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- 17 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage
micro level, the authors argue. On the macro level, companies need to send employees the message that they are valuable by retaining them, rather than resorting to layoffs when times get tough. For instance, during the pandemic, some... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
"Shake Me," the pink triangle reads, hovering in the middle of the Magic Tate Ball—a smartphone app mimicking the popular Magic 8 Ball novelty. When shaken, the virtual prognosticator reads "Choosing Your Artwork" for a dramatic moment before... View Details
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
Mitchell B. Weiss has heard it too many times: government doesn't work. Too slow. Too bureaucratic. Too burdened by procurement rules and performance measures. "Some of that is fair, and some of that is unfair, but it adds up over... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
By now, it’s an expected right-of-passage. As you enter credit card information for an online purchase, up pops two familiar words: “Privacy Notice.” Does seeing those words make you more confident about the transaction, knowing that the... View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
It's safe to say that the rollout of the Affordable Care Act was not pretty. Plagued by technical problems on Healthcare.gov, and stymied by a lack of political support in around half of the 50 states, the... View Details
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over product decisions being made by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
the key to creating breakthrough innovations. Still others have claimed that a company may be able to shift back and forth between different organizational models, focusing on exploitation for a period and then moving into exploration mode. We recently decided to test... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
Unfortunately, superior decision making is distressingly difficult to assess in real time. Successful outcomes—decisions of high quality, made in a timely manner and implemented effectively—can be evaluated only after the fact. But by the... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
utilizes data from households across the country that install a set-top box alongside their television that analyzes second by second what family members watch. At the same time, Kantar records everything that is shown on every station,... View Details
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
afterthought. "If you look at the allocation of resources in corporate wellness programs, you will find it heavily weighted towards physical health," says Quelch. Only rarely does a tragedy, such as a suicide of a top management executive or workplace shooting View Details
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
published in the Academy of Management Journal. Behavioral psychologists typically divide decision-making processes into two types. Type 1 is characterized by impulsive, instinctual, emotional reactions, often made quickly and without... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
older man led them to the back of one of the homes. Inside, he showed them a group of people huddled around the glow of two laptops, powered by a generator. “More than any other course, it teaches humility” "He said, 'All of my... View Details
- 21 May 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals
protagonist. "When you discover truths by answering a series of questions, you are not just learning, but also learning how to learn," says Narayanan, Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration and chair of the... View Details
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
“Nothing sells itself,” says Frank Cespedes, senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. “When companies introduce new products, they are offering something that by definition is going to replace... View Details
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
a string of experiments to test how sleep affects decision making. After all, sleep can do many things—research has shown that a good eight hours of shut-eye can help make people more creative, more attentive, less risky in their behaviors, and less driven View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
New York members, based on research by business executive Katherine Gehl and HBS Professor Michael Porter, detailing how partisan polarization has rendered government ineffective. That research resulted in a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2015
- News
A Lifesaving Smartphone App Inspired by a Brush With Tragedy
- November – December 2009
- Article
Learning by Design: Developing an Engine for Transforming Your Company
By: Michael Beer and Magnus Finnstrom
Traditional leadership development programs often fail to achieve the desired results because they don't focus on learning linked to the company's business strategy and the real day-to-day challenges facing managers. The experience of Sweden-based industrial... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Programs; Learning; Failure; Business Strategy; Organizations; Transformation; Problems and Challenges; Design; Sweden
Beer, Michael, and Magnus Finnstrom. "Learning by Design: Developing an Engine for Transforming Your Company." Leadership in Action (November–December 2009).
- 20 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
By significantly expanding our understanding of the dynamics of competition, Michael E. Porter's Harvard Business Review article "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy" launched a business... View Details