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- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
cheeses won’t resonate with tech entrepreneurs. Enduring. Building a brand around renewable energy might not stick if oil prices fall for a sustained period or a pro-coal leader takes power, but the unique essence of a city never fades... View Details
- 16 May 2023
- In Practice
After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?
Like: Why Digital Is a State of Mind, Not Just a Skill Set Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge... View Details
- 20 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Language Wars Divide Global Companies
US software market, the company's core marketing team, and to tech industry analysts. Power struggles were constant. Neeley says that the Indians, overall, in this study were less emotional because they didn't hold much power in the... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
practices as can be imagined—Snook asks students to confront their basic assumptions about human nature, motivation, and preferred styles of leading. Bobby Knight, also known as "The General," is the head coach at Texas Tech... View Details
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
move will leave behind several hundred workers (out of the 2,100 whose jobs that will be terminated) whose skills may not be transferable, especially in today’s high tech labor market. The economic impact on their community will be shared... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
creating an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem can be seen through the stories of four women—two of them Black, one Latinx, and one white—who launched new enterprises in Miami with an eye to diversifying tech jobs in the future.... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
pretty bad. The present is better than 100 years ago and much better than 200 years ago. Today, the tech world is building AI systems and making decisions that will use human inferences and data built on the past. So instead of mimicking... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
remote work tech tools. Find a colleague who has used Slack and Zoom and set up a tutorial and get a sense of how to use these tools and what their functionality is like. Hopefully the virus will go away soon, but those tools will stay... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
software firm to call on financial-services prospects; or, in health-care businesses, different companies sell very different products, but many sell to hospitals) A technology (e.g., an engineer or field-service tech hired to sell a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
vaccination rates, the campaigns led to an estimated 7 million additional people getting vaccinated. These results also point to the potential for broader use of social media platforms to promote other public health goals. Tech platforms... 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
- 16 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
countries that were known as tech leaders. The researchers also found that the effect of nonstop flights on innovation outcomes was stronger for routes with shorter north-south distances, which cross over less longitudinal distance. Some... View Details
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
together, and across most of the country,” Greenstein says. Forces at work Two distinct and competing forces changed IT wages starting around the year 2000, Cao and Greenstein found. “On the one hand, the advantage of tech hubs and urban... View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
Set Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope:... View Details
- 01 Feb 2023
- What Do You Think?
Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?
hybrid—version that gained acceptance (at least for coders) in tech companies like Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems 30 years ago. The pandemic surge in work-from-home has morphed in some organizations into hybrid work strategies that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
book, he follows how the accelerators are used by Paul Davidson, a top sales executive at a B2B tech firm, who was grappling with sales growth decline. Davidson shared four goals at the start of building the company's agile network: work... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
from earlier debates this year have helped candidates inspire donors and gain media attention. While one of these candidates might square off with Trump at the podiums next year, the election’s winner will ultimately depend on a campaign’s ability to reach voters in... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
high tech. My colleague, William Kerr, has written extensively about the efforts through various avenues to ensure an adequate flow of tech talent into the country. But leaders in other industries seem to have been reluctant to influence... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
deliberate on important decisions. Masking the gender of applicants for tech jobs before deciding whether they should be interviewed can remove bias from the process. And when selecting employees for a task, managers should compare two or... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
trusts like Standard Oil were busted by President Theodore Roosevelt. They were the Big Tech of their day. Where is the outrage today?” Facebook should be broken up, he added. Wildebeest proclaimed, “The best approach is to break up the... View Details