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21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

on," says Harvard Business School marketing professor Gerald Zaltman. A more strategic approach to data mining can provide the foundation for that decision-making architecture. Below, advice on how to... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

idea with Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. Nohria remembered that he and his HBS colleague, Rakesh Khurana, had noticed a similar effect in CEO data—that some chief executives had two distinct... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

book, Who Killed Health Care? We asked Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School, to discuss her latest work and her more than 30 years of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. "In an organization, all the employees already have some of this, in varying degrees." “Altruistic capital is the idea that every individual has... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

cons of mixing business with social service? Can nonprofits effectively serve two masters, their nonprofit mission and the call of the market? At the annual Dialogue on Social Enterprise, a daylong event held April 20 at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

School Case 813-169 Excel Entertainment No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/813169-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-507... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience edited by Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo, and David A. Thomas. Copyright 2019 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation. All rights... View Details

Keywords: Re: Liangzong Ma

17 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

today: the companies themselves. During that period, investor protection laws in Brazil were relatively weak—yet investors bought equity on a "massive scale," according to Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

16 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

Harvard Business School and coauthor (with Jean Tirole of the Toulouse School of Economics) of the paper Standard Essential Patents. "In the free market, where there's a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services

29 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?

with one another.” About the Author Kristen Senz is a writer and social media creator for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: glebchik] Related Reading: When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

15 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

in the paper Are Bankers Worth Their Pay? Evidence from a Talent Measure by Boris Vallée, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and Claire Célérier, an assistant professor at the University of Zurich. “What we are saying is... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

18 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon

given that they're exchanging what they hope is a boost in demand for sure losses on the logistics side," says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Donald Ngwe. Shipping Fees and Product... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

boomers—the current economic uncertainty makes their wisdom and experience all the more valuable. Still, it's easy to get too caught up in this perceived intergenerational clash. As Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

09 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

experience as a policy maker—as well as 25 years of experience as an investor and small business owner—to the U.S. Competitiveness Project at Harvard Business School. Mills left the SBA last summer and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Financial Services

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

around the world could improve responses to the next global financial catastrophe. Work done recently by dozens of Harvard Business School students under Alberto Cavallo, the Edgerley Family Associate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

06 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine

Author Danielle Kost is the editor-in-chief of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: monkeybusinessimages] Related Reading 5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep 6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

there, but I don't think that's going to happen in my lifetime, though I do expect to see changes. Right now women represent between 35 to 40 percent of the applicants to business schools. I think Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

30 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

of entrepreneurial pitching," says Alison Wood Brooks, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School who coauthored the paper with Laura Huang, an assistant professor at the Wharton View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

they're going to spend a good part of their lives in the office, they'd like that time to be spiritually as well as materially rewarding." Leading experts on the topic, including Peter B. Vaill (MBA '60, DBA '64), a professor at the University of St. Thomas View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

We all know the importance of mentors and other early career experiences in shaping the kind of leaders we ultimately become. But how important to that development are the particular companies we work for? For Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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