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- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
question is, how much behavior change do you embed in the product? People resist change. They like the way they do things now, for the most part. They might wish a familiar product was cheaper or faster, but they've gotten used to the way... View Details
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal 4-5 May 2023 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Welcome Robin J. Ely and... View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
would advocate a discontinuation of operations after attempting unsuccessfully to resist meeting government demands for private information. Some suggested more complex strategies. Among those in favor of staying and trying to reach some... View Details
- 15 Jan 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Career & Life Balance
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How do I get past a feeling of being stuck in life or work? Can I resist the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal 4-5 May 2023 Home Speakers Videos Agenda May 04 Thursday, May 04, 2023... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Venture Capital, Post-Dot Bomb
so much global liquidity, too many dollars are chasing too few opportunities. “What’s going to prove me wrong?” Initially, Sahlman found little resistance to his gloomy forecast. “It’s an extremely hit-driven business that’s becoming more... View Details
Robert W. Woodruff
Resisting the pressure of other board members to diversify Coca-Cola through acquisition, Woodruff was committed to promoting the company’s core mission. In keeping with this vision, Woodruff solicited the genius of advertising great... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal 4-5 May 2023 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Location: Harvard Business... View Details
Naomi Sims
After as short, distinguished career in modeling, Sims decided to pursue her real dreams of being an entrepreneur. An outgrowth of her modeling experiences, Naomi devoted her efforts to manufacturing “realistic” wigs for black women. Though her products met with View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Creating Change
anyone seeking to change an organization from within, says Professor Kathleen McGinn, who recently presented on the topic to the HBS Women’s Association of New England. She outlines four steps to creating change in the face of resistance: 1 “Learn why people are View Details
Keywords: April White
- Portrait Project
Agnes Sauvage
I want to get high. I want to edge risk. I want to climb to remember I am alive. I plan to leave room for Nature in my business plans. I am going to the mountains and I will bring the mountains to you. I will help you listen to the music of the Earth and View Details
- 11 AM – 12 PM EST, 25 Jan 2018
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Becoming Effective Change Makers: The Power of Networks
Instituting change in an organization or in a sector of society has always been the bane of leaders. However, some leaders do succeed--often spectacularly--at transforming their organizations and even whole sectors of society. What makes some change makers triumph in a... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
level. Yet the corporation's senior management and human resource professionals resisted changing the scheme, pointing out the high quality of junior hires that the firm was making. It was not until 2009 that the firm's management agreed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
to a new working paper coauthored by Lecturer Abigail Allen, the opposite is often true. When the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) proposed stricter public pension accounting standards in 2012, many state governments balked. Even more surprising? Those... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts
so each is justified. But that kind of thinking causes a non-profit to drift from its original goals. It also contributes to the burnout of executives and staff, who feel as though they are working as hard as they can but see few results for their efforts. They may... View Details
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
self-presentation. It will examine such topics as the deconstruction of the gender binary; the concept of the authentic self; and how social identities, such as gender, race, social class, and sexual orientation, intersect to affect oppression and View Details
- Portrait Project
Gordon C. Liao
situations of resistance never relying on someone else to correct the injustice but most of all i just want to have an opportunity to do this with all my effort, an endless spark and certainly with all of my heart View Details
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
self-presentation. It will examine such topics as the deconstruction of the gender binary; the concept of the authentic self; and how social identities, such as gender, race, social class, and sexual orientation, intersect to affect oppression and View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories... View Details
- Portrait Project
Shibani Joshi
meant fame and wealth, but today I see the meaning as much more profound. Now breaking free involves resisting the temptation to return to the investment bank I previously worked for and instead pursuing my dreams in the entertainment... View Details