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- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
health concerns can communicate with physicians online or by phone and receive advice or even a diagnosis without having to visit the physician's office. American Well's co-founders, Ido Schoenberg and Roy Schoenberg, believe this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
weight of published management advice, recommends that management teams engage task conflict but avoid relationship conflict. Implicit in this advice is the premise that it is indeed possible to separate the task and relationship aspects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
help community organizers establish similar financing pools in which, instead of cash, the winners received building materials, including cement. In addition, CEMEX provided construction advice and blueprints to the winners. The program... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
can pay off. Kanter offers practical advice for avoiding these traps. Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration Author:Andrew McAfee Periodical:MIT Sloan Management Review 47, no. 3 (spring 2006): 21-28 Abstract There is a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
In my research, I heard stories of Baxter colleagues providing useful advice regarding which job to take and when, so that they could navigate through that uncertainty. Second, it is evident that having "gone through wars... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
makes sense. So disclosure is a very important part of a better system, but it has to be more timely and apparent than in the current form of a prospectus. It was a poor performance by the banks; one that revealed a basic conflict of interest between giving honest... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
families.” “Dr J Do what is right” put it this way: “The organization’s culture is getting tested My advice would be to quickly hold a series of town hall meetings with employees to gauge what they feel. More importantly, it needs to be a... View Details
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
aspect." Taking Their Own Advice Ramarajan and Thomas have been taking that positive approach in their research. Ramarajan is currently studying the concept of multiple identities—how people manage all the roles they play in life,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
as mutual funds and pensions that wanted to invest in those securities. Investment banks also provided advice on mergers and acquisitions. In the early 1980s the derivative markets were quite small and relatively unsophisticated, and the... View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
wealth management platform that integrates products and advice focusing on impact, embedding ESG in research, and building a green bonds business. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318103-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
technology firms, we show that founders who received advice from other founders with more “hands-on” management styles were more likely to reorient their own management activity and, subsequently, experience lower employee attrition and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
have to be in sync with the government, and by that I mean national, provincial, and local. Without government support you will fail. Q: Any words of advice for Western companies that want to do business with China? A: There are several... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
to the U.S. offices of the firm and immediately sparked controversy, as some female associates claimed that the gender-specific advice in the memo was condescending and sexist. This controversy came close on the heels of a memo released... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
influence key decisions in the founding process. It is argued that the same biases that provide early benefits can later prove to be a weakness for the startup, and that founders must learn to identify their biases and work to balance them out with sound View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
practical advice for entrepreneurs accessing and utilizing their DNs. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808029 Texas Pacific Group—J. Crew Harvard Business School Case 808-017 Describes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
frameworks to decide exactly what they're going to do, what decisions they're going to make, what things they want to monitor and oversee, and also the areas in which they want to offer advice and counsel to their CEO. So given that fact,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
to all personal care products sold online by the five firms implies that customers spent an additional $300 million annually as a result of pricing algorithms, out of a total of about $6 billion in e-commerce revenue for the category. View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
Anywhere, which publishes March 30. The book acts as a “blueprint” for long-term workplace transformations, providing evidence-based advice for navigating the virtual work world, including dos and don'ts from companies that have embraced... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
Author:James K. Sebenius Publication:Negotiation Journal 27, no. 1 (January 2011) Abstract While a great deal of excellent advice exists for producing case studies on managerially relevant topics in general, negotiation cases have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
investigations and advice of chemist Bernhard Hesse. However, the USDA didn’t require the use of certified dyes—or even the certification of food dyes, much to Hesse’s chagrin; it was still legal to use uncertified dyes, provided the food... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel