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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
David Upton shared teaching duties with several counterparts from the faculty of Tsinghua University. Cases were available in English and Chinese. Classes taught by HBS faculty were translated simultaneously... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Optimal Illiquidity
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
Moss Kanter: Transitions are smooth and peaceful when there is wide consensus that the team or company or country is on a successful trajectory—what I call a winning streak. Then it is also likely that the successors have been endorsed... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages
Foods was having was caused partly by COVID-19, partly by competition for workers from Amazon, and partly by changes in lifestyle,” says David... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
gave him the luxury of being choosy about investors.) Book Excerpt Telling the Right Story By Rosabeth Moss Kanter How many times have you heard the same complaints about the failure to move from an idea to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
Teaching a case study on the National Geographic Society for the first time, HBS professor David A. Garvin walks out to the middle of the horseshoe-shaped classroom and asks his students, "How many of you have familiarity with... View Details
- 15 Aug 2023
- HBS Case
(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?
The recent rollout of ChatGPT by OpenAI has set the world abuzz about the potential of artificial intelligence. But whatever happened to the last tech phenomenon, the “metaverse”? The once-heavily hyped future of immersive 3D technology... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
Black Experience, co-edited by Mayo, University of Virginia Professor Laura Morgan Roberts, who is a visiting scholar at HBS, and David A. Thomas, president of Morehouse College and a former professor at... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
work becomes a fixture in business. The winner is anyone’s guess, says HBS Professor David Yoffie, who co-wrote the case. “It is a dramatic story,” says Yoffie, the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business and... View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?
loyalties among clients, colleagues, and partners can present ethical issues that can be difficult to manage, says David Fubini, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. “You are an adviser. You are not an employee of the company you... View Details
- April 2016
- Teaching Note
Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
This Note was created for the purpose of aiding classroom instructors in the use of the Harvard Business School case, "Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016." As chairman and CEO, David Kenny guided the Weather Company's transformation from a cable television... View Details
- 28 May 2024
- In Practice
Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible
need to get to breakeven and to deal with unreasonable valuation expectations of the last several years. That being said, my research and research by others has shown that venture capital and startup market slowdowns are opportune times... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Dec 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
services, inner-city residents often face a lack of basic services. Many large retail stores, for instance, are not interested in launching locations in urban areas because they are put off by perceptions of low-income levels and high... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
normal operations but to put some or all of their revenues and salaries into an escrow account controlled by a trusted outside party. In the American Airlines case, planes would continue flying, but a large fraction of the company's... View Details
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
those who care about the renewed, continued competitiveness of the United States," he told attendees who gathered recently at the national summit held at HBS, America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century. According to HBS Professor... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
on how the economic system works and what history teaches us, business readers might turn to A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know, by Harvard Business School professor View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- July 2020
- Article
Higher Economic Inequality Intensifies the Financial Hardship of People Living in Poverty by Fraying the Community Buffer
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Barnabas Szaszi, Marcel Lukas, David Smerdon, Jaideep Prabhu and Elke U. Weber
The current research investigates whether higher economic inequality disproportionately intensifies the financial hardship of low-income individuals. We propose that higher economic inequality increases financial hardship for low-income individuals by reducing their... View Details
Keywords: Economic Inequalty; Economy; Income; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Civil Society or Community
Jachimowicz, Jon M., Barnabas Szaszi, Marcel Lukas, David Smerdon, Jaideep Prabhu, and Elke U. Weber. "Higher Economic Inequality Intensifies the Financial Hardship of People Living in Poverty by Fraying the Community Buffer." Special Issue on Racism in Action. Nature Human Behaviour 4, no. 7 (July 2020): 702–712.