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  • 25 Apr 2024
  • News

Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
  • January 2013 (Revised March 2017)
  • Case

CloudFlare, Inc.: Running Hot?

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alex Godden
In July 2012, the cofounders of CloudFlare, a Silicon Valley startup that protects websites and accelerates their traffic, are considering the implications of five employees' resignations over the prior three months. Was this natural attrition for a high-tech venture... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth Management; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Resignation and Termination; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; California
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  • Profile

Claudia Hill

thing about your home town? There are two swans that live in the pond near where I grew up. Every year they have a new set of cygnets, and it’s amazing being able to watch them grow over the year. What has... View Details
  • Blog

Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty Member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety

knowledge-intensive work relies on integrating the ideas and expertise of multiple people, which requires a willingness to speak candidly. WHAT ARE SOME THINGS LEADERS CAN DO TO CREATE A MORE PSYCHOLOGICALLY... View Details
  • 01 May 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

Source: Geber86 When a worker struggles to meet the demands of a particular position, the problem may not be with the employee—maybe it’s the job’s design that is wrong. A poorly designed job can work against even the most dedicated... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?

such things as rapid and ubiquitous technological advances, enlightened education systems, and the over-building of the world's communication capacity during the "bubble" View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Seminars & Conferences - Faculty & Research

Organizational Behavior Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students More Local Events Local Community Events Harvard Wyss institute- upcoming events Berkman Center for Internet and Society-... View Details
  • 30 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

their actions as being more in line with their values than they actually were.   In recollecting how the talks went after the fact, Bazerman says negotiators often fail to see things from the other side’s perspective. Take the example... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Hawes Hall | About

facilitates the fusion of interactive technologies with teaching techniques grounded in the case method. Innovations such as wireless Internet access and built-in video, webcast, and broadcast capabilities... View Details
  • 23 May 2019
  • News

Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

Parthenon Group 2008 Named Managing Director, Parthenon Group 2011 Cofounds Social Finance 2011 Named Board Chair, Facing History and Ourselves 2013 Social Finance launches first Social Impact Bond 2017 Named Vice Chair, Harvard Board of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 23 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

children and parents alike. “Our interests really aligned on early childhood education,” Mahajan says. Recognizing that more than 50 percent of Indians have smartphones—and that mobile internet penetration... View Details
  • 14 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Dyllan Muller

myself, and the career that I wanted. Without the flexibility it provided me, my life would be very different today. My one piece of advice for prospective 2+2 applicants is simple: apply! You never know what surprises life holds and a... View Details
  • 18 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

Workers commute an average 38 minutes each way between home and work—a trip that can feel like a dreadful chore before the workday even begins. In fact, long commutes lower job satisfaction and increase employee turnover. Now, recent research provides some advice to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Accidental Innovator

Retention." That is, we need two processes, one to generate things we can't think of in advance, and another to figure out which of the View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • Blog

What Black Executives Really Want

networked and got things done. But no one ever asked him to lunch. Many of the Black executives found their peers standoffish, perhaps because they were not used to being around black people. They concluded... View Details
  • 13 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

was published in October 2019. Simply put, the issue is complicated. “The regulations under consideration are all essentially a one-size-fits-all solution,” Lerner says. “But one of the things that comes out... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
  • 24 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

different angles, and felt a deep sense of responsibility. Everyone has gone on to do amazing things and many of us continue to help each other a decade after graduation.”... View Details
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

predicting outcomes instead of explaining events with hindsight. An Organization Designed For Four-drive People What is the most basic thing employees at all levels must come to terms with at work? The... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • Web

Developing Instructor Style - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

instructors who they perceive to be well prepared and passionately committed to their learning, despite a lack of case teaching experience. Four Things Great Teachers Do Tom DeLong Professor DeLong describes... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Runner-Up and Lovin’ It

Cuban, billionaire Internet entrepreneur and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. Being runner-up isn’t so bad after all, Jackson told Van Susteren. “I think where God closes a door, he opens a window,” said... View Details
Keywords: The Apprentice; Corporate Services