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16 Aug 2011
Working Paper Summaries

The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are teachers. Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes... View Details

Daniel Rabetti

Professor Rabetti is a financial economist from São Paulo, Brazil, with a Ph.D. in Business from Tel Aviv University. He joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School in 2023 as the S. Dhanabalan Chair in Quantitative Studies and an Assistant... View Details

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ICIC - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) is a nonprofit research and strategy organization and the leading authority on U.S. inner city economies and the businesses that thrive there. Creating Urban Opportunity ICIC's mission is to... View Details

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

importance of allocating resources in such a way that they match the strategy, starting with tales of woe from giants like Unilever and Apple and segueing into stories of friends whose marriages fell apart due to neglect. "Watch where your resources flow," the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Mar 2021
HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

the conversation so we might be able to talk slightly more thoughtfully about things that we have so much trouble talking about today.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: Unsplash/Clay Banks]... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Sep 2006
What Do You Think?

Are We Ready for Self-Management?

authors maintain that the Costco model not only is more attractive for workers but also creates fewer social costs for such things as medical expenses. What would seem to be a "win-win" answer to the scarcity of good managers... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

and inspire their teams to press onward. About the Author Tsedal Neeley (@tsedal) is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. [Image: Alexyz3d] Related Reading It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent,... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

example, key government officials can serve as mega-influencers by promoting their willingness to be immunized through traditional and digital media. Throughout the history of vaccines efforts, presidents, prime ministers, and leading health View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail

02 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

transparency, pay equity is being achieved at the cost of high salaries for some—but perhaps it’s worth that tradeoff. “Equity is something that happens when everything is out in the open,” Cullen says. “The firm is more equal, but the overall wage bill is lower.”... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

27 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

and a colleague set out to investigate how fluid teams can work better. In their paper Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Structures Enable Role-Based Coordination in Temporary Groups, Edmondson and lead author Melissa A. Valentine show how a... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

02 Dec 2010
What Do You Think?

Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

subject of authors interested in explaining rational or irrational behavior. We have covered the topic in our previous discussions of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and Barry Schwartz's The Paradox of Choice--which advises decision-makers to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

losers. Related Reading: Authentic Leadership RediscoveredThat's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient RomeAdvice on Advice Bill George is senior fellow at Harvard Business School, former chair and CEO of Medtronic, and author... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

prepare content that will suit everyone and cover every situation, the authors necessarily strip out the nuance of how things really work in a corporate context. “What we often get in a knowledge management system is the least common... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

which is wisdom. Let’s don’t forget mother’s wisdom and use it to our advantage.” Video chat with the author Click to watch. Hirotaka Takeuchi discusses his book during a virtual event hosted by the Books@Baker View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

"The Devil Wears Prada? Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making" [PDF]. "Will the same business meeting reach different decisions when it is held at a luxury resort as opposed to a modest conference room?" the View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

22 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Case Protagonists at HBS

and confidence at once because of the huge responsibility we feel to share our relevant work experiences with the class, and the authority bestowed on each of us for having said experiences. Moreover, I dare you to try and sit through an... View Details

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Ludcke House | About

his retirement from Putnam in 1965, Ludcke continued his influence in the industry as the widely read author of “The Human Side of Investing,” a syndicated financial column that ran in 17 newspapers across the country. In addition, he and... View Details

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

at large. About the Authors Joseph B. Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. He co-chairs the HBS Project on Managing the Future of Work and the Project on Workforce at Harvard. Rachel Lipson is the... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

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