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- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
reorient based on the new realities. While team launches set the course of a group at the moment it comes together, relaunches act as resets. The COVID-19 pandemic upending routines calls for relaunches to help leaders and team members... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years
care about who you are without any transactional expectations. Even if it’s just a coffee or a meal over the two years, it makes a difference that someone has taken the time to share their story, and in turn learn yours. These genuine... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
you're not happy," Stevenson quipped. Significance to others can be guided by a sense of fairness, generosity and caring, but do fairness, generosity and caring help you in your achievements? Should individuals leave a legacy at the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
constant tension between employees and management. “We lived through a lot of strikes,” Stavros says. One of the changes the union was advocating for was profit sharing with hourly employees. “Can you believe I have no incentive to care... View Details
- 17 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Being the Boss
that it's really an impoverished method of communication. You can't act like it's face-to-face communication when it isn't. We all know, because we've experienced it, how fast conflict can escalate with e-mail because the nonverbals are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
On the face of it, social marketing is a cinch. Here's one scenario. You as a marketer want people who are living in poverty to take better care of their health. So, given your profession, what do you do? You can persuade them—through... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
encompassing children from their earliest years to working adulthood. With roughly one-third of Chattanooga students enrolled in private school, the city is still grappling with the importance of a good education being available to all, not just those who can View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Info Amidst calls to increase consumerism in health care, large tech companies and retailers are making bold moves into the industry. These health care “entrants” aim to leverage their general skills in serving consumers to address... View Details
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
perspective or philosophical approaches, and used a normative approach by focusing on the question of how people should act when resolving ethical dilemmas. In this paper, we briefly describe the traditional approach to ethics and then... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
of several reasons for the careful planning of executive succession. Further, many pay packages are determined on the basis of what others in comparable jobs, regardless of performance, are being paid. This creates a natural disconnect... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
instead become rituals. Shifting from a “habitual” mindset to a “ritual” mindset can convert ordinary acts from black and white to technicolor. Think of the way you savor a certain beverage, the care you... View Details
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
the costs down dramatically and improving access, so the poor could afford to bank. The problem is that this is not the way that the poor think of money. They hardly have any savings. Their main need is money-transfer." The Success... View Details
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
for small-business owners facing the possibility of bankruptcy as the country emerges from the pandemic. Small businesses, especially debt-laden or distressed ones, often can’t afford the more expensive Chapter 11 filing and instead file... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Profile
Peggy Mativo-Ochola
returned to Nairobi, Kenya where she founded and launched Pacemaker International, an educational nonprofit similar to Teach for America. "Kenya is short about 70,000 teachers," says Peggy. "The people most affected by the shortage are students whose... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education
- 12 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
afford to lose more people I loved. I have a few takeaways for those navigating difficult impasses in their lives, whether coming out or not. First, do not apologize for being yourself. Too often we are made to feel like we need to... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
call from the Ford Foundation, I said, ‘That’s it.’ Ford also focuses on racial justice and so many other issues I care about deeply.” Before and after: “My husband had a stroke in October 2020 and died two months later. People supported... View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
"interests," or what each side really cares about. Failure to uncover interests often leads to mistakes in our second dimension, deal design, such as treating potentially more cooperative agreements as pure price deals in which... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
belief that managers have internalized the values we care about, and trust them to act on those, particularly when they might come in conflict with their own interests. There are similarly other professions... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
to change your life. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54720 in press Health Care Management Review Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived Support for Learning on Participation By: Jung, Olivia S., Andrea... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
running throughout—you have to page back to an earlier chapter of Dixon’s life, in 2017. That’s when the bottom dropped out. That fall, she was raising money for a tech/beauty startup called EverythingDid, designed to help women and girls of color manage the View Details