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27 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

themselves were more likely to be connected with subordinates on Facebook. We suggest this is because people view women who share personal information as warm, which offsets the view of bosses as lacking warmth.” Be careful what you share... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

27 May 2021
News

Will Offices in the Twin Cities Ever Return to the Way They Were?

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

transformation takes years. It requires full commitment from the top, down to every person you hire. It’s a set of interconnected choices that have to be perfectly aligned. Once it View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

03 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff

apology “builds a bridge” between the company and its stakeholders. 5. Invest in laid-off employees Companies can reinforce the bridge by committing to help downsized employees get back on their feet. Many... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Telecommunications; Technology; Financial Services; Manufacturing

23 Oct 2019
Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

egocentrism: we are bad at knowing what topics will be interesting to others, we give backhanded compliments, we make offensive (or boring) jokes, we forget to ask questions, we ask the wrong questions, and... View Details

01 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Choose the Best Deal

analysis, Jim should look at each property independently, as if the other didn't exist. He needs to reckon the maximum he would pay for each—not his goal or expectation but the upper limit he could live with and still make his development... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

01 Dec 2015
News

Complements to the Case Method

multimedia simulation “Strategic Brew” engages students in a fast-paced exercise in strategic decision- making. The goal of the simulation is to show, rather than tell, students how to strategize. View Details

22 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have

can learn to mimic, associating the right output to a given input. And this paradigm works fantastically well. Increasingly, these models are trained on very large datasets... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

01 Jun 1998
News

Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations

working with students, faculty, and administrators to establish procedures "for preventing these kinds of situations in the future and for addressing violations of our standards in a fair and prompt manner."... View Details

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

by delay can be a very powerful strategy because it's so easy to deploy. A case is made that sounds so reasonable, where we should wait (just a bit) until some other project is done, or we should send this View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

17 Mar 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions

Keywords: by Alvin E. Roth

31 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

designed from the beginning to sit in the enormous space between cheap manual toothbrushes and ultra-high-end electrics produced by companies such as Gillette and Johnson & Johnson. Osher wanted his offering View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products

28 Mar 2016
Blog Post

Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard

I grew up in Brookline, MA but spent a year of high school studying abroad in Zaragoza, Spain. When I came back from my year abroad I was looking for something to do for the summer where I could speak... View Details

December 13, 2017
Article

What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

By: Julia Austin

As an aspiring product manager (PM), there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies, Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. The best PMs have mastered the core competencies, have a high EQ, and work for the right company for... View Details

Keywords: Management; Product Development; Personal Development and Career

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Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems

By: Tarun Khanna

What problems do developing countries face, and how can individuals contribute to solutions rather than awaiting the largesse of the state or other actors? Intractable problems – such as lack of access to education and healthcare, forced reliance on contaminated... View Details

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

seminars, learning an industry by working in it; these are all ways to develop expertise that will promote your success in investing. But in both entrepreneurship and angel investing, there is nothing like... View Details

Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson

17 Oct 2023
HBS Case

With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Information; Information Technology

04 Apr 2022
News

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

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

2017
Book

Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang

Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to today's dynamic innovation economy, while freshly minted MBAs see magic in founding something new. Yes, startups look magical, but they can also be... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Managerial Roles; Job Search

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