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- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
ways, either by saying, “Here’s my question, and here’s why I’m asking the question” or by saying, “Here’s what I know, and here’s what I don’t know.” This signals to the employer that you have done quite a bit of homework to get a feel... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
that is not a profession? Phil Clark's comment characterizes the first line of thought. As he put it, an "elite B-school degree is seen as a ticket to connections to 'take care of (oneself),' not necessarily to provide value to any... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
has Apple had such a difficult job growing beyond the Mac? A: Apple is a computer company, and Jobs has always understood that his core franchise was very closely connected to the core computer franchise. Consumer electronics products,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
health, the process is a bit like throwing a lasso around a tsunami. That's why integrated medical data has now become a major goal of health care reform. Integrating patient records, such as physicians' notes, diagnoses, medical device... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
gradyreese Always on, always connected isn’t always better when it comes to solving problems at work. In fact, teams get better results when they collaborate only intermittently, according to recent research. Insights on work... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 28 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback
Stores were designed as a place for lingering and relaxing. For customers who were looking for an in-and-out buying experience, that was frustrating and frivolous. Just give me my coffee! But for others, there was value created in a moment of conversation and View Details
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
each year in personal and corporate taxes (excluding social security and Medicare taxes) is only a bit over $1 trillion. Spending must be cut. The recent report of The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform suggested a... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
sufficient, say, to simply connect rural villages to the Internet; villagers must also be taught how to use it and have a reason to do so. That takes training, education, and motivation; corporations can provide all three. Corporations... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
going to prison,’ instead of pitching them on my company,” says Blakeman. Once you’ve told your story, connect the dots to the social problem that needs to be fixed. “This is a tragedy that affects many more people than me,” Blakeman... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
employees is "a competitive world, in which you come to work every day just a little bit scared." Making The Pie Bigger If you're an independent operator and an industry giant like Wal-Mart or Barnes & Noble enters your... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
professional and personal—we need either to transfer knowledge we have built up over years of experience from our heads to someone else's (our children, a junior colleague, a peer) or we have the reverse need: to somehow access those bits... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
fatigue people feel from the technological environment, and always being connected through video chat. How can people minimize that? Neeley: Tech exhaustion is a symptom of us overusing video for meetings that are edge to edge and far too... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
educational campus. The campus owner internalizes benefits, and could pay to build the system. I'm particularly struck by the use of PRT to increase the value of land that might otherwise be viewed as undesirable. Consider a parcel that's a View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
you go back into economic sociology studies and studies of wage gaps, you find that you can pull out those situations that are fairly unambiguous and say that there aren't gaps. But if you go into those situations and industries in which there is quite a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
channel stewards? A: Channel stewardship is a brand new concept. Bits and pieces have been practiced in the past, but we have pulled it all together and added some new ones. It would be hard to identify any one firm as an all-around... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
fashion and execute against a higher-ambition agenda. Q: Many companies in your book have a global reach. At the same time, however, they are often connected to a local identity or home base. How do higher-ambition leaders view culture?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
advertising he likes so much? Sunil Gupta: Advertising is a right-brain activity, the art of creating something from scratch. Also, advertising is all about understanding and connecting with people. He seems very much a people person,... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
like a tragic situation that potentially could be solved with a bit more insight into how people actually make decisions, the structure of their constraints, and what really affects their behavior." Thus launched an academic career in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
how you grow your sales force. They also help them with networking, connecting them to people. There's a lot more to the coaching role than is covered by literature on mentoring. It has domain knowledge content as well as personal... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne