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Fit: Exploring best practices for customer feedback, solution iteration, metrics that matter and developing a product and operations roadmap. Establishing The Startup Organization: Structuring early teams and the processes by which to... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21
human creativity and ingenuity always find a way around any new rules, as it did in this last crisis? And finally, how can—in practical terms—we get rid of the "too big to fails," without increasing state intervention further?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
employee, and as a result leaders hire for attitude and train for skills; (5) effective operating strategies have to create value for employees, customers and investors, so leaders ensure the achievement of the leverage and edge that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18
model from a social networking site to an online gaming business came with new challenges. They hired almost an entirely new staff, cultivated new partnerships, and most urgently sought new funding. However, with three years of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
complex political environment; and 3) Manage a team: Forge a high-performing "we" out of all the "I"s who report to you. Packed with compelling stories and practical guidance, Being the Boss is an indispensable guide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Harvard's highest academic rank. With Porter as its chairman and CEO, the ICIC has a mission to "spark new thinking about the business potential of inner cities, thereby creating jobs and wealth for inner-city residents." The many programs that the initiative runs... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
findings and advice. Anxiety leads to poor outcomes. You will be less nervous about negotiating, however, if you repeatedly practice and rehearse. You can also avoid anxiety by asking an outside expert to represent you at the bargaining... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
culturally heterogeneous network increases the likelihood of receiving culture-related novel ideas from others in the network whether or not they share one's culture of origin. This finding sheds light on the mechanisms that underlie multicultural networks' effects on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
contacts that led to a position at Goldman Sachs, where she worked for 35 years before assuming a leadership role at JSJ Corporation. The first female HBS MBA hired by Goldman, she was preceded by Margaret Gilliam (HRPBA 1961), who worked... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
explains. Drawing on lessons from the practice of real-estate deal-making, Stevenson came up with his now famous definition of entrepreneurship as “the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources currently controlled.” That insight in turn... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
Greater Taylorism has chewed its way across the corporate landscape to virtually everywhere large companies practice twenty-first-century capitalism, which means on just about every continent. Its appetite for more numbers, more data,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
Abstract As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709024 Yieldex (A) Harvard Business School Case 809-090 Yieldex Founder, Doug Cosman, is faced with the decision to sell his young software start-up for $4 million or to hire... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
behavioral ethics. I explore why some decisions are much more easily resolved in the classroom than in practice and offer three ways to more effectively prepare students: integrating ethical decision-making with core-discipline teaching,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
should hire for curiosity, model inquisitiveness, emphasize learning goals, let workers explore and broaden their interests, and have “Why?” “What if ?” and How might we ?” days. Doing so will help their organizations adapt to uncertain... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University investigating how practices and norms in organizational contexts create marginalization for employees who are members of historically excluded groups (e.g., Black employees). Dr.... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26
professionals. New roles and responsibilities must be clearly defined in advance, and teamwork models that include factors common in successful redesigns such as leadership, shared objectives, and training should be promoted. The focus should be on retraining current... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
actually have a lot to learn from one another, rather than setting one country's management practices up as a standard to which others should conform—or else they do not measure up or are somehow "backward." A good deal of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
have us go through that when there’s a substantial body of useful, practical literature, about how to go about competitive bidding. JH: Even so, Wilson graduated as a Baker Scholar, in the top 5 percent of his class. And with that MBA box... View Details