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- 15 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom
that women who are raised by a working mom actually spend more time with their kids," McGinn says, adding that this includes women who grew up to become working moms themselves. "There's a lot of parental guilt about having both parents... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Demotivate Your Best Employees
to a decrease in plant productivity by 1.4 percent, which added up to a cost of almost $1,500 a month for the plant. "Having your top performers demotivated for all eight hours on the job ended up creating a much bigger productivity hit... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
They’d added upside sharing provisions to align incentives. They’d included funding milestones so that only awardees making progress would receive additional funds. And they’d drafted a rolling process, so apps didn’t have to be evaluated... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
data start-ups on the other—offering data-intensive, analytics-based services that could connect to any industrial device. So GE launched a multibillion-dollar initiative focused on what it calls the industrial internet: adding digital... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
(iStockphoto/visualspace) When former Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells how the company’s ad algorithm—the heart of its financial success—was revamped, here’s what he says: One Friday afternoon in May 2002, (company co-founder) Larry Page was... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
is attracting increasing attention, and when business leaders are increasingly expected to contribute not only to financial value creation, but also to social value creation. In this context, it is important... View Details
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Profiles - MBA
to working at a healthcare VC and then in software at Microsoft, I've experienced technology being integrated into a wide array of disciplines. What I've found is that it is often too easy to fall in love with the technology itself and not with the View Details
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
noticeably lacking at Enron. These processes include: Liberating evaluation processes by adding qualitative judgment to whatever standard quantitative measures of performance that business plans may require Designing and implementing... View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
same time, IKEA Group had adopted in 2012 a new sustainability strategy that focused the company's efforts on its entire value chain from its raw materials sourcing to the lifestyle of its end consumers. The plan especially centered on... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
there's virtual ads on the pitcher's mound that actually aren't there. And we've added something this year, too, a jersey patch, so sponsor opportunity on the jersey patch, which is a super high View Details
- 12 Sep 2023
- What Do You Think?
Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?
give greater emphasis to values in the company’s credo supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Evidence cited in support of the changes included: Eighty-one percent of employees would consider leaving their current organization... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit. But instead of apologizing for being emotional, apologize for being passionate, she advises. “Saying you’re emotional is about you, whereas saying you’re passionate is about what the situation is,” Wolf says, View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 05 Jul 2012
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?
(Hugh Quick); and (8) management that does "not observe sanctions when trust is violated" (Tony Smale). Charles Green added that "We don't have it because we haven't taught it, learned it, practiced it." In fairness,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
Explore the idea of value drivers 5 hrs Module 2 Adding Value Through Complements Understand the difference between complements and substitutes and discover the power of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details
- 10 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?
watch to see if consumers will fall back to their previous behaviors,” she says. “They likely will unless there’s a significant driving force keeping them in the new behavior or a tremendous value to them from continuing with it.” Avery... View Details
Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
whether, when, and for which type of customer the introduction of a new channel helps and hurts sales in existing channels. Our framework separates short- and long-run effects by analyzing underlying channel capabilities. It suggests that order of entry matters, such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting
have examples of interns taking on discrete pieces of work that worked out quite well based on their specific background, for example, in public policy or in government.” That emphasis on flexibility to build an eight-week experience that allows the student to learn... View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number
Initial Offer Precision and M&A Outcomes. Their research builds on several previous social psychology studies showing that people place more value on precise numbers than on relatively round numbers. People tend to assume, true or... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel