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- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
“Hang on a second, let me just get my phone real quick,” Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) says midway through a conversation one Friday morning in May, darting out the door of a glass-walled conference room in Los Angeles. She gives the entirely... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
Police band manager Miles Copeland. "We were just two guys in a room starving," Boberg laughs, recalling his early years with the company that by the late 1980s had become the most prominent independent music label in North America. As... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
technologies emerged from Xerox without XIV's involvement: LiveWorks, Customers and Technologies, and Xerox ColorGraphX. Each of these companies was formed after XTV had committed its available funds. XTV's participation was not sought in... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
shows. We need to remember to set work aside and make time to connect in meaningful ways with family and friends, says Whillans, whose partner’s stressful work as an emergency room physician is a daily... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
requirements provided a major stimulus for the emergence of local firms in Germany and Spain. U.S. firms were unable to develop internationally competitive products partly because of a rush to capture lucrative contracts dependent on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
"Step Change" by Julia Hanna. At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo's former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
unprecedented mental strain of a kind people are not designed, evolutionarily, to deal with. We deal well with acute emergencies experienced in groups. The pandemic is a long-term, slow-rolling crisis of uncertain duration involving... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
hard. About 20 years ago, I did a series of cases on a retail health clinic called Health Stop. It was at the mall, and I thought it was great. The idea was, just like these guys now, you're sick, we're quick. Rather than going to an View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
the splits. That’s just in a microcosm of how we are trained since kindergarten, that a solution to a problem fairness, quote/unquote, will emerge when we go and split things equally. That turns out to be problems in personal life and all... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
it seems to be about simpler values. Like the upper-middle-class living room featured in sitcoms, many depictions of a simple life today cost more than you might think. Our collective fixation on "the best" and what the best... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
ready for my Nicotrol somewhere over Mount Rushmore; unfortunately, it's tucked away in my briefcase, which is jammed in the overhead compartment behind some clown's trombone case. I try to explain to the flight attendant that I really need to have that trombone tossed... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
Turkey. When the video ends, Janice McCormick, director of Academic Services, flicks on the lights and leads the group on its first foray into case method learning. Despite McCormick's encouragement, it is an awkward exercise, marked by nervous glances around the View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Enterprise risk management (ERM) has recently emerged as a widespread practice in financial institutions. A burgeoning literature of regulatory and practitioner texts is indicative of the daunting diversity of ambitions, objectives and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real depreciations are associated with faster growth of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
guessing where this might be going. “Let’s not.” Joe left the room briefly, and then returned with two long gray pillows off the couch in the TV room. He handed one to McArthur, who still had the oversized frame of the football player he... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
couple of weeks after my wedding, actually. So it was my husband who was by my side, despite having just gotten married. I had told him when I was first dating him, what I had, but I don't think he had any sense of the magnitude of it until he was sitting by my side in... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
vision for the organization of the future; reveals the workplace innovations that emerged during the pandemic; and defines the new model of leadership for sustaining continuous change throughout the coming years of opportunity and... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China for the leadership of the world revolution. When a world of newly independent states emerged from... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
behavior. We examine the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler's Fallacy in binary prediction tasks. Theories of the Gambler's Fallacy and models of binary prediction suggest that recency bias, elicited by... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Publication:Harvard Business Review 87, no. 5 (May 2009) Abstract Few companies are thinking about hiring right now, but that's a mistake. If history is any guide, staffing will become a front-burner issue once the economic upheaval eases. Even now, companies are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace