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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
employees to mentor juniors, for example, but only reward them for time spent with clients. These practices are possible regardless of the amount of resources available, with the possible exception of the first. Managers work within this... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
As today's fiscal deficit and dragging economy continue to cast long shadows, it's easy to forget much darker times in American history. Shortly after winning its independence from Great Britain, the United States was bankrupt. Individual... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
obsolescence. It has also placed Jameson in the midst of some of the era’s most vexing legislative conflicts—from regulating artificial intelligence to funding Ukraine’s war against Russia—as he revolutionizes the business of lobbying Congress in an era defined by... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across... View Details
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
on users, communities, and open innovation approaches to tackle important technological and business problems. Lakhani points to innovation contests that have solved a wide variety of major challenges from technology for civilian space View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
legacy. Similarly, the internationalization of the Harvard Business School curriculum didn’t just happen. Kim Clark, when he was Dean, introduced the global research centers, which were a very distinctive way that we decided to pursue globalization. So I have become... View Details
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
Solitary,” a traveling exhibition of African-American abstract art that opened at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans in fall 2017. Now on view at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the exhibit has expanded to more... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
scheduled to start by the end of 2016. “The Dandelion program is focused on building careers, resilience, and independence for the individuals involved,” Fieldhouse says. He credits his time at HBS—where he interacted with a diverse group... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
the first time I had a psychotic break in my second year at Harvard Business School. When I looked back after that, I realized that I had actually had symptoms as early as fourth grade, but it really wasn't until I had that break, that I... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
“She also offered medical advice, delivery services, and prescription compounding—services not offered by department stores,” writes Sawyer. “Gleason also cultivated a reputation for providing indigent community members with medical advice and services.” It was a View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
color to be operating partners, to be employees at ICV. We've been doing this for two decades. We've had no problem finding talent.” Dan Morrell: In the wake of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992, Willie Woods (MBA 1993) was part of a group of HBS students... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Eduardo Recife Professor Nancy Koehn uses the perspective of time to tell the stories of ordinary people who, despite the odds, achieved extraordinary things. As these moments from her new book,... View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
workers' capacity for growth, and conduct data-based project reviews. To counter the bias toward action—and the unthinking perpetual motion and exhaustion that ensue—leaders can schedule more work breaks and make time for reflection. They... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library
case method could be adapted for use with individuals who could not travel to campus. 1962 to 1963 Stimulating Global Case Development The Division of International Activities established. One goal is to “stimulate the collection of case... View Details
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
37 states participate in the development and production program. The empty weight of the aircraft is 31,670 pounds and the wing area is 840 square feet. The aircraft has two engines generating 35,000 pounds of thrust, enabling the F-22 to View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
contributes to cost shifting, drives up administrative costs, and makes price and value comparisons virtually impossible. Under positive-sum competition, providers would have to issue a single bill for each service bundle, or for each View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
and society at large. To do that, it has to increase shareholder value while at the same time improving the firm's performance on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) dimensions. This article outlines a process that can be used to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
those of us from elite eastern prep schools think we did. Mauricio Gonzalez, Class of 1982, Section I, Skydeck. My first job was as a consultant for BCG, for Boston Consulting Group in London. And it was wonderful because I actually spent five years there and View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
different time zones, so you have to trust that they’re going to wake up and respond to you at the first available opportunity. But just letting go is hard, I guess. PC: I couldn’t agree more. It has actually been very eye-opening: As... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
that I think of as the eternal challenges. And those are around things like time management, handling guilt and feelings about being a working parent. But what the pandemic did was focus us on getting through the day to day, getting... View Details