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  • 07 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Glasses Land the Gig: Employers Still Choose Workers Who 'Look the Part'

Seeking a programming gig? Wear glasses and keep your laptop in frame if you want your profile picture to attract recruiters on hiring platforms. A new study finds freelancers are more likely to land work when they “look the part” for a particular job. But, as View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 04 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

Editor's note: Seasoned entrepreneurs know that a great idea for a new company is no guarantee of a successful exit. Startups fail more often than not, largely due to hubris-fueled mistakes by an inexperienced founding team. Alas, the... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
  • May 2025
  • Case

Wilburn Medical USA

By: David Ager, Lynda M. Applegate and James Barnett
In September 2024, Emily Wilburn Andrews, CEO of Wilburn Medical USA, is five years into her tenure leading the medical equipment supply company since taking over for her father, the company’s founder. She considers approaches to grow the company while maintaining the... View Details
Keywords: Small Business; Change Management; Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Health; Medical Specialties; Leadership; Health Industry; United States
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  • 02 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • May 2024
  • Supplement

gWorks (B)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
In January of 2019, Joe Heieck, CEO of gWorks, was deciding whether to proceed with his acquisition of Data Tech, that was a business roughly the same size as gWorks. gWorks, which provided geospatial software to small city and rural county governments, was acquired by... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Relationship Management; Technology Adoption; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Growth Management; Applications and Software; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology Industry; United States
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  • Web

Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge

Popular Browse All Articles About Us Newsletter Sign-Up RSS Page 1 of 5,369 Results 12 Nov 2024 HBS Case Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers by Avery Forman How can formerly incarcerated people reintegrate into society if few View Details
  • 14 Jun 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need

leads to better outcomes, Edmondson says, whether it’s a hospital that names and then reduces errors or a company that streamlines processes by innovating together to find better ways to manufacture vaccines. Ensure that all people feel... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin

    The Surprising Power of Online Experiments

    In the fast-moving digital world, even experts have a hard time assessing new ideas. Case in point: At Bing a small headline change an employee proposed was deemed a low priority and shelved for months until one engineer decided to do a quick online controlled... View Details
    • November 2019 (Revised February 2020)
    • Case

    Hormel Foods

    By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
    In 2019, CEO Jim Snee is weighing how to shape the image of Hormel Foods, one of the largest U.S. meat and food companies, at a time when the industry faces unprecedented scrutiny. Based in the small town of Austin, Minnesota, the nearly 130-year-old firm is best known... View Details
    Keywords: Brand Portfolio Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product; Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Risk Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; China
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    • 25 Feb 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

    Lean start-up strategies aren't just for start-ups anymore. That was the key message that Intuit cofounder Scott Cook (HBS MBA '76) shared in a small seminar with Harvard Business School faculty recently. Since its launch in 1983, the... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Does the Case for Private Equity Still Hold?

    By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Philipp Chvanov
    Private Equity (“PE”) received a 10-fold increase in capital flows since the Great Financial Crisis (“GFC”) Investors sought higher nominal returns relative to those they could obtain in the public capital markets. This paper questions the fundamental assumptions... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Financial Markets
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The Unfairness Trap: A Key Missing Factor in the Economic Theory of Discrimination

    By: Jordan I. Siegel, Naomi Kodama and Hanna Halaburda
    Prior evidence linking increased female representation in management to corporate performance has been surprisingly mixed, due in part to data limitations and methodological difficulties, and possibly to omission of a fairness factor in the economic theory of... View Details
    Keywords: Managerial Roles; Fairness; Performance Productivity; Gender; Japan
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    • 19 Feb 2018
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?

    Today, Amazon participates in so many industries that it takes a small army of researchers at HBS to track them all: retailing, cloud computing, book stores, grocery stores, digital consumer products, commercial real estate,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
    • 26 Jun 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

    increases demand. Results also show that small third-party sellers affected by Amazon's entry appear to be discouraged from growing their businesses on the platform subsequently. The results have implications for complementors... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 20 Mar 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

    staffing, services, physical space, strategic guidance and more — are popping up in the private sector almost as fast as the dot.com companies they hope to hatch. They're pulling in veteran entrepreneurs and established Internet players... View Details
    Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
    • November 2016 (Revised February 2017)
    • Case

    BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leadership Team

    By: Boris Groysberg, Colleen Ammerman and John D. Vaughan
    BrightStar Care was a rapidly growing franchise of home health care agencies. Founded by husband and wife team JD and Shelly Sun as a single agency near Chicago in 2002, BrightStar had opened nearly 300 franchises across the United States by 2016, generating over $300... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care Services; Entrepreneurs; Board Of Directors; Boards Of Directors; Health Care Industry; Growth Strategy; Organizational Change; Brand Positioning; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Entrepreneurial Management; Franchising; Family-owned Business; Home Health Care; Managing Growth; Management Styles; Organizational Development; Talent Management; Women Executives; Women And Leadership; Business Startups; Family Business; Small Business; Talent and Talent Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Health Care and Treatment; Human Capital; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Skills; Management Style; Management Succession; Management Systems; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Strategy
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    • January–February 2017
    • Article

    Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship

    By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
    An increasingly popular route to success as a small business owner is “acquisition entrepreneurship”—buying and running an existing operation. If you’re considering such a path, the authors offer practical advice for each stage of the process. Think it through. Do you... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Acquisition; Planning
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    • 2014
    • Case

    Meizhou Dongpo Restaurant: Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Culture

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Weiku Wu and Jia Guo
    Meizhou Dongpo is a large catering group in China. On June 6, 1996, the first Meizhou Dongpo Restaurant was opened in Beijing. The enterprise entered the stage of rapid development in 2000, and set up Beijing Meizhou Restaurant Management Co., Ltd. In June 2003 the... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Leadership; National Culture; China; Restaurants; China
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    • 05 Sep 2023
    • Book

    Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential

    recessionary headwinds, the real innovation that can come out of learning from intelligent failures may be what companies most need today. As Edmondson put it, “It’s natural to hunker down and imply that failure is to be avoided in tough... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • Program

    Preparing to Be a Corporate Director

    your awareness of current and emerging issues facing boards and companies Balance the demands of shareholders with those of other stakeholders in driving long-term corporate performance Interact more effectively with your company's board... View Details