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- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
going to depreciate tomorrow or next week or even next month. But over time, you expect it to depreciate. So if you're a business manager, you probably want to be fairly well hedged against this possibility, either by making use of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf
record was relatively easy. The major labels used to own plants to ensure they had enough product to keep record store bins stocked. What does the landscape look like today? Kelleher: In North America, I estimate there are probably 20... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Moving to the Lower 48 from Alaska for my MS/MBA
dinners. In other words, I’ve probably already had 92% of the dinners I’ll ever get to have with my parents. So before I fly back to Boston and immerse myself in the pace of life at HBS - engaging late-night discussions with... 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
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
incidents amounted to about 5 percent of the pool of workers studied over the three-year period. “If I was [studying] paper clip stealing and all that, then it should probably be 75 percent,” Minor says. Minor’s co-author, Michael... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 26 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing)
“Now, brands are working with a lot of influencers, and it’s difficult for them to centralize content. Second, they probably don’t want to centralize content because they actually want to leverage the authenticity and the creativity of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974
and venture capital firm based in Boston, Roe Stamps began to think about succession. “When our VPs became new partners, I told them that someday they would run the company,” says Stamps, whose declaration was probably met with... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
other words, all this energy probably would not be harnessed efficiently to the goals of the larger enterprise. The acquiring drive will lead to ongoing competition as everyone in the organization seeks to boost their relative share of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
“Income inequality is a phenomenon that’s been studied for centuries,” Rouen says. “You can probably root it back to the French Revolution, if not before that. It’s received a lot of attention in the last two decades in part because we’ve... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 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
- 12 May 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)
that it must have been a system error. Since I had just moved, the system probably hadn’t updated correctly yet. However, the new resident had a phone number which wasn’t mine. The concierge called the number, and another Xuefei Bai... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
had said it's a sixth grader. And so I assumed, you know what? It's probably an accident. And she said, no, it's someone that is six years old, it's a first grader. And we think it was on purpose. And immediately I grabbed a sports coat... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
really are shooting for zero defects, but if you don't have some failures, you're probably not taking enough risk." When asked to share his proudest achievement, Kennedy looks instead to the career of his wife, Karen, who enrolled in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
not only had met the objective, they’d flown through the objective. And so it really taught me that some of this sort of hyper-aggressive management style, getting in people’s face, showing anger for under-performance was a lot of time and energy that was very misspent... View Details
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
shows. People benefit most when they take time off regularly, probably because that post-vacation glow can evaporate quickly once work madness sets back in. So we may be better off taking shorter breaks periodically, rather than longer... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
years. Companies need a way to unlock the process of innovation and create innovation-driven growth businesses again and again. How can managers increase the probability that their decisions will lead to success? Now more than ever,... View Details