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- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
Economic difficulties need not mean that we lower our standards for leadership. If anything, we should raise our sights. New work by HBS professor Michael Beer and colleagues shows that there is still a place for what they term... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2024
- In Practice
Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible
need to get to breakeven and to deal with unreasonable valuation expectations of the last several years. That being said, my research and research by others has shown that venture capital and startup market slowdowns are opportune times... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 Nov 2023
- Op-Ed
The Beauty Industry: Products for a Healthy Glow or a Compact for Harm?
In my recently published book Deeply Responsible Business, I write about business leaders since the 19th century who have acted responsibly, often by putting the welfare of their communities above the idea of maximizing profits. I make a sharp distinction between... View Details
- March 2023
- Case
Interior Collab
By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn
After venture capital-funded online interior design agency Homepolish collapsed, its former freelance designers met to discuss next steps. The bitter experience led some of them to create a workers’ collaborative called Interior Collab. The founding members needed to... View Details
- 22 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Master the One-on-One Meeting
from a group meeting or standup unless there are specific things you took off-line in that meeting or need to provide/get constructive feedback. 24 hours or so before the meeting, email the employee a list of what you’d like to cover. Try... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 30 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash
virtual, users are still looking to create community through joint norms and practices. “If you have a strong culture and community, you can get so much more out of your people,” Roche says. “Then, you may not need these other really... View Details
- Program
Driving Corporate Performance
competitive, high-performing organization Leverage human resource capabilities as an essential component of strong performance Measure accountability and improve organizational design Motivate the organization's talent, including... View Details
- 2016
- Blog
Building A Culture of Health - John A. Quelch: Creating A Culture of Health
By: John A. Quelch
All American companies are in the health business whether they like it or not. The private sector directly pays for one-fifth of the whopping 17.5% of GDP spent on healthcare in the United States. Rather than viewing health merely as an insurance expense to be... View Details
Keywords: Building A Culture Of Health; Intersection Of Healthcare And Business; Impact Of Healthcare On Business; Population Health Footprint; Healthcare As An Investment; Change; Education; Health; Human Resources; Labor; Leadership; Management; Marketing; Operations; Performance; Personal Development and Career; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Value; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; Canada; North America; United States
Quelch, John A. "Creating A Culture of Health." Building A Culture of Health - John A. Quelch (blog). May 31, 2016. http://johnquelch.org/creating-a-culture-of-health/.
- 2022
- Working Paper
Rethinking Explainability as a Dialogue: A Practitioner's Perspective
By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Dylan Slack, Yuxin Chen, Chenhao Tan and Sameer Singh
As practitioners increasingly deploy machine learning models in critical domains such as healthcare, finance, and policy, it becomes vital to ensure that domain experts function effectively alongside these models. Explainability is one way to bridge the gap between... View Details
Keywords: Natural Language Conversations; AI and Machine Learning; Experience and Expertise; Interactive Communication; Business and Stakeholder Relations
Lakkaraju, Himabindu, Dylan Slack, Yuxin Chen, Chenhao Tan, and Sameer Singh. "Rethinking Explainability as a Dialogue: A Practitioner's Perspective." Working Paper, 2022.
- 2022
- Chapter
Connecter les rêves
By: Hubert Joly and Mariana Arnaut
Trouver du sens dans son travail est plus que jamais vécu comme essentiel. L’entreprise, l’une des organisations humaines les plus capables d’innovation, a un rôle central à jouer face aux enjeux sociaux et environnementaux. Reste à déterminer quels principes peuvent... View Details
Joly, Hubert, and Mariana Arnaut. "Connecter les rêves." Chap. 8 in En quête de sens: Un dialogue entre dirigeants et futurs dirigeants [In Search of Meaning: A Dialogue Between Leaders and Future Leaders], edited by Rodolphe Durand and Cécile Lavrard-Meyer de Lisle, 125–142. Paris: Dunod, 2022, French ed.
- January 16, 2023
- Article
40 Ideas to Shake Up Your Hiring Process
By: Joseph Fuller, Nithya Vaduganathan, Allison Bailey and Manjari Raman
Many companies today are struggling to hire and retain talent, but more often than not the problem is self-inflicted: They’re simply not using a broad enough array of tools, sometimes because they don’t even know the tools exist. In this article, the authors list 40... View Details
Fuller, Joseph, Nithya Vaduganathan, Allison Bailey, and Manjari Raman. "40 Ideas to Shake Up Your Hiring Process." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 16, 2023).
- Web
Marketing - Faculty & Research
proving to be more challenging than expected and the team had needed to make changes to the brand's name and positioning, price points, and its product quality, styles, and fits to accommodate the needs of... View Details
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams
transactions among 76 restaurants to investigate whether the gender of managers and workers impacted a team’s ability to handle busy periods. The team also studied training and scheduling data and interviewed managers to gain insights about their management style. “To... View Details
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The Implications of Working Without an Office
By: Ethan Bernstein, Hayley Blunden, Andrew Brodsky, Wonbin Sohn and Ben Waber
In early 2020, the world began what is undoubtedly the largest work-from-home experiment in history. Now, as countries reopen but COVID-19 remains a major threat, organizations are wrestling with whether and how to have workers return to their offices. Business leaders... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Work From Home (WFH); Employees; Working Conditions; Health Pandemics; Performance Productivity; Creativity
Bernstein, Ethan, Hayley Blunden, Andrew Brodsky, Wonbin Sohn, and Ben Waber. "The Implications of Working Without an Office." Special Issue on The New Reality of WFH. Harvard Business Review: The Big Idea (July 2020).
- 16 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Delivering Solutions During a Crisis: an Interview with Hans Kristian Furuseth
delivering the solutions people need to stay healthy and safe during a global health pandemic. During these unprecedented times, Furuseth’s story of translating his experience to a new industry, utilizing his skills, and putting people... View Details
- 12 Sep 2023
- Book
Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You
human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Big idea 1: Don’t be a caveman Brain science indicates that many of our knee-jerk emotions evolved to protect us from predators but might... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- September 2016 (Revised July 2017)
- Supplement
Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (B)
By: Dorothy Leonard and Christopher Myers
At the conclusion of the (A) case, Jennifer Trosper needed to decide whether or not to throw her support behind the training and outreach represented by the ROV-E program to build small rovers like the ones used on the surface of Mars by NASA JPL. The (B) case... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Employees; Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Aerospace Industry; United States
Leonard, Dorothy, and Christopher Myers. "Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 917-405, September 2016. (Revised July 2017.)
- Program
Transforming Customer Experiences
inside sales teams, or other functions central to service delivery Executives in marketing, data analysis, or operations management Human resources executives concerned with driving internal service culture While individuals are invited... View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Op-Ed
The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone
The fawning executives lined up outside your office on Day One to tell you how fortunate the organization is to have you and to offer to help you succeed are often fakes. The people you need to impress and enlist as supporters are not... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
some of the best work around" in serving the needs of orphans around the world. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807069 PublicationsThe Internal Markets of Multinational Firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace