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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United States Army engineer officers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
The section discusses three topics: How asymmetries power the process of disruption How to identify the company with the shield of asymmetric motivation and the sword of asymmetric skills on its side How to identify circumstances in which... View Details
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
when designing compensation plans. Larkin discusses the issue in The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for the Strategic Compensation of Employees, a paper he cowrote with HBS colleague Francesca Gino and Washington... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
Lagace: How can marketers help the world's poor? Rangan: They can bring a marketing process to think through how the allocation of resources happens. We need the voice of all stakeholders. Some of the stakeholders don't seem to have a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
it’s a forward-looking, subjective, creative exercise that requires a lot of imagination. Think about valuing Facebook today. It requires predicting the future of privacy policies around the world, the actions of Google and Amazon in the advertising market, the future... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Blog
Leading Successful Digital Transformation
efficiency of supply chains, and chat bots are used to cut the cost of call centers. While it is always good to reduce costs and improve efficiency, focusing solely on efficiency implicitly assumes that the... View Details
- 18 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal
Had he not chosen to dope, Hamilton may not have achieved the victories he did. But the cost of following Armstrong was personal disgrace. "This is not a free ride," says Rose. "You have to be prepared to live with the... View Details
- 15 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer
according to the working paper Do Management System Standards Indicate Superior Performance? Evidence from the OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Standard. To earn the voluntary certification, workplaces need to demonstrate that their View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
the taste context the authors define holistic processing as nonverbal, imagery based, and involving narrative processing. The authors conduct qualitative interviews with taste experts (Master Sommeliers) to operationalize the holistic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
other policies to change relative prices can provide a countervailing force by subsidizing exports. But they increase the costs of imports, hurting both domestic consumption and export-oriented industries with high import content. More... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- August 2023
- Case
Kariyer.net: Recruiting AI
By: Shunyuan Zhang, Fares Khrais and Namrata Arora
In 2017, Fatih Uysal (AMP 2021) became CEO of Kariyer.net. By then, the business was already the industry leading online job board in Turkey. However, faced with stalling growth, a turbulent macroenvironment, and growing competition from international players, Uysal... View Details
Keywords: Online Technology; Marketing; Websites; Artificial Intelligence; Innovation; Two-sided Platforms; Internet and the Web; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Job Search; Employment; Transformation; Volatility; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Management Practices and Processes; Business Growth and Maturation; Competitive Strategy; Business Startups; Talent and Talent Management; Cost vs Benefits; Macroeconomics; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Digital Platforms; Employment Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Middle East; Turkey
Zhang, Shunyuan, Fares Khrais, and Namrata Arora. "Kariyer.net: Recruiting AI." Harvard Business School Case 524-014, August 2023.
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
future hiring and M&A activity. When the Great Recession hit in late 2008, Honeywell, like all diversified manufacturers, experienced a drop off in new orders. Yet after six years of improving operating efficiency, there was little room left to cut View Details
- Web
Certificates, Credentials, & Credits | HBS Online
visit our Program Policies . Credits During the January, May, and September offerings of CORe , there is also the option to earn eight undergraduate credits through Harvard Extension School . The course content, deadlines, and grading View Details
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
Abstract Many scholars and practitioners have recently argued that corporate awards are a "free" way to motivate employees. We use field data from an attendance award program implemented at one of five industrial laundry plants to show that awards can carry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
regulatory guidelines. Finally, I consider how the regulatory process affects small firms' market entry patterns and find that small firms are less likely to be pioneers in new device markets, a fact consistent with relatively higher... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?
improvements improve life somewhere in the globe, but not necessarily in the U.S.A." Bill Donohue wrote that "In the 20's ... the root cause may perhaps have been the massive building of low cost assembly line-based industrial... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
frameworks are complicated. The processes that companies install to develop their strategy are highly complex, hundreds of slides, dozens of analyses, many competing frameworks and considerations. I meet many managers who see strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
associated with entering the political process help explain all three facts. We then exploit a natural experiment in the expiration in legislation surrounding the H-1B visa cap for high-skilled immigrant workers to study how these View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
specific use of the asset class when he observed that a possible use of Bitcoin could be “hedge funds betting on sovereign debt defaults.” Charles Sabatier III added that Bitcoin is the most secure financial network in the world. “The infrastructure that View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
errors when making decisions. Fortunately, behavioral economics offers tools to help people reach better outcomes. By changing the environment in which choices are made, for example by changing the process used to select options from a... View Details