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14 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving

A majority of commuters admit to multitasking on the road, including texting and reading emails, according to new research that reveals the widespread extent of distracted driving. About 87 percent of commuters are engaged in at least one other activity while driving,... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

stimulus package, known as the CARES Act, also likely helped many unemployed workers stave off bankruptcy. And state and local governments, federal agencies, and companies enacted policies that put a temporary halt to evictions,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

10 Jun 2019
Blog Post

What I Did Differently Before Reapplying to HBS

seemed uncertain. A few years later, I decided to re-apply. It felt like the right time: I would have been working for four years before starting, I was getting ready to move on from the industry I was in, and, most importantly, my... View Details

03 Jul 2008
What Do You Think?

Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

According to Mohammad Razipour, "In business, where we are talking about 'co-creation,' 'integration,' 'participation,' and 'collective wisdom,' we should not draw a sharp line between ... them (leadership and followership)." Dora Bonnet says, "I View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

26 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 26

NPEs', and that NPEs typically target firms that are busy with other (non-IP related) lawsuits or are likely to settle. Lastly, we show that NPE litigation has a negative real impact on the future innovative activity of targeted firms.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Aug 2023
News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

a more resource-intensive field experiment,” Coffman says. “Plus, students are a nice population for an experiment like this because many of them will go on to have important leadership roles and make important leadership decisions.” In... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 May 2019
Blog Post

The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS

faculty providing personal experience as a mom in the business world, fellow moms helping me navigate school and day-to-day responsibilities, and my section mates celebrating and loving on my baby like family. I couldn’t imagine a more... View Details

20 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time

years ago, he found the last serious analysis on firm growth was conducted in 1959, in Edith Penrose’s book The Theory of the Growth of the Firm. “I’d like to think we’ve learned a lot since then,” Pisano says. Getting a better... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

mission “to elevate the world’s consciousness” and his personal objective of “We are here to change the world; nothing less interests me.” Indeed, WeWork’s prospectus reads like a Marianne Williamson self-help book. The market should... View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

future hiring and M&A activity. When the Great Recession hit in late 2008, Honeywell, like all diversified manufacturers, experienced a drop off in new orders. Yet after six years of improving operating efficiency, there was little... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

all the tricks on the table, the situation is a lot of more balanced than people tend to believe, at least in the developed countries." Commented a third, "It looks like the company will need to develop a new set of skills. They... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

Web

Frequently Asked Questions - Research Computing Services

see our documentation here . Miscellaneous How can I transfer data using HBS resources? Please see information here . How do I connect to the HBS VPN? Please see information here . I would like to purchase data; whom should I contact?... View Details

27 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Video: Inspirational Women in Business

would like to mention that it may not be the case, especially in all parts of the world. And there are lots of demographics where this is still very far from the reality. Eunjin Lee: The small, incremental changes that we make as MBA... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Graduate's Gift Honors HBS Friend

undertaken in 1966 as cofounder of Cleveland's Hough Area Community Development Corporation (HADC). "In the summer of 1970," de Rothschild related, "I spent time with Frank in Cleveland, and it was then that I realized what a great leader he was and why the world needs... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

07 Oct 2021
News

Planning Ahead

As founder and chief information officer of Sound Point Capital Management, Steve Ketchum is someone who thinks about long-term investments for a living. But like so many people, when it came to his personal estate planning, Ketchum... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

budgeting, like death and taxes, will always be with us, deceitful behavior doesn't have to be. That's because the budget process itself isn't the root cause of the counterproductive actions; rather, it's the use of budget targets to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

03 Nov 2023
News

Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Blog

Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season

sights, and unique cultures of their own. You can drive, or even take a ferry from Boston Harbor directly to Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod. Get out on the water. There's nothing like seeing Boston from the water. Enjoy a Boston... View Details

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

COVID-19 has made virtual work the new normal. In a few short weeks, meeting tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, and Slack have gone from a useful supplement to the primary enablers for daily interactions with co-workers.... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

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