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- 28 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Master the Team Meeting
monkeybusinessimages No matter how much we hate going to meetings, there’s a generally accepted best practice that teams should meet with their managers on a regular cadence. More often than not, unfortunately, I hear leaders and their... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
generated in the rubber chain, it was mostly appropriated by foreigners. This view is in tune with the global commodity chain approach that argues that manufacturing/core economies absorb the bulk of surplus View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
or—indeed—female. Q: What are you working on now? A: I am writing a book on the origins and growth of green entrepreneurship worldwide over the last six decades. This idea originated out of my research on the beauty industry, in which I... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
acres of land in southern Chile and run a variety of sustainable businesses to generate annual returns for investors. Patagonia Sur planned to derive various streams of revenue from the land—including eco-tourism, sustainable land... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide
understand a business. “We want to make money and always looking to generate alpha in our investment strategies, so if machine learning can make us profitable and improve our risk management and trading efficiency, so be it.” Kost: It... View Details
- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
work together to reach important goals, and by building coalitions to support needed change. Leading is a very personal activity where the leader connects with people and convinces them, making use of compelling ideas and character... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
- 07 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big
results don’t offer a smoking gun. Enthusiasm is inherent in the decentralized finance culture, where eager investors generally expect that market values will soar. “There's a belief that because crypto is trying to democratize investment... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
mutually agreed-upon transfers with compensation and are located within the task network. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), and pay for the transacted objects. The costs of this work (labeled mundane... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Social Innovation
My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Book
Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer
we were colleagues, yes, but we were also human beings, and most of us were aligned on this idea of doing something good in the world. So we said, ‘Let’s use Best Buy as a platform for that.’” Instead of seeing the company as a consumer... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
sector-specific skills. The resulting scale economies generate occupational stratification along ethnic lines, consistent with the reoccurring phenomenon of small, socially isolated groups achieving considerable economic success via... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?
General Brigham, and Lily Payvandi, assistant professor at Boston University Medical Center, was published in March in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s JAMA Network Open. Audience question leads to inquiry The View Details
- 11 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups
ideas, you’re more likely to generate new products.” Further research is needed to determine whether and how established firms might benefit from A/B testing. Koning thinks the beneficial effects might be even greater for such firms... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
- 15 Aug 2022
- Book
University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed
taxpayers of this state deserve.’” Even Harvard? “As the oldest university in the United States, Harvard reflects the country of its origin. Born of immigrants, it remade its identity on these shores, while continuing to import the best View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
foundations of strategic costing systems. The breakthrough came by combining an idea I had while writing Cost & Effect with an innovation developed by Steve Anderson, an HBS MBA, who was a student in my second-year elective, Cost... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
exchange. Study 3 demonstrated that sarcasm's effect on creativity for both parties was mediated by abstract thinking and generalizes across different forms of sarcasm. Finally, Study 4 found when participants expressed sarcasm toward or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2023
- In Practice
What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?
on SVB, and the subsequent run on other regional banks. Many observers postulate that the vulnerability was hiding in plain sight (an unsettling thought), a result of a combination of COVID government stimulus followed by a series of rates hikes. I would add other... View Details
- 12 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches
marriages began with online dates. “[Online dating platforms] are an extremely interesting application of the general question of influence and digital interactions,” he says, with lessons that can apply to other online engagement... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 26 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress
unit. "But traditionally in the US we have not placed a lot of emphasis on the role of workplace stress in the high cost of health care." In recent years, General Motors spent more on health care than it did on steel, and across... View Details