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21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

but one of teammates supporting each other through unprecedented times. The McKinsey guide recommends that leaders strive to “rebuild a common social identity and a sense of belonging based on shared values,... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

13 Jan 2021
Blog Post

Staying Curious with the Harvard Innovation Labs Ahead of the 2021 Virtual President’s Innovation Challenge

people to stay curious because we see curiosity as the common element in the entrepreneurial experience. Curiosity helps us create an environment that is most conducive to... View Details

15 Sep 2015
Blog Post

On the Road: HBS in Israel

apply and attend HBS. Students from Israel are a diverse group, but there are some things they tend to have in common including excellent military service records, strong entrepreneurial sense, and a meaningful commitment to social... View Details

02 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Women, Work, and the "M" Word

increasingly remote and hybrid work environments. Whether this means starting one internally for the women within the company or advertising access to external groups, these groups offer women a community... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Starting Off on the Right Foot

within particular departments? Did one of your new colleagues apply for your job? You need to be in an information-gathering mode.” Waldroop’s advice may sound like a primer for contestants on the hit television show Survivor, but it in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

24 Sep 2020
News

The Race for a Vaccine

first vaccine candidate to move into Phase II clinical trials—a prophylactic against cytomegalovirus, a common virus that has little effect on healthy adults but severe consequences for infants and those with compromised immune systems.... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management

of more personal analyses of individual entrepreneurs. During this phase of development in the field, many researchers attempted to discover common character traits that might help distinguish... View Details

Keywords: by Howard H. Stevenson & Teresa M. Amabile

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

of investments. Q: Were there common characteristics among successful investing strategies? A: The team grouped the investors into quartiles based on their realized returns,... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

signed may sour. Risk Factors The most common causes of social contract problems are lack of awareness and benign neglect. The parties involved inevitably form expectations... View Details

Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Market Research Meets the “People Factor”

by offering the following advice, in the hopes that both groups—managers and researchers—might better find common ground. Managers and researchers clearly have a different... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

the things that is clear to me is that businesses that permit and encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in succeeding generations have an easier time adapting to their environment. —John Davis What are View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

20 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time

other hand, the age of companies does seem to matter, with older companies in general growing more slowly than newer firms. Next, the team looked at the issue of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

22 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

CEO Succession: The Case at Ford

Jim. Q: Now, Bill Ford has just put the brakes on his ride as CEO of Ford Motor Company and handed the wheel over to Alan Mulally, who's a veteran of Boeing. How common is it... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Auto; Employment

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

developments. His work examines how "sell-side financial analysts incorporate accounting information in their earnings forecasts, common stock valuations, and investment recommendations." He also analyzes management reporting of... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

01 Oct 1998
News

Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

common ground between communist Vietnam and capitalist foreign investors. "Here in Vietnam you have a situation in which the market is small, and the bureaucracy is dense after... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

Infrastructure Is a Gateway to a ‘Resource Revolution’ BIO As business leaders, achieving stakeholder alignment is our license to operate and our best opportunity to halt the tragedy of the View Details

21 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

allocation such as heuristics, decision rules, and "bottom up" approaches still effective in today's complex marketing environment? To help practicioners answer this question, Harvard Business School professors Sunil Gupta and Tom Steenburgh surveyed View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The New Math of Customer Relationships

customers. Has this concept taken hold in practice? A: When we observed a number of organizations leading to the original articulation of the service profit chain, we found a View Details