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- 22 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Motivate Me, Please
How to Demotivate Your Best Employees Many companies hand out awards such as "employee of the month," but do they work to motivate performance? Not really. Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
life at the School) and another one less so (having never been at the School). These discussions help me build distance. But only the combination of distance and involvement allows, in my mind, for deep dives into human systems. Q: What... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
of incumbents so there can be better investments and so we can learn about broader economic phenomena. This is particularly true and interesting in developing economies because they are making big... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
investors, and builders can learn from the African experience, where public-private partnerships and deployments of new technologies are illuminating new ways to approach the task View Details
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
Harvard Business School spends a significant amount of research funds each year on the health care industry, answering questions such as: How can the business of health care be made more efficient? What can... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
quality issue. Do we need a kind of corporate “Jidoka rule” that calls a “stop,” examines behavior, preserves “voice,” encourages respect, and leads to learning between elements View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
competence, particularly when they believed the person was aware of the established norm but deliberately chose to make a fashion statement by wearing a standout style. This person was often viewed as autonomous; confident enough to act... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
protagonists in a case was an important part of the pedagogy. The third element is the belief that entrepreneurial management is not simply inspiration: There's a lot of perspiration—you actually have to run... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
production methods. But the payoffs have not been nearly as dramatic for service industries applying lean principles. HBS professor David Upton and doctoral student Bradley Staats look at the experience of Indian software services... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
particular traits and skills allowing them to maintain relevance. These include adaptability, a proclivity for collaboration and communication, a willingness to delegate tasks when appropriate, and a disposition for curiosity and continuous learning. We believe there... View Details
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
researchers might be able to address such issues as "how corporate practices contribute to or detract from stable societal institutions or democratic processes, or how might companies advance individual learning and growth, or the... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
demands can sometimes cost more than the revenue actually generated. By studying numerous companies and their customers across multiple industries, the researchers learned that the way firms derive profit through the customer management... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
The U.S. Army is one of the best training institutions in the world, says HBS professor Scott A. Snook, a retired Army colonel. How does the Army develop leaders? Snook discusses his new book, Making Sense View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
appropriate subsidies for their production. One contributing problem is the absence of a single agency responsible for overseeing the U.S. vaccine supply. Q: You write in the book, "By deliberately assuming a veil View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
first, these operations eventually become profitable. The WDC would be a center of research and learning about the impact of business on poverty reduction. Q: In what ways... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
employees believe it’s too risky to speak up, many decide it’s safer to put their heads down and keep their opinions to themselves—but that muting of views creates barriers to learning and collaboration that... View Details
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
in my vocabulary to raise money,” says Blakeman. “And that speaks to part of the problem. If you grow up in a place that’s not San Francisco or New York, you maybe don’t know a single person who knows that language. I was limited by what... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
must be prepared to act when the stakes are much greater than expected. What Signals Should Leaders Send During A Crisis? High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest On May 10, 1996, five mountaineers from two teams perished... View Details
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
be helpful. Ted Williams, the last baseball player to hit .400, was a student of his art. He emphasized that hitting is a pitch-by-pitch discipline: "My first rule of hitting was to get a good ball to... View Details
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
That way, everyone might learn how to get the most for themselves out of complex pricing schemes. The general consensus is that deregulation can have widespread benefits, albeit complex ones that are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett