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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
managers would probably admit to being better at some aspects of their jobs than others, but to be clear, our research is aimed at the organizational level. And in that context, the idea of tradeoffs is nothing new. Peter Drucker and... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
the idea of a potential internship program began to grow. So, when Westphal read about Facily and was connected with Dzodan, the timing and pairing was ideal. As the first intern in Facily’s history, Westphal utilized his experience from... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
"the proven expertise of our most effective veteran executives is complemented by fresh ideas from newly hired managers. In turn, our newer personnel learn from the experience of our veterans." The company is already seeing the results of... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
wonderful businessmen who were very good role models. I loved the idea of marketing and serving customers, and I planned to go to business school right after college. My father talked me into going to law school first, but after I... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
together some of the time to feel connected and to generate new ideas and solutions. The question going forward is not whether remote work will continue, but rather, when does remote work make sense? Conceptually, it’s simple. Working... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
about the idea of the global economy returning to "business as usual." On the HBS Working Knowledge Web portal, Professor Emeritus James L. Heskett asked readers reflecting on September 11 to ponder "the implications of a possible loss of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
recent research and highlights organizational work environment influences on those processes. We revisit basic assumptions underlying the 1988 model, modify certain components and causal connections, and introduce four new constructs into the model: (1) a sense of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
leverages his many years of teaching experience at Harvard Business School to lay out important macroeconomic concepts in engaging, clear, and concise terms. In a simple and intuitive way, he breaks down the ideas into "output,"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
Baptist Church in Atlanta, and he had no idea of being a civil rights leader. He was thrust into this. He said if he had more time to think about it he would have said, "No way I can do this, I'm just a minister." But, he got... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
the subject of brand building, Kapur is very keen on the idea that brands take a long time to build, there are no shortcuts. He says, “One [piece of] advice that I would give is to make absolutely sure that you are not running away from... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
attests to the idea that ritual behavior stimulates goal-directed action (to consume). Experiment 3 found that performing rituals oneself enhanced consumption more than merely watching someone else perform the same ritual, suggesting that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
less powerful positions, a relationship explained significantly by their greater sense of control. Altogether, these findings reveal a clear relationship between leadership and stress, with leadership level being inversely related to stress. Working Papers Prizes and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
managerial human capital explanation of retention. Download the paper: http://people.hbs.edu/jwulf/TargetCEOWulfSinghSeptember2010.pdf Working PapersReversing the Null: Regulation, Deregulation, and the Power of Ideas Author:David Moss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
Sotheby's, but the establishment of Saffronart in 2000 changed the discourse in the market space by incorporating ideas from the academic discourse into their auction texts. Because Saffronart focused on auctions of only modern Indian art... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Capital Management was evaluating the purchase of a pool of U.S. residential mortgages. The firm had formed an investment vehicle to acquire troubled residential mortgages from banks and other motivated sellers. The idea was to purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
communities. The idea is to show students that they can expand the zone of acceptability within which companies operate. Other worthy questions include: Who do I really work for? What are my rights and privileges? What are my duties and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
meaningful relationships with their people, they also create loyalty and an environment where employees feel secure enough to take chances and suggest innovative and sometimes disruptive ideas . When I speak of leadership, I’m referring... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
Aprendiz, before creating and developing Catraca Livre (meaning "open turnstile" in Portuguese) while he was an Advanced Leadership fellow at Harvard. Dimenstein pursued his idea of "learning neighborhoods," which... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
of Chicago dubbed the Array of Things. The idea is to provide real-time, location-specific information on temperature, humidity, vibration, light, and foot traffic from sensors on telephone poles throughout downtown. But there has been... View Details
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
unfortunately tend to do a very bad job of managing the succession process. Even if they have an inside candidate, which most do, they select that person mostly on past performance. But what they don't think about is the company's future strategic direction, the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner