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24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

Millions of Americans, from hourly retail staffers to corporate vice presidents, wrestle with the demands of work while parenting young children, caring for a sick spouse or aging parent—or both. That juggling act is made even tougher by... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

13 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

and be less on your back,” Pons surmises. “He might let you finish work early, or provide less monitoring.” The researchers looked at homogeneity along other demographic statistics, including age and gender, and found much smaller... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

well into, is my colleague Shoshanna Zuboff’s magisterial The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. This book is one of genius. It provides a sweeping description of the rise and impact of business models that are premised on harvesting and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

04 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks

their areas." Stuart, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, was recently awarded the 2007 Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship, an award given every two years to one scholar under the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

01 May 2006
What Do You Think?

Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?

and for a broader audience than just theoretical economists. Both, of course, lived to see the age of ninety and then some. And despite their sharply contrasting views of political economics (Friedman regarded Galbraith as a socialist),... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

Battilana. Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores In an age of time scarcity, buying our way out of the negative moments in the day is an important key to happiness, according to research by Ashley V. Whillans,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts

Madam C.J. Walker helped invent what have become staples of our modern country and economy: national sales forces, corporate social responsibility, and, yes, even basic haircare. Orphaned at age 8, married at 14, and widowed at 20 with a... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

08 Jan 2014
What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

by the new Information Age economy and redirecting it into the neighborhoods and communities of the country, and toward the creation of jobs and the rebuilding of the social commons ." Lanier's solution lies in creatively using... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jan 2011
What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

discovery in a legal case. The wise don't do it. But this can be a costly practice, given our faulty memories. And in the age of WikiLeaks and the Internet, when every "secret" seemingly becomes public before long, the new... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence, Competing on Internet Time, and Judo Strategy. "The theory was to explore interesting topics with interesting companies, and use the field research as a vehicle for more in-depth empirical... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

African-American clientele, have hundreds of products for blondes." In a labor market where youth seems to hold a premium, especially for marketing jobs, this notion is deadly for those trying to sell to an aging population of baby... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail

01 Mar 2010
Op-Ed

A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM

too few consumers. Mulally's first act was to borrow $23.5 billion by mortgaging the entire company to give Ford the runway necessary to retool its aging lineup. Mulally moved fast, trimming unpopular lines, cutting management layers, and... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Auto

29 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

another law firm. It is in this way, AG hopes to increase its position with its larger clients. AG has also developed a very systematic program for identifying and serving its key clients, developed in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

engaging the patient to the point that she may take action that is not in her best interest?” (The American Cancer Society in October pushed back its age for recommended mammograms in part because they can lead to false positives and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

13 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 13, 2007

realities of the global economy, fosters leadership, and uses citizen-diplomats to befriend moderates in troubled regions and business networks to ensure success in the major emerging economies; and (6) building community by stressing national and community service for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits

demonstrated ways to ask questions in order to create specific goals. In the example of the HCZ, he advised them to define which poor children they plan to help. He went on to ask: What are the ages of the target children? Exactly what... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both

something missing. He was actually contending with far deeper concerns than how to gauge distance from the blackboard. He was young, the same age as some of the students he was trying to teach. He didn't believe in a lot of the teaching... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jul 2021
Office Hours

Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?

worker shortage, for three or four reasons. One is it reflects in part stagnation and actually decline of the workforce participation rate. We have a large number of prime working age adults, particularly males, who are neither in school,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Manufacturing

06 Feb 2006
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?

for shareholders." Perhaps with this in mind, a small but growing number of public company CEOs are electing not to provide earnings guidance, risking reduced interest on the part of analysts and possibly less publicity for their companies. But this raises several... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

providing incentives and protecting proprietary information as needed—then leveraging the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning through entities such as GNS Healthcare and IBM’s Watson to find an answer. Clinical trials In the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

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