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Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online
Digital Innovation and Strategy? Email our program advising team at digitalcredential@hbs.edu. New Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy $6,500 Next session starts November 12th Apply Build the skill set and strategic acumen to... View Details
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
bloggers are buzzing with guidance about ways to sustain employee engagement and productivity in the chaos of a pandemic. Unfortunately, most Management 101 advice does not recognize that in times like these, the manager's toolkit must... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
door to success. Getting the sequence wrong could have led to failure. Though often overlooked, sequencing matters greatly in negotiation. Whether you're trying to get the "right" people to attend a charity event, invest in a View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
case in China, adequate investment had been put into roads, bridges, and power plants, I suspect that a much larger fraction of the money coming into India would have been productively deployed into longer-term fixed assets, securing it... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
It also contains materials on the branch offices and the management and administration of the company from the New York office. Collection Guide Harris C. Fahnestock Papers, 1855–1914 . Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard... View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
"outsiders," such as Elizabeth Arden, created their own road to success, overcoming significant odds. The new book Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership explores the demographics of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
indebted.” AMCs in the country have traditionally used that sentiment to their advantage, putting the screws on debtors with a hard-sell tactics to squeeze as much payment out of them as possible. Start with the debtors Turkasset’s new... View Details
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
to numbers such as operating profit. This does not mitigate the argument against short-term incentives. Nor does it address the tendency of compensation committees to rely on numbers rather than judgment. Going even further, perhaps nonfinancial measures, such as those... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Reading Between the Lines: How to Spot the Skills You Need Among the Resumes You Get
read so that anyone can understand what they did. But they often don’t.” Jonathan Tamblyn, the head of talent at L2, a consumer products digital marketing firm, sees the challenge through the lens of cutting-edge companies that have... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
Unit, and faculty chair of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS. For the past several years, Amabile, who holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University, has been analyzing findings from her longitudinal research on creativity in teams involved in... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
embraced digitalization, sought to broaden the reach and impact of its research activities, and begun to adapt its physical space to evolving needs and the new realities of hybrid work. As evidenced by our fiscal 2023 results, one thing... View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
sector fully) with the system-wide benefits of crowding out private sector money creation. In other words, the government should keep issuing short-term bills as long as it has a comparative advantage over the private sector in the View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
In this uncertain economic climate, downsizing and layoffs are a sadly frequent occurrence. Although bad news is always painful to deliver and to hear, the process of conducting "necessary evils"—such as layoffs or firings—can... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
wants to open a chain of retail shops selling a commodity product you can get anywhere for 25 cents, but he will charge 2 dollars. Of course, you listen politely and then fall off your chair laughing when he leaves. [Starbucks founder]... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
where others didn’t—and how these mainstream firms had no choice but to innovate themselves. New models were tried; some succeeded, some failed. Commercial markets turned innovations into valuable products... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
example, so people didn’t have to take public transit. We also invented some new product and business models. One brand in the Boston area is Life Alive Organic Café. It’s a plant-based, fast-casual concept... View Details
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
third party, the stock exchange, take responsibility for these functions. Stock exchanges' interests are the creation of a well-functioning capital market, where good and bad news are equally likely to be disclosed in a timely fashion.... View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
encourages employees to both share nostalgic memories and make new ones with their coworkers primes the pump of creativity. People are more likely to feel comfortable taking risks and exploring new ideas... View Details
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- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
investors, activists, and students working together to reduce climate change, feed the world’s population, reduce animal suffering, and develop new fascinating products to make our lives better,” said... View Details
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
investor how he chose investments, he rubbed his belly over and over, saying “I do that.” A blend of both Gut feel in investing may not be as random or capricious as it sounds, as Huang describes in the new research paper The Role of... View Details