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- 2012
- Book
Talk, Inc. : How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the "magic"--the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement--that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture; Social and Collaborative Networks; Spoken Communication
Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Slind. Talk, Inc. How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations. Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
- October 19, 2021
- Article
The Facebook Trap
By: Andy Wu
Facebook has a clear mission: Connect everyone in the world. Clarity is good, but in Facebook’s case, it has also put the company in a bind because the mission—and the company’s vision for creating value through network effects—has also become the source of its biggest... View Details
Keywords: Business And Society; Mission and Purpose; Network Effects; Value Creation; Corporate Accountability; Strategy
Wu, Andy. "The Facebook Trap." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (October 19, 2021).
- 2009
- Working Paper
Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism?: Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms
By: Mihir A. Desai
Tax policy toward American multinational firms would appear to be approaching a crossroads. The presumed linkages between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Taxation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; United States
Desai, Mihir A. "Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism?: Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-107, March 2009.
- 25 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of Teaming
individual can. Yet, when individuals learn, this does not always create change in the ways the organization delivers products and services to customers. This is a conundrum that has long fascinated academics. This book offers a practical... View Details
Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson
- Web
Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
compel banks to recapitalize. More Info Interest Rate Conundrums in the Twenty-First Century By: Samuel G. Hanson , David O. Lucca & Jonathan Wright MAR 2017 The standard expectation hypothesis posits that long term interest rates are... View Details
- 08 Apr 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It
a conundrum for the company. Does an affordable luxury product work against the top-tier brand? How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the WorldDeconstructing ground grasshoppers, upscale Peruvian cuisine, and other... View Details
- Web
Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
framework should be designed minimally to minimize legal gaming and regulatory arbitrage; and 3) regulators, during financial crisis, should actively compel banks to recapitalize. More Info Interest Rate Conundrums in the Twenty-First... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Mar 2016
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network
logic. All major technologies deploy when they overcome the circular conundrum and an adaptation conundrum. The circular conundrum arises because maximum value from the commercial technology requires all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
WSA Speakers Kick Off W50
WSA's copresident with Deborah Singer (both HBS 2013). Barnard College President Debora Spar (PMD 62, 1991), a former HBS faculty member, described the conundrum facing women today: Despite enormous gains, the percentage of women in... View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
include housing. Returning veterans could not find affordable homes. A condominium costs 12 times annual income; and the country has a dearth of rental units. In Israel, demand for housing outstrips supply—a conundrum familiar to United... View Details
- 18 Apr 2007
- HBS Case
How Magazine Luiza Courts the Poor
credit, and service productivity. One of the questions posed by the case is the classic conundrum of where and how Magazine Luiza should expand while preserving its identity and culture. The case describes a large acquisition of another... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Marriage, Inc.
happily married Greenwald brings contemporary marketing concepts, such as telemarketing (have friends call friends) and branding (focus on your unique qualities), to the old-fashioned conundrum of finding a spouse. Called the “hottest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
Case Study: Mind the Gap
platform, signing partnerships with software houses (70 and counting), and creating a digital fingerprint for each engineer—incorporating a mix of professional competencies and a person’s psychometric profile. Meanwhile the founders are facing the chicken-and-egg View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
the questions posed by the case is the classic conundrum of where and how Magazine Luiza should expand while preserving its identity and culture. The case describes a large acquisition of another Brazilian retailer with a very different... View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
produced one of the most exciting papers that I have worked on." The idea for the paper grew from a conundrum that Bohnet faced when she became faculty director of the Kennedy School's Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP).... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
staffers’ work? Could these supposedly self-contained businesses be cut loose and thrive on their own? The top editor of the New York Times was surely mulling all this when he characterized his online strategic conundrum as “fake it till... View Details
- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape
Secondly, the funding model for both companies came into consideration as we reflected on our visits. While it is a catalyst for innovation, venture capital also poses a unique conundrum when it comes to sustainability endeavors. This... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
is building the platform, signing partnerships with software houses (70 and counting), and creating a digital fingerprint for each engineer—incorporating a mix of professional competencies and a person’s psychometric profile. Meanwhile, they are debating the... View Details
- 13 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India
India’s coal conundrum firsthand. Despite our preconceived images of soot-covered walls, we were startled by the cleanliness and modernity of the facility. Tata Power has invested heavily in technology to limit pollutants like nitrous... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Use LinkedIn to network with an expert and ask her a question about a critical assumption. Run online surveys using SurveyMonkey.com. Tap into Amazon Mechanical Turk, which offers cost-effective ways to perform mundane tasks." The book answers many View Details