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07 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

a cab (Uber). It seems as if millennials would prefer to avoid face-to-face business interactions when there exists a more efficient way of getting what they want accomplished. “Having gone through the Great Recession, they tend to be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

Cars negated the ability to interact with people on the streets. As it turned out, cops did a better job fighting crime when they sought input from the public. That had happened organically when they walked their beats. And by sharing... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

but all of these interact with one another and with legal and normative constraints and enablers in society. And so for the first two—bias and underrepresentation—the problem and solution, although not simple and not fully resolved, were... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

war years; and innovator Herb Kelleher at Southwest near the end of the century. In this e-mail interview, Mayo, director of the HBS Leadership Initiative and the Thomas S. Murphy Distinguished Research Fellow, discusses how executives... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

05 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. Many dismiss marketing as manipulative,... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising

28 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

Many newspapers saw the emergence of the Internet as an attack on their core business, and responded with online products of their own. Unfortunately, says HBS professor Clark Gilbert, the papers failed to take advantage of the Web as a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

23 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

interactions of individuals, typically situated within small groups or teams. When these groups make appropriate changes in how they do their work—driven by both group and organizational goals—an organization maintains or enhances its... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

the journal Academy of Management Discoveries. She coauthored the research with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Assistant Professor Michaela Kerrissey and HBS doctoral student Derrick Bransby. Do employees feel safe to call out... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

10 Feb 2014
HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

the language has made that impossible?" Carroll told the executives to figure it out. As the case explains, Anglo hired an industrial theater group to act out various safety-related interactions between miners and supervisors, using... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

multi-sided platform that facilitates interactions among real-estate developers and suppliers of green-building inputs (e.g., professional services or building materials)," the paper explains. (Toffel was well acquainted with the nuances... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

13 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

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Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

guardians as holding opposing views of institutional change, we reveal how the complementarity and ongoing interactions between each set of actors served as a valuable resource for industry resilience and adaptation. Our primary data... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

costs and profit margins; initial sales also influence the venture's trajectory of organizational skills because firms develop capabilities and routines in interactions with customers. There is also an opportunity cost: money, time, and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

media content. Raises issues of how technology interacts with creative processes and outcome possibilities, and also invites discussion of strategic and organizational questions raised by the very different business models of the... View Details