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- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
the phenomenon in large, publicly-listed business organizations. What are the causes? As Simon Griffiths puts it, "While we continue to focus on the short term, we will lose the benefits of working for the long term. Wisdom is only... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably
essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. Visit Date:... View Details
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
venture capitalists want more from their clients in terms of an ownership stake or in terms of meeting tougher performance benchmarks? Gompers and Lerner: Many of the changes in the venture capital industry over the past eighteen months... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
for.” That helps explain how it was that Rice managed to graduate with honors from Yale with a degree in Latin American studies, but without employment. He did eventually land a job after college, spending two years at AT&T in a management-development program before... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
case, a strong link between incentives and performance seems to be present. Reprinted by permission of Harvard Business Review Press. Excerpted from The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
performing pattern recognition, and planning and executing a course of action. At Misr Radiology Center (MRC) in Cairo, Egypt, where Doha Tantawy (MBA 2019) serves as chief operating officer (COO), AI has been fully integrated into all of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Profile
Brian T. Bedol
For Brian Bedol, the founder and CEO of Bedrocket Media Ventures, entrepreneurship was deeply engrained from his childhood in Cleveland. Bedol’s father founded a successful small housewares manufacturing and metal stamping business and... View Details
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
liberal. To double check, the researchers ran the numbers excluding Scandinavia and found they still held up. “The idea that language affects a business strategy is pretty fundamental to our results” Furthermore, they View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
resilience while changing your relationship to stress, and shares a roadmap for sustainable performance in the face of ongoing change. How to Wash a Chicken: Mastering the Business Presentation by Tim... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
in order to make it to the next day. That doesn’t translate to successful job performance in a business environment, however. From their first day in the program, Reset participants (or students, in Reset’s... View Details
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
funding, which it will use to open four more schools in the fall of 2015—in Brooklyn and Palo Alto, along with two more in San Francisco. Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer John Kim (HBS MBA '93) became interested in AltSchool after... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
important qualities and capabilities to be sought in a successor to Welch is moot. But as in any good Harvard Business School case discussion, hindsight provides neither a guide to the future nor necessarily the best response. With that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
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- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
the agency implied that it would respect the public’s wishes, say Michael Norton and Leslie John, both professors at Harvard Business School. “When firms conduct online polls, people frequently submit ridiculous entries; and with social... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
Harvard Business School professor Stuart Gilson fielded some questions regarding his new book in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean SilverthorneSilverthorne: When should a company consider a major restructuring? Are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
British government to declare a state of emergency and place businesses on a three-day workweek to conserve electricity. It would take more than luck to grow a business in such conditions. By 1977, two of... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
chick” and said she performed surgery “like a girl.” Jurors ultimately awarded her $168 million, the largest judgment for a single victim of workplace harassment in United States history. Years later, sexual harassment remains a problem... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
business world. At that time, predictive analytics had been applied to the continuing maintenance of everything from CAT scan machines produced by GE to elevators made by Otis. It enabled these firms to sell "up time" rather... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Student-Faculty-Profile
Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell
demonstrated the negative effects on decision-making under distress. We are conducting a series of experiments to better quantify the impacts on service operations and to identify ways that the operating design could improve both the customer’s experience and the... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
dress-rehearsal performances of the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic, and a tour and business talk at the Museum of Modern Art. The group also runs a Brown Bag Lunch series, where alumni can... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley