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- 12 Apr 2022
- Book
Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence
Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 May 2021
- Book
Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer
Fewer slides, more soul-searching Perhaps what’s most important, he instituted a training program that cast aside PowerPoint presentations and videos and replaced them with soul-searching conversations between both executives and... View Details
- 18 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers
Payday lenders have long been cast as villains for charging consumers sky-high interest rates, leaving borrowers who live paycheck to paycheck struggling to repay loans. But conventional banks are just as guilty of using fees to penalize... View Details
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Search Funds
How can I create a list of companies for a search fund? Using library databases it is possible to create a list of privately owned companies within a certain geography and industry. For a search fund, it is best to cast a wide net... View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
just like going into a play, you want to read the playbill, right? You want to know the creators, you want to know a little bit about the plot. You want to know a little bit about the cast of characters. Why is that foundation so... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified
The High Line redevelopment in winter, New York City. sx70 A new study of gentrification shows that the addition of a coffee shop or restaurant in your neighborhood could be an early indicator that housing prices are about to spike. The research also View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
he initially set out to see if he could duplicate the Whitehall results at another large organization. He was surprised to find instead that his study results cast doubt on the idea that those in lower hierarchical positions suffer more... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
expected, an actor's past box-office performance is positively related to the magnitude of his or her impact on revenues. However, the number and, particularly, the average box-office record of other cast... View Details
- Web
Events - Business History
“The Great Depression, Black Nationalist Organizing, and Radical Economics in Detroit” Nov 7 07 Nov 2022 Business History Seminar Diana Kim (Georgetown), "A Most Durable Inequality: Caste and Untouchable Labor across Post-World War Two... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells
previous research, even stereotypes that cast people in a positive light—such as suggesting that women are kinder than men or that Asians excel in math—can trigger a negative reaction from these groups. Some companies have learned this... View Details
- 09 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual
last week, brand Clinton promised a bright future but looked like the candidate of yesterday, a little tired and overly reliant on a supporting cast of Obamas and Bon Jovis. By contrast, Brand Trump promised a future that looks like... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
through word of mouth (WOM); whereas in another context (a cloud-based file storage service), customers who joined through WOM referrals tended to exhibit higher usage. Yet, examining how routes of adoption relate to specific types of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
that people allowed to work from anywhere experience 4.4 percent higher productivity. The pandemic took this arrangement mainstream, as high-profile organizations such as Airbnb, Facebook and Twitter adopted the approach, with important gains for employers, including... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Serafeim Abstract—We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that this measure of purpose is not View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
90th anniversary is a sensible time to revisit a basic question: Are organizations more likely to succeed if they adopt good management practices? The answer may seem obvious to most HBR readers, but these three economists cast their net... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
talent from your search who may have sent in resumes and been exciting candidates,” Koning says. “I would recommend firms cast a really wide net and be willing to reach out to candidates who look different in terms of what you think might... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
efficiency has been cast in high relief, supply chain managers realize that they can no longer focus solely on cost reduction—any calculation of a supply chain's return on investment must also take customer satisfaction into account.... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
emissions from the entire state of Florida every year for the next nine years" for the White House, key US agencies, state capitals, business leaders, and Congress to meet the Paris Agreement goal of reducing emissions 50 percent by 2030. At a Council on Foreign View Details
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Antony Gormley PLACE , 2015 Antony Gormley (British, born 1950), PLACE , 2015, cast iron. Courtesy of the artist and White Cube . © Antony Gormley . Antony Gormley (British, born 1950), PLACE , 2015, cast... View Details