Hard Power - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells

your order.” Gender-tailored marketing messages from these brands and others—including Mangria and Pink Power tools—are common, yet new research shows they can turn off consumers, particularly women. In fact, they often backfire to the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

19 Jan 2024
News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

their work.” “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.” The spy manual struck a chord with Stefan H. Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, since he... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Events - Business History

Seabrooke (Copenhagen Business School) Neil Fligstein (Berkeley) and Janna Huang (Berkeley) 10:45AM-11:30AM (EDT), Panel 2: Power and Politics Chair and discussant, Kristin Fabbe (HBS) Meg Rithmire (HBS) Yasheng Huang (MIT) Ben Ross... View Details

25 Apr 2024
News

Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

17 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

your boss. That's not the deal. You have to figure out the sources of power you have to influence the boss. You also have to see the boss as human and fallible in all the ways that you're human and fallible, and figure out how to deal... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 May 2017
News

Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

but Ogunlesi always showed up, eventually becoming the sole student in the classroom. “The lecturer was my tutor and I didn’t want him to face an empty classroom,” says Ogunlesi. That level of consideration for others, coupled with raw intelligence and View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

10 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

declined during the past five decades, and the self-employed are unlikely to be the top earners in their communities. “It’s gotten harder to make a substantial profit at those smaller-scale levels,” explains Kerr. “It’s hard to make the... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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A Letter from Michael Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative A Letter from Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter I believe that ideas are the... View Details

16 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Advice on Advice

discounting the wisdom they were given, often because of an egocentric bias that has them naturally favoring their own viewpoints. Sometimes people will ask for advice from others, but their true goal is to seek validation or praise for their own solutions. Experience... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

16 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses

addresses in the Internet's early days, when addresses looked abundant and when it was hard to subdivide address blocks into just the right sizes. Other networks have scaled back their IPv4 needs through a change of business focus, or... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Telecommunications

20 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

signs: You have become the bottleneck. Employees are overly inclined to consult you before they act. People start using your name to endorse things, as in "Frank says " Surprise Three: It Is Hard To Know What Is Really Going On... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

22 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture

excerpt, the authors outline the top 10 lessons of the best practitioners, from ING Direct to Build-A-Bear Workshop to Harrah's Entertainment.We can learn a great deal from organizations whose strong and adaptive ownership cultures give them a View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Joe Wheeler

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

with the new ones. Organizations are trying so hard to maintain their hybrid work environments and fill offices. They’re trying so hard to get back to the pre-pandemic workplace, but was it so great? No.... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

16 May 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2)

“American” as a separator; a little line that pushes two worlds apart. I think it’s more powerful to think of it as a bridge. Standing on that bridge, we have access to a unique vantage point. With that comes the opportunity to take... View Details

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

The slate of companies going public this year— Pinterest, Slack Technologies, and Uber, to name a few—should silence anyone who doubts the power of a bold idea. After all, one seemingly crazy brainstorm can up end an entire industry,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Dec 2019
News

Remix

for Dixon, bringing to the fore a bundle of memories that she had worked hard to bury. She had launched her career at Def Jam back in 1994, working as an artists and repertoire (A&R) executive and reporting directly to Simmons. She knew... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

24 May 2017
News

John J. Brennan, MBA 1980

pancake in half and explains that the two halves make a whole. That Sunday ritual encapsulates how people closest to Jack Brennan describe him: He is a genius with numbers, reads people well, works hard, believes in the transformative View Details