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  • 07 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark... View Details
  • 05 Oct 2020
  • Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

goes on. We have started to acknowledge these truths, and we’re toying with interventions, at both the individual level and the policy level to overcome time poverty. Some... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

HBS and recently wrote an article called Sales Managers Must Manage for Top Sales Magazine. “It’s all about the difference between learning to take care of yourself and learning to take care of others, from... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

could even argue that the main difference between the two acts is merely the timing of the gift: Tips follow the rendering of a service, whereas bribes precede it." Torfason says the link between tipping and bribing may come in part... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Popular - HBS Working Knowledge

Popular Editors' Picks Recommendations from our editors 26 Jul 2023 Research & Ideas STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out by Rachel Layne 13 Jun 2022 Research & Ideas Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up View Details
  • February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
  • Case

Jieliang Phone Home! (A)

By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Job Design and Levels; Business Processes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Manufacturing Industry; China
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  • 11 Oct 2023
  • News

Soldier On

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
  • 10 May 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

assessment-oriented cultures, managers act as if employees’ talents are set in stone, and they make snap judgments about who on the team has talent and who doesn’t. “When they... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Leadership Transition for External Relations

goal. In the years since, her work with the ER team to strengthen our fundraising enterprise and grow annual giving through the HBS Fund has built a strong foundation to support the School’s core activities... View Details
  • February 2014 (Revised July 2016)
  • Case

Iora Health

By: William A. Sahlman and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
The Iora Health case looks at a new approach to the management and delivery of primary care. Instead of having a doctor, half a nurse and two accountants, Iora deploys a doctor, a nurse and several health coaches, all operating as an integrated team. Iora focuses on... View Details
Keywords: Management; Service Delivery; Groups and Teams; Financing and Loans; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

Its Stripes: Imprinting of Individuals and Hybrid Social Ventures By: Lee, Matthew, and Julie Battilana Abstract—Hybrid organizations that combine multiple, existing... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 07 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

economic spectrum are creating faux management jobs, pointing to wage cases filed by workers at tech and financial services giants. The team found a five-fold increase in manager titles like “directors of... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 13 Mar 2014
  • HBS Seminar

Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School

  • January 2025
  • Case

GE Appliances 2025: Energizing Change

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
At the turn of 2025, Kevin Nolan, CEO of GE Appliances following its acquisition by Chinese appliance giant Haier in 2016, is reviewing progress toward his net zero carbon vision for homes, which would otherwise exacerbate the global warming climate crisis. An... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Product Development; Organizational Culture
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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

students of learning by the case method. An approach to studying a case, individually or as a group member, for classroom discussion is outlined. Also summarizes the basic characteristics of a case discussion. 1940 Because Wisdom Can't Be... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

SpinBrush had its problems, though. It had a tendency not to last as long as Osher and his team had planned, and there was an issue with the way the spinning bristles worked... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products
  • 30 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date

hand-labeled six different types of questions: introductory, mirror, full-switch, partial-switch, follow-up, and rhetorical questions. Forty-four percent of the questions—more than any other type—were follow-ups. Based on the hand-labeled... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Yanhua Bird's research encompasses two streams: (1) entrepreneurship and social innovation — how the design and structure of alternative forms of enterprises influence their activities and success, with a focus on peer-to-peer markets and social enterprises, and (2)... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Strategy; Social Evaluation; Entrepreneurship; Social Innovation; Social Movements; Non-market Strategy; Corporate Sustainability
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

more than 30,000 emails sent among colleagues experimenting with various work arrangements during the COVID pandemic in 2020. He teamed with Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at HBS, HBS doctoral student Kyle Schirmann, View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 22 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Meet LASO: The HBS Latino Student Organization

we moved around. Which is why I’m driven to create a home in LASO. As a prospective student, LASO members reached out to me to help me through the application process. They believed in me and now I’m passionate to pay it forward. During... View Details