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Atlanta Ransomware Attack (A)

This case describes the March 2018 Ransomware attack on the information technology (IT) systems of the city of Atlanta and the response by Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and her administration. The case includes a brief background on Bottoms and her young administration at... View Details

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14 Sep 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

pointed out, he justified his assertions by cherry-picking research on gender differences. The real risk of Damore’s generalizations, expressed in a business context, is that they give license to people to... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

For many investors planning for retirement, asset allocation is a crucial issue. How much should I put into stocks, bonds, and cash? But Harvard Business School professor Daniel Bergstresser says that households with substantial assets... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

08 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

Some may shrug at the inevitable passing of the local newspaper, writing it off as a dinosaur that doesn’t have much to offer in our modern world of blogs, social media sites, and streamed soundbites. But no news is not necessarily good... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/709486-PDF-ENG Personal Rapid Transport at Vectus, Ltd Benjamin EdelmanHarvard Business School Case 910-010 Personal Rapid Transport (PRT)... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Career Advancement Without Experience

used by contract workers to obtain stretchwork. O'Mahony is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School while Bechky is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. "More... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Motion Pictures & Video; Technology

27 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

large numbers of global firms adopting company-wide English-only policies, Neeley has spent years studying how the policy affects non-native English speakers. For example, her research into a Japanese company that required all workers to conduct View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

29 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

What motivates entrepreneurs? Money? Control? In truth, some entrepreneurs are expecting to get rich. Others want to grow and control a new venture. But most would probably answer: "both." The problem, as Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services

26 Sep 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation

Key concepts include: Compared to managers in other businesses, managers running a family business are faced with additional complexity in negotiations because of View Details

08 Jul 2015
What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

colleagues on the Harvard Business School faculty, legendary teacher and thinker Tony Athos. In an organization with a culture of long hours and FILO (first in last out) norms... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

24 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 24

information has increased considerably in the last decade, companies are still failing to disclose material information in a comparable format. We believe this has two downsides. On the one hand, companies... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2011
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

new job. In other words, is there a self-selection bias in studies of the effects of job on a person's chemical makeup? As Stephanie Smith put it, "Perhaps it's a case of either the hormones and natural... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

their work," says Amabile, a professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. (Kramer, a developmental psychologist, is her husband.) To prepare for the book, Amabile and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

If you're in search of startup funding, it pays to be a good-looking guy. A series of three studies reveals that investors prefer pitches from male entrepreneurs over those from female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitches... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

15 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This

If organizations want to help their employees keep up with the Joneses, turns out it’s better to keep the Joneses out of sight. So suggests an article in the Journal of Finance by Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Re: John Beshears; Financial Services

25 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

unmarketable yet invaluable intangibles such as social tolerance, personal responsibility, and respect for the rule of law. Each is a unique community of scholars in which lives as well as minds are molded.... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

spending needs as well as economic factors such as rising interest rates that affect different assets in different ways. Viceira's research analyzes asset allocation strategies for personal and institutional... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

17 Sep 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills

No business skill may be as important to success as negotiation. We negotiate everything: agreements with partners and vendors, in-scope/out-of-scope parameters around important projects, and our own compensation and job responsibilities,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2016
What Do You Think?

Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?

put it, “Remember, if you lose personal liberty and privacy, you lose everything. Be very careful what you would wish for in the cause of ‘national interest’.” Commenting that it requires some subtlety to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

23 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

point—comes too late to have a meaningful impact on people's lives.” “We're not saying that medical debt doesn't matter,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Raymond Kluender, the study’s lead author, noting researchers were... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

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