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- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
including two economic recessions. Smaller cities and rural areas were excluded because of missing data for at least one year during this time period. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics,... View Details
- 27 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall
Evidence from Medical Device Firms, released in January. Bigger recalls, bigger reactions Using 13 years of US Food and Drug Administration data and a novel set of competitor classification algorithms, the team created a detailed history... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
expenditures, general consumer inability to budget and forecast, bank incentives, and community norms and social capital. Furthermore, using both national data and a natural experiment, we find that access to payday lending seems to lead... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
look large and compelling. But it can have significant downsides. Leaders who prefer to zoom in tend to create policies and systems that depend too much on politics and favors. They can focus too closely on personal status and on turf protection. And they often miss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
work? Iansiti: Netflix has been using AI for many years in a lot of different ways, for example, by learning how people choose movies according to the thumbprint picture that appears on the Netflix service. As a consumer, if you’re thinking about watching “The Crown,”... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
all its emphasis on data and number crunching, conventional strategic planning is not actually scientific. It lacks the hypothesis generation and testing that's at the heart of the scientific method. To produce novel and successful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
community. She was recently appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Economic Stabilization Trust by Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. The Trust provides direct loans and guarantees to manufacturing businesses. She is a member of the Board of Directors of View Details
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
for talent, and it’s all focused on these high productivity people, and very, very little on those workers who actually may hurt organizational performance,” Minor says. Fired toxic workers can leave a big mess for companies to clean up.... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- Profile
Mollie Breen
contest. But Girl Starter did get Mollie started in the interdisciplinary world of business. "In the show, every episode ended with a pitch," Mollie explains. "I focused mine on data and algorithms. Then I realized I didn't... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
Legal Education What Courses Should Law Students Take? Lessons from Harvard's Big Law Survey By: Coates, John C., Jesse M. Fried, and Kathryn E. Spier Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
essential skill to master for creating an edge in the innovation economy is the ability to tell stories, to motivate others to join you on an unknown journey. What are the key ideas behind learning to be a storyteller? Kanter: Effective leaders are storytellers. While... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs
in very liberal counties,” according to the paper. “A majority of financial backers for typical Kickstarter campaigns live more than 50 miles away from the creator they support, tending to reside in big cities like Seattle and New York,”... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- Web
Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
Good Jobs Strategy 5 hrs Module 5 Mastering Productivity Explore why some companies are more productive than others, the power of economies of scale, and opportunities to share value with your suppliers. Highlights Fixed and Variable Costs How View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
a GED, but no college and no job, we would make a big impact on this. We have to have the psychological armor to defend ourselves against the racism that's all around us. Neeley: George Floyd's death has reawakened corporate America to... View Details
- 29 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Robots in the Boardroom
the businesses they deal with. Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small BusinessArtificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data is transforming financial services for small-business. Companies... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
When Your Passion Works Against You
change the world for the better,” he said. Jobs’ passion and his ability to communicate it saved the company. Business leaders like Jobs who express passion in the workplace can reap big benefits, earning enough admiration and support... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
technology, culture, and industrial composition. To tackle these issues we collected detailed information on the internal organization of firms across nations. The few datasets that exist are either from a single industry or (at best) across many firms in a single... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
with them. But, if you’re working with a colleague who lives in a faraway time zone or is culturally different from you, you have to get on a flight and meet that person in person. That’s a big takeaway,” Choudhury says. In a business... View Details
- 22 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading
people. That’s a big transition that many people can’t make.” Source: Harvard Business School Working Knowledge It’s a problem that can permeate any layer of a business—a star performer is tapped to become a manager, then flops on the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni
OKRs From Individual Contributor to Manager - Adapting Your Work Style Hiring Fast and Firing Faster Making Decisions with Imperfect Data Managing Cross-Functional Teams Managing Pivots and Setbacks Managing Your Career: Should I Stay or... View Details