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Commencement 2016 Address | About

daughters. It may be way too early for you to be forming a bucket list, but put this on yours when you get to it. During much of this trip, we were retracing the route traveled by the explorer Ernest Shackleton. Many of you are familiar... View Details

02 Mar 2023
News

Carbon's Second Act

cofounder and CEO of Ocochem, a startup developing an electrochemical process to turn carbon dioxide into formic acid. Now, formic acid is not something most people are familiar with, but it's a pretty important chemical compound. It's... View Details

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

bookings, buy cars and homes, while Recruit also owns Indeed and Glass Door. Being a good place to be from is a shift from the current employer mindset. Instead of wanting employees on board until you’re tired of them—a philosophy employees are all too View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

management practices, but low enough that they were familiar with day-to-day operations. The researchers also chose to target primarily small and medium-sized firms, employing between 100 and 5,000 workers, to maximize the chances that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

familiar faces. It's true that sometimes going outside is the right way to go. The strategic transformation at IBM required someone like Lou Gerstner to challenge the complacency. The Home Depot board felt justified in turning to outside... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

to hold and observe them. Author Peter Buse notes that just as leafing through a photographic album inspires an explanatory narrative, "by producing the print instantly in the very scene where it was taken, the Polaroid camera brings forward this View Details

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

While analyzing one deal requires a familiar conceptual framework, doing the same for a broader "negotiation campaign" calls for a different focus and set of concepts: how to orchestrate a large number of subsidiary deals, often... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Feb 2020
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?

while hiring and assigning conventional managers to deal with more familiar and common tasks and goals.” “The right question is therefore not the amount of ‘rebel talent’ but how to focus it on the right causes.” Grace was more cautious.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5

audacity to question Bryan’s authenticity out loud – I noticed. While you may not have given a second thought to heading to Aldrich Hall for class immediately after the talk, I went to Baker Library to meditate – to try and clear my mind of the all too View Details

06 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

need to recapitulate here his life or achievements. Both were of such magnitude that their outlines, at least, are familiar to billions around the world. They are made more extraordinary, of course, because his impact stemmed from the... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

27 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

"Nike" shoes, "Versace" T-shirts, "Louis Vuitton" bags, "Prada" wallets, and "Ray-Ban" sunglasses — all of them at bargain prices, and all of them closely resembling the authentic products we were View Details

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

avoid backsliding into dysfunctional routines—habitual patterns of negative behavior by individuals and groups that are triggered automatically and unconsciously by familiar circumstances or stimuli. Employees need help maintaining new... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier

implement broadly. In contrast, the most familiar digital communications technology today is a personal computer linked to the Internet. Unlike the ubiquitous television set, however, Internet-linked PCs are still found in less than half... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

25 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

principles can be valuable to a welfarist facing this limitation if they act as informational proxies, carrying accumulated knowledge about the effects of policy that otherwise cannot be considered. This argument can be seen both as extending a View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

of society can be better met without these taxes, and though research continues to consider reasons why it may be justified, capital income taxation is generally viewed as inefficient. One concern probably less familiar to nonspecialists... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2000
News

The Entrepreneurial Venture

Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military officers familiar with strategic... View Details

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

also extended to the companies in which XTV invested. These were structured as separate legal entities, with their own boards and officers. XTV sought to recruit employees from other start-ups who were familiar with managing new... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

15 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS

of 2021 I grew up in Puerto Rico and it was never my plan to leave the island. During my childhood, I spent my weekends with my family and friends. The feeling of community and family was rooted in my upbringing mainly through the frequent fiestas View Details

13 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

If you've spent any time on Twitter, then you're probably familiar with the "humblebrag"—a brag veiled in a complaint, so as to sound less blatantly like a brag. Here's an example from the Twitter account of Ari Fleischer, former White... View Details