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  • 05 Oct 2020
  • Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

vacation days we normally let go unused. Video: Managers, respect your workers’ time by setting the right toneView Video “In the moment, these decisions may seem inconsequential or easy to reverse, but they’re not,” Whillans says. “We... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • October 2021 (Revised November 2022)
  • Case

The 2012 Spanish Labor Reform: Lifting All Boats, or Leveling Down?

By: Vincent Pons, Rafael Di Tella, Santiago Botella and Elena Corsi
Since 1978, Spain had struggled to control unemployment. The country’s labor law was protective of employees hired long-term and companies used temporary contracts as buffers. In 2012, amid economic recession and a 23.6% unemployment rate, a center-right government of... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Labor Market; Unemployment; Recession; Globalized Markets and Industries; Government Legislation; International Relations; Working Conditions; Employment; Labor Unions; Contracts; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Spain; European Union
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  • December 2010
  • Case

Financing Higher Education in Australia

By: David A. Moss and Stephanie Lo
Even before Australian lawmakers abolished university tuition in 1973, students in Australia had long benefited from low tuition and large government subsidies. By the early 1980s, however, the nation's universities faced growing budget challenges and an apparent... View Details
Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Higher Education; Borrowing and Debt; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Education Industry; Australia
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  • September 2008 (Revised August 2009)
  • Case

VMware, Inc., 2008

By: David B. Yoffie, Andrei Hagiu and Michael Slind
Paul Maritz took the helm of VMware in July 2008, just as the company confronted a radically new competitive environment. Since its founding in 1998, VMware had been the leading provider of virtualization software. Now it faced the kind of threat that every software... View Details
Keywords: History; Digital Platforms; Competition; Decision Choices and Conditions; Applications and Software; Business Strategy
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  • 13 Mar 2014
  • HBS Seminar

Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School

  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Allison Hughes

Glamour magazine's "Top Ten College Women" in 1994, was accepted at HBS directly from college. Rather than entering right away (which would have made her a classmate of her Baker Scholar sister, Elizabeth [MBA '96]), she first joined... View Details
Keywords: Charlie Hogg
  • Web

Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

Started In this guide, you’ll learn about what characterizes a successful entrepreneur, how to decide if entrepreneurship is right for you, and what skills you need to thrive. Access Your Free E-book Free Entrepreneurship and Innovation... View Details
  • 16 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

that more intensive people management is a worthwhile investment of a founder’s time.” Effective human resource management is more than just keeping the paperwork flowing. “You also need to focus on the strategic part of managing people to make sure they are working on... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

Setting the right sales targets for employees is a difficult balancing act, with long-term consequences on growth and morale. Setting a target too low, making it easily achievable, might cause an an employee to not put in the effort.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Portrait Project

Siddhartha Yog

Touch the lives of others; stand shoulder to shoulder with my brothers battle for which I believe; be determined to achieve outwit and outpace; but with dignity and grace never waver from what is right (and get to sleep well at night). Be... View Details
  • Web

Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity

predatory practices. This important work should be read by anyone seeking to understand racial inequality in the United States. John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights By: Brandon Winford John Hervey... View Details
  • Web

In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School. Many of our faculty members have also been involved in writing cases. Are you looking for something specific? Please email us and we will direct you to the right materials. Related... View Details
  • Web

Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

Concepts An Introduction to Innovation Clarify Through Observation Insights and Problem Framing The Right Enviroment for Creativity Featured Exercises Problem Framing: Reframe problems from various perspectives (deep, emotional, broad,... View Details
  • 09 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

were just in Europe. Can you give us a sense of your research and how it pertains to the crisis unfolding right now? Rawi Abdelal: I’ve been working for many years on a project about Russian-European energy relations as an interesting... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

build organizational capability. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-031.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsA&M/Octone Records: All Rights or Nothing? Anita Elberse, Elie Ofek, and Caren KelleherHarvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

even try to help,” says Zlatev. For that reason, managers should broach acknowledgments at the right time and place. But even if a manager fumbles the timing or tone, the benefits of trying to connect with employees likely outweighs the... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 17 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

beautiful things. “Most people are very happy right from that first morning,” Amabile says. The rocky self-reflection stage of retirement Yet, for many, that giddy glow starts to wear off within weeks or months, as they shuffle through a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 06 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

conditions. He might say, "We can provide additional support but only if you agree to purchase some of the following additional services," or, "This is literally the best we can do on price right now. But if you can adjust... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • Article

Unconventional Insights for Managing Stakeholder Trust

By: Michael Pirson and Deepak Malhotra
Initiatives to build and maintain trust with various stakeholders, including customers, employees, suppliers and investors, are at the top of the executive agenda at many organizations. But most companies don't really understand how to manage stakeholder trust... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Culture; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Perspective; Trust; Cooperation
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  • 23 Nov 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf

then sell this to the consumer. If you look at vinyl right now, it’s a very small segment of the market, but it has a very important, symbolic role. The vinyl record is an extension of the craft of making music, another way to connect... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Music