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09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

open bar happy hours with David Fairhurst, a personal friend he had promoted to oversee human resources, and the two men developed reputations for “flirting with female employees.” HR allegedly didn’t intervene despite knowledge of the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

07 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 7

that will deliver corporate performance. Finally, I conclude that the field will ultimately require a framework that puts firms at its center. Benefiting from Location: Knowledge Retrieval Authors:Juan Alcácer and Wilbur Chung... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How does disaster change leadership goals? What signals should leaders send... View Details

28 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

educational activities within the HBS community. Our vigorous research program pushed outward the knowledge frontiers and created a rich portfolio of courses and learning opportunities for MBA students and Executive Education... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

26 Sep 2024
HBS Case

If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

Badaracco says. “You want really good, honest back and forth with thoughtful, knowledgeable people. We don’t fully understand how these AI programs work, but we don’t fundamentally understand how our own brains make decisions either.” Tom... View Details

Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology

July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
Case

The Honor Foundation: Accessing Special Operations Talent

By: Boris Groysberg and John Masko

In 2020, The Honor Foundation (THF), a nonprofit dedicated to helping U.S. military special operators to transition into civilian careers, was facing a series of strategic challenges. THF had been founded in 2013 by former Navy SEAL trainee Joe Musselman, who observed... View Details

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16 Dec 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

In an interview with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne, Harvard Business School professor Dorothy Leonard and research assistant Brian DeLacey discuss their research and the recent Adult Learning Workshop held at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief

finding ways to make the choice easier through gathering more information or seeking counseling. “Part of it is just being aware of the extent that we are averse to difficult decisions,” says Hagerty, “and seeking out things to make them easier, whether through more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Lessons from Chinese Companies’ Response to Covid-19 (Harvard Business Review) What Quarantine Can Teach You About Spending and Happiness (Wall Street Journal) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate

15 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

Review) A Pandemic Won’t Kill The Open Office, But Slack Could (Vanity Fair) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge “How do I spend my time and my money” is a question that requires rethinking during a time of crisis. Thus, the... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence

05 Dec 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

predictors. Taleb, in The Black Swan, worried that cataclysmic events (Sandy) are next to impossible to predict and too costly to prepare for, given the small probability that they will ever occur. Human beings by and large do not have View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing

textbook market is another potential target for e-book disruption, especially as new devices such as the iPad add video and other immersive technologies to the mix. "If we as a society are concerned about the next generation acquiring View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Entertainment & Recreation

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

it. "We have the medical knowledge to do it. And it's not being done. Just under one-half of identified diabetics in this country don't have their blood sugar under control," she said. Diabetes manifests as Type I or Type II... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

19 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

they can answer it in Slack.” You Might Also Like: In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go? Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity? Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails Feedback or ideas to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

11 May 2020
Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

surprising to us. It is unclear whether this reveals a lack of knowledge or actual uneasiness about the policies themselves. American competitiveness at risk Either way, the stakes get higher in times of crisis: the recent H-1B visa... View Details

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

17 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

that eight of the 10 most-read HBS Working Knowledge stories of the year were COVID-focused. Readers sought insights from HBS faculty about everything from managing large-scale remote work to leading during a crisis. The year was also... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs

representing different disciplines. Was that cross-pollination of viewpoints and knowledge helpful? A: Not only did we have a variety of faculty interested in entrepreneurship from different perspectives, we also had two prominent venture... View Details