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- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
often don’t take the vacation time they have coming to them, and many are feeling even more hesitant to ask for time off right now. But they are also feeling really burned out,” Whillans says. “We have all had to do a lot of adapting in a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
discretionary behavior, and they’re certainly not wasting time reading the company handbook. They even resist restrictions such as vacation or expense policies, which Netflix has essentially abolished. The company’s expense policy is,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
contrast, a woman cleaning floors for Apple today works for a service contractor. She can’t afford to take vacation time because of the wages she’d lose, going to school is financially out of reach, and no bonus is coming her way—plus she... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing
quantitative and qualitative research to explain how we can turn cash into contentment. The key lies in changing our spending habits and adhering to five key principles: Buy Experiences (research shows that material purchases are less satisfying than View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research The Role of (Dis)similarity in (Mis)predicting Others' Preferences By: Barasz, Kate, Tami Kim, and Leslie John Abstract—Consumers readily indicate liking options that appear dissimilar—for example, enjoying both rustic lake... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
use of sweatshop labor when considering a Caribbean vacation with questionable labor practices for themselves than for their friends. Experiment 1B demonstrated that endorsement of sweatshop labor mediated the relationship between product... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
she just burst into laughter,” says Karsenti, who was born in Paris and raised from the age of three in Miami by parents who were both entrepreneurs. “I just loved business. I remember going on a family vacation and being outside a bakery... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
could find.” “My dad was always thinking of creative ideas for his business and talking about them at the dinner table,” Amabile says on a call from Amherst, Massachusetts—her home with life partner and collaborator Steven Kramer since 2018. “We spent most of our View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
one hundred grocery and department stores. Kohl focused on philanthropic activities after selling the business in 1979 and purchased the NBA Milwaukee Bucks in 1985. Elected to the Senate seat vacated by William Proxmire (MBA '40) in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
alongside global brands. Retailing and distribution remain largely local. And American consumers show a desire for increasing cultural variety in their life experiences, eating more often at ethnic restaurants and vacationing more often... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
forced to vacate and moved to student housing at Ft. Devens in Shirley, a forty-mile commute. The B-School wanted to expand, which it did quite rapidly, filling up the field completely. At the time I had a 1937 Hudson Big Boy automobile,... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
As the technology wave breaks over us, some think the Internet looks to many about to wash out the established order of everything from vacation booking to the nation-state itself. But hold on a minute, Debora Spar cautions. We've seen... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
Organizing the Vacation Rental Industry In less than 10 years, cofounders Brian Sharples and Carl Shepherd had transformed HomeAway from just another Internet startup into the world's leading vacation-rental marketplace-a global online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
a little bit too intrusive. But I found that the gentleman that time was having a vacation in France. So that day I said, "Good. I have to go. I have to find Tim because he is close by." Morrell: So on June 2017, Piero calls Tim's mobile... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
think HBS was going to be like? Amyn Pesnani: One thing that surprised me was I thought I would hardly learn anything. It was just meant to be a vacation. Laughter It was a vacation from the work world, but I still learned quite a bit,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
self-examination. There are some areas for us that are almost sacred. You know, of course, the tithe for us is sacred, and that we do, no matter what. But honestly, for us, and I imagine this is true for a lot of my fellow grads, is for us View Details
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
dance partner became my best friend and roommate. We kept our pace, pushing each other to achieve our respective goals as true equals. We talked jobsite safety while cooking, built vacation Gantt charts, and stole the show on any... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
DVD to catch up on world cinema. I collect antique maps of India from the days of the British Raj and am also finding time to indulge in still photography and play the occasional game of tennis. What’s your favorite place to vacation or... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
says. “That is enormously satisfying to them—and it motivates them to work even harder.” Also, research shows that employees who take time off are less stressed and more engaged, more creative, and more productive. Give the gift of time, not just through generous View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
to produce polarized materials, Land was counting on a new initiative to reenergize and propel the company’s growth in peacetime. 8 Land conceived of instant photography in 1943. While on vacation with his family in Santa Fe, New Mexico,... View Details