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21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

everything from working out at the gym to turning off the lights at home. Yet, despite the brainpower devoted to devising creative rewards and fine-tuning offerings, employees don’t always buy in. “All this money and time and smart people... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

01 Dec 2023
News

Action Plan: Life Study

trail again, relax. Follow it trustingly with the right side of your brain, not the smart side.” A Man of the Cloth It was 1965 and Ted Hartley had just been fired from his job as EVP at First Western Financial when he bumped into the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

opportunities. Startup life is exciting, but full of uncertainty. You need the best information possible to make smart choices. The Startup Lottery is for anyone who wants to maximize their likelihood of success. View Details

Keywords: podcasts

02 Nov 2016
Blog Post

The Benefits of a Residential Campus

sometimes a partner needs to be closer to work and Allston simply isn’t). If this is your case, my view is that life goes on after HBS and it’s worth it to make this concession. I think, though, you can make some smart decisions to shape... View Details

03 Oct 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

7 Effective Ways to Lead Teams

making a simulated climb up Mount Everest. ‘Big Teaming,’ Audacious Innovation, and the Uncompleted Dream of a Smart City How do you organize a project that spans professions, industries, and even nations? Related Research Papers Research... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

managers in the field make smart business decisions based on data. Those managers were encouraged to develop questions that could produce value if analysts could massage the data to provide accurate answers. For example, a manager might... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

only thing that this sort of learned pragmatism gives me is the opportunity to engage my colleagues who have the real power to make a difference in this country." And he said, "We'll see." So I guess he's right. We'll see. Neeley: So your son is as View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

02 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

the technologist are issues we try to avoid. Robert Simon Director, Alta Partners There are two schools of thought in evaluating new opportunities. In the first, the venture capitalist says, "I invest in people first and foremost. View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Barley

11 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

crucial, especially for managers trying to lead widely dispersed teams during difficult times, says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Julian Zlatev. Many managers believe in maintaining emotional boundaries with employees, but this may be a View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time is to be published today. Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In addition to her many years of teaching and research at HBS,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Web

HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

perspective of collaboration. But this becomes a delicate balance between anti-competitive legal territory and the benefits of the collective development of standards and crystallization of emerging demand signals, all paving the way for View Details

15 Feb 2024
News

Startup Shepherds

By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good... View Details

Keywords: April White

19 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

too, and then their followers will chime in, and so on. Smart companies are monitoring Twitter for complaints and asking, how can we quickly intervene to solve the problem? How can we reach the person in distress before this becomes an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

Web

Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

making smart financial decisions, and gain the confidence to clearly communicate those decisions to both internal and external stakeholders. The program was developed by leading Harvard Business School faculty and is delivered in an... View Details

01 May 2020
Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

Club trek to San Francisco, participants have the opportunity to meet with large tech companies, startups, and VC firms. Although treks don’t necessarily lead directly to job opportunities, they are a great way to get smart on industry... View Details

17 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells

in mind that if they bring stereotypes to mind, they won’t sit well with women. John recommends testing messages with small groups to see how they go over before launching larger marketing campaigns. “In many cases, these labels are not View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

09 Apr 2024
Research & Ideas

When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details

Keywords: by Glen Justice

Blog

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

Arbuckle Professorship at HBS, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. She is the author and co-author of several books, including her most recent book Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One View Details

16 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Advice on Advice

tendency to forget it's not about you, how smart you are, and how helpful you feel you can be, but it's about being experienced by the advisee as helpful," Margolis says. "The danger is that you immediately jump to a conclusion... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

inside a firm. With effort, some people did develop an innovative vision of what changes would be needed and a smart strategy of how to make those changes. Then, in trying to explain this to others and achieve sufficient buy-in, the... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

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