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  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out

these large institutions is too powerful for one leader to overcome within the limited time frame of tenure—a finding that could apply to other organizations as well. Sadun is hopeful this evidence will influence hospitals to rethink... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 13 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

wanted to gauge how often people humblebrag when faced with the common interview question, "What's your biggest weakness?" Indeed, interviewees are often counseled to put a positive spin on the answer: "I'm overly eager to please my customers," for instance, or "It's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

and implications for new browser upstarts such as Firefox and Camino. Do they stand a chance against Internet Explorer? Yin says Microsoft's entrenchment in corporate IT, the maturation of the PC market, and the technical difficulty many consumers have in switching to... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Feedback

food, the health and safety of its consumers will fare better as well. All countries maintain their social fabric through food and family. Doug realized early on that food is fun, and food drives community and wellness. Enormous business opportunities had to follow... View Details
  • 25 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

garnering revenues of $4.15 billion in 2012 with products like Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks. But there lies the potential rub. "Success is a powerful thing," said Cook, who now serves as chairman of Intuit's Executive... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • Profile

Jenny Tison

right away. I persevered, believing I would ultimately succeed – I learned the power of positive expectations.” When Jenny returned home to Virginia, that power rose again when she tackled a sport not often... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2015
  • News

Sunset in the East?

coauthor of Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth, to answer alumni questions about what this trend might portend. With property price slides precipitating previous financial crises in Japan and the United States, what... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Real Estate; Health, Social Assistance
  • 29 Feb 2016
  • HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

Weiss, a former chief of staff for the mayor of Boston, who now teaches a course at HBS on public entrepreneurship. Hard sell Weiss initially approached Bigbelly looking for a non-technology case about how companies selling to government... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy
  • 09 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

interested in it. It's easy to see why some people think it's a good idea, because you have another powerful and influential person involved. But there's also a downside. Too often the separate chairman can begin to be more active and try... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 02 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

breadwinner and the rebel. Breadwinners are men who play by the rules of the institutions that they participate in, work hard to achieve, and eventually become respected authoritative figures—pillars of their communities. Colin Powell is... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 03 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

simply not a good way to counter information that creates false beliefs,” says Scott Duke Kominers, the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who coauthored the new analysis. “But it is a very View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology
  • 19 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

Abstract Are the doors of access open equally for all in business? Are talent and hard work really enough to make it to the top? As much as we would like to believe in the American meritocracy, an elusive class system exists where a small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

A Boomtown's Echo

workers, and the city—or private actors—has to invest in resource efficiency. So how can our water, fuel, and transit go further? By having multifamily housing, by having some kind of mass transit, by having a common water extraction and treatment regime, by having a... View Details
Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders

companies from having to navigate an often-noxious power dynamic between male investors and female entrepreneurs seeking their funding. Looking to the crowd liberates companies from having to navigate an often-noxious View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)

workforce is that work is a huge component of recovery. It provides community and structure, which is a good thing if you’re anxious or depressed. I stay healthy by getting nine hours of sleep, exercising, eating carefully, and taking a View Details
  • 05 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless

disadvantaged or minority groups in India whose members are elected to local governments have not only more of a "political voice" but also more access to and better results from the justice system. In the working paper The View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Boston: How Mayor Ray Flynn and Community Organizers Fought Racism and Downtown Power Brokers By Don Gillis (PMD 66, 1993) Fordham University Press The Battle for Boston captures the remarkable era under Mayor Ray Flynn, whose election in... View Details
  • Web

Why You Might Want to Say Goodbye to the Annual Performance Review | Working Knowledge

Administration, cowrote the cases with Hannah Riley Bowles, the Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School, and Alexis Lefort, a case researcher at HBS. The power of career conversations... View Details
  • 01 May 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?

"I think Friedman will cast the longer shadow . . . the expansion of markets has speeded up the process of globalization . . . the corporate power of multinationals has not been as dominant as Galbraith had envisioned." In... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Blog

Inside the Learning: How Faculty Prepare for Class

Executives who attend our programs always praise the quality of teaching. While the content from each course—from the curriculum structure to the cases to the take-aways—is carefully designed, faculty also work hard to create a stellar... View Details
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