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04 Oct 2024
In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

ahead. It’s not their fault: holiday season mayhem is often at odds with the clean start many desire when the calendar changes over. It’s easy to throw up your hands and give in to routine once the first few... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

team. Incorporate unanticipated, random complications and consider scheduling exercises during peak and non-peak business hours. Ensure the dissemination of clear crisis management procedures to provide... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

01 Feb 1998
News

Women at the Top

explore a wide range of contemporary business issues and top management concerns. Beyond that, the program was aimed at giving these leaders the opportunity to reap the benefits of spending time with other... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

then she was passed over for promotion, receiving the feedback that her “concerning” and “abrasive” interpersonal style had made it impossible to promote her. Instead of a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Article

Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring

By: Christopher Stanton and Catherine Thomas

Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract with each other directly. Despite this, intermediaries—called outsourcing agencies—have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers... View Details

Keywords: Marketplace Matching; Agency Theory

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19 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

presentation settings and receiving narrative information regarding company culture—typically from the CEO. Too often, by the time directors realize there is a culture or leadership style problem at the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

To equip students to effectively work in and lead these teams, FIELD begins with a five-week foundations module, in which students undertake a series of workshops on communication, feedback View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

children and a man serves as the village director, but in the United States that kind of model is seen as sexist," she says. "In fact, gender-based hiring is illegal here. Modifications need to be made if SOS children's villages are going... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

Bhide's Entrepreneurial Management course gives his students a feel for the skills they will need as entrepreneurs. The course, first offered in 1983 and currently taught by Bhide View Details

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications

e-commerce is really about," said Job, "is reducing the gap between thought and action, between when you know something and when you do something about it." Third, he said, is a relevant brand... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

leaders to “just start with the relationship—even if you don’t feel like you have an established one—because showing care and concern is what creates that relationship. What’s so powerful about empathizing first is that it affects both... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

01 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'

we give enough time to managers to prove their worth and reveal whether they are a good/bad fit in the twenty-first century? Please share your thoughts in the comments section below. We would be interested... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

06 May 2024
Research & Ideas

The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams

May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Illustration... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

focuses on commodities where climate and soil conditions give a particular region a true competitive advantage. The partnerships bring in NGOs like TechnoServe and Root... View Details

14 Aug 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

and healthy innovation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54851 in press Management Science Procedural Justice and the Risks of Consumer Voting By: Kim, Tami, Leslie John,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2015
News

The Military and the MBA: Gene Markowski (MBA 1973)

“You can’t just give orders in business.” —Unlearning some of the lessons of the military Gene Markowski (MBA 1973) served as an Army Huey helicopter pilot in Vietnam and View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

01 Jun 1996
News

Four Professors to Retire

internationalization process of the HBS curriculum. Crum graduated from Cornell University in 1957 with a degree in chemical engineering. At HBS he was a Baker Scholar and earned his MBA with high distinction in 1960. He began teaching at... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

module completion, we expect participation in the social learning elements of the course by offering feedback on others’ reflections and contributing to conversations on the platform. Participants who fail... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

Vietor received assistance and encouragement from several South African AMP alumni. "They helped arrange access to key GEAR players during my several weeks in the country," says Vietor, who describes his... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

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Research in Black and White | Baker Library

physics, optics, and photography in the company’s impressive library. (7) Mary McCann, who joined Polaroid in 1960 after receiving a BS in chemical engineering from Tufts University, first worked with Howard... View Details

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