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13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

The last few months have been trying for Maureen Park, the managing director of a small portfolio management firm. The firm's parent company, a large financial services concern, was performing below forecasts, and morale among Park's... View Details

Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

opening up the shareholding of the parent trading company, but by floating separate 'free-standing' firms on the British capital markets, which the merchant houses continued to control through management contracts and other means in the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

26 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus

that resilient. And they need to be given the compassion to express their concerns. So, think of someone in your organization who has elderly parents in a fragile state of health. They’re going to be doubly concerned about relatives at... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

04 Apr 2022
What Do You Think?

As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?

Florida legislature, after several weeks of heated public controversy, passed and sent to Governor Ron DeSantis a Parental Rights in Education bill stating: “Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

best predictors of success for at least one class of Harvard MBAs was whether or not a parent of the applicant had had a career in management. An implication that one might draw from this finding is that the presence in a household of a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

entity be able to thrive if denuded to some extent from the parent platform economies and technologies?” LockedOnLeaders asked how Google or FB could actually be broken up. “They own the virtual real estate, and I don’t see how you take... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

sociologist at Harvard Business School. His parents were an interracial couple who fell in love in the 1960s, when mixed marriages faced scorn and sometimes worse in many parts of the US. Even so, he said, they always believed in the... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

27 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

the daily gathering of parents and kids at the same table every night for dinner can make that time feel less like eating an ordinary meal and more like sharing a meaningful family ritual. Types of rituals: from date nights to chores In... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

Any parent can tell you that a surefire way to turn joy into rage is to offer your child a big candy bar—and then turn around and offer an even bigger one to his sister. Suddenly, a special treat turns into a great injustice. "Hey! How... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

offices, kitchen tables, and bedrooms. Parents suddenly needed to juggle homeschooling while learning how to be effective remote workers. Working from home during a global pandemic has introduced new formats, patterns, challenges, and... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

olfactory system is a powerful sensory source of both memory and pleasure and thus easily embedded into the habit loop,” the researchers explain in the paper. The experiment included 3,763 young children and their parents in 2,943... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

whether it's learning algorithms or derivatives or parenting or riding a bicycle." "One of the things we find is that if you ignore [B players] long enough, they begin to see themselves as low performers," DeLong said.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

expect someone to be fully present, eight hours a day, when they have a three-year-old with crayons drawing on the wall, or an elderly parent who needs help navigating the stairs.” THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

able to build products that help them teach other students. Parents will be able to assemble tools to tutor their children. And teachers will be able to create tools to help the different types of learners in their classrooms. These... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

does not disappoint. I loved his class, Justice, as a Harvard freshman and doubly loved this book as a college parent. In it, he exposes the downside of our meritocratic society—spurred on by pushy parents and elite universities—and... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

others made diapers a highly competitive, money-losing proposition. Why underwrite the loss? Eliminating diapers from a grocery's offerings would make their baby sections unappealing to parents with young children—an attractive clientele.... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

02 Aug 2007
What Do You Think?

How Will Millennials Manage?

of their childhood. Others attribute it to Baby Boomer parents more devoted to their children than those of other generations, with children who regard them as "pals" as well as parents. Some ascribe it to a society in which... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

Mccraw In 1989, Thomas K. McCraw succeeded Alfred Chandler as the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and like him is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Both of Al's parents lived into their 90s, and his death at 88 hit me hard.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

psychologist Diana Baumrind on parenting styles. Her research highlights four parenting "prototypes" oriented along two dimensions: the level of direction parents... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Women at Work

scale back on travel and her hectic work schedule after coming back from parental leave. They responded by changing her job to one that did not require travel. "It was the worst job of my career," she said. "I hated that... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

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