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- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
Saffronart, and food businesses Whole Foods and the James Beard Foundation. Khaire created the course, she says, because these industries function in fundamentally different ways than those in industries more familiar to traditional HBS... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
when official production demands it. A homer lamp made by a blacksmith © Michel Anteby For those readers familiar with the HBS teaching case called "Slade," homer making functions a lot like the informal punching-out system... View Details
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
bookings, buy cars and homes, while Recruit also owns Indeed and Glass Door. Being a good place to be from is a shift from the current employer mindset. Instead of wanting employees on board until you’re tired of them—a philosophy employees are all too View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
management practices, but low enough that they were familiar with day-to-day operations. The researchers also chose to target primarily small and medium-sized firms, employing between 100 and 5,000 workers, to maximize the chances that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
familiar faces. It's true that sometimes going outside is the right way to go. The strategic transformation at IBM required someone like Lou Gerstner to challenge the complacency. The Home Depot board felt justified in turning to outside... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
While analyzing one deal requires a familiar conceptual framework, doing the same for a broader "negotiation campaign" calls for a different focus and set of concepts: how to orchestrate a large number of subsidiary deals, often... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
the economy. On the demand side, it requires people to change their behavior. On the supply side, a country needs to mass-produce masks and efficiently distribute them. South Koreans were familiar with wearing masks from their experience... View Details
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
If only individual companies adopt, they then must also attract the attention of investors to let them know that the company is using the familiar form of accounting. Add to that the credibility issues from above, and you can see the... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
oDesk for fulfilling work. In fact, multiple pieces of evidence suggest that diaspora use of oDesk increases with familiarity of the platform, rather than a scenario where diaspora connections serve to navigate uncertain environments. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
the firm. She was thus familiar with its culture and practices. To ensure broad perspective, two "outsider" researchers—Ramarajan and McGinn—conducted the detailed coding of the inside data. "Our insider-outsider authorship... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
an average of 20 to 30 minutes just to learn how to shop in most text-based Internet grocery-shopping systems. By contrast, it takes them only two to three minutes to learn how to shop in a 3-D virtual store modeled after a familiar... View Details
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
structure of the game can have a powerful impact on outcomes. Principle 2: Breakthrough Negotiators Organize To Learn Skilled negotiators learn by doing the necessary preparation to negotiate: They diagnose the essential features of the situation, View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
probabilities, a familiar truth to anyone who has ever bought a lottery ticket. "On average people won $5, but the possibility of winning $100 was far more motivating than just giving people that $5," says John. That condition also took... View Details
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
require substantial industrial management skills and more than a year for a skilled military officer or other government manager simply to become familiar with an acquisition program, the contractors involved, the technical and financial... View Details
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
If you've spent any time on Twitter, then you're probably familiar with the "humblebrag"—a brag veiled in a complaint, so as to sound less blatantly like a brag. Here's an example from the Twitter account of Ari Fleischer, former White... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
principles can be valuable to a welfarist facing this limitation if they act as informational proxies, carrying accumulated knowledge about the effects of policy that otherwise cannot be considered. This argument can be seen both as extending a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
of society can be better met without these taxes, and though research continues to consider reasons why it may be justified, capital income taxation is generally viewed as inefficient. One concern probably less familiar to nonspecialists... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kenny: I can't imagine there's anybody listening who isn't familiar with the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. He's obviously one of the icons of American history, and all of the contributions that he made to our country. But, I've learned... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
action" instead of the more familiar "corporate social responsibility." Why make this distinction? A: This was a topic of much consideration, both among us and the paper's peer reviewers, some of whom wanted us to use the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
timing of its effects make clear that the Indian diaspora was not a very important factor in India becoming the leading country on oDesk for fulfilling work. In fact, multiple pieces of evidence suggest that diaspora use of oDesk increases with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne