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- 29 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?
there may be no reason for them to interpret this as a gift or concession from the employer. More likely, they just assume that their expectations were wrong, and $4 is 'the going rate' for this type of... View Details
Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
- 19 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Answering Your Questions About the HBS MBA Application
prepare my recommenders? A good recommender knows you well and is able to speak to your specific strengths and abilities. We prefer to have one of your two recommenders View Details
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
has borne little relationship to overall corporate performance in the United States. If the efficient market is not working, what might be done about it? Of course, there is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
defensive drives. The implicit, almost unconscious ways we get information and reassure each other are lost when people go remote. Colleagues are not going to overhear useful conversations while getting coffee. Because of this, functions... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 04 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
Why Career Switchers Make a Great Hire
transferable skills, and are driven to be strong candidate in their target field. Here's why you should consider hiring them: 1) Career Switchers can round out a team by adding relevant experience from their... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Graduating During a Pandemic
made the decision to spearhead hybrid learning for the 2020-2021 academic year, making us the only school at Harvard with active in-person learning for its entire community. We knew early on many of the Harvard-wide graduation... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
balance. The idea that you must be physically present to be productive is just not valid. Leaders should be focused on how View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
minds—the deep metaphors that reveal people's true feelings about products. The solution: Find ways to generate positive emotional associations, as GSK has done with its weight-loss product. Alex Lee,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
hampering productivity and significantly impacting physician well-being. In the United States, physicians spend between 34 and 55 percent of their workday compiling clinical documentation and reviewing EMRs. While some of this contributes View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
denial has become so high. We are living in a less forgiving world than we once did." We asked Tedlow to discuss how denial can cripple a company, and what can be done about... View Details
- 25 Jul 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Evolution of Apple
and what he would have done differently. "The video is a very powerful teaching tool," says Yoffie. "Few CEOs will admit to their mistakes in a public setting." The comings and goings of... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
years ago. Most markets are one-sided in nature—customers interested in buying running shoes, for example. But a multi-sided market involves more players—and each has its own interests to be served.... View Details
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
sociologists (and increasingly, economists) view networks to be essential to the functioning of markets, I will review much of the work that has been View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?
thought that there was a place in the business school curriculum for the teaching of topics that provide a context for subsequent action. Dr. B. V. Krishnamurthy summed up this view by saying, "...whether we can 'teach' the craft of getting things View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Case Method Teaching - Case Method Project
made. For each class, students are asked to read the case and to put themselves in the shoes of the actual decision-makers to consider what they themselves would have View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
back home and was being sent to HBS by his bankers, who believed there was more he could learn about accounting. Gaines-Cooper was an astute financier but had never attended university. The Rolls, he... View Details
- 20 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators
them to be more intuitive and divergent thinkers. Either you have it or you don't. But does research really support this idea? Our research confirms others' work that creativity skills are not simply genetic... View Details
- 25 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Dealing with FOMO at HBS
things you want to go to. If you really struggle with FOMO, delete GroupMe and WhatsApp. It’s hard to have FOMO when you don’t even know what you’re missing out on. Inevitably there will View Details
- Research Summary
Sustainability and Integrated Reporting
A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
found in only a small number of tasks and functions. In the majority of situations, spans of accountability were wider than spans of control. This "Entrepreneurial Gap" is posited to be a result of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace