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- 20 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce
activities, moving away from your original business. If you can't consider diversification and entrepreneurial efforts, you are probably not going to survive long-term. Identify And Develop Family Wealth Generators I've written several... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
specialists, pulmonary and critical care doctors, and virologists, probably had a much better sense of what treatments to use and when relative to smaller hospitals that are close by.” By directing Black patients to hospitals that provide... View Details
- 13 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
A View from the Horizon
probably what I’d do, too. But my sister had a different idea for my future. She pushed me to go to college instead—and I listened—which is how I ended up studying accounting at Boston College. But even though I was on a path different... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 04 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?
adults—hypothesizing that the effects would change not only with age, but also with the degree of temptation. "If we used the same temptation of candies in an office, probably we wouldn't find anything, but using a different... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
You Are: 15 Harvard Professors Tell Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind). I was probably the lowest-paid member of my class, but that experience led to writing about careers and leadership for HBR, the New York Times, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
us the background and how you think about innovation? Gary Pisano: Probably the greatest economist of the 20th century was Joseph Schumpeter. He was really the godfather of the economics of innovation. He described a process he termed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
("we're probably one degree of separation away from anybody who's anybody on the Internet") — are what it takes to get a business going: "It's not just dumb money." Connections are key, agreed Cambridge Incubator's... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
No IPO in recent memory has received as much negative pre-public publicity as WeWork, which provides shared workspaces and services for startups and other enterprises. The outpouring of criticism has focused on a number of items including a record of past and View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
competitors, but now the arena is moving to the WTO, and that's different competition. They are not competing with similar airplanes, they are competing on who convinces the WTO better; and probably they need to work on their government... View Details
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
analyze how it is being spent. If substantial time allocations do not match top priorities, he discusses how these tasks should be either delegated or eliminated. "When someone asks you to spend time on work that doesn't match your key priorities, the right action... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
39 percent of the gender pay gap The social advantage male employees enjoyed with male bosses didn’t occur instantly when they were first paired together, which suggests that knee-jerk discrimination and chauvinism are probably not at... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
you're probably as anxious as I am, but I hear you're all in a good mood because the Blues won last night." So the room exploded and people started cheering and said, "Go Blues." And it kind of broke the ice. So I thought, "Wow! That's... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
things don’t have to happen right this instant. This is the new norming that needs to happen.” 7. Accept that productivity will probably suffer Choudhury’s research shows productivity often increases with remote work. But now, with... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
of action? A: The hacking incident was probably the last straw in a rather long line of issues. Sooner or later, Google had to stand up for its principles. They have always been at odds internally as to whether or not being in China,... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Silence Spells Trouble at Work
writing his weekly update reports on Wednesday, continuing to work on them when he had time on Thursday and Friday, working even into the weekend. On Monday morning, he would hand in his document to Matt. Jeff figured that a weekly update was View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
pages long, but it perfectly captures the essence of capitalism. The 2 chapters preceding and the 2 following it flesh out the argument. So in the space of a little more than 40 pages, we have probably the richest material ever written on... View Details
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
requirement that’s expected to go into effect next year. How is this wave of regulation going to affect the market? Kominers: Some regulation is probably good for the industry because in order for crypto to reach mainstream adoption and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
What is the HBS FIELD Program?
development, and operations skills. While my team probably spent an inordinate amount of time working on our project (because we were so passionate about the mission and enjoyed spending time together), it is likely the course that I... View Details