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- 11 Apr 2023
- Op-Ed
The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone
headhunters will have tempted away your best executives. 7 steps to a successful start Here are seven recommendations newly appointed leaders should consider following—and it would be best View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
should consider whether the structure of the school day is ideal. Should we have more breaks to ensure that low-performing children can recover, for instance? Two, in accountability systems we often compare and evaluate based on test... View Details
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
likely to be seen “coming from a genuine place because this is something that is now done in this work environment versus if a manager sort of does this out of nowhere.”... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 09 Jan 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management?
because they fail to account for the fact that management is less about writing and analyzing and more about getting things done!" What's the problem? Are grading methods broken? If so, what could be... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
JetBlue Chairman on How to Handle Betrayal
“You’ve had a part to do with it. It could be that you trusted when you shouldn’t have trusted. You didn’t think about whether the person had high character, was competent and had the authority and therefore... View Details
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
IT that is not quite justified, based on all the work that continues to be done around the world, he said. Managers need to understand the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Leveraging the HBS platform to enter social enterprise
spoke really well to my interest in political science. I also enjoyed many aspects of sales, and was given tremendous opportunity to interact with all sorts of clients. But for as much as I loved FX Sales,... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy
different from what companies have done on other media," he says. "They simply took this approach and put it on social media platforms. The problem is that this approach does not work well. Most firms can't generate the requisite... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
The fiscal and monetary response to the coronavirus pandemic has been emergent, global, and deep. Some countries have more sophisticated fiscal and monetary tools—and the ability to use them swiftly—than... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
you to raise money, and that would be a big deal." In modern terms, you can observe the same phenomenon in the basement programmer who designs open-source software as a calling card or the blogger who... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
Limits To Leadership Being the chief executive of any company is a demanding job. Carrying out the responsibilities of a CEO in a professional service firm is exceptionally challenging because the position... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 25 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Attending HBS to Grow the Family Business
be able to internalize what you are learning that much better (and get some real work done while you’re at school!). What’s your favorite HBS memory? If my husband is reading... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
more instability and risk. Such a climate can, in turn, reduce the investment — especially in long-term, risk-inherent areas such as R&D; — that is necessary for rapid, long-run growth. So what, finally, can be View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
relegated to specialists within corporations, given the risks that it entails. Q: If both shareholders and tax authorities are potentially worse off from all this activity, what should be View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
institutions within individual and community networks. But they have not done so to date. Enter the SEC One novel way to assure that independent hospitals create network plans... View Details
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
a national system of higher education, and new sets of civil and criminal codes were all established during the reforms of the late Qing and Republican eras. Much of this would be swept away, quickly and almost casually, by the new... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 11 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits
transforming how work is done and how people are paid for it. This heightened tension between moral and material goals may be nowhere as intense as it is in journalism, a field with strong ethical... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 25 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?
potential new generation of fans? "I won’t make any predictions, except that ... baseball is working hard to try to restore the revenue side and the attendance side." Greyser: They’re doing quite a bit, but... View Details