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- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
powerful and important.” When he thinks about the answer, his experience as a young graffiti artist gives him an edge. “I think it makes me look in corners and places that maybe others would overlook,” said... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
understand why that constantly happens.” Three steps to avoid delays So, what’s a first-time entrepreneur to do in the meantime? Try to think non-linearly. Founders should consider what they know, what they don’t know, and what additional... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
develop a body of knowledge and theory comparable to those of the true professions, management differs from these other occupations in lacking a set of institutions designed to certify that its practitioners have a basic mastery of a core... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
to ask questions and make comments. In reality, however, the speakers often do the opposite—dominating the time and not allowing for much discussion at all. "As professors we do this too," admits Gino. "It's very difficult when you View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
"We still have no assigned membership to specific teams over time. I think it speaks to the subtle interpersonal challenges we face trying to catch and work with relative strangers, and that even those small moments of hesitation or... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
you think filing for bankruptcy might help some companies survive now? Gilson: In many countries, “bankruptcy” does mean the death of a company, because it’s synonymous with liquidation. When a company defaults on its debt, and is unable... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
most talented entrepreneurs, I have been thinking more and more about what playing offense looks like in 2022-2023. Here’s the six-part playbook I’m hearing: 1. Acquire talent A few years ago, it was impossible to acquire talent. The best... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 06 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End
2008 Beijing Games topped out at a whopping $40 billion. Taxpayers have taken note. Citizen pressure resulted in Boston, Budapest, Hamburg, and Rome withdrawing their campaigns to win the 2024 summer games to be held in Paris. And Tokyo, the 2020 host city, scrapped... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
analyzing that data and designing strategy around it. That’s one reason eight HBS professors pooled resources in June to launch the Competing on Business Analytics and Big Data Executive Education program. “It was unprecedented to engage... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer, sent the company’s deputy general counsel to the company cafeteria to meet with employees, sharing with them that Facebook had been deceived by the consultant into thinking that the... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
process comes from repeatedly solving a particular class of problem. Processes are designed to get the same thing done, over and over—and as such they tend to be inflexible. Asymmetric skills arise when one firm, through repeatedly... View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
widespread culture of bad behavior—or at least, a lot of people looking the other way as misconduct is taking place, he says. “You think about Wells Fargo, and there were thousands of employees engaging in these practices over many, many... View Details
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
determine whether they think the company is ready to scale those efforts or whether it is premature to do so. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813107-PDF-ENG Longtop Financial Technologies (D) Hawkins, David F. Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
performance." Generally speaking, respondents favored schemes designed to reward long-term as well as short-term performance, encourage retention, recognize special needs of an organization, be based on the achievement of both... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
With global markets in turmoil over the last several weeks, leaders throughout the world are starting to think about how they should respond if confronted with an economic downturn. Yet what do we know about how leaders decide what to do... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
example, the success of Gilt Groupe and other high-fashion flash sale sites has proven that younger shoppers are willing to buy these categories online. They are also comfortable purchasing high-fashion designer shoes on the web, given... View Details
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
think of the role of advertising as providing primes that are psychological in nature as a means of persuasion, you can take something that exists in society—a consumer preference for fair skin—and leverage it for good or for bad.”... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
industries like biotech, you can test things along the way to see if they are feasible, but for creative ideas like a film, you can’t experiment. You have huge uncertainty and you have to think about how to manage that risk.” One way that... View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
hear the arguments for and against the options that were rejected. In addition, they must address employees' fears: "People want to know why you think they can make it through the change," Garvin observes. "They also want... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 01 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People
executives on Wall Street. According to Chua, their research found that "people who were made to think about luxury prior to a decision-making task have a higher tendency to endorse self-interested decisions that might potentially... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert