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31 Dec 2012
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the Smartphone Addiction Published: May 14, 2012 In her new book, Sleeping With Your Smartphone, Leslie Perlow explains how high-powered consultants disconnected from their mobile devices for a few hours every week-and how they became... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

Ultimately, some extra patience might be required. “You’ll have to set expectations and train people, especially managers, that they cannot expect answers instantaneously,” he says. “You’ll have to be patient and wait for the person who is View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

mentor to many entrepreneurs, describes how he responded to a manager who wanted to fire a salesperson. The customer loved the guy, but he wasn't working out internally. "Here's the desired result — to remove this person but with a positive result. First, View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

18 Jun 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Why Leaders Need Great Books

percentage of my sleep right off the top. — So I'm telling you, okay?" So go the first lines to author Allan Gurganus's short story, "Blessed Assurance." As one of the works of literature that HBS MBA students wrestle with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

competitive challenges facing software companies. Their market success depends largely on persuading the above-mentioned developers to write for their platforms. A new research paper suggests that the two sides can serve their own best interests by meeting with little... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

behavior and election outcomes. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55006 Harvard Business School 518-108 Casper Sleep Inc. (B): Growth Strategy No abstract available. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

graduates—descended on the Allston campus for the start of the W50 Summit, two days of reflection, celebration, and brainstorming on women's experiences at HBS and beyond. They heard from panels of professors and alumni on everything from the benefits of... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

31 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta, Chicago O'Hare, and Dallas/Fort Worth airports—the airports with the highest number of planned passenger connections—40 percent of all domestic passengers' missed connections and 43 percent of all disruptions to one-stop passengers occurred.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a featureless landscape of... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

PublicationsThe Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs Author:Cynthia A. Montgomery Publication:New York: HarperCollins, 2012 Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

and consumers will embrace this new mode of payment. Either way, even if Apple stumbles with its mobile wallet, the company will likely survive the reputation hit. "Any failure Apple experiences here will be more than offset by the legions of fans that like their... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

sleep and waking up routines. However, there were several factors Nanda had to grapple with before she could commit to final manufacturing design and development. Did she conduct sufficient market research to verify the desire for the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

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