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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online
understand financial statements and communicate financial results. My job is project-based, and I'm currently leading the operational functions of a system-wide IT implementation, a project that affects the daily work of a few thousand... View Details
- 20 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators
innovative ideas spring. Specifically, innovators engage the following behavioral skills more frequently: Questioning. Innovators are consummate questioners who show a passion for inquiry. Their queries frequently challenge the status quo, just as [Apple Inc.... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
across regions, like software), have higher average wages than B2C industries. The supply chain economy also has a much larger intensity of STEM jobs and generates the majority of patents. While STEM jobs... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
and 8 million employees out of work—three times the job losses seen by any other industry. While some restaurants began reopening in May and June, most featured only takeout, delivery, or outdoor dining options due to local restrictions.... View Details
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
introduces new role models and mentors from the outside for those who are growing. More than 30 employees. As managers start working for you, you need to trust them as leaders of their own teams and, similar to setting the hiring guidelines, your View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
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The Caring Company
Address ‘Caregiving Crisis,’ Study Finds David Harrison 16 Jan 2019 | The Wall Street Journal A third of US workers have left a job due to caregiving responsibilities Corinne Purtill 18 Jan 2019 | Quartz at Work The Stealth Productivity... View Details
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Evidence from Job Postings" with Tianshuo Shi and Yuan Zou. Ethan C. Rouen : Winner of the 2022 Innovation in Research Award from the Diversity Section of the American Accounting Association for “Inclusive Managers” with Wei Cai and Yuan... View Details
- 05 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures
what mistakes they made along the way—that will help me avoid those same mistakes.” The humble job applicant This strategy works for job-seekers, too. If you’re asked to describe your greatest weakness in an interview, don’t use the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Using IT to Leverage Human Resources in Services
Discussion of the Internet and IT to date concentrates on how they will replace, rather than support, human service providers. While this approach is appropriate for a few firms, it is inadequate for many. The Internet and other information technology... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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In My Humble Opinion: Role Model
One of four daughters of Pakistani immigrants, Salma Qarnain (MBA 2002) grew up in the midwestern “I” states of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana before attending Stanford University. “It was my first experience feeling happy and comfortable in a place that had diversity,”... View Details
- 09 Apr 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses
boss deserves a big salary, but only when the number is fully explained. Research Papers Driven by Social Comparisons: How Feedback about Coworkers’ Effort Influences Individual Productivity At a Japanese bank, researchers examine the extent to which View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
via one or two interviews. But studies across job categories indicate there is only about a 14 percent correlation between interview predictions and job success. This is especially true in sales. A View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Career Networking - Alumni
your first post-graduate role, switching careers, or returning to the workforce after a period of absence, your job search begins by making a case for yourself. Learn how to market yourself to potential employers. Search the Alumni... View Details
- March 2016 (Revised May 2018)
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Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales. These results were in marked contrast... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Reinventing Best Buy." Harvard Business School Case 716-455, March 2016. (Revised May 2018.)
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Guides to Archival Collections – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
research materials, progress reports, and other documentation associated with the Hawthorne Studies in both paper-based and microform records. The materials contain information on overall organization, methodology, and particular test groups (such as records on View Details
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Selamile Dlamini
women are meek, respectful, and silent. Somewhere along the line, I began to silence my inner voice, my intuition. When I had a feeling that I shouldn’t take the first job I landed in corporate America, I ignored it. Many times, I knew it... View Details
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Jean Luo
After two years with Goldman Sachs, Jean Luo landed the kind of job millions dream of: developing games as a product manager at Zynga. “I really enjoyed being a PM; it's like being a mini-general manager with your own P&L. I loved the... View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
Gino, a behavioral scientist, was working on a project about how time of day affects job interviews. (Note to job-hunters: Try to book a morning interview slot.) “As it turns out, the later one interviews in the day, the lower the score... View Details
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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About
in turn have helped companies create hundreds of thousands of jobs and change our lives, in the workplace and at home.” Arthur Rock (MBA 1951) graduated from Syracuse University and served in the US Army before earning his MBA. He began... View Details