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20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at... View Details

26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

conclude by briefly reviewing two additional strategies for coping with such difficult situations: forgoing making decisions and forgetting those decisions altogether. How Well Do Social Ratings Actually Measure Corporate Social... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

people and businesses are finding that the two things we love most in the world—cars and cash in our pockets—are totally optional. By 2017 people will be disrupting the disrupters, because the world is changing so fast. “Number three: View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—We analyze the effects of increasing the salience of corporate values in an organization rewarding its employees based on financial performance. We use data from a field experiment conducted at an Indian... View Details

June 2024
Teaching Note

Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane, Susan Pinckney and Alexis Lefort

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 424-004. Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management... View Details

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24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

of Wenzhou Kangning Hospital Co, Ltd. from founding to just before its initial public offering to illustrate the extraordinary entrepreneurship happening in China’s healthcare space. It highlights the challenges of China’s mental health... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

Case 813-060 Kyruus is used in a course at HBS on Entrepreneurship in Healthcare IT and Services (EHITS). It describes a young company that has built a very large database on physicians. The company has had some early successful pilots... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

October 2019
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GRIT Fitness

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Olivia Hull

In December 2018, GRIT Fitness was a growing chain of boutique fitness studios offering a variety of workout classes, including weightlifting, high intensity interval training, and cardio dance. With 400 members and three Dallas studios, CEO Brittani Rettig believed... View Details

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10 Mar 2021
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COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

fellow at the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and a former senior lecturer. Michael Beer: Have honest conversations with employees Every responsible senior executive wants to know what changes employees want in the post-COVID era. The... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

professional network for physicians.) Each year, Rock Health selects about 20 companies from thousands of applications to receive backing in the form of funding (grants up to $20,000 or convertible notes of $100,000) and services (office space, operational support, and... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

for success. The grand narratives of business history have been focused on the firms that got their strategies and organizations "right," rather than those that got them wrong, and towards the winners rather than the losers. This paper explores how View Details