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- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
Amabile spearheaded a study of more than 200 knowledge workers over a three-year period, asking them to keep journal entries of their successes and frustrations at work. What she found was unexpected: It... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
floor plan with the CEO sitting in the middle of staff, or should the CEO have an office on a separate floor? “We don’t have the data yet, but my hunch is that these decisions affect employee morale,” Norton... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
Summing Up This month's column, in the eyes of several respondents, represents the struggle of competitive strategies based on process versus product. When seen in this light, the triumph View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
staff member receive credit for good ideas not only makes the employee feel valued and motivates him or her to come up with better ideas in the future, but also makes the leader look good. The purpose of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
Venture investing has picked up from the post-dot-bomb era of a few years ago—but does the comeback signal good times ahead or a mini bubble of misguided exuberance? To provoke discussion, HBS professor Bill... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
hammered home the need for companies to return to stressing the basics: hiring good people, producing a good product, delivering it and supporting it. For the first time in history, he said, companies have an unprecedented amount View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
attention to the human input into the system since so much moral decision-making is repeatedly delegated to individuals. The screening and hiring procedures need therefore be quite robust to ensure continuity. In addition, a lot View Details
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
Ethan Rouen: I wrote this paper for two reasons. First, one of my advisers (former HBS professor) Fabrizio Ferri made me promise I’d write about my experience for future job seekers, and I couldn’t say no to him because he had spent so... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
what could become a wildly successful company, but I also want to make sure my kids have health insurance. If I have this outside option, if I have access to public health insurance, then I'm more likely to join. The founders of the next... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
for the time we reasonably need to get things done,” Whillans says. Gracefully bow out of extraneous activities. Many employers are trying to help their employees unwind by scheduling virtual coffee breaks,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
an organization with few tangible assets under ownership and very few employees could have a higher market value than the large tech hardware and software company that employs him. Putting the question of... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
a summary measure of revenue generation and cost control. They should be controllable in that employees in the organization can actually influence improvement in the factor measured. Some View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
"The best-laid schemes of mice and men go often awry." - Robert Burns, 1785 An entrepreneur starts a company with plans to go public, but ultimately accepts a low-ball acquisition offer from a competitor. A newlywed husband... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
enable him or her to solicit support, hire employees, seek partners—to build a business. PM: The second half of the course focuses on practices and applications. We do very mundane things, such as look at... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
business strategy 101 for most entrepreneurs, so why have so many mobile money service offerings failed? It’s a question being studied by Rajiv Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. “You would think... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
back to the time of Confucius," says Paine, "the primacy of personal relationships and interpersonal reciprocity has been paramount in China. This poses a problem for those who want to use strictly... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
There's a lot of worry afoot whenever companies merge. Wall Street worries about the stock price. Employees worry about potential job cuts. And consumers worry about the fate View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?
US has the will and capability to coordinate and support major cross-industrial efforts to foster and, if necessary, regulate AI.” Today, this is being done in a highly fragmented way in the US by competing commercial organizations, many View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
fraction of the applicants. Borrowers and platform employees have no personal interactions; no physical meetings, phone interviews, or web chats. The platform pre-screens loans based on the borrower’s... View Details