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About - Race, Gender & Equity

where she practiced a culturally responsive pedagogy model in her home community. She brings those insights and creativity with her in this role. Sign Up For Our Newsletter Join our mailing list to receive updates on our work. Sign Up... View Details
  • 18 Mar 2013
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: LEGO

age 12. The LEGO brick played with by kids and adults around the globe came into being during Godtfred's tenure. He considered it a unique, sturdy, simple product—a system—that offered endless opportunities for creative fun, and drew up a... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 26 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

anticipatory regret can lead to indecision and costly delays. 71 This anxiety can be particularly problematic for executives in fast-moving industries. Successful management teams in turbulent industries develop certain practices to cope... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto

    William A. Sahlman

    William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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    • 16 Nov 2021
    • HBS Case

    How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

    can make extreme means seem justifiable.” A company spiraling into debt France Télécom’s troubles started in the late 1990s, after the French government turned the national telephone monopoly into a publicly traded company, now known as Orange. The telecommunications... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 01 Oct 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

    notion that a large segment of consumers might prefer automobiles that were safe and fuel-efficient. Coca-Cola ignored evidence that "New Coke" would fizzle and launched it anyway. Companies in the mechanical-watch and analog-photography View Details
    Keywords: by Garry Emmons
    • 28 Jan 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

    types of work Cash rewards are best suited as a motivator for work that is measured quantitatively, Whillans says. Many studies of the service and sales industries show that cash rewards lead to increased sales and improved customer... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • January 2009 (Revised June 2024)
    • Case

    Design Thinking and Innovation at Apple

    By: Stefan Thomke and Barbara Feinberg
    Describes Apple's approach to innovation, management, and design thinking. For several years, Apple has been ranked as the most innovative company in the world, but how it has achieved such success remains mysterious because of the company's obsession with secrecy.... View Details
    Keywords: Design; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Product Design; Product Development; Research and Development; Creativity; Technology Industry
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      Michael A. Wheeler

      Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

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      • 02 Jun 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: June 2, 2009

      in many creative industries, monetary incentives play a reduced role in motivating authors to remain creative. Data on the supply of new works are consistent with the argument that file sharing did not discourage authors and publishers.... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 12 Oct 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: October 12

      contrast, the sum of gross job creation and destruction at target firms exceeds that of controls by 13% of employment over two years. In short, private equity buyouts catalyze the creative destruction process in the labor market, with... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Leadership - Faculty & Research

      encountered, it recalibrated, iteratively creating continuity and restoring order. Daini survived the crisis without an explosion or a meltdown. October 2014 Article The Transparency Trap By: Ethan Bernstein To get people to be more View Details
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      Student Journey - Entrepreneurship

      advice. Rock VC Partners — Experienced VCs provide 1:1 feedback and advice. New Venture Competition — All entrants receive in person and written feedback from entrepreneurs, investors, and industry experts. Professors — Get insights from... View Details
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      Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

      by discovering customer jobs to be done and aligning your business’s resources, processes, and profit formula. 6 weeks, 5 hrs/week Pay by August 28 $1,850 Certificate Design Thinking and Innovation Srikant Datar Leverage design thinking principles and View Details
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      Careers Blog

      Transitions & Paths Content Type Content Type Alumni Career Videos Alumni Interviews Expert Interviews HBS Career Journeys HBS Working Knowledge Industry Resources Programs & Events Resources & Tips Filters Read posts from Author Alumni... View Details
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      Business History - Faculty & Research

      simplistic assumptions about business behavior also enabled business history to be highly creative and, at times, to exercise a huge impact on management studies more generally, especially strategy and the study of entrepreneurship.... View Details
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      Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

      Entrepreneurship (5) Corporate Finance (12) Corporate Governance (33) Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact (121) Corporate Strategy (97) Cost Accounting (3) Cost Management (9) Cost of Capital (1) Cost vs Benefits (8) Cost (15) Country (4) Courts and Trials (3)... View Details
      • 03 Nov 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: Nov. 3

      listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services industries and ownership structures such as state-owned firms, business groups, and private and foreign firms. Detailed balance sheet and ownership... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 01 Mar 2024
      • News

      In Harmony

      the days before institutionalized tutoring schools, he explains—today a $20 billion industry in Korea. “My father had a strict military background and told me to learn English by reading books,” he recalls. When Kim reported that he could... View Details
      Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea
      • October 2015 (Revised October 2016)
      • Case

      Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear! (Abridged)

      By: Willy C. Shih
      This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details
      Keywords: Analytics; Big Data; Business Analytics; Product Development Strategy; Machine Learning; Machine Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence; Product Development; AI and Machine Learning; Information Technology; Analytics and Data Science; Information Technology Industry; United States
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