Filter Results:
(7,655)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(7,655)
- People (49)
- News (3,048)
- Research (3,228)
- Events (20)
- Multimedia (96)
- Faculty Publications (1,164)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(7,655)
- People (49)
- News (3,048)
- Research (3,228)
- Events (20)
- Multimedia (96)
- Faculty Publications (1,164)
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
PublicationsEngineers and the State in Modern China Author:William C. Kirby Publication:In Prospects for the Professions in China, edited by William P. Alford, William C. Kirby, and Kenneth Winston,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
Publications August 2013 Social Science & Medicine Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors By: Asad, Asad L., Michel Anteby, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com
Click HereIndependent bookstores provide a story of hope by focusing on core values that include community, curation, and convening. (Video by Amelia Kunhardt) When Amazon.com burst onto the nascent online retail scene in 1995, the future... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
story of two people finding each other and figuring out where they belong in the world. It took Kim nearly 20 years to write. “My mother still has shrapnel in her stomach,” he says. “I’ve taken this walk with her to see if we can figure... View Details
Coming Through When It Matters Most
All teams would like to think they do their best work when the stakes are highest—when the company’s future or their own rests on the outcome of their projects. But too often something else happens. In extensive studies of teams at professional service firms,... View Details
- 2019
- Article
When Gender Diversity Makes Firms More Productive
By: Stephen Turban, Dan Wu and Letian Zhang
Does diversity make a company more productive? Many say yes—some researchers argue that gender diversity leads to more innovative thinking and signals to investors that a company is competently run. Others say no—conflicting research indicates that gender diversity can... View Details
Turban, Stephen, Dan Wu, and Letian Zhang. "When Gender Diversity Makes Firms More Productive." Harvard Business Review (website) (February 11, 2019).
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It
Behavior best-seller list—thanks in part to corporate managers who distribute it to their employees as a lesson in accepting and anticipating change gracefully. But is that really the best message to send? Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- June 2012
- Article
Pricing to Create Shared Value
By: Marco Bertini and John T. Gourville
Many companies are in competition with their customers to extract as much value as possible from every transaction. Pricing is their weapon of choice, and consumers fight back by rooting out and disseminating pricing policies that seem unfair. The problem is that... View Details
Keywords: Pricing; Marketing Strategy; Price; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Relationship Management; Value Creation; Fairness
Bertini, Marco, and John T. Gourville. "Pricing to Create Shared Value." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 6 (June 2012): 96–104.
- 13 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
All Is Well in Texas: How Julia Cheek Founded Her At-Home Lab Testing Startup, EverlyWell
company full-time. Although Julia does not regret the choice to focus on schoolwork, reflecting she thinks maybe should have used that time to start a company instead. After HBS, Julia ended up taking a job, View Details
- Web
Skydeck - Alumni
a leadership crisis Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns Space entrepreneur and investor Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux (MBA 2004) on how to search the skies for profits Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse Where and when... View Details
- 22 Dec 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Future Lock-in: Or, I’ll Agree to Do the Right Thing...Next Week
Keywords: by Todd Rogers & Max H. Bazerman
- 28 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels
experience. Among the questions to ask: How have customers perceived their treatment? Have they received above-and-beyond service and how do they think their experiences compare to those of other customers?... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
poor Synthesis is what happens when, after absorbing a subject, there is a leap in thinking that one can't quite explain." Zuff Deo explained the semantic difficulties this way: "We do use various faculties View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Turning Point: Where Credit Is Due
Nagi Otgonshar (MBA 2015) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Nagi Otgonshar (MBA 2015) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Earning a full scholarship has always been the only realistic ticket to a superior education for me. It was this golden opportunity that allowed me to... View Details
- March 2008
- Article
Radically Simple IT
Many managers think that developing and rolling out a major IT system is like putting up a warehouse: You build it and you're done. But that does not work for IT anymore. Taking that approach results in rigid, costly systems that are outdated from the day they are... View Details
- 27 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know
monkeybusinessimages How to handle religion in the workplace is a contentious and litigious issue that many business leaders struggle with. The subject is so third-rail hot that even Harvard Business School has devoted relatively few... View Details
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Top 5 Myths About HBS
experiences, their life story, things that have become formative or defining for them. The fact that people took the time to share things that were personally important really helped us early on form a supportive network. I think that... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
before you start this incubation and ideation work, you should already begin to think about the scaling challenge, and already begin to think... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 13 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions
[participants] exerted more effort and made better decisions than when the stakes were lower or when they were simply incentivized to originate loans.” "It's informative for thinking about the financial... View Details
- 18 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions
there? And is it deliberate? Eva Ascarza: Most algorithms do not create the bias per se, but tend to exacerbate it because of scale. And this becomes very problematic. Think... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne