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  • 05 Jun 2000
  • What Do You Think?

What’s Happening to Our Patience?

Summing Up The patience of our readers is being taxed. But some nevertheless took the time to voice opinions about whether we are, in general, becoming more impatient. The general conclusion is that we are. And they lament the phenomenon.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

customize products and respond to customers. Regional managers take responsibility for sales, product development, distribution, and manufacturing. As a consequence, the spans of control for managers back at... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • June 2023
  • Article

Gaining Organizational Adoption: Strategically Pacing the Deployment of Digital Innovations

By: Rebecca Karp
Scholars have long suggested that to foster adoption for their innovative products and services, entrepreneurs should engage with customers to better understand their unmet needs. Yet, customers frequently reside in organizations, and organizational members may not be... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Digital Innovation; Healthcare; Work And Organizations; Organizational Adoption; B2B; Customers; Technology Adoption; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • 29 Jan 2018
  • News

How to Build Trust with Colleagues You Rarely See

  • 31 Jan 2012
  • News

Are 'The Best Places to Work' really the best?

  • 31 Aug 2021
  • News

Impact of Returning to Offices on Employee, Manager Morale and Productivity

  • 19 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

article originally appeared in the HBS Alumni Bulletin. You Might Also Like: Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Much Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen Too Nice to Lead?... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin
  • May 2009
  • Article

The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad

By: Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, Boris Groysberg and Nitin Nohria
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Few companies are thinking about hiring right now, but that's a mistake. If history... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles
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  • February 6, 2024
  • Article

Find the AI Approach That Fits the Problem You’re Trying to Solve

By: George Westerman, Sam Ransbotham and Chiara Farronato
AI moves quickly, but organizations change much more slowly. What works in a lab may be wrong for your company right now. If you know the right questions to ask, you can make better decisions, regardless of how fast technology changes. You can work with your technical... View Details
Keywords: Technology Adoption; AI and Machine Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Analytics and Data Science
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  • 01 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

Workplace: Implications, Issues, and Insights for Future Research and Action,” with 28 other researchers. The havoc the virus has wreaked on businesses worldwide should prompt business leaders to “find smarter and safer ways of View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 10 Dec 2012
  • News

How Nonprofits Can Use Data to Solve the World's Problems

  • 17 Jan 2017
  • Video

From the White House to HBS, Students Reflect on Inauguration

  • 13 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

"anatomy," has created poor conditions for a science-based business to flower. "The sector has indiscriminately borrowed business models, organizational strategies, and approaches from other high-technology industries under... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology
  • 08 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

worked like this: The New York City Department of Education asked students to submit a ranked list of the five high schools they'd most like to attend, and the students would... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • August 2019 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Unifying Divisions: Joro's Mission to Preserve the Planet

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Marilyn Morgan Westner
The case focuses on the initial startup team and Founders’ agreements. In March 2018, Sanchali Pal proposed renegotiating the informal founders’ agreement and equity split she and her co-founders had drafted the previous spring. They had been working together for over... View Details
Keywords: Founders' Agreements; Business Startups; Climate Change; Agreements and Arrangements; Conflict Management
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  • 27 May 2015
  • News

When poor people can’t get on due to lack of public transport

  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

the long run. This last element is critical, for there is not enough charity or taxpayer money to make a sustainable difference; only the profit motive can do that. Earning And Learning Rather than merely applying superficial aid, the... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
  • 21 May 2019
  • Video

Getting to Know 2019 Class Day Student Speaker Brandon Rapp

  • 22 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

whether corporate culture might act as an impediment to greater uptake of the available programs. Working directly with employees in a systematic way would be one important step toward increasing the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

    Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa

    Recent literature on the historical determinants of African poverty has emphasized structural impediments to African growth, such as adverse geographical conditions, weak... View Details