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14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

in captivity? Three professors in Harvard Business School's Entrepreneurial Management unit who focus on the study of creativity recognize the romantic allure of believing it's a rare quality bestowed on a chosen few, but all agree that... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

are particularly interested in understanding how, if at all, the firm should go about effecting meaningful word-of-mouth (WOM). To tackle this problem, we collect data from two sources: 1) We implemented a large-scale field test in which a View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

diversify social spending. There is currently a lot of talk about how companies support programs in all communities where they have employees, but our interviews and prior studies just do not support this claim. For policymakers, at both the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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June 2024
Teaching Note

Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane, Susan Pinckney and Alexis Lefort

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 424-004. Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management... View Details

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28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

uses an IT-driven strategy to introduce an "all-in-one" card, which integrates a suite of financial products to drive its personal banking business enabling CMB to be ranked 6th among China's commercial banks and 2nd among the other View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

University in the spring of 1970. "I went over mainly out of curiosity - to observe and see what was going on," explains Belkin, now chairman and CEO of Trans National Group, a large direct-marketing company he started just three years... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

reversed decades of progress, particularly in places that lack access to vaccines, worsening hunger, poverty, gender inequality, and conflict—the impacts of which could be more deadly than COVID-19 itself. The global picture is staggering: The View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

provide services to more than 8,000 children and 6,000 adults living in nearly a 100-block area. Youth Villages, founded in 1986 in Memphis, Tennessee, serves emotionally and behaviorally troubled children and their families and is recognized as a View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

on schemas, procedural justice, emotion expression, and prosocial behavior. Land Politics and Local State Capacities: The Political Economy of Urban Change in China Author:Meg Rithmire Publication:China Quarterly (forthcoming) Abstract Despite common View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

identified four different approaches people used to perform necessary evils effectively, so that the task got done and the victims were treated with decency and respect.” Margolis, an associate professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Jun 2021
News

“Where the Dead Lie Thicker”

07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

associated with anti-dumping petitions among upstream companies. It also weakens downstream companies lobbying in favor of the general protection of highly integrated conglomerates. In the steel industry, by contrast, national industrial... View Details