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- 10 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice
AI’s capabilities to help solve business problems, particularly in parts of the world with fewer resources and less access to technology. “The fact that generative AI was a little over a year old, and we could use it to advise several hundred Kenyan entrepreneurs how... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
In Memoriam: Hugo Uyterhoeven
during the 1970s, while also chairing the School’s General Management Unit. Colleagues also benefited from Uyterhoeven’s well-honed teaching skills, especially the creative teaching plans he devised. HBS senior lecturer Ashish Nanda... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
together to facilitate visibility. The idea was that watching the workers would help managers improve operations and replicate innovations on one line across others, thus increasing productivity and driving down production costs. A... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform
are entire industries that have been created to help avoid paying taxes and find creative ways around compensating people, he said. "There's a lot of aiding and abetting that goes on in this kind of environment and I think it's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety
evolving challenges, they need candor, speed, and creativity to make progress. They need employees to bring their full selves—with all their skills, knowledge, and insights—to the challenges ahead. Second, most work is not performed by... View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
in trying to improve the measured dimensions of performance and so has a narrow span of accountability. By contrast, a manager responsible for market share or business profit can make many trade-offs and thus has a relatively wide span of... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
administrative, cultural, and corporate capital of the Ruhr, Germany's industrial heartland of smoke, coal, and steel. Art became a source of competitiveness. Through creative cooperative efforts, which we could call cluster activities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
system did not have a significant effect on any outcomes. However, it significantly improved the quality of creative work in stores that had accessed the system more frequently and in stores with fewer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
shifting," she said. Panelist Rory Tahari, creative director and brand designer for Elie Tahari, Ltd.—and wife of designer Elie Tahari—said she saw a clear trend toward higher expectations from consumers in the fashion industry.... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
who wrote, "... legislative and regulatory response treats the symptoms (means) rather than the disease (motivation). Transparency is only as successful as the least creative obscurantist." He recommends, among other things,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
actual human being wrote it? Do it! Want to build an intuitive web form (easy to fill out, simple to save, easy to submit) to replace a clunky paper form (hard to write, easy to lose, annoying to submit)? Do it! Want to build an app that lets people request View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
the globe. As a leader in management education, Harvard Business School has a strong commitment to improving the practice of management and to advancing a world that is more sustainable and inclusive, healthier, and better educated. As... View Details
- Profile
Aline Camargo
MBA. With that deeper knowledge about my personality, I could plan more precisely a career path to leverage my strengths and I started working on improving some of my weaknesses that could affect my effectiveness as a professional going... View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
in these features include improving our professional image, authentic leadership, and several Jim Heskett columns that attracted more than 200 reader comments. Finally, the five most-downloaded research working papers are highlighted.... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
shape when and how public agencies implement policies effectively on behalf of marginalized citizens. November 2014 Antitrust Law Journal Are Patents Creative or Destructive? By: Nicholas, Tom Abstract—Current debate over patent... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBSi Combines HBS Content with State-of-the-Art Technology
state-of-the-art e-learning technology. "HBSi is the magic that melds classroom teaching, long a hallmark of the HBS experience, with the creative use of the latest e-learning tools — combining and customizing them to offer a total... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
markets. Sean Silverthorne: When we think of developing economies or countries, instability is often seen as a negative. Should you build a business in a place where the rule of law is suspect? But Hamdi Akın seemed to have thrived in the political turmoil in Turkey.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ali Evans (MBA 2019)
grow another small software startup to reach its first $1M in annual recurring revenue and advised a logistics business in Brazil on operations optimization to improve profitability. What impact has HBS had on your career? My HBS... View Details
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
believe that there exists a much stronger creative and entrepreneurial drive in the West and the Northwest than on the East Coast A culture of creative risk-taking exists on the West Coast more so than on... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
recording employees’ creative work affected the quality of creative work, job engagement, and financial performance. We found that, on average, this system did not have a significant effect on any outcomes.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne