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- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
individuals in the business, their individual motivation, and their ability to work together harmoniously. Nowhere is the need to work together more important than in the twin customer-facing functions of marketing and sales. Sales and marketing look similar at a... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
Leadership It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding Acknowledging that people are having a hard time whether or not they are... View Details
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
jobs complete (compute is used), one's priority shifts back and forth relative to other busy users, allowing jobs to be scheduled for all users. Scheduling Considerations - Resource Reservation and Backfill Scheduling Between FIFO and... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
launched in 2021 by alternative asset manager TPG. Climate investing is a complex, capital-intensive endeavor; entering it has forced TPG to think and act differently. Relative to other funds, Rise Climate’s... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
you think filing for bankruptcy might help some companies survive now? Gilson: In many countries, “bankruptcy” does mean the death of a company, because it’s synonymous with liquidation. When a company defaults on its debt, and is unable... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
analytical knowledge to more of what we call "doing" (skills) and "being" (a sense of purpose and identity) must occur. Business schools need to think innovatively about how best to use the resources available to them. For example, there... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
If your idea of a Ph.D. in business conjures up visions of spectacled scholars toiling in solitude in the library's darkest, dustiest corners, think again. At HBS, students in the School's Doctoral Programs are doing much more than... View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
Reviewing a spectacular business failure, we often wonder why the CEO didn't see trouble coming. It was so obvious. Why didn't Digital Equipment Corp. CEO Kenneth Olsen see the PC as a threat to minicomputers? Did Coca-Cola's Roberto Goizueta really View Details
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
emigration grew in Michigan (0.24% to 1.18%) while dropping in states that did not enforce non-competes (0.20% to 0.13%). The relative risk of post-MARA emigration was 1.353 in Michigan, 99.9% higher than in states that continued not to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Research Brief: Hear Me Out
Image by Lincoln Agnew Image by Lincoln Agnew It’s usually not hard to spot the extroverts in the office—or anywhere else. The butterflies of any social gathering, extroverts tend to restore their energy levels by being around other people. But for all their... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
premium? "I think the central question posed by the cases—and we can generalize this more broadly beyond Porsche—is, what difference does location make in a globalized world? Can products just be manufactured anywhere?" One... View Details
- 27 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey
may help explain why some consumers may think that prices are ‘too high’: not just relative to the past, but also relative to more expensive varieties,” the authors write. You... View Details
Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua
- 10 Sep 2014
- Blog Post
A Summer Reflection
team meetings (e.g., what can Walmart learn from GM’s issues with recalls?), murals on the wall listing these values / rules, and so on. I have never worked in an environment where the culture was such an active focus. For such a vast company, it feels View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
a second shift as a Bruins TV analyst.) Baumgartner, who also served as a Bruins assistant coach for one year, had a twelve-year career in the NHL. He overcame relatively modest abilities by becoming a rugged enforcer and hard-working... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?
as if we develop a curiosity about the person’s potential. “We start thinking about how we can help this person grow into the employee that we believe they can be,” she says. Whillans and her fellow researchers are looking into whether... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Entrepreneurs Needed for Long-Run Success
generations of the family are supposed to take care of and grow the founder's creation; they are not expected to be entrepreneurs themselves. Even attempting to reinvent the family company can be seen as disloyal by the family. This constraint often kills the family... View Details
Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
accept a customer, but everyone has the right to save if they want to work to do that," Tufano says. "So let's think about what the characteristics of a universal savings vehicle might be: It's low cost, low risk, portable,... View Details
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
relatively neutral "Survey of Student Behaviors." The questions were exactly the same in every case. Yet participants in the "unprofessional" condition were almost twice (1.98 times) as likely to admit to having engaged in the various... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
I had to contain my emotions. So I said my name. I tried to qualify myself. I think the real point was to tell him I am an alumnus of HBS. That helped to pave the way. Perzyk: Before he even says, "Are you Tim Perzyk?" He may have said,... View Details
- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
organizational rank would indicate—recognized experience in a particular style of negotiation, for example. Can such "perceived relative power" make a difference at the table? The short answer is yes. In "Perceived View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark