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12 Oct 2022
Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

Visibility, or lack thereof, played a significant role in my life, and telling my story on National Coming Out Day is an opportunity to pay it forward and live true to my parent’s final lesson of helping others. Toni Morrison put it best:... View Details

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

pandemic. An increase in risk perception makes consumers more willing to pay for safety features, which, in turn, provides producers greater incentives to develop and commercialize technologies that address consumers' demands for safety.... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

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Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment

selffunded entrepreneurship by acquisition ventures. HBS Loan Reduction for Private Sector Employees (login required) : A loan reduction program for students working in the private sector at jobs that pay significantly below the HBS... View Details

03 Jun 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Eliciting Taxpayer Preferences Increases Tax Compliance

Keywords: by Cait Lamberton, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve & Michael I. Norton

07 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Better Deals Through Level II Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping to Solve Their Internal Problems

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

May 2004
Article

The Risky Business of Hiring Stars

By: Boris Groysberg, Ashish Nanda and Nitin Nohria

With the battle for the best and brightest people heating up again, you're most likely out there looking for first-rate talent in the ranks of your competitors. Chances are, you're sold on the idea of recruiting from outside your organization, since developing people... View Details

Keywords: Staffing; Employee Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employees; Retention; Competitive Advantage; Human Resources; Performance

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22 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

especially since many supervisors treat them as an afterthought, Cespedes says. “They’ll begin to pay attention to someone a few days before the performance review, and then it becomes mainly a compensation discussion about whether the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams

likely to call on colleagues than were male and younger managers. Sharing the spotlight pays off The willingness to engage colleagues in the boardroom appears to also pay dividends in the stock market. Firms... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

fund for management. For a percentage of the assets managed, or a percentage of the investors' gain, the bank places investors' money in other funds for management. The fee the investor pays the bank is for expertise the investor lacks in... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

several thousand developers inside the company who are constantly examining the potential of new technologies—"lead users" if you like. When all these sources start telling you the same thing, it's hard not to pay attention.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2021
News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

If the company is successful, that equity pays dividends. At C.H.I. Overhead Doors in rural Illinois, which offered equity grants shortly after KKR acquired the company in 2015, the first dividends were paid in May 2017. “I had colleagues... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

tense, it will pay off,” Whillans says. Many people also waste too much time trying to find the cheapest prices, whether by driving out of the way for the least-expensive gas or schlepping to multiple stores for slightly lower prices. In... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

with a brief acknowledgment/commentary/redirect, or engage in dialogue with the student raising the point and potentially open the discussion to reactions from other students. In deciding how to respond, the instructor should make every attempt to “read the room,”... View Details

21 May 2024
News

A New Chapter

Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo by Cayce Clifford

19 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

will defend you," Avery tells brand managers. "If people start bashing a beloved brand, there is a ready group of organized consumers who swoop in and say, 'Don't beat up our brand!' Treating your communities well during good times can View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

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Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

current concepts in how health care delivery systems can grow and deliver value-based health care across geography. January 2020 Paying for Health Care by Dr. Mary Witkowski Dr. Mary Witkowski discusses value based payment including... View Details

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

MBA, you are likely thinking about what repayment might look like post-graduation. HBS graduates pursue careers in a variety of industries and positions around the world. With a median starting salary of $148,750, and median signing bonus of $30,000, HBS graduates are... View Details

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

recently become sensitive to a gap in our strategy map/BSC framework by not paying sufficient attention to enterprise risk management (ERM). Obviously, many large financial institutions, despite having risk management departments, have... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2023
What Do You Think?

Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?

generations of entrants to the workforce who have become accustomed to study and work from home, if not from anywhere. Bloom estimates that working from home is equivalent to a 7-8 percent pay increase for them. It allows a larger group... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

structure driven by the accelerators." Two Is Better A dual operating system is a nod to what Kotter believes is some of the most interesting management thinking of the past few decades, from Michael Porter's "wakeup call telling us that organizations need to View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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