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- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
by overcoming personal struggle before, and she knew firsthand what supplies fellow shelter survivors needed most. Kato accepted the challenge, reopening her store 11 days after the earthquake struck. Soon afterward, seeing customers... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
carries out his or her job. “I could watch a colleague challenge a student and I could think that’s the way I should teach, but what I miss is the backstory, about why he is doing it in that particular case.” Perhaps even more crucial, those systems assume that the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows
to working in social enterprise. The 2023 Goldsmith Fellows are: Rehan Adamjee. A joint degree student at HBS and HKS, Rehan recently served as the strategy and growth lead for Vital Pakistan, a 300+ person healthcare organization... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Spot a Liar
would happen naturally," Van Swol says. Ultimately, the receiver had to decide whether the proposed allocation was fair and honest, based only on a conversation with the allocator. Thus, it behooved the allocator to be either a fair View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Profit Power of Corporate Culture
much more likely to remain in an organization, leading directly to fewer hires from outside the organization," Heskett writes in the book. "This, in turn, results in lower wage costs for talent; lower recruiting, hiring, and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2011
- HBS Case
Terror at the Taj
footage of the attack, create a documentary-like account of events that took place over the course of 59 hours. The case also covers the hotel's history, its approach to training employees, the "guest is God" philosophy inherent... View Details
- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
“There was not a single person or car,” he recalls. The eerily quiet scene was a jarring reminder that the pandemic was taking a huge toll on many businesses that saw sales and revenue figures abruptly plummet. Rouen and two fellow... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- Web
Women at HBS - Alumni
to work after a hiatus and for employers recruiting from this talent pool. They also manage a comprehensive database of corporate return to work programs around the world. Landit , cofounded by HBS alumnae Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA 1998) and Sheila Marcelo (MBA 1998) ,... View Details
- 09 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs
least likely to seek it out, the researchers discovered. The findings emerge as companies worldwide navigate the complexities of training and acclimating new employees in hybrid or remote work settings. With so much in flux, it might be... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
crisis), they are relieved to find their superiors more tolerant of their questions and mistakes than they had expected. Purchase this article: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0701D What to Ask the Person... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Brandon Graves
both professional and personal aspects. The HBS experience encourages deep reflection and has allowed me to take early steps at shaping my life post b-school. I am pleasantly surprised by how many takeaways extend to everyday life beyond... View Details
- Web
Alumnae Circles - Alumni
It provides them with a strong support network and the opportunity to share, support, and inspire one another – personally and professionally – without competition or the need to impress. Members are asked to have an open mind and commit... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech
non-competes can protect businesses from unfair competition between an employee and her previous employer. This allows employers to fully invest in training employees with proprietary knowledge without the fear that the employee might run... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
less competent than employees who do not. Across five experiments, we explore how reframing a socially inappropriate emotional expression (distress) by publicly attributing it to an appropriate source (passion) can shape perceptions of, and decisions about, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?
leadership behaviors may depend on the "context" in which they are found. As a result, one might conclude as Mike Leahy did that " I am fascinated with the range of our readers' responses to something I thought was rather straightforward." Harsh... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
them. It was a night that would change both his son’s life and D’Antonio’s. Today, both men work in the field of addiction treatment. D’Antonio’s son, now with more than six years of continuous sobriety, is trained as a peer recovery... View Details
- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
effectively manage and grow their own teams. These types of exchanges are often more personalized than formal training programs, because the founders tailor the discussion to a company’s specific situation... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
little performance variability—because the tasks are standard, because the firm or industry has reduced variability, or because the business model limits the bandwidth of performance variance. Think about the difference between sales personnel at Nordstrom, where View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
"Substantial recent research implies that clustering—the degree to which people with whom a person is connected are themselves connected to each other—can improve problem-solving performance by increasing coordination," the... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
should systematically work with community groups and local leaders so they feel intense personal and tangible stakes in the proposal. Detailed preliminary discussions with construction trades should make the huge amount of new work... View Details