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  • 15 Aug 2023
  • Cold Call Podcast

Ryan Serhant: How to Manage Your Time for Happiness

Keywords: Re: Ashley V. Whillans; Real Estate
  • 16 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

wind up just as happy in adulthood as the children of moms who stayed home. Harvard Business School Professor Kathleen McGinn hopes the findings bring a big sigh of relief for guilt-ridden mothers who either have to hold down a job to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

about how poor operational decisions create unnecessary complications that lead to quality problems and lower labor productivity and, in general, make life hard for retail employees." Ton is interested in demonstrating how operations... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage
  • 2023
  • Book

Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems

By: Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss
Speed has gotten a bad name in business, much of it deserved. When Facebook made "Move fast and break things" an informal company motto, it fueled a widely held belief that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the other. That a certain amount of... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture
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Frei, Frances X., and Anne Morriss. Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems. Harvard Business Review Press, 2023.
  • 27 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

service lines, market segments, and competitive positioning. Marketing did the thinking, managed the brand and consumer franchise in consumer goods companies, and provided support to the sales force. In this simpler world, sales did the execution in the field and sold... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

    (Un)principled Agents: Monitoring Loyalty after the End of the Royal African Company Monopoly

    The revocation of the Royal African Company's monopoly in 1698 inaugurated a  transformation of the transatlantic slave trade. While the RAC’s exit from the slave trade has received scholarly attention, little is known about the company’s response to the loss of its... View Details
    • 06 Jan 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem

    problems at Enron from its reported financial statements. In this regard, current accounting for stock options actually serves as a model for disclosure, in some respects. Investors are given lots of information about stock option plans,... View Details
    Keywords: by William Sahlman
    • Summer 2023
    • Article

    (Un)principled Agents: Monitoring Loyalty after the End of the Royal African Company Monopoly

    By: Anne Ruderman and Marlous van Waijenburg
    The revocation of the Royal African Company's monopoly in 1698 inaugurated a transformation of the transatlantic slave trade. While the RAC’s exit from the slave trade has received scholarly attention, little is known about the company’s response to the loss of its... View Details
    Keywords: Slavery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business History; Monopoly; History; Business and Government Relations
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    Ruderman, Anne, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "(Un)principled Agents: Monitoring Loyalty after the End of the Royal African Company Monopoly." Special Issue on Business, Capitalism, and Slavery edited by Marlous van Waijenburg and Anne Ruderman. Business History Review 97, no. 2 (Summer 2023): 247–281.
    • 16 Feb 2011
    • News

    Before You Can Get Buy-In, People Need to Feel the Problem

    • 13 Jan 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

    the same ethnicity. Even when they did complete visits, they tended to be 48 percent shorter. “The working atmosphere was more cohesive among co-ethnic teams,” Pons says. “In multi-ethnic teams, at the end of the project, teammates were... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 25 Jan 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress)

    happiness that money can bring, I think we are missing something,” says Jachimowicz, an assistant professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at HBS. “We also need to think about all of the worries that it can... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 24 May 2023
    • News

    Balancing Acts

    world. I live in an and and both world. My tips for harmony: Do things every day that make your heart sing. Take random Wednesdays off. I go to Target, I go to the bank, I go to get my nails done. And it is super fun. Random Wednesdays are key. And marry well. Whoever... View Details
    Keywords: work-life balance; happiness; family
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • Research Event

    Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

    first time and he said, that's the end of America, right? He was kind of right. Winfrey: Kind of right. Yeah. Brooks: Anyway, the problem with that is if you hit the pleasure lever over and over and over... View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Staff
    • 30 Jan 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

    investing, especially for smaller investors, and ultimately created greater returns than most professionally managed mutual funds could deliver. That has made index, or passive, funds wildly popular: For the 12-month period ending May... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • 12 Sep 2023
    • Book

    Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You

    goals, is the backbone of Brooks’ new book with Oprah Winfrey, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. They weave together the best happiness how-tos from social psychology, behavioral economics, and neuroscience... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 15 Dec 2023
    • News

    Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

    problems in humans and animals. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans, rivers, and lakes. Every year, millions of tons of plastic waste leaks into aquatic ecosystems. Only 9%... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley
    • 04 Oct 2021
    • What Do You Think?

    How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

    putting selection decisions in the hands of the powerful, as the saying goes, invite the fox into the chicken house? How do we make sure the right people end up with power in organizations? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 23 May 2019
    • Book

    These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

    responsibility which goes with that.” The purpose of business, Gay said, was to make “a decent profit decently.” In the 111 years since then, many HBS alumni have taken the school’s emphasis on social responsibility to heart by attempting to effect societal change. A... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology
    • 18 Jan 2021
    • Book

    How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

    it’s hard to detect. But it is limiting our efforts at imagining new solutions to sticky problems and therefore our abilities to solve them. And that’s “best practices.” Too often in government, the search for a new solution begins and... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector

    By: Malcolm S. Salter
    This paper describes how the gaming of society's rules by corporations contributes to the problem of institutional corruption in the world of business. "Gaming" in its various forms involves the use of technically legal means to subvert the intent of society's rules in... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Civil Society or Community; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Trust; Law; Performance; Investment Funds; Private Sector; Behavior; Relationships; Goals and Objectives
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    Salter, Malcolm S. "Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-060, December 2010.
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