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19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

sales territories, and tested different methods of compensation. Also, like Taylor, he placed the pace of work under managerial control by demanding that salesmen meet monthly quotas. Patterson was not a likeable person. He believed in... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

hamper productivity through “human obstruction” tactics, by purposely and surreptitiously making poor decisions and being uncooperative. “Making a faulty decision may be simply a matter of placing tools in one spot instead of another,”... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

the impact of this program for yourself and other participants. Many sessions will include 15-30 minutes prep time Most sessions will last 90 minutes (some select sessions will be longer) and all will take View Details

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

markets and ecosystems through their ability to transfer a package of financial, organizational, and cultural assets, skills, and ideologies across national borders. It argues such firms have been shapers of, as well as responders to, globalization waves over the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Sep 2023
News

Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details

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Events - Business History

had three paper presentations followed by brief comments from a discussant. Additional time was allotted for audience questions. The last session was a roundtable on future directions for U.S. regulatory policy in public utilities and... View Details

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Logging In - Research Computing Services

boxes may come appear; please press "Yes" or “Allow” for each. When prompted, please enter your HBS password. If you’ve logged in successfully, you'll see a last login, greeting, and quota information, as well as the Unix (bash) prompt... View Details

24 May 2021
Op-Ed

Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion

21 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

backfire. Sales last year fell 25 percent, resulting in a net loss of $985 million, and the blood-letting continued in quarterly results released this week. In a recent interview, Harvard Business School marketing expert Rajiv Lal, the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

relationship that many scholars have claimed could greatly improve governance in many third world nations: the United States ran the currency, provided aid, posted an official inside the Panamanian government, and operated one of the great commercial arteries of our... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

of the National Retail Federation, the Board of Trustees at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C. the Board of Council for Public Leadership, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and is an independent director on the Board of Directors of The... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

05 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

investments. "Funds with anchors are, on average, $9 million larger than those without anchors at last close." The initial anchor investment can serve as a quality indicator to other investors, including those that are more risk... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

systems that place these leaders in positions of power, Indispensable sheds new light on how we may be able to identify the best leaders and what lessons we can learn, from both the process and the result. Profiling a mix of historic and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Our Curriculum - Business History

best-known entrepreneurs, as well as some of the most infamous, and shows their roles in the major events of the last century, from Gandhi's struggle for Indian Independence to the nightmare of Nazi Germany. View Details

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

University Develop techniques for building high-performing teams, coaching, delivering feedback, and handling stressful leadership situations. I'm now more mindful of how my colleagues are experiencing me, and less averse to having... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

31 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

develop their know-how, and build and maintain their reputation globally during the last decades. We focus on three tools: patents, trademarks, and industrial designs. We find that, although most IP applications come from a few countries... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

CO2 removal cartridge that saves lung failure patients, treating COPD and other acute respiratory failures in critical care and outpatient settings. Business Track, 2018 hour72+ Andrew Rothaus, HBS 2018 Abraar Karan, HSPH 2017 Business Track Winner Our insect-repelling... View Details

29 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

County, Wyoming—which is home to Jackson Hole, a popular resort town, and where the Federal Reserve held its annual Economic Policy Symposium last week—and Monroe County, Alabama—which is home to Monroeville, the setting of Harper Lee’s... View Details

Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser

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