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  • 04 Mar 2024
  • What Do You Think?

Do People Want to Work Anymore?

represented himself as a successful entrepreneur. The gist of the letter was that there was one thing wrong with what we wrote. It was that: “People don’t want to work any more. So I’ve designed my jobs accordingly. They can be performed by any reasonably intelligent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

    What You Don't Know About Making Decisions

    Most executives think of decision making as a singular event that occurs at a particular point in time. In reality, though, decision making is a process fraught with power plays, politics, personal nuances, and institutional history. Leaders who recognize this make... View Details

    • 23 Jul 2020
    • Blog Post

    Why Plume? To Make a Difference in the World

    our way to Shad, we struck up a conversation about recruiting as most RCs do around that time of year. Dan knew that I was trans because I had done a MyTake earlier in the semester on National Coming Out Day, organized by the PRIDE Club. I talked about bridging my... View Details
    • 28 Apr 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: April 28

    and costly scams are common. Yet, even more frequent and pervasive are cases of "ordinary" unethical behavior-unethical actions committed by people who value and care about morality but behave unethically when faced with an... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 13 Oct 2011
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Building a Business in the Context of a Life

    they have the same goal of allowing participants to evaluate what's important to them both personally and professionally and creating a "life plan" for getting where they want to go. Some MBA students, most of whom are in their 20s, have... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
    • 02 Feb 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs

    the better off you are. More generally, being as careful as you can be with resources, and flexible in terms of the types of arrangements that you are willing to enter into, are particularly important in an environment such as this one.... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
    • 17 May 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews

    applying for jobs with employers who said they care about diversity. One black student explained in an interview that with each resume she sent out, she weighed whether to include her involvement in a black student organization: “If the... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 21 Nov 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Employee Negativity Is Like Wildfire. Manage It Before It Spreads.

    a function of the wind, and whether its overall intensity is increasing or decreasing.” Thinking about managing collective emotions is like thinking about controlling a fire. You care less about the individual trees and more about whether... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 09 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

    (website) Uninformed Consent By: John, Leslie K. Abstract—Companies want access to more and more of your personal data—from where you are to what’s in your DNA. Can they unlock its value while respecting consumers’ privacy? Publisher's... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Article

    The Business Case for Investing in Physician Well-Being

    By: Tait D. Shanafelt, Joel Goh and Christine A. Sinsky
    Importance: Widespread burnout among physicians has been recognized for more than two decades. Extensive evidence indicates that physician burnout has important personal and professional consequences.
    Observations: A lack of awareness regarding... View Details
    Keywords: Physicians; Well-being; ROI; Health; Welfare or Wellbeing; Ethics; Investment Return; Health Industry
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    • 26 May 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: May 26

    http://hrleadsbusiness.org/rise-of-hr-e-book May 2015 JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association Medicine's Continuous Improvement Imperative By: Huckman, Robert S., and Ananth Raman Abstract— Maintaining quality and spurring innovation have long been... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 11 Jun 2024
    • In Practice

    The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

    As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • Career Coach

    Juan Leung Li

    Juan draws on his own career journey and his experience supporting tech entrepreneurs and executives to coach students. Most career paths look like a straight line in hindsight -- those cases are rare. In reality, discovering fulfilling jobs and leading impactful... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Angel Investing; Financial Services (All); Corporate Finance; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship; Technology
    • 20 Jun 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Creating a Positive Professional Image

    she says. "It is only wise to add your voice in framing others' theories about who you are and what you can accomplish." There are plenty of books telling you how to "dress for success" and control your body language. But keeping on top of your... View Details
    Keywords: by Mallory Stark
    • 18 Apr 2022
    • HBS Case

    Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off

    murder of 17 students and teachers in Parkland. And with those words, Stack, a gun owner and gun rights supporter, set in motion a series of corporate actions that may serve as a model for other CEOs trying to balance their personal... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
    • April 2013
    • Article

    What Roger Fisher Got Profoundly Right: Five Enduring Lessons for Negotiators

    By: James K. Sebenius
    Roger Fisher, who died in 2012, enjoyed a remarkable career that modeled one way that an academic, especially in a professional school such as law or business, could make a significant, positive, and lasting difference in the world. Distinctive aspects of his career... View Details
    Keywords: Bargaining; Conflict Resolution; Dealmaking; Negotiation; Personal Development and Career; Conflict and Resolution
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    • November 2005
    • Case

    Marilyn Carlson Nelson and the Carlson Companies Renaissance

    By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean
    In 2005, Marilyn Carlson Nelson, CEO and chairman of the Carlson Companies, must decide whether to outsource jobs at the risk of destroying the culture centered on the values of integrity, trustworthiness, and caring that she had painstakingly created since becoming... View Details
    Keywords: History; Leadership Development; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Business or Company Management; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Family Ownership; Leadership Style; Management Teams
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    • 16 Dec 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: December 16

    compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking cost effective and routine. In addition, a web of interlocking ad networks trades inventory and offers to show the right ad to the right person at... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Placement - Doctoral

    Care Delivery Advisors: Robert S. Huckman , David Bates , David Cutler , and Julia Adler-Milstein Olivia Jung Health Policy (Management), 2021 Placement: Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health Dissertation: Crowdsourcing and... View Details
    • 2013
    • Case

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
    In July 2012, retired United States Army Major General Gale Pollock created Elevivo, a venture that worked on developing a comprehensive disease management software system to support the growing number of visually impaired individuals by providing them with tailored... View Details
    Keywords: Disease Management; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Education; Information Technology; Insurance; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; United States
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