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- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
drive-through restaurant with low prices that appealed to working-class families. “The company has built its brand around family dining, so that is especially important to its culture,” explains Paine. Despite its ubiquity, McDonald’s managed to inspire View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
San Francisco office, and it also details the evolution of Pentagram itself. In addition, this case offers a thick description of Hinrichs and his team working with a client. This case can be used in business and executive education... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks, and Build an Incredible Career Keeping a Diary to Catalyze Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa, Steven Kramer, and Ela Ben-Ur Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
high-paying ones. Wherever possible, health care professionals have shifted from their normal service lines to serve COVID patients. Primary care provider offices and outpatient services are empty. As a result, health care provider organizations are finding View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
extension product. The quality and demand for a brand extension can be higher if the brand is perceived as caring only for its most quality-conscious consumers rather than for all possible buyers of the good. Not Just for Stereotyping Anymore: Racial Essentialism... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
is about experimentation: the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed, and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro level, experimentation by new firms underlies the Schumpeterian notion of creative destruction.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, has used music and singing to help staffers think in unconventional ways. Poet David Whyte brings poetry to corporations such as Merck and Procter & Gamble to stir creativity by helping... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
created a complementarity of technical and symbolic resources that contributed to the resilience of Swiss watchmaking through two mechanisms of resolution: technology approbation and creative abrasion. Harvard Business School Case 118-015... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
up. With firsthand experience both in a world of no competition and in one of intense competition, he is decidedly in favor of the latter. A strong, innovative competitor "makes you more efficient in operations and more creative in... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
214-039 Note on LBO Capital Structure No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/214039-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 811-024 Felipe Calderón: Leading with Light and Power (A) This sequence of cases explores how leaders get their View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
complicity between workers and management. Perhaps most surprising of all, Anteby argues, is that the practice may help some organizations be more effective. Homer making keeps teams together and skills sharp during idle times in the... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
Tech Giants Can’t Win by Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao. Copyright 2024 Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao. All rights reserved. You Might Also Like: Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
laboratory experiment. We found that individuals working temporarily as part of a research team were more engaged and satisfied with their work, performed their tasks more effectively, and were also more likely to return to work when... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
innovation across their product lines. I also do a fair amount of work with a large IT company that sees enormous opportunities in energy monitoring, water monitoring, and waste monitoring. In general, I work with large companies to respond to the challenges we face in... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
codes in the treatment and control regions; these procedures have been developed by scholars in other fields to approximate datasets that would have resulted from random experimentation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-043.pdf View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
sales. If the economy remains shut for more than a couple of months, the enterprise will not survive. A creative donor rushing in with debt at low rates and a grace period may decide the future access of the majority of Mexicans to good... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
run gas and water distribution systems in diverse urban and rural locations throughout mainland China—often in the face of entrenched local interests who could have blocking power. Discussions with HKGC's negotiation teams revealed an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
forthcoming Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—The Fearless Organization offers practical guidance for View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne