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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
of those less fortunate pivots was pretty standard stuff: After a change in leadership, I was unceremoniously fired at the bank where I had been promoted just a few days earlier. After a year of frustration and effort I gave up on the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
1967 Founds Asset Management Company 1980 Provides early capital for Amgen, joins board 1998 Appointed chairman, San Francisco Opera Association 1999 Funds BUILD, nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youth 2002 Receives... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
media to engage others and build campaigns for change in the company. This case follows her career at the company and describes the challenges she faced as a change agent, working to promote gender equality within the company and a new... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
leaders may give expatriate assignments not to the best candidates but to people who speak certain languages. To hire and promote the best people, firms may need to provide training to meet global and local language needs. Fluency in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
listing all contributors to the code, some developers find it desirable to participate in OSS projects to signal their ability and to enhance their chances of promotion and professional advancement. Finally, user-developers sometimes fix... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
(the company that invented voicemail); Jane Fonda’s Workout; and Playboy TV/Video, my most instructive failure was during my year as product manager of Tostitos. Top management had decided that we would implement a “trial size” promotion... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
being integrated into the consumption process) promoted the choice of healthy food over unhealthy food (Experiments 3a and 3b). The positive effect of rituals on self-control held even when a set of ritualized gestures enacted were not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016
Group, a Chinese hotel chain that opened about 2,000 hotels during its first decade in business, uses Balanced Scorecard (BSC) metrics to promote both consistency of service and an entrepreneurial attitude among hotel managers. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
people. There was a study that was done on Fortune 500 executives, trying to figure out why some of them got promoted fastest. And the only commonality that could be found is that executives who tended to succeed faster than their peers,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
itself. Viana sensed that the workers, and brand, enjoyed broad-based public support. So he turned to crowdfunding, still a relatively unfamiliar concept in France, posting his cause on the site Bulb in Town and cross- promoting his... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
to promote the growth of the city's economy, was asked by the city and state to take over management of these donations. In turn, an NYCP subsidiary, the New York City Investment Fund (NYCIF), took charge of this mission. Maria G. Gotsch... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
Professor Lauren H. Cohen (photo by Eliza Grinnell) Professor Lauren H. Cohen (photo by Eliza Grinnell) Professor Karim R. Lakhani (photo by Richard Howard) Professor Karim R. Lakhani (photo by Richard Howard) Collaboration between faculty members at Harvard Business... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
typically isn’t as high as employers—or the CDC—would like. “Whenever you are thinking about promoting these investment-type activities like preventive health care, you need to make it as easy as possible, and the best way to do that is... View Details
- 27 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Social Network Marketing: What Works?
Therefore, the advertising-based business model has had only limited success on social networking sites. If the purpose of advertising is to influence consumers' purchases, our research shows that there is another way to influence their behavior. Imagine that Sony... View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, E*Trade, and Priceline.com, firms that unflinchingly invest millions of dollars in advertising and promotion each year to rapidly build traffic and revenues. The high-octane fuel that these super trains... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
project in US history.” Initially, the state was promoting several different sites, but in January 2018 Amazon narrowed its search, announcing a list of 20 finalists that included Northern Virginia, near Washington, DC. Finally, in... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
development banks owning minority stakes can have a positive effect on performance as long as they promote long-term investments and are shielded from governmental interference and potential minority shareholder expropriation. Download... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
understood and managed. The key to success? Incentives. Fortunately, new research has shed light on the role incentives can play in promoting new ideas, but these findings have been absent from innovation literature-until now. By using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
and also great recommendations from staff. So the net promoter score for working at the social centers for the impact of our programs has increased really significantly. I'm proud of the work our team has done on that. And they've given... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
been the UN’s under-secretary-general for internal oversight services. He is responsible for all manner of oversight of UN programs, including audit and investigative functions, to ensure that UN efforts internally mirror its global efforts to View Details