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- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
firms and individuals—add up to the aggregate economy. But it turns out that we're not there yet. There's still a great deal we don't fully understand. We see patterns at the macro level that are sometimes hard to disaggregate and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
chance, but retains the right for any lower price. This allows the asset owner to present any third party with an ultimatum offer: Buy at the high price, or not at all. By increasing the bargaining power of the asset owner in this way,... View Details
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
The enterprise continued to make money even as it turned slowly to lose market share in a post-monopoly world. The positive net income helped greatly in supporting complacency. In frustration, his change agents waited and waited for a View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
contributions to society, says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Frank Nagle. Doing so will encourage companies to spend more time working to make the world a better place, he says. Nagle points to the use of free and open source software, known as FOSS, to... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
Psychology. “It’s not that Whites always do this—but that when given the power and the opportunity, they may seek ways to reduce the racial diversity in the spaces they inhabit to lessen contact with racial minorities,” says Jachimowicz,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
once in a while to be in front of the right waves, and conserve energy—until it’s time. The key is to know when to paddle hard to set things in motion. Conversely, life is also about knowing when not to waste time, energy, capital, or... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Stan O’Neal
native. “I find it terribly rewarding and humbling. It is hard for me to imagine anything I’d enjoy more.” O’Neal, named one of the “25 Most Powerful People in Business” by Fortune magazine this year, joined... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
pandemic is likely to change how companies do business. Here’s what they said: Michael Beer: Organizations will develop trust-based cultures with employees The coronavirus challenge demands an organization-wide, honest conversation that enables truth to speak to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2019
- Book
Creating the Experimentation Organization
subtle tweaks to everything from varying shades of color to alternative placement of links and menu options for booking properties. It’s part of an innovative culture of experimentation that pervades every aspect of how the company operates, says Stefan Thomke, William... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
of similar backgrounds. Perhaps they were also responding to perceived “implicit quotas,” an organization’s informal goal to promote people from certain groups. However, neither of those reasons proved as powerful as the simple notion... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 30 May 2024
- Blog Post
PRIDE at HBS
conference for LGBTQ+ MBA students and alumni, which we participate in annually. Small Group Dinners: To facilitate more intimate opportunities for PRIDE members to get to know each other, we sponsor small-group dinners in the fall and spring. Post-Case Reflections:... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
graduated with the first class of college students in China after the cultural revolution and was a determined M.D. Driven as she was in her profession, she fought hard to provide me with love, companionship, support, understanding, and... View Details
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
the time Conant was recruited, the company's share price had dropped from a high of $60 in 1998 to $30. Conant took a good long look at staff morale and didn't like what he saw. "We had a toxic culture. People were understandably jaundiced with management,"... View Details
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
12-hour shifts as maître d’ at the Beverly Hills Hotel’s Polo Lounge, felt obligated to work just as hard and to be pragmatic in his goals. (“How are you going to support yourself? How are you going to support other people?”) That meant... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- Web
Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
tag Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Health Care Innovation Public Health Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) . Not only a mouthful, but also very hard to spell and remember - a fitting name for a rare disease. This is... View Details
- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
happens to have a secret marriage), the love we share and the genuine care we have for one another are among the greatest gifts HBS has given us. Leila Meliani, Class of 2020 & Mike Cox, Class of 2021 It’s hard to believe that we met... View Details
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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
Love to Profits The Current Energy System Transatomic: Bringing Nuclear Power to the Forefront Show Hide Details Concepts Lipton Tea Business Models Jumping the S Curve and Dealing with Uncertainty Featured Exercises Business model and... View Details
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
dignity, and to give organizations an underleveraged talent pool. Rich communities, resourced schools in America The “American dream” ethos promises prosperity for those who work hard regardless of their background, but it’s a myth for... View Details
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
in your sales and marketing team, especially if they come from the industry or companies on your target list. Nowadays functional leaders have more power than in the past to decide which software to use, so founders need to figure out an... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu