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- 04 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees
"Communicate opinions about work issues to others even if their opinions differ or others disagree." The researchers then compared the survey results against each pizzeria's overall profitability over a seven-week period. Sure... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
How a company decides who is authorized to make what types of decisions can have a profound effect on its business, both in terms of everyday effectiveness and the bottom line. Consider the experience of one global conglomerate that... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online
Highlights Starting a Business Receiving Payments in Advance Accounting Principles and Rules Show Hide Details Concepts Accounting Equation Components Basic Transactions and the Equation Accounting Principles and Rules Formal Definitions... View Details
- 27 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership
In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
Students are invited to walk in the shoes of the CIO and become active participants in making these decisions and creating new knowledge about IT leadership through classroom discussion and debate. We want... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Access real-world employment data from HBS alumni with the Career Trends tool
Negotiating a job offer in a new industry or function? Wondering if a change in location might impact your base salary? Joining a startup and wanting to benchmark your equity offer? Use the Career Trends... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
crossroads. Should SMT focus on investing in the latest lithography technologies, enhancing established technologies, or reducing costs? While Lamprecht had to determine how to allocate the ZEISS Group’s resources to the View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Silence Spells Trouble at Work
word différend, tellingly, means "quarrel." Not surprisingly, most people decide it's easier to cover up their differences than to try to discuss them. Our research shows that this tendency to remain silent rather than express a... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
resulting from its general counsel's aggressive enforcement policy. In some years, revenue from these sources has exceeded net income from product sales. A variety of dynamic firms have catalyzed the establishment of patent pools, where... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can
much as they did." Instead, markups—the difference between prices charged at checkout and the marginal costs incurred by a company in order to make a product—climbed about 25 percent between 2006 and 2019,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management
of capitalism. Slave owners were able to collect data on their workforce in ways that other business owners couldn't because they had complete control over their workers. They didn't have to worry about turnover or recruiting new workers,... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
- 05 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast
promotions are few and far between. Pay differences add up. Workers in the top firms for compensation earn almost 2.5 times more than their peers in the same roles at the worst... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 06 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn
inbound call center, working in six divisions selling different digital services, such as cable TV packages, cellular phone plans, and internet connectivity services. The researchers learned of an impending... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Frameworks & Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Successful economic development is a process of successive upgrading , often through a sequence of stages. Role of Different Levels of Government Competitiveness, in particular microeconomic competitiveness,... View Details
- 10 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing
employees going to regulators for financial motives, or whether people are coming forward when it is needed and they just get compensated for some of the cost they incur. Heese: The concern in most countries around the world, View Details
Keywords: by April White
- 28 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels
tracked whether a hotel concierge attempted to pass the buck by referring the email-sender elsewhere. “Theoretically, there should be no difference in the number of restaurants that people recommend to Mei... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
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Frequently Asked Questions - MBA
MD/MBA Harvard Medical School Frequently Asked Questions If I am interested in pursuing the MD/MBA Program, when do I apply? See Admissions and Financial Aid . When should I take the GMAT or GRE? Is one test preferred over the other? Is... View Details
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Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details