Packard's RISC computer architecture. This strategy is similar to giving away the razor (the released code) to sell more... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee
from your team for what they need to be most productive/engaged Set clear expectations and definitions of success along with systems to track progress to ensure employees can independently and collaborative work towards goals. Utilize asynchronous View Details
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
productivity in a short amount of time,” the researchers write in their recent working paper Virtual Watercoolers: A Field Experiment on Virtual Synchronous Interactions and Performance of Organizational Newcomers. With corporate surveys... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
it, we can all learn about the potential merits and difficulties of reparations.” In addition to writing the case with independent researcher Suzanne Antoniou and HBS research associate Leanne Fan, Desai also partnered with HBS multimedia... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
he went so far as to write 10 to 20 handwritten personal notes to employees at all levels of the organization each day to recognize those who were performing well. During his 10-year tenure as CEO, that added up to over 30,000 notes to... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
kind of ways.” By contrast, Myers argues that many companies employ knowledge management systems that favor more independent, rather than discursive, learning. “They say, ‘I am going to write everything down and everyone who wants to know... View Details
- 03 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Recent Grad Reflections: From Being Cold Called to Becoming a Case Protagonist
priority in 2020. HBS committed to initiatives such as the “Juneteenth Case Pledge” and convened the Dean's Anti-Racism Task Force to work alongside the HBS Case Research and Writing Group to develop more inclusive and diverse teaching... View Details
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
a result, the customer will see more business value in the solution and be more likely to convert to a paid customer. (An added bonus for the startup: lower customer-acquisition cost.) Still, it’s proven difficult for entrepreneurs to View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
their current situation and how it might evolve,” Cespedes writes in the book’s introduction. If not, he says, they will make decisions based on bad assumptions and fall victim to those who do understand cause-and-effect links between... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
my esteemed coauthors, Colin Camerer and George Loewenstein, had been exploring TMS and had mentioned in their own work how important it was for economists to read this lesser known work. So it was great fun for the three of us to write... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
both individually and organizationally, something that Bazerman believes strongly (or he wouldn't be teaching and writing about it). It requires leaders who, among other things suggested by Bazerman, develop a habit of asking the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Case Protagonists at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
- 01 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People
to do a word recognition exercise. The task was to write down the first word that came to their mind when given a string of scrambled letters. These strings of scrambled letters were each constructed by interleaving a pro-social word with... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
the same level of editorial acumen to his role as editor of HBR, a position he held from 1985 to 1989. “If people don’t read what you write,” he often said, “then what you write is a museum piece.” Levitt had a memorable style in the... View Details
- 10 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
What I Did Differently Before Reapplying to HBS
I first applied to HBS through the 2+2 program when I was a senior in college. I had good grades, did well on my GMAT, and had two great mentors to write references letters for me. I worked hard on the application, and was disappointed... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?
is a level playing field a good thing? Take the immediate arguments surrounding U.S. trade with China, for example. Floyd Norris, writing recently in the The New York Times, suggests that steps to encourage China to increase the value of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
out of cash before solving the problem, Harvard Business School researchers write in Entrepreneurial Learning and Strategic Foresight, recently published in the Strategic Management Journal. For startups trying to hang on until their next... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1
constrained time frame. We also practiced Jake’s principle of “separate then together” – we each brainstormed individually for a short, predetermined period of time, 5 minutes usually, and would draw or write ideas out on post-it notes.... View Details