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10 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice

some become more successful—but led others down the wrong path, says Rembrand Koning, the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. How much strategic insight and profit boost AI can provide View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

01 Sep 2024
News

Turning Point: Make Your Life Count

Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details

20 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Chasing a Dream: My Summer Internship at Chelsea Football Club

and commercial departments. I work on a variety of projects for both the current season and future seasons. Depending on the project, I also have the opportunity to collaborate with first-team players from both the men's and women's... View Details

30 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Reflecting on my service

dependably meeting the demands of the high stakes and high pressure environment. More than just surviving, the Marines taught me how to thrive in the intensity and ambiguity that defined the pandemic. The military propelled me on that... View Details

29 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Pursuing Independent Projects

whether or not to pursue an Independent Project really depends on what students want to get out of it. Going into it, I had a few ideas of what I wanted to get out of the experience and I had a relatively clear picture of what I wanted to... View Details

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Statement on Supreme Court Decision | About

write today to reaffirm the fundamental principle that deep and transformative teaching, learning, and research depend upon a community comprising people of many backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences. That principle is as true... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Back to School

D.C., to work at a nonprofit education-reform group. Then, as now, I feel the future of any society depends on its ability to educate and prepare the next generation to take its turn at the wheel. For a time, I rejoined the for-profit... View Details

Keywords: Anthony Priest; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

09 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm

products and services. Despite the importance of a good chin wag to creativity, however, research by Koning and Sharique Hasan, of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, shows that not all conversations are created equal. Depending... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

Researchers have long shown that there are differences in how socially responsible companies depend on the culture of their country of origin. Companies located in countries including Germany, Japan, and most Nordic nations are more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Mar 2015
What Do You Think?

Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

depending on your point of view. Here's a management that may actually believe it can achieve wins for customers and investors by engineering a win for employees, something that several of us have written about for years. Walmart's... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

02 Dec 2009
What Do You Think?

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

warehousing industry in the Southwestern U.S. as "by and large dependable and hard working, and their children will probably have better jobs than they have." As Irv Williamson put it: "Why would anybody consider limiting... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

07 Feb 2005
What Do You Think?

If You Blink, Will You Miss?

blink take place "behind a locked door" in our brains, one that he suggests resides somewhere between the conscious and the subconscious. (This suggests that the subtitle—"the power of thinking without thinking"—may View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

said. "If you look at companies like Cisco and others that depend less on R&D, you'll see they have taken a different model in the new economy. They essentially said, 'We will use the innovation in the marketplace, and we will... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

02 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

industry are human talent and alignment. The work of professional service firms depends exclusively on the talent and intelligence of the people delivering it. Good firms hire the absolute best people and develop them, motivate them, and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting

09 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

career development. “Organizations should have ERGs by affinity groups, specifically Black, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, women, and LGBTQ. Depending on the nature of the organization, there may be other groups as well such as a group... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Sep 2020
News

Righting the Ship

keep as many people as possible alive and healthy, and reduce the number of deaths and hospitalizations. Second lesson from Shackleton: you never vary from that mission, because so much else depends on achieving it. For example, wrestling... View Details

15 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change

in order to avert danger, the report said. Such a dramatic reduction in carbon emissions will require the cooperation of China and India, which depend heavily on coal, Calderón said. Persuading them to rely on anything else will require... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

25 Feb 2020
News

The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation

(and enabling the USPTO to reduce office space needs in expensive regions). Choudhury found that those who took advantage of the policy chose to move to more attractive locations, which might mean places with a lower cost of living, better future job opportunities, or... View Details

Keywords: April White

11 Dec 2017
News

Growing from Within

guest counts on a daily basis across the restaurant portfolio as well as operating metrics such as speed and accuracy of service and food quality. Also very important are customer and people metrics. The success of our business largely View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Dec 2017
News

The Future of VR is Animated Bunnies

she says, “we need people to be thinking about storytelling.” Future success depends less on further technological advances and more on content creation. To address that need, Fan cofounded Baobab Studios with Eric Darnell, a former... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

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