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- 07 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
Living Off Campus at HBS
While 65% of HBS students live on campus, many choose to live in the surrounding areas of Boston and Cambridge. Cameron Farkas and Joe Kiernan are two such students – and would have it no other way. Here’s what they enjoy the most about... View Details
Harvard Speaks on Climate Change
Climate change is one of the most complicated and challenging problems that the world has ever faced. As part of this video collection produced by the Harvard University Center for the Environment, Lassiter talks about *new* nuclear technologies as... View Details
- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
is the author of Remote Work Revolution, and the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Joe Fuller: Stay flexible in the uncertain ‘next normal’ There is no need for a partial return to historical... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 18 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech
Harvard Business School says. As part of a sweeping executive order aimed at promoting competition in the American economy, US President Joe Biden specifically called out non-compete agreements as hurtful to innovation and workers. Issued... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
issues to a new level by commenting, "It is tough to even have people agree on what is being denied ." Denial can be beneficial. Joline Godfrey waxed almost poetic in saying that "denial is a critical component of my... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?
Summing Up Can creativity and innovation be managed? Judging from responses to questions posed by practitioner panelists at a recent colloquium on "Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future" at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
about presuming preferences. When predicting other people’s tastes, we tend to erroneously assume that liking one thing precludes enjoying another, dissimilar option, according to a recent set of studies by researchers at Harvard Business... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- News
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
- 05 Sep 2008
- What Do You Think?
Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?
Summing Up Is the case method gaining relevance over time? Case method instruction may not be perfect, but to paraphrase Winston Churchill's view of democracy (and Sameer Kamat's response to the column), it's better than the alternatives. At least that's the impression... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- What Do You Think?
As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?
Florida legislature, after several weeks of heated public controversy, passed and sent to Governor Ron DeSantis a Parental Rights in Education bill stating: “Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
challenges and opportunities posed by digital platforms, The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power is a new book by Harvard Business School Professor David... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
happen," noting also that " it is a heck of a job to keep staying aware " Vasudev Das suggests that words of Krishna are appropriate here, to wit: "whatever action a great man performs, common men follow; and whatever standards he sets View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
Short Intensive Program (SIP) Recap: Climate Adaptation From January 18th through January 21st, approximately 40 students gathered in Aldrich Hall for a SIP on Climate Adaptation. This course was led by HBS Professor John Macomber with... View Details
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2011
- News
Obama's Secret Negotiation Weapon is One You Can Use Too
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
What Makes a Good Leader?
sometimes guilty of using the dichotomy in an effort at simplification. "It's much better to think in terms of measuring people on a zero-to-ten scale for each quality." HBS professor Joe Badaracco agrees that the traditional... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
contradictory to sound judgment. It only emphasizes it . Judgment is an encapsulation of all those elements data, facts, processes, etc that go into decisions from which we have learned in the past." Joe Schmid said: "Our... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
your agent may not be enough. For example, top executive pay attorney Joe Bachelder once took his client aside after the first negotiating session. The board had selected his client to be its next CEO and was working out his compensation... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace