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- 13 Mar 2023
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Should Leave
you’re moving straight into a new role at a new organization, it’s not uncommon for you to second-guess your resignation after you leave. You may miss the office banter with the old gang, and now you have to... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
few years in deep study of the restaurant industry to create and deliver an MBA-level course at Harvard Business School called Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry. Leveraging this work, we virtually convened in April a... View Details
- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
"Have you ever neglected to tell a partner about an STD you are currently suffering from?" New research looks at the benefits and downsides of information sharing. ©iPhoto/rawpixel Possible answers, given in multiple-choice... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
are going well, but when you have to make a decision that comes at a cost to you or your organization," said HBS Professor of Management Practice Bill George, former chairman and CEO of Medtronic. "[They'll say,] 'He's View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay
research out of Harvard Business School. In fact, these are just a handful of suspect titles companies are using to classify hourly workers as supervisors and avoid paying an estimated $4 billion in overtime a year, finds a study by Lauren Cohen, a professor of... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
the evaluations given (and consequent resource allocation). We empirically evaluate effects in data collected from a grant proposal process at a leading research university in which we randomized the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions
research suggests there was something at work beyond simple greed, setting the stage for deeper exploration of how incentives shape not only what we do, but also how we perceive reality. “The question of incentives is fundamental to... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
Schlesinger says. “Your house wasn’t perfect.” When Schlesinger checks in with his grown children, he reminds them that the COVID-19 pandemic will end. Eventually, people will return to work, whether at their old jobs or new positions.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
Your New Duties The easiest thing to do when you're saddled with new projects is to give them short shrift. In the name of survival, it is tempting to make sure you know enough to manage current processes and leave it at that. This... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- Research Summary
Overview
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
geographically, including some home grown production capacity will ensure a much more resilient operation.” Among other things, Chris Taylor suggested that leaders in this crisis will have learned that it paid to be calm in bearing, decisive and timely, and selfless,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
gradyreese Always on, always connected isn’t always better when it comes to solving problems at work. In fact, teams get better results when they collaborate only intermittently, according to recent research. Insights on work... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
it’s ending a relationship, changing a job or transitioning from a household of kids to an empty nest. When it comes to our employment, we have our last day at an old job on a Friday and start our new job on Monday, perhaps taking a week... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
In a first-ever look at the internal economics driving private equity partnerships, Harvard Business School researchers have found that many of these funds can be torn apart by greed among founding partners who take home a much bigger... View Details
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
including two economic recessions. Smaller cities and rural areas were excluded because of missing data for at least one year during this time period. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics,... View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
a new book, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads, Harvard Business School's Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick G. Cullen suggest opportunities for innovation. Understanding Users of Social Networks Many... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
associate professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. And yet, investors take chances over and over often with great success when they hit it big with a game-changing... View Details