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Informing Brand Marketing Practice
Susan M. Fournier is involved with several projects relating more generally to brand managment issues. These include boardroom-level projects (with Professors Thomas Madden and Franke Fehle of the University of South Carolina, and sponsored by Interbrand) on the... View Details
- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
work to transition from our home role to our work role is not always intuitive. One would think that switching roles is as easy as putting on a different hat. It turns out that transitioning between roles takes time and effort, and it’s a part of the day we need to pay... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
Recreational marijuana is legal in 18 states. Scant attention has been paid, however, to the profound impact that federal legalization would have on the cannabis market. Essentially, it would squeeze out the illicit cannabis market, along... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
post-doctoral researcher at the Université Paris-Dauphine, and Michelangelo Rossi, assistant professor at Télécom Paris. In a political environment where racial injustice draws plenty of attention from all sides, companies that want to... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
personal level, for instance, by asking how everyone is holding up. “It can be harder to pay attention to a long meeting online versus face-to-face.” Afterward, managers should articulate key outcomes of the meeting using other media like... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
receiving creativity scores 23 percent lower than the average of the other conditions. In the other three conditions, creativity was about the same.] "As human beings, we pay more attention to negative information because it is a signal... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
attention and especially energy around speculation and trading—this gives an entrepreneur more time to focus and actually develop their product carefully without constantly having to face the market. Gazette: In November, the global... View Details
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Life & Leadership After HBS - Race, Gender & Equity
Sexual Harassment In 2018, as the #MeToo movement brought new attention to the prevalence of sexual harassment at work, we asked Harvard Business School alumni* about harassment and misconduct in their current workplaces and their... View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
be pulled in all directions," he says. "They cannot be accountable to everyone for everything. Rather than aiming simply to comply with the demands of the most powerful actors, nonprofit leaders need to focus their attention on... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
is no simple matter. Those who raise a glass of Jones's Sonoma-Cutrer Chardonnay are enjoying the delicate outcome of painstaking scientific research, months of careful growing, exceptional attention to detail, and - last but not least -... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
(discussed below), it is best to pay particular attention to how comfortable they are with their potential colleagues. In other instances, people choose jobs that are too demanding for them. Because they do not fully appreciate their... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade
uncle and each other’s counsel. John, for example, noted his uncle Augustine’s immediate attentiveness to him upon his arrival in China. “Uncle Augustine is very kind to me. . . . When he is not busy he always seems very glad to converse... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
to make the MBA Program coeducational. In 1974, Marshall became a faculty member in the Advanced Management Program and turned his attention to Executive Education. Several years later, he was tapped to teach in the Smaller Company... View Details
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
the next budget cycle. With a delay strategy, attention can be diverted to some legitimate, pressing issue, the sort of which always exists. There is the sudden budget shortfall, the unexpected competitor announcement, the dangerous new... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
Rare as One network, which has been instrumental in accelerating a focus on research and clinical trials. While these are examples of great strides, the biggest challenges for rare diseases are receiving funding and attention from... View Details
- 06 Feb 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?
Summing Up Can "Conscious Capitalism" Become a Viable Antidote to Income Inequality? Conscious capitalism as an antidote to income inequality apparently is an idea that attracts the attention of a diverse community, judging from... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
result or, at best, a multiplier of their impact. Another concern is that the policy focus on exports very easily leads to insufficient attention to domestically-oriented or more traditional sectors (services, agriculture). This creates... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
every decision, there is risk—there are potential upsides and downsides. Focusing an employee's attention on the potential upsides can make him or her feel more confident and more likely to achieve those positive outcomes." New... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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The Toyota Production System: Rules for Activity, Connection, and Pathway Design and Improvement
Researchers have established that Toyota enjoys advantages in cost, quality, lead time, and flexibility when compared to its competitors in automobile assembly. Differences in generating value have been attributed to differences between the Toyota Production System... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA
to be developed and prioritized. A great attention to detail Being meticulous with detail aids not only in attaining a better appreciation of the nuances of each situation, but also in gaining the capacity to discern the practicality and... View Details