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- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
worked as the art and culture critic for the university newspaper. One day in the newspaper office he noticed a small ad inviting students to meet a representative of the HBS admissions View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
own reality check to offer. Director of the Chinese Cultural Center in Singapore, she debunked the lumping together of all Chinese on the assumption that they are somehow linked to each other simply because they are Chinese. The... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
shareholder returns. The Wawa associates (name for employees) have an ESOP that plays a key role in Wawa's culture of ownership. This case explores the role of incentives and levers of control to create a successful retail chain. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
problem—and everyone wants to talk about it and share experiences and solutions. Bringing together a diverse group of professionals creates a powerful learning environment precisely because we can draw on a wide range of professional, geographical, and View Details
- 30 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
3 Growing Pains from my First Year at HBS: Academic, Social, and Career
unified identity as one firm. For instance, no matter which office you belong to, we can work as a team from day one because we have common values that guide our decision making and culture that makes trust... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
dedication to a sense of what is just and fair that explains why she now finds herself in the trenches of local politics, fighting to shift a culture of patronage and mismanagement that has been decades in the making. Located in... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
home for restaurants, art, and culture at night. And more and more, tech businesses are locating here. “This is a place where the effects of inequality appear to be heightened and most palpable” In doing so, however, technology workers... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
by both venture capital firms and venture capital-financed companies in three cities-San Francisco, Boston, and New York. We find that firms open new satellite offices based on the success rate of venture capital-backed investments in an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
to bring the private, public, and nonprofit sectors together to work on making India cleaner and greener. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award, associate editor Julia Hanna talks to Kidwai about how to change View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Science Museum: “We’re changing the cultural landscape of an entire city.” The Hub in the Heart of Texas The success of any large-scale project usually comes down to the effective management of hundreds and hundreds of small, pressing... View Details
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
the firm. She was thus familiar with its culture and practices. To ensure broad perspective, two "outsider" researchers—Ramarajan and McGinn—conducted the detailed coding of the inside data. "Our insider-outsider authorship... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Our findings illuminate the micro-foundations of innovation in firms by highlighting a trade-off between organizing patenting activity to maximize scope versus speed. Publisher's link:... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Financial Economics (forthcoming). Abstract This study identifies the effect of a key cultural dimension—egalitarianism—on a set of international investment outcomes. Egalitarianism expresses a society's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
Traveling Salesman in American Culture (1995) and my book, Birth of a Salesman (2004). In the past few years, scholars have done a lot of work on 20th-century salespeople in Europe, comparing these experiences with those in the United... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
for many of us in the Black community. We are roughly 70 years away from the barbarity of white supremacy that led to Jesse Thornton being lynched in 1940 because he forgot to call a police officer “Mister.” Imagine the savagery that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
introduces a “physician compact” that specifies the responsibilities of the organization and its employee doctors and ties those principles into the incentive compensation plan. The physician compact is a particularly effective way to formalize a View Details
- 10 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: EF Education First
Kaufman, Director of Talent Acquisition, EF Education First Describe your organization in three to five sentences. EF Education First is the world’s largest international travel and education company – with 41,000 members working from 500 schools and View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
the same true for employees today, many of whom are performing their work remotely, outside the traditional office setting? We’ve previously discussed here the need for greater “voice” among “officed” employees as part of the effort to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
their authentic selves, and the organization respected and leveraged their talents and provided a sense of connectedness. Eight best organizational practices for instilling such a culture emerged from their interviews: 1. Measure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
presentation's going okay. In fact, I'm feeling like I'm a genius. As I walked past my boss, who was Sheryl Sandberg, I'm expecting a high five from her, a pat on the back or whatever. Instead, she says to me, "Why don't you walk back to my View Details