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23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

of good things going on in terms of sponsorship. Now we just need to understand better what does work and why.” “So, while you might be hoping sponsorship might close the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Apr 2020
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Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19

impact of the pandemic by enabling the most vulnerable among us to stay safe in their homes. The idea is simple. Volunteers are pinged if a neighbor is in need of groceries or a prescription, and they pick... View Details

January 2013 (Revised March 2017)
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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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22 Feb 2021
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Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

flounders in the early-stage firm. Those people didn’t suddenly get stupid or lose individual capabilities. In business, there’s no such thing as performance in the abstract. There is only performance in a given context—here, not... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

02 Jul 2018
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Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

have no impact on their income. “The proponents of corporate tax cuts have argued that it will increase wages for workers, but a lot of things have to go right for that to... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

18 Jul 2011
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Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

business of her own that she took the time to recruit and coach. Once the company developed a track record, however, she reverted to doing the things she loved best. In some ways, this made sense-after all,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

the instinct. There are things that they do and ways that they think that are intuitive. The rest of us could learn what these innovators do if somebody would just crawl inside their brains and codify what... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

Internet service. The space also houses some historical treasures for the School, including the Written Analysis of Cases slot; the Baker 20 case distribution center; a rendering View Details

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Which HBS Executive Education Program is Right For Me?

thing that an applicant can bring to the call is an understanding of the type of problem they are trying to solve. Is there a specific challenge you are trying to overcome at... View Details

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Mike Laffin

felt like the “right” thing to do. The Marines promised leadership through stories about Marine legends and commercials of Marines bravely charging into battle. I learned it wasn’t just about that. It was... View Details

13 Nov 2019
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Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

feasible nor economical. Machine learning technology today excels at self-contained tasks like image recognition and content-sorting. “The kind of tasks that we want to do in marketing tend to be more challenging, because we’re trying to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

26 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

iStock In the 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross, an executive played by Alec Baldwin presents a unique motivational scheme to a trio of down-on-their-luck real estate salesmen. There will be a new contest, he tells them, to see who can bring... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

develop negative ideas about marriage, just as citizens of the United States and China may develop bad feelings about each other from watching their leaders squabble. So why wouldn't the same thing happen in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Brian Kenny | About

Brian Kenny Bio Brian Kenny is the Chief Marketing and Communications Officer (CMCO) at Harvard Business School. He has led marketing and communications work for several global institutions. As the School’s first CMCO, Brian has oversight View Details

24 May 2022
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Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors

professor at Harvard Business School, who co-authored the study published in Nature Human Behaviour with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania colleagues Erika Kirgios, Aneesh Rai, and... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

13 Jan 2020
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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

26 Jan 2022
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Making Peace with Anger

separated and I want to get divorced,” what I was confronted with was not only the reality that the most important thing in my life was moving away from me, which was my nuclear family, but that I had no control to stop it. And so I think... View Details

27 Oct 2002
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Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

Financial performance is the result of operating performance. Operating performance includes all the things that a company must do to win the competitive battle in its industry to attract, retain, and... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

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David Velasquez

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I want to be better prepared to lead and improve the delivery of health care in our country. Patients cannot wait for our systems to be more accessible, effective, and equitable – now is... View Details

07 Feb 2019
Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

is prepared for the fact that with all the great things like tolerance for failure and so forth, there is an equally important set of behaviors required that may be a lot less pleasant for some people.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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