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17 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

likable, and successful—but something derails them. In other words, the daunting challenge for many leaders and aspiring leaders isn't poverty or oppression or lack of skill or opportunity. It is, paradoxically, the very View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

12 Nov 2008
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The Marketing of a President

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. When the book is written on this election, it should not be titled The... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

29 May 2013
Blog Post

Perks of the LVMH Family

such a multi-brand scale that is Sephora! The first thing I noticed is just the difference in complexity. At Sephora you have hundreds of people perusing, sampling, asking questions, etc. at the same time,... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

03 Nov 2008
HBS Case

Economics of the Ethanol Business

think these things are unimportant and uninteresting, but that's never been true." Greater transparency may be brought about through the introduction of carbon trading markets, Reinhardt suggests—an... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Energy

World Reimagined: The Power of Connection with Dr. Vivek Murthy and Tsedal Neeley

In this episode, host Gautam Mukunda is joined by President Biden's nominee for Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, and Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and award-winning author, Tsedal Neeley to discuss how humans will thrive in... View Details

April 2019 (Revised March 2020)
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Handy: The Future of Work? (A)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Kieron Stopforth

Witnessing numerous lawsuits alleging that online platform companies misclassified workers as contractors when they were actually employees, Handy’s founders faced a series of decisions. Handy was an online platform business that enabled customers to book appointments... View Details

Keywords: Employment; Working Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Compensation and Benefits; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Fairness; Service Industry; United States

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26 Sep 2023
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Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates

from historically marginalized groups—even when the real goal is to create a more diverse workplace, because it’s both the right thing to do and good for business. New research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Summer Jackson... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

May 5, 2020
Article

Why the Crisis Is Putting Companies at Risk of Losing Female Talent

By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

There has been a massive shift in how work gets done inside many companies and the global pivot to working remotely will likely change how many think about face time and rigid work schedules. Might these changes benefit women? The authors argue that will depend on how... View Details

Keywords: Coronavirus Pandemic; Remote Work; Flexible Work Arrangements; Health Pandemics; Employees; Working Conditions; Gender

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02 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs

in part due to good timing seem to also do well in subsequent ventures. (By good timing we mean those entrepreneurs who founded a company in a given industry at a time when most new ventures did well: for example, microcomputer-related firms begun in 1981 or View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

27 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

"Four minutes," a triumphant Amy C. Edmondson exclaims as she arrives at her Harvard Business School office, clutching a bike helmet and explaining that her commute is 10 minutes faster by bicycle than by car. Edmondson, the Novartis Professor View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

1997
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Frontiers of Online Financial Services

By: R. Kalakota and F. Frei

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Finance; Financial Services Industry; Information Technology Industry

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05 Jul 2022
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Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?

distribution channel on overall inventory levels and costs. One thing that may have helped generate the HBS offer was an experiment I performed using my own crude version of what would become known as the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas.... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path out of Polarization

older among us; or, if we fail in that, at least the younger generation will have grown up with a presumption of incorrectness for the things that they read online. Rafael Di Tella: What Rawi is describing,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Telecommunications; Information

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

where approximately 217 million online players interact. This is an evolving landscape, with much growth remaining, Yoffie said. Of 6.5 billion people in the world, about 1.5 billion have Internet access,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

limits of their technical mastery. He gave them some slack to work with, and asked them to do unusual things with it. It's interesting to think about and look at examples of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

work frequently explores the domains of crowdsourcing, free digital goods, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. He worked in the cybersecurity field for nearly a decade before returning to academia. Research Nexleaf Analytics:... View Details

December 2018
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DraftKings and the Future of Fantasy Sports

By: Robert F. Higgins and Julia Kelley

Founded in 2012, DraftKings helped change the fantasy sports landscape by popularizing daily fantasy sports (DFS), or short-term fantasy sports tournaments that offered big cash prizes to winners. The company’s valuation exceeded $1 billion by 2015, but DraftKings soon... View Details

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01 Oct 2000
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Laura Scher of Working Assets

Most of the money is taken from revenues generated by the Working Assets credit card, long-distance telephone, and Internet businesses, whose customers sign on for these services because they support the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

February 1985
Article

Motivation and Creativity: Effects of Motivational Orientation on Creative Writers

By: T. M. Amabile

72 members of the college community who identified themselves as actively involved in creative writing participated in individual laboratory sessions, in which they were asked to write 2 brief poems, to investigate the hypothesis that intrinsic motivation is conducive... View Details

Keywords: Social Psychology; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Personal Characteristics; Situation or Environment

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