Filter Results:
(3,824)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,824)
- People (33)
- News (1,361)
- Research (1,794)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (459)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,824)
- People (33)
- News (1,361)
- Research (1,794)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (459)
- 14 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition
Many companies have tried, with mixed success, to leverage this underused asset by centralizing knowledge management functions or by investing heavily in knowledge management technology. We suggest another approach, one that requires managers to change their behavior... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
broken. Wages don’t move with productivity, and they haven’t in any sustained way for decades.” While these new labor movements are promising, Silvers says the adjustment in wages paid to fast-food workers and Walmart employees are too... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
by the number of personal papers — mostly diaries and family letters — contained in these business records. “These personal writings reveal the depth of the Historical Collections and underscore the variety of ways that the business... View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Building Capacity in the Social Sector
from their daily challenges to engage in learning that will help them take their organizations beyond the status quo." At Thun's request, the United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley plays a key role in... View Details
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
external CEO is probably the 'easiest, politically correct' option . . . where there would typically be two or three close [internal] contenders for the top job." A number of ways of meeting these challenges were suggested. Klopack's... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
(Thinkstock) Prescription drug spending increased by more than 13 percent in the United States in 2014, raising health insurance premiums and the ire of consumers and politicians. The reasons behind the rise are many, including the high... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
questions. The calls are high stakes — a top executive with a murky message can cause share demand to dry up, or worse, a drop in the stock price, faster than you can say, "Outlook is uncertain." Imagine, then, the challenge for foreign executives of firms... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
A Leveraged Investment
time between the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, and the United States, both stress that attending OPM improved their businesses as well as their personal lives. “HBS enriched us tremendously,” says Hesham.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The Joy of Spending
more money," says Norton, now an associate professor in the Marketing Unit at HBS. That search for answers led to their new book, Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, which offers peer-reviewed guidance for the purse strings—much... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
reforms that began in 1978 have stoked annual growth in excess of 9 percent, three times that of the United States. Per capita income among the nation’s 1.3 billion inhabitants has more than quadrupled, surpassing $1,000 last year.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
rooted in the popular MBA elective, The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: The United States, an offering designed in the 1980s by HBS professors Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and Richard S. Tedlow. To expand this course into the global arena... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
cars advance unseen. It’s a lesson American carmakers apparently forgot. “For the six decades preceding the second oil shock in the 1980s, the United States was a highly protected market,” declares HBS professor Malcolm Salter, who has... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
application to the U.S. National Park Service (NPS). The framework covers many benefits provided by NPS units and programs, including on-site visitation, carbon sequestration, and intellectual property such as in education curricula and... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
From the Classroom to the Workplace: How I Applied Learnings to my Internship
The way Norwegians may want to buy clothes is very different to the way Spaniards are going to buy clothes, not only for the fashion but also for their preferred mode of payment, delivery, etc. Secondly, I... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- Profile
Humbulani Dombo
Humbulani's father is a doctor, her sister is a doctor, her mother is a medical technologist. "Having grown up in that environment," she says, "I wanted to buck the trend a little bit. Business seemed broad, a way to... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho
return to prior employers. Median total compensation was $140,000, up slightly from last year’s $138,125 for the Class of 2006. For future job seekers, this fall MBA Career Services, in conjunction with student club leaders, introduced “Industry Weeks” as a View Details
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
A recent Washington Post editorial suggested that the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) is, in many ways, a remnant of days gone by. The arguments implied that small businesses that make up our nation’s “Main Street”... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders Tsedal Neeley My intellectual agenda is ambitious and somewhat risky,” says Associate Professor and Marvin Bower Fellow Tsedal Neeley. “I truly believe that HBS is one of the few places on earth where I could boldly... View Details
- 24 Feb 2015
- News
Florida Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
world. “And the Campaign is about more than raising money,” he noted. “It provides an opportunity to inspire and engage the next generation of leaders at the School—to better connect alumni with each other and with HBS in powerful ways as... View Details