Routine - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 19

strategy, we decode the information in insider trading. Exploiting the fact that insiders trade for a variety of reasons, we show that there is predictable, identifiable "routine" insider trading that is not informative for the future of firms. Stripping away... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2008
News

Innovation as P&G’s Key

make in a routine and disciplined way,” Lafley says. The “disciplined way” is the major revelation of the book. For Lafley and Charan, innovation is an operational imperative driving sustainable organic growth, not something left to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

27 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?

Teresa Amabile argues that average folks deserve careful investigation, especially in the age of user innovation and crowdsourced problem-solving, when big ideas routinely come from the masses. The article appears in a forthcoming issue... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize

given to "those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind." "The heart of the brand, the essence of the brand, resides in the will of Alfred Nobel," says Greyser. He continued, "people associated with the Prize View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Mar 2013
What Do You Think?

Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

stuff." In much more detail Pozen advises us on such things as creating and following standard routines so that part of our working life is on "automatic" as well as proactively managing the daily calendar in order to avoid... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2020
News

Advance Racial Equity in the Office

Atlantic. To make workplaces a true meritocracy, leaders need to adopt the same kind of systematic approach that they apply routinely to every other area of the business—a process that MLT has outlined in its Black Equity at Work... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

José Royo

high-tech skills to college graduates. "It's an ideal job, because it will allow me to work closely with software developers, have a hand in marketing and sales, and play a role in the education of new employees," he explains. But don't ask for a plan that extends too... View Details

Keywords: Eileen McCluskey; photograph by Webb Chappell

05 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction

proxy solicitations enabling them to reach their widely scattered ownership, the slate of candidates proposed in the proxy materials, absent any kind of contentiousness, is routinely elected (without regard to withheld votes). Sparsely... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey

19 Oct 2023
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

by utilizing artificial intelligence to eliminate routine flaring, a key contributor to climate change. Scout - Nicholas Sehlinger (MBA 2024) - Scout is a climate management platform that helps companies measure, manage, and reduce their... View Details

02 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Pursuing A Passion in Health Care

variety of issues with people from every corner of the world. I’m still getting used to the adjustment back to a more routine working life. I look forward to seeing what the rest of the summer brings before seeing all my friends back in... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

Blog

Reinventing the GMP Experience

one laptop and opened the other one, worked until 6:00 PM, closed that one laptop and went back to my personal laptop, attended the class session in the HBS Live Online Classroom, and then continued reading at night. It took a lot of discipline, but I put a View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Euro Vision

million valuation, he might have missed his investment in auxmoney, an online marketplace for peer-to-peer loans. 3 Get comfortable on planes Rimer still lives in Geneva but is in London a few days a week. He is in Berlin regularly and in California quarterly, and... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer

17 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

by: Adopting new routines and rituals. The foundation of CEOs’ self-care was to replace the “lost structure” of the workday. One shared that “a daily routine for myself and supporting the family took longer... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

Web

Daniela Villafuerte | MBA

that can improve a person's quality of life through better integration to society, return to daily routines or increased independence. In the future, I want to integrate both health and technology in a company that focuses on delivering... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

FIELD 2 in Accra

and tech-savvy efficiency" in a country where energy and optimism coexist with persistent poverty and corruption. He says the team came away with a more realistic view of the challenges, opportunities, and responsibilities that await a generation of MBAs whose careers... View Details

Keywords: FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Information

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

having some serious unintended consequences, one being the fiction that there is actually a real CEO labor market. Let me elaborate. It is natural to wonder why boards routinely bypass thousands of internal candidates for the ninety or so... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Web

Changing Permissions on the HBSGrid - Research Computing Services

shared project space, group members should routinely check the permissions on files they have added to (and used in) the space. To check, group members need to log on to the grid using SecureCRT (PC), a terminal session (Mac) or a... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

Action Plan: Just Breathe

10-minute break. Take a walk, do a mindfulness meditation, crack a book, do something that lets your mind recover.” Start a gratitude practice. “Every night before you go to bed, say out loud three things you are grateful for. And when you wake up in the morning, do... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 1996
News

New Releases

Leading Change by John P. Kotter (Harvard Business School Press) Total quality management, reengineering, rightsizing, and restructuring -- innovations intended to make companies more competitive -- routinely fall short, says HBS... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

Pearson Hunt

gave me his recording with the instruction: "Don't change a word of it." I never learned if he was pleased with what he saw in print. There was little routine during World War II, when the School hosted a number of programs designed to... View Details

Keywords: Pearson Hunt

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