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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
Engaged and Motivated Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness Some companies have opted to make pay cuts commensurate with salary ranges, with higher-paid employees taking a larger percentage cut than lower-paid workers. Estée Lauder... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
environments. CEOs have little idea what to expect in terms of health care policy, financial transactions, national security, and global trade—all of vital importance to themselves, their employees, and their stakeholders. Managerial... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 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
- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
which hampered the pod acting as a team, Valentine says. While a hospital may be a natural setting for team scaffolds, Edmondson and Valentine see other applicable sites. Many large, global companies are trying to enable better lateral... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
has found his own path. Entering the Asian private equity industry in its infancy was lucky, he will tell you, although hard work also played a part. Taking care of his family and returning the financial rewards of that success to the... View Details
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
have remained brisk. By 2015, facial care was a $1 billion market in India, and skin lighteners represented almost half that market size. The facial care market is expected to grow to $1.96 billion—nearly... View Details
- 09 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
multiple roles and ties can be confusing to coordinate. Relatives can experience role confusion (should I act as a father or boss, a daughter or vice president?) and struggle over the appropriate role to play in a particular negotiation... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
steely determination will trump an analytically brilliant memo every time. If urgency is low, never patiently wait for a crisis (which may never come) to solve your problems. Bring the outside in. Act with urgency every day. If you are... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
into the social space for fear of how customers will react, but Gupta questions whether that’s a sign these companies really have a more general image problem that needs to be addressed. “A health care company might say we wouldn’t have a... 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
- 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
- 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
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
“Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.” The best entrepreneurs are taking this slower moment to re-examine their key business processes and make sure that they’re running them more effectively and efficiently. Train your interviewers (Who has time for that? Now you do!) and... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 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
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
environment to drive innovation." Out of that commitment came SK-II, a skin care product that sells for about $120 a bottle and has moved them into a whole new range. Now this prestige line is being rolled out globally. So the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Graduate's Gift Honors HBS Friend
In a spontaneous act of friendship, Nathaniel de Rothschild (MBA '71) recently made a generous gift to the School in the name of his longtime friend and HBS classmate Franklin R. Anderson (MBA '71). To give special recognition to the gift... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
macroeconomic crisis. Once the biggest dangers are behind us, Mr. Bernanke will have to figure out how to get things back to normal. His aggressive stimulation of the economy could easily prove inflationary if he doesn't bring rates back up in time. But it will be a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
had to be careful to focus on function as well as fun, lest Clocky be relegated to fad status along with past products like Sony's now-discontinued robotic pet dog, the AIBO. “Apple succeeds because in addition to providing an appealing... View Details