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Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation

Every company wants to grow, and the most proven way is through innovation. The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble startups can innovate; once a business gets bigger and more complex corporate arteriosclerosis sets in. Gary Pisano's remarkable research... View Details

19 Jan 2024
News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details

29 Nov 2021
News

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

01 Sep 2023
News

3-Minute Briefing: Frances Haugen: (MBA 2011)

I went to a Montessori preschool. My parents were very big on the idea that children are people and treated me with great seriousness. If they asked me to do something, I was allowed to ask why. Debate was a big part of my high school experience. Coaching debate... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; whistle blower; Facebook; leadership; social media

01 Feb 2022
Book

Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

identity she created within the team. Purpose is the fuel on which Corporate Explorers thrive. It is critical to success, whether it comes naturally from deep personal experience or from an intense, deliberate effort to create one. When... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

26 Nov 2019
News

The Ritual Effect

Source: Norton Source: Norton Professor Michael Norton studies the ways in which rituals can influence human behavior. In his research, he has found that people establish rituals to enhance their enjoyment of something or to improve their success and don’t like to... View Details

Keywords: rituals

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

23 May 2019
News

Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

as “an ambassador for the field of impact investing who is capable of walking with kings and talking with crowds.” For her part, Palandjian is grateful that she took the plunge. “This has been the most rewarding professional experience of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

2021
Working Paper

Multi-location Workers in Multinational Firms? Tradeoffs in Contextual Specialization of Employees and Organizational Outcomes

By: Hise O. Gibson, Ryan W. Buell and Prithwiraj Choudhury

We study how “contextual specialization,” the act of focusing workers’ organizational tasks within a particular locational context, and “contextual non-specialization,” the practice of diversifying workers’ organizational tasks among multiple locational contexts,... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Performance; Experience and Expertise; Selection and Staffing; Strength and Weakness; Personal Development and Career

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23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

a same-day reply by phone or email. The rules aren’t mission statements, but rather a way to make learning experiences easier to adopt and follow. McDonald adds, “Even simple rules can outlive their usefulness.” 6. Make the new look... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Jun 2023
News

Pet Project

that demand payment for product placement and by wholesalers who are slow to pay. If Katie pursues this direction, she needs senior team members with the experience to navigate this challenging path and investors who can offer good... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

Pentagon decided they should collect my college tuition: $51,000. That was a transformative experience for me. It played out in the New York Times and USA Today. There were calls for kicking ROTC off campus at Harvard and MIT. I didn’t... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

me for the rest of my life. I hope this inspires others looking to get a similar transformational experience know that you can do it too! While these takeaways aren’t unique, this is my perspective. #1 You can build a community online.... View Details

11 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

sometimes what feeds that instinct is experience. Experience and expertise are not bad things, but sometimes they narrow the way we think about problems because we think we have the right answer. "e’ve never seen an organization that... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint

16 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Advice on Advice

discounting the wisdom they were given, often because of an egocentric bias that has them naturally favoring their own viewpoints. Sometimes people will ask for advice from others, but their true goal is to seek validation or praise for their own solutions. View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Oct 2023
Blog Post

HBS Section I Celebrates Parents, Mentors, and Partners Day

was able to participate. “I had a great time at Parents’ Day,” shared Christy Chen, mother of Sandie Xu (MBA 2024). “As someone who never studied in the US, I loved seeing the classroom dynamic at HBS. It was great to get an inside look at my daughter’s View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

differentiated digital platform. Students must evaluate whether Boutiqaat should establish flagship stores to deepen its omnichannel retail footprint or focus on expanding internationally beyond the Gulf and Jordan. The case explores platform strategy, influencer... View Details

16 Oct 2015
Blog Post

HBS and the Arts

I am what you may consider an atypical candidate at HBS; I am an art history major in pursuit of an MBA, dedicated to a career path in the arts. My fascination with art stems from an experience I had in high school. I attended a... View Details

26 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 26

find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that adopt GPs experience negative... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

non-competes hurt employees by limiting their job mobility and sending them on “career detours” where they may have to accept lower compensation than appropriate for their experience level. More important, departing employees are often... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

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