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- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
Self-expression," published in the March 2013 Administrative Science Quarterly, a research team finds that shifting the focus to an employee's personal identity leads to an increase in both employee retention and customer... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
The Dow Acquisition of Rohm and Haas (D) Jay W. Lorsch and Melissa BartonHarvard Business School Supplement 411-004 Dow's board and management team worked on arranging appropriate financing to complete the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
life and how he used his faith to face adversity. A few months later, he was officially named team chaplain. In this episode of Skydeck, the Bulletin’s associate editor Julia Hanna talks to Wilkins about the role of faith in the locker... View Details
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Research in Black and White | Baker Library
black-and-white and color labs used high-efficiency, rapid turnaround techniques to make evaluations in minutes or hours, rather than weeks or months. The teams included chemists, artists, and those with other interests. Their task in... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
also some point of interest for people who don't really know about what has happened in the region that they live. Morrell: The GRAC Team had met locals who helped guide them to the site. One of whom clearly remembered playing with parts... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
tolerated with others. The sales manager who brings in big bucks but acts in a hostile, domineering way with his team may be seen as the definition of success, yet letting “a brilliant jerk be a jerk” could... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About
months! Today, it seems, it simply is not possible to have a plan for a year or longer and just stick to it. Adaptive organizations challenge the status quo, test new ideas, gather feedback, and learn. They manage conflict and View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
equal is the law of the land. So those are the constraints in this entrepreneur's life. He's the grandson of a slave, son of a teamster. And we don't know much about his early life, but sometime by the middle 1890s he's managed to find... View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
surgical service that is constantly improving. The case has many details about how Dr. Shingleton works with his staff and patients and how the provider team focuses on patient care. A key measure of productivity for the surgery center is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
States. But he’s also a business-builder. Most recently, he was president of Novellus Systems Japan and VP and general manager of the Integrated Metals business unit. “The biggest thing that gets me excited about Soladigm is the scale,”... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Susan Wilner Golden (PMD 59, 1990) had a very frustrating experience caring for her aging mother. With her background as a graduate of the HBS Program for View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
Management and HBS. They stood on the Weeks Footbridge and, on the spot, decided on Harvard. Despite his obvious talents, life at HBS wasn’t necessarily easy for the young Canadian student. He arrived in class the first day wearing a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
painted a two by two matrix, you might put Silicon Valley on the top right. Incredibly developed startup ecosystem and one of the most developed markets in the world, the US, and there's a couple other ecosystems you might put up there,... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
allowed by health authorities. Yet caries remained a significant threat to public health in many countries, both developing and developed. As Suzan Harrison, Colgate's president of Oral Care, prepared to launch CMCP+SAN in Brazil, the world's third largest oral care... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
passed, often twelve to twenty-four months. Such a clause, for instance, sparked a public legal battle two years ago when Google hired away a top Microsoft executive, Kai-Fu Lee. But disputes and tensions over noncompetes are not isolated... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
field of neuromarketing, which uses brain-tracking tools to determine why consumers prefer some products over others. And there is neuroleadership, which applies neuroscience to management research. Looser is looking to integrate insights... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
(Reporters later discovered that the signature page had been cribbed from an earlier contract extension.) In September, Pennsylvania’s Attorney General announced multiple felony charges against the district’s former fleet manager and... View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the choice of both competitive actions and organizational design, the paper makes an attempt at bringing economic theory and management strategy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace