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04 Oct 2024
In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

aside time to focus that can help restore work-life balance. Joseph Fuller: Make time for ‘deep work’ at the office and home People have struggled to balance the demands of work and their personal lives since the emergence of organized View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue

exactly how fast we are changing the climate. We do know that we are treating the atmosphere as though it were free. This used to be a reasonable way to behave: our numbers were small enough, and our technologies sufficiently primitive,... View Details

Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities

01 Apr 2001
News

HBS Press Books in Brief

Inside Chinese Business: A Guide for Managers Worldwide reveals the social and cultural values that underpin Chinese business practices and influence day-to-day corporate decisions. Written by Ming-Jer Chen, an expert on business strategy and competition and founding... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

January 2018
Case

Pravost Consulting Services

By: Andrew Wasynczuk and Tiffany Y. Chang

Pravost Consulting Services considers a division manager's response to the stringent demands of his boss who lambasts him for the division's weak performance. Six months earlier Jakub Kowalski, CEO of Pravost, promoted Viktor Novak to head up the faltering Pravost... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consulting Services; Employee Retention; Eastern Europe; Performance; Attrition; Culture; Krakow; Retention; Performance Improvement; Organizational Culture; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Poland; Europe

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Polaroid Corporation Collection | Baker Library

Polaroid Corporation Collection Edwin H. Land demonstrating Polaroid Land Instant Film, April 1947. Polaroid Corporation records. The Polaroid Corporation was among the most creative and technologically innovative companies of the... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Two Kinds of Green

goals — and how it continues to do so even after Burt’s is acquired for $913 million by Clorox in 2007. The case, produced with assistance from HBS’s Educational Technology Group, takes full advantage of its medium, painting a colorful,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; natural products company; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

18 Sep 2020
News

Is VR the Future of Corporate Training?

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details

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September 2016 (Revised September 2017)
Case

Collage.com: Scaling a Distributed Organization

By: Christopher Stanton and Shikhar Ghosh

Kevin Borders and Joe Golden, co-founders and co-CEOs of Collage.com, must decide how to grow their custom photo-products startup in the face of fierce competition. From 2011 through 2016, the business evolved from a hobby to a startup with $22 million in revenue and... View Details

Keywords: Remote Work; Internet and the Web; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Employees; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Service Industry

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24 May 2023
Blog Post

Get to Know Class Day Speaker Adán Acevedo

professional excellence. Acevedo is grateful for the professors who have inspired him with their sharp insights, extensive experience, humanity and authenticity, tough questions, and skillful navigation of classroom dynamics, and for the... View Details

07 Aug 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the City of Boston

Kiernan Schmitt (MBA 2018) is a 2017 Social Enterprise Summer Fellow working with the City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology this summer. Imagine if, when it came to delivering city services online, your local government... View Details

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

Environmental Management in the Technology and Operations Management Unit, and Faculty Chair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative. Rebecca Henderson: Short-term fears might guide decision-making In the short run, COVID-19... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Mar 2015
News

New Idea: State of the Art

museum, visitors are also given a special digital pen that they can tap on various exhibits to record their experience and later explore online what they saw in person. But of all the new features, it’s a historic survey of human... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; Adobe; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2015
News

Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right

different you are and how loved you are. We found industries where there are already clear winners that have pulled away from their competitors and gained the love of millennial consumers. (Online search, sports apparel, and mobile View Details

25 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

three factors that predict neighborhood improvement. First, neighborhoods that are densely populated by college-educated adults are more likely to experience physical improvements—an observation that is compatible with the economic literature linking View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

mechanism, which we refer to as the "clamped second price auction mechanism," into the laboratory to determine whether it helps human subjects learn to play their optimal strategy faster than the standard second price auction... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Oct 2015
First Look

October 20, 2015

empirical results provide strong support for the view that output prices are a key determinant of vertical integration. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49893 forthcoming Production and Operations Management View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Charmian Love Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Quantum Theory & the Rise of the B Corporation Charmian Love Kim Coupounas 19 Jul 2018... View Details

20 Dec 2022
Blog Post

7 Resolutions for Recruiting in the New Year

questions do candidates consistently bring to your recruiters? How successful are your new hires?Answers to these questions will help reveal where you can implement technology and/or an optimized process to achieve improved results in... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jun 2024
News

The Exchange: Chance Encounters

physical proximity and virtual connection, and the increasing human tendency to isolate oneself. You write that this moment represents a rare opportunity to reimagine the workplace. What does the landscape look like now, and how strategic... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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