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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)
As a Marine, I led some of the first units in Afghanistan and Iraq. What I loved about that experience was the intersection of a mission with building and leading teams. I came to HBS to develop the tools around that work, but in a very different context. On the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
price most observers found generous. The debacle cost both the chairman and president of Quaker their jobs and hastened the end of Quaker's independent existence (it's now a unit of PepsiCo). But that's not... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)
Edited by Julia Hanna; photo by Webb Chappell When I was 16, I took my savings to the bank and bought some shares of a neighbor’s scaffolding company. Before coming to HBS, I sold them to my mother, who had also acquired some, View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
The Benefits of a Residential Campus
increased inertia not to go outside (or really move ) on cold days. The tunnels on campus connect the dorms to the classrooms and other buildings, and you will learn to love them through the winter. In... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics The Performance of Corporate Alliances: Evidence from Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico By: Beshears, John Abstract—I use data on oil and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
‘Deep Purpose’ Matter to the Bottom Line? Respondents to this question largely believe in a relationship between deep purpose and the bottom line. As Maree Forbes Gaughan put it, “Without purpose, you have staff running in several... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself
to feel welcome and valued at work. Francesca Gino: So often, when we talk about good, indifferent, or inclusive workplaces, we think about the conditions that each of us can create to foster a more... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 30 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date
Source: FangXiaNuo New research suggests that people who ask questions, particularly follow-up questions, may become better managers, land better jobs, and even win second dates. “Compared to those who do not ask many questions, people... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 11 Jul 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'
Legendary Harvard Business School marketing professor Theodore Levitt warned his students and industry executives against “marketing myopia”—that is, adopting an insular marketing approach where the business puts its own needs ahead of... View Details
- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
of autonomy, control, and ownership in the work have all been found (in previous research) to influence people's creativity—primarily by influencing how deeply they engage their thinking in the problem View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2022
- What Do You Think?
Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?
Employee, The New York Times, November 3, 2019. Your feedback to last month’s column How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity? I’d like to think that the tentative nature of the few responses to this column suggest the early stages of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
What's a Boss Worth?
exploration. “There is a growing literature in the social sciences about the importance of peer effects—many people think about how to form teams and what the right team should look like,” says Stanton. But... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
indefinitely without crashing is years away, no one knows exactly how many. Kumar thinks companies may be able to begin building quantum computing into their operations within 3 to 5 years, and that fully... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
that marketers began to think of the Web as an advertising medium, U.S. Internet advertisers spent $940 million; a year later, that number had almost doubled, and some put it as high as $4 billion in 1999.... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- Web
Leadership - Faculty & Research
leaders. Some want to use the program as a fig leaf for laying off staff; others think it costs too much and might put the company at a competitive disadvantage relative to companies that are hiring... View Details
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
proposition included Fernando De LaTorre, who commented, “I found (it) hard to work for trust as a goal. I think you work and live your values, and trust will stay in the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
Think of Rupert Murdoch, Al "Chainsaw" Dunlop, and Madonna. They're talented. They're shrewd. Now, are they successful? Or, as HBS professor Howard H. Stevenson framed the question at a recent... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization
and capturing future cost savings that expand beyond its own operations, particularly in a regulatory environment that could become more stringent over time. Role in an ecosystem: Besides thinking about the... View Details
- 10 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men
typically aren’t thinking about how to identify talent in people who look different from themselves. When a company’s talent arbiters are white men, research shows, they tend to more easily recognize the talents of other white men. View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
huge understanding of your market and the way the world works. You’re leaving money on the table! You’re not going to make as much money as you could by not considering the experience of racialized “others.” View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis