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12 Feb 2021
News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

joining the family business, but had no idea that I'd be asked to assume responsibility for the overall business. When I went off to school, early on, the business was an industrial feeding business with lots of these trucks that went... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

Healthcare Initiative, with broad community support, with cooperation from the Centers for Disease Control, and with backing from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Also, we've been testing these ideas with our students: Kent in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

31 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

Innovation Can Amazon Remake Health Care? A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/JazzIRT View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health

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VCPE Database Comparison

at 10K). Nice Idea Generation screen area to show use cases of Cap IQ. However, interface is not intuitive View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

Turkish Delight

fascinating. After that, I became very interested in diplomacy.” Byford, whose publication credits include Foreign Affairs and Washington Monthly, is currently kicking around a few book ideas of his own as he continues to build his... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

24 May 2017
News

David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

Bradley built and led the enormously successful firms that emerged: the Advisory Board Company (ABC) and the Corporate Executive Board (CEB). In 1999, having sold CEB, Bradley purchased the Atlantic, the monthly magazine that has explored American View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

happiness no matter how challenging your circumstances. Drawing on cutting-edge science and their years of helping people translate ideas into action, they show you how to improve your life right now instead of waiting for the outside... View Details

25 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

character of the game. If a batter is good enough, he will find a way to hit around a shift. It’s up to each batter to earn his own hits. That idea is basically inflating batting averages artificially. Separately, the more balanced... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

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Wyss House | About

Programs because of their “tremendous influence, not only through the candidates educated here, but also through the thousands of students they eventually teach and the millions more who benefit from the research and new ideas they... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Leading at State

Department of State. These students represented the first cohort of the Secretary’s Leadership Seminar, a six-month, custom Executive Education offering for mid-career foreign and civil service employees. The idea for the program—and the... View Details

Keywords: leadership; international relations; politics; Executive Education

15 Oct 2019
News

Bridging Business and Engineering

to really test out an idea to make sure that you are creating something that people want. I think that sometimes, as engineers, we get excited by the building process and forget that part.” Perelson appreciates having the opportunity to... View Details

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

workplace motivator is our natural tendency to measure our own performance against the performance of others. "Traditionally, [the field of] economics has held a very rational view of people, and there's a gigantic amount of literature focusing on financial incentives... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 2020
Blog Post

The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1

class content, geared to having them develop their ideas for a new venture, build rapid prototypes of their new products, test these prototypes with customers, and assess the viability of the resulting venture by developing a pitch deck... View Details

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

like. “It’s presumably making workers happier and more productive, and helping their communities and their organizations,” he says. Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers Feedback or View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

develop negative ideas about marriage, just as citizens of the United States and China may develop bad feelings about each other from watching their leaders squabble. So why wouldn't the same thing happen in the workplace? Testing For... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

to understand personal challenges and provide mentorship for all of their direct reports, listening to them, and being willing to accept new ideas from them. They must recognize those with diverse backgrounds as resources rather than... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV in Practice Creating Shared Value in Practice Not all profit is equal—an idea that has been lost in the narrow,... View Details

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond. The following excerpt describes strategies and tactics to overcome another party's counterproductive behavior and keep the deal on track. These are ideas that... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

Don’t Include Them OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/lakshmiprasad View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

new ideas and gauge their effects is a game changer, revealing surprising insights that can lead to incremental changes that can have a cumulatively huge effect on business. After research that the checkout experience could be improved,... View Details