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- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
and civil aviation authorities might undertake over time horizons of months to years as well as tactical measures that may be adopted on a daily basis in response to dynamic, "real time" developments like poor weather or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
strategic priority and thinking about what your objectives are for it, and how you are going to measure success before you jump in." The keys to Tate's success—embedding digital in corporate strategy,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle
decades of social history, where enjoyment of nonproductive leisure time was seen as a mark of a successful life. The ability to fritter away your hours was considered the apex of success as evidenced in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
suicide and assault. In addition, this guide arms you with the top actions you can take as a parent to ensure your adolescent thrives throughout the perilous, exhilarating, and memorable teen years. Accounting for Colonialism: Measuring... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
percent of books generate enough income for an author to live on. The pay structure matters Zhu and Wu tracked the popularity of e-novels based on reader clicks and purchases, and measured a writer’s productivity based on how frequently... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
can come when work life and home life become entangled. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Your CEO Succession Plan Can’t... View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
retire but also felt a commitment to the communities that their outlets served and hoped to preserve these assets. Like so many owner-publishers around the country, the Healeys found few options: “It’s just very difficult to assemble the financing, and that need for... View Details
- 06 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact
school in Mission Hill, a neighboring community. That idea became the Mission Crimson program, now heading into its fourth year. Although some measure success in terms of accolades, program tutors View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
to standardize their products and helped establish brand identities through consistent appearance. By 1938, food dyes had achieved such widespread use, and had raised such public concern, that the federal government amended the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act to implement... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
operating system. By cross-referencing a large technology-usage dataset with the domain extensions in the contributors’ email addresses, he was able to compare similarly situated companies–all of them medium-sized or large public companies, mainly in the tech sector–to... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, signed into law last July, is the government's response to a series of financial reporting scandals that rocked investors. Among other measures the law offers up stiff criminal penalties for accounting... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
community-wide event attended by faculty, staff, and students. At the event, then-Dean Nitin Nohria remarked, “Not only has he transcended many racial barriers in his own life, Jim Cash also has propelled generations of Black students, faculty, and staff, as well as... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
Business is about making money, not measuring macho. The scrap heap of business disasters is littered with managers whose ego drive overwhelmed good business sense. Founder and former chief executive Ray Noorda had a wonderful business in... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
every time you saw him there was that unquenchable curiosity. Chandler's curiosity was a force of nature, and it didn't stop. When I last spoke to him he was going great guns on his next project. My sense was that Al took his measure of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to incentives, dismissals, and promotions; and measurable... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
managers to think about what they want to get out of this. And how do I measure the success of it? Do I want brand awareness? Do I want to drive sales? Do I want to drive conversation on social media? Those... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
famous names in the private market investment community. Kathu Gatobu Harvard MBA Student, Class of 2022 I choose to challenge the idea that women have to give up their aspirations and identity because of motherhood. Having a successful... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
raises. Review the outcomes of promotion and compensation decisions by race, gender, and other identity characteristics. Retention. Track attrition and tenure by gender. Combat flexibility stigma by focusing on measurable aspects of... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
believed in pure evil, as personified in the psychopath Max Cady (Robert De Niro, in the 1991 film Cape Fear). This and the 1962 original were based on MacDonald's The Executioners and were among the few successful film or TV adaptations... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
their organizations as they emerge from the crisis. Coming out of a crisis, the market never looks the same as it did going in. Leaders should see this as an opportunity to reshape the market to play to their strengths, while shedding their weaknesses. While others are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace