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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
heightened uncertainty? While we are still far from knowing what constitutes a “best practice,” there is already a great deal of experimentation emerging globally. To provide an early report of these emerging approaches, over the past... View Details
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
effective. This type of conversation can provide the clarity needed to personalize our work’s purpose better than an organization’s vision or mission statement, which is often so grand that employees have difficulty connecting it to their View Details
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
looking to do new deals. They’re just sitting on a ton of money.” During that period, global daily deaths had topped 9,000 for a second time as infection rates were soaring across the Americas. Almost all of the world’s 10 largest... View Details
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
by: Adopting new routines and rituals. The foundation of CEOs’ self-care was to replace the “lost structure” of the workday. One shared that “a daily routine for myself and supporting the family took longer to create and to put in place... View Details
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
work lives of 238 white-collar workers at seven companies. Each worker kept a daily diary over the course of the study, answering a series of separate questions about their moods, their motivations, and events that stood out to them on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
seemed to be a different kind of conversation going on among the women. I thought it would be worthwhile to bring a group of them together to pursue these conversations further. In addition, I knew that there were (and are) a lot of programs for women around the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45842 Strategic Channel Selection with Online Platforms: An Empirical Analysis of the Daily Deal Industry By: Zhang, Lingling, and Doug J. Chung Abstract—The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
business and the company's strategy. In a service business like Tesco's, the health of the brand depends heavily on the quality of the millions of daily transactions between shoppers and staff. Motivating the front-line personnel is... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
food safety inspectors on their daily rounds. This allowed her to see firsthand how seriously inspectors took their jobs, how they made decisions, and the challenges they faced in the course of their workdays. “I’m impressed with... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
addressed at the same time to keep the deal on track. In the end, management devised a whole new way of reporting the company's earnings, to address a deficiency in GAAP reporting rules as they pertain to employee buyouts. It took more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
while hiring and assigning conventional managers to deal with more familiar and common tasks and goals.” “The right question is therefore not the amount of ‘rebel talent’ but how to focus it on the right causes.” Grace was more cautious.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
agreement to pay Media General $142 million for its weekly and daily newspapers and real-estate holdings, and a credit agreement that included a $400 million term loan. Speculating about Buffett's apparent change of heart regarding... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
in sales respectively. Most companies in the industry were valued at $1 million per employee, and this company had 40. However, NASDAQ had just dropped about 20% (April, 2000), and voices predicting the end of the tech stocks' ride were appearing View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
this environment. What CEOs told us “Priorities have changed, personally and professionally. There can be no thought paralysis. What will the new norm look like and how do we adapt? I ask myself that on a daily basis.” “In order to... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
ever when deciding where to source their goods and invest. The countries that can offer the best deal in terms of infrastructure and government stability—not just low wages—will come out ahead, she added. Lessons From Nike As director of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
Integrity in all dealings means taking the interests of other parties taken into account, operating with a long-term perspective rather than short-term greed or sensationalism. Anything for a deal or... View Details
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
directly on the project with the team. We collected daily diaries in order to understand everyone's day-by-day subjective experiences. We analyzed the connection between the daily events that people... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
and practice of negotiation. I intersperse this account with nuggets of insight that I picked up from Howard for dealing with people, analyzing problems, doing research, teaching effectively, and building a legacy. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
ran the gamut of roaring success to absolute failure. Why is there such a large range in outcomes for firms that used daily deal sites such as Groupon? This case examines the effectiveness of online View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
researchers collected time-use information through daily phone calls with each CEO's personal assistant (PA) or with the CEO himself (99 percent of the sample consisted of male CEOs). On the first day of the week, a researcher would call... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel