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- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
jobs is not expanding,” says Simons. “People feel more pressure to own their roles and they’re stressed because they’re being pulled in a lot of different directions, but they’re not getting the help they need.” The idea that an... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Online Learning Model | HBS Online
yourself in a dynamic, interactive learning experience. You’ll engage in a new activity every three to five minutes and apply your knowledge through polls, quizzes, and problem-solving exercises designed to accelerate and reinforce your learning. Exchange View Details
- 04 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?
temptation on work performance. The idea for the study came from a conversation that Piovesan and his research partner Alessandro Bucciol of the University of Verona had with Daniel Houser, head of George Mason's Interdisciplinary Center... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY
Creativity’s reputation as a mysterious, unknowable trait (something of a myth in itself) has led to some erroneous ideas about what it is and how it functions in organizations. Here, Professor Teresa Amabile quashes some of these... View Details
- 30 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Finding Pride
positive change. —Javier Bordes-Posadas (MBA 2004) I came out between college and grad school, so I wasn’t part of a PRIDE equivalent in undergrad, but I was intrigued with the idea of being involved at HBS. When I got to campus, I... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
investment. As a consequence, that same year Kauffman ranked Miami at 36 among major cities for growth entrepreneurship due in part to the city’s low rate of startup expansion. Some women struggled to sell their ideas in a place... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
recently, it has allowed companies to reap creative ideas on product improvements directly from their customers (Lay's flavored potato chips). And it has also managed to get brands into trouble (United Breaks Guitars). The smash hit Old... View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
When I started eight years ago looking into what was going on in certain industries, what came out initially was this idea that it was technology, right? We all talked about Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple. But in many industries,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering
Nunnelly and Dupré gift will dramatically increase innovation and the commercialization of new technologies and make it possible to efficiently take transformative ideas to the marketplace. Specifically, it will enable Harvard to attract... View Details
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- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
professionalism is the idea that, even when serving private clients, professionals are providing a public good. In economics, the provision of public goods has been widely recognized as a case that creates exceptions to the rules... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
business program at the age of 16. Initially, Ferguson was against the idea of continuing on to get his MBA. “I thought I was going to be an entrepreneur and didn’t want to spend all that money,” he explains. Seeing the effect of HBS on a... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
colleagues to invest in a regional cellular company. “I knew it was a good investment, but I had no idea mobile would reach 100 percent market penetration,” he says. Interested in building media companies with like-minded partners, Nelson... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
putting the finishing touches on my first book, which will be released in the fall of 2013. The book is about the entertainment industry—the idea is to explain how it works, why it works that way, and how the industry may change in the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
other area is it more important to have a sense of what you don't know than it is in IT management. The most dangerous advice to CEOs has come from people who either had no idea of what they did not know, or from those who pretended to... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 01 Dec 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Financing Innovation
Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda
- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
suggests that government-funded patents are more important, reinforcing the idea of government-funded innovation as a driver for the economy,” Yao says. Who benefits from government funding? Companies, which filed the vast majority of the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Portrait Project
Shardule Shah
create generational wealth. But soon after starting, I was increasingly drawn to the idea that it was important for my kids to see that their beloved daddy works hard. I never want them to think that there is a tradeoff between being a... View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
help to quiet that voice in someone else's head that questions who they are.” David Robertson (he/him), Class of 2023 “One of my favorite aspects of the LBGTQ+ community is the concept of chosen family, which is the idea that people can... View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
identifying future scandals, he says—but in preventing them before they occur. Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details