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- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
“Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.” The best entrepreneurs are taking this slower moment to re-examine their key business processes and make sure that they’re running them more effectively and efficiently. Train your interviewers (Who has time for that? Now you do!) and... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
develop this perceptions framework is of a single stage stochastic inventory system with periodic review, constant leadtimes, infinite supply, full backlogging, linear holding and penalty costs and no ordering costs. Forecasting ARIMA... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, was largely unnoticed outside the expert community. However more recently public and professional sensitivity towards managing risks has increased.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
employed full time and reported high levels of clinical depression or anxiety, as well as those experiencing workplace distress, with signs of presenteeism or burnout. One group was given full access to the Happify platform, which offers techniques View Details
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
Esty. To that end, readings and classroom discussions in GMP are very different from the Harvard MBA program, and from other HBS leadership programs. Where the MBA program develops functional skills, GMP... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
According to Danaher, the DBS engine “drives the company through a never-ending cycle of change and improvement: exceptional people develop outstanding plans and execute them using world-class tools to construct sustainable processes,... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
Runjiao XuHarvard Business School Case 211-107 In 2010, Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Limited was a highly successful, large real estate developer based in Beijing, China. Sino-Ocean Land had three main business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
eventually evolved from manufacturing motorcycles to inventing a revolutionary light business jet—fulfilling a lifelong dream to improve mobility and exemplifying the longevity and continuous innovation that characterizes so many Japanese businesses today. View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 04 Nov 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Do We Chase Stars?
performance," and reaches conclusions that might give pause to many who chase stars. Their subjects are top investment analysts (as identified annually by Institutional Investor magazine) and the organizations that develop and hire... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
Understand the roles Do you understand the difference between a front-end developer versus designer versus UX expert? (If you don’t, read this.) Are you fluent enough in your architecture to know what type... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
Like many business leaders, Donovan Neale-May routinely seeks out information on business innovation and management trends. He reads reports from market analysis firms, white papers from companies in his field, and articles in online... View Details
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
data-id=_/7YJ3sQvvRyBoorvGIg0t][/div] Instead, the male-to-male advantage developed slowly over time. “Only after the first year do we begin to see a gap in the promotion rates between men and women,” the authors write. And that makes... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
increasingly complex world? Will we need to turn increasingly to such things as quantitative models, "prediction markets" (where people bet on their views), the wisdom of crowds, and even such things as models based on "system dynamics" View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
employees are in limbo between their home and work roles. This unstructured time gives rise to “role ambiguity,” leaving people with the unpleasant feeling of being unsure what they’re expected to do. Sources: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jul 2008
- What Do You Think?
Are Followers About to Get Their Due?
"goals and objectives, pressures, strengths, weaknesses, blind spots, and preferred work styles"; (2) understanding yourself and your needs, including "strengths and weaknesses, personal style, and predisposition toward dependence on authority... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
enterprise era. Here are 10 rules of thumb to consider as you develop an AI strategy in an established company or sinking roots as an AI-first venture. Some are unique to AI-first startups, while others are generally applicable to... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
to the team. For leaders, it is essential to phase the postulated expectations with their own leadership behavior. Leaders should actively value the needs and contributions of team members and ask themselves: “What can I do for others?” By nature, View Details
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
communicate with each other on the large-scale—particularly, the global scale—necessary to share such information.” Security of individual accounts. Of the 10 most-used software packages in the analysis, the CII team found that seven were hosted under individual View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- What Do You Think?
Making Right Choices: Art or Science?
at its heart, involves a series of choices. Neuropsychologists tell us that the human brain can comfortably deal with only a limited number of alternatives (seven plus or minus two, according to a number of studies). Fields like decision theory were View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett