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- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
in the alarm clock market since the 1950s, when General Electric-Telechron started selling clocks with snooze buttons. "For some reason, we had relegated the alarm clock to be a low-involvement, low-cost item with no emotional... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016
exposure to workplace attributes that contribute to poor health. We used General Social Survey data to estimate differential exposures to workplace conditions, results from a meta-analysis that estimated the effect of workplace conditions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Demonstration Policy | About
designate a moderator in consultation with the event's host. A moderator will generally be a member of the faculty or senior staff of HBS or Harvard. The moderator's aim is to act as a neutral arbiter and to ensure that speakers take open... View Details
- 12 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery
Ted Obi (MS/MBA 2023) is a current MBA student at HBS and a third year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His previous experiences include co-founding Melanin Doc, a non-profit supporting the next generation... View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
behavior bubbles below the radar An employee may not come forward right away to expose wrongdoing at a corporation for many reasons. In the absence of directly observing egregious behavior by a particular individual, an employee may not think that a View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a wide assortment of consumer durables. Two years later, Barford took Beatty into the big time, buying up a larger competitor, General Steel Wares, Inc. (GSW). As head of the new concern, Barford reorganized GSW and developed it into the... View Details
- 23 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness
of health problems, including depression and social anxiety, which can impact wellbeing and productivity at work. In fact, in a 2017 Harvard Business Review article, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared that “a loneliness epidemic”... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2013-winter/54215/how-to-identify-the-best-customers-for-your-business/ Prolonged Thought: Proposing Type 3 Processing Authors:Dijksterhuis, Ap, Madelijn Strick, Maarten W. Bos, and Loran F. Nordgren Publication:Dual Process... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
recently, it has allowed companies to reap creative ideas on product improvements directly from their customers (Lay's flavored potato chips). And it has also managed to get brands into trouble (United Breaks Guitars). The smash hit Old... View Details
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Wyss House | About
Programs, Wyss House (formerly Sherman Hall) was renovated in 2006 and rededicated to honor a visionary entrepreneur and generous supporter of Harvard University and higher education. The three-story Georgian Revival–style, stucco... View Details
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and Valuation Using Financial Statements Joseph Pacelli Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Yuan Zou Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under General Management) Robert Simons Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 View Details
- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
the loss of jobs in manufacturing hadn't been offset by new tradable jobs involved in the creation of ideas (for example, consulting and the development of new information technologies, nearly all service sector jobs). Spence argues in... View Details
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
on the board, ownership, whether the company was based in another country, and if so, the general level of governance in that country. Again they found a clear correlation: in companies with stronger governance, CEOs spent more time with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention
Background: Leadership WalkRounds have been widely adopted as a technique for improving patient safety and safety climate. WalkRounds involve senior managers directly observing frontline work and soliciting employees' ideas about... View Details
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provides research and insights from McKinsey with ideas and contributions from leading experts and practitioners on all aspects of management thought. + – Education EdSurge Provides the latest news and trends in the edtech industry to... View Details
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Investment bank league tables
Where can I find investment bank league tables? Generate custom tables or find league tables in: LSEG Workspace Type “screener” into the main search bar and click to launch the Screener App. Under Universe, change from Public... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Elfers left Georges Doriot's American Research and Development Corporation to found Greylock, his own venture capital firm. Over the ensuing three decades followed a series of eight Greylock partnerships, during which time Elfers never lost a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
Bradley built and led the enormously successful firms that emerged: the Advisory Board Company (ABC) and the Corporate Executive Board (CEB). In 1999, having sold CEB, Bradley purchased the Atlantic, the monthly magazine that has explored American View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
European market overseas, and (3) concentrate on designing and producing new products for new and existing markets. There were several minority opinions, however. ASGMark commented, “The very idea of moving manufacturing of an American... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
purchases. This approach would not only insure more people, but could lead to more innovative, less costly approaches to generating medical breakthroughs, the team says. Chandra, who is the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of... View Details