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  • 04 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

participants were undergraduates who needed pocket money. "Generally speaking, these were students from northeastern universities, all of whom are relatively smart, so we're not talking about the average population," Bernstein says. "But actually, that's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services
  • 26 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

involvement in mergers and acquisitions. Larger firms were more likely to include social skills in their job-search requirements. Being a multinational corporation was associated with a 4.7 percentage point increase in the probability of... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 15 Nov 2022
  • Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

YouTube’s $28.8 billion. It will probably not be able to command that kind of revenue without going outside its present niche. “TikTok may surprise us with innovation in unexpected directions. In particular, it could build on the devotion... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
  • 21 Nov 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Path-Breakers: How Does Women’s Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?

Keywords: by Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras & Lakshmi Iyer
  • 2024
  • Case

Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations (A)

By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian
This three-part, stop action case study, structured for classroom discussion, centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Regulation; International Relations; Leadership
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  • 2024
  • Case

Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations (B)

By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian
This three-part, stop action case study, structured for classroom discussion, centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Regulation; International Relations; Leadership
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  • 08 May 2025
  • HBS Seminar

Ramesh Johari, Stanford

  • 22 Sep 2023
  • News

Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

and I remember there was a big party that I had been looking forward to going to for weeks, and I completely missed the party because we met each other and we were talking and laughing all night. And then at the end there were probably 10... View Details
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Effects of Inconsistent Work Schedules on Employee Lateness and Absenteeism

By: Caleb Kwon and Ananth Raman
Problem Definition: Employee lateness and absenteeism pose challenges for businesses, particularly in the retail industry, where punctuality is vital for optimal store operations and customer service. This paper relates employee lateness and absenteeism with... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Employees; Human Capital; Retail Industry
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  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

your best interest to follow through—yet you probably made the threat at a point when the other side doubted your resolve. After all, if it were obvious that you were ready to walk away, you wouldn't have had to threaten at all! As this... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • Profile

Bobby Tuohy

encouraged me to come here. To me, it’s a natural extension of the teamwork, the family that I found in the military.” Bobby lives on campus with his husband Jared Meyers. “Students and the school have brought my spouse in as part of the family. In fact, Jared is View Details
  • 23 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

with the risk of disappointing consumers who expect more from the product than they otherwise would have. "If you're really just tweaking the previous generation of your product, it's probably much better to use brand name... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

Sessions Case studies and topical discussions led by faculty and staff. Deeper Dive: Gaps in the Capital Stack Presenters: Spencer Glendon (Harvard PhD 1999) , HBS Executive Fellow for Climate; Founder, Probable Futures Lynn Schenk ,... View Details
  • 06 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

role in innovation, and those who did underplayed the depth of that role. “Jeff Bezos is not coming up with every new product. He is probably not coming up with the vast, vast majority of them,” one analyst stated. However, our findings... View Details
Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail
  • 21 Aug 2013
  • Research & Ideas

What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

down from almost $18 billion to $17 billion. That comes out to sales of about $150 per square foot, which is probably in the lower third of department store sales, if not the lowest. In contrast, competitors like Macy's and Kohl's have... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail
  • 14 Aug 2006
  • HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

approach to teaching defensive positioning drills was probably more effective than if Coach K had come in for half a day and tried to inspire us to keep our butts down and our palms out." On the classroom board, Snook draws three... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports
  • 05 Jun 2023
  • What Do You Think?

Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?

response that covered every possible regulatory need without any suggestion of how regulation should be achieved or who or what should be responsible for it. As Tom put it, “The wordy ChatGPT answer is the perfect example of why ‘regulation’ of AI is worthless and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 11 Oct 2023
  • News

Soldier On

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

Who do you think was the most significant figure in the history of sales? A: Probably John H. Patterson at National Cash Register (NCR). Patterson, who lived from 1844 to 1922, was a contemporary of the Henry J. Heinz, William S.... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • Web

Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

The more people who know, the greater your chances of finding fresh leads, insights, and ideas. Conduct informational interviews Return to your roots and remember to conduct interviews that may not (or probably will not) lead to a job,... View Details