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- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
Here’s a tip for parents of school-aged children. If your kids must take a standardized test, it’s best to do so either first thing in the morning or right after recess. On average, students perform best on tests at the start of the...
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- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
to decide how. Your job is to make the desired outcomes clear. Outcomes are not just financial either–everything from the culture of your company, the reputation of your products and services, and your brand is for you to make clear. As a mom who still shudders every...
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by Julia Austin
- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
Dietz, who didn’t realize that children saw the company’s MRI scanners as cold, scary chambers of misery until he visited a hospital and saw for himself. The machines created enough fear and tears that many kids needed to be sedated. The...
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- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
releases will get better." The only way to attract great typists would be for voice recognition to be faster and more accurate than typing. This is a very high technical hurdle. Where has voice-recognition technology begun to take off? View Details
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
called Clockiddie or Clockiddo that will not only wake kids in the morning but also tell them bedtime stories and sing songs at night. "She realizes that for kids it's not just a struggle to wake up,...
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- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
With more people working remotely right now, many of us have experienced a videoconference interrupted by barking dogs or hungry kids demanding snacks, punctuated, perhaps, by cabinet doors slamming and ice makers grinding in the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
the same ones who say, 'I want my children to be happy. All that matters is that my kids are happy. But if they don't get in the right school they won't be happy and I won't be happy.'" "Ideally, what would be your satisfactions...
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by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
shared with Jeff on the beach were the first conversations in ten years in which he had opened up about these deeper issues. When they talked these days, they would generally have maintenance conversations, focusing on who would pick up the clothes at the laundry or...
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by Kim Girard
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
to drive to the grocery store to pick up the kids and go on errands, rather than pushing it to its limits on the open road. They were not interested in the racing heritage of Porsche. The commentators would say things like, '[Cayenne...
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- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
the daily gathering of parents and kids at the same table every night for dinner can make that time feel less like eating an ordinary meal and more like sharing a meaningful family ritual. Types of rituals: from date nights to chores In...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
Source: iStock If you’re stressed out because it feels like there are never enough hours in the day, here’s a solution: hire a housecleaner, order takeout, and pay the kid next door to mow the lawn. In other words, buy yourself more free...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?
China and India as competition but as profit centers to improve our short term return on investment. We need to reexamine that paradigm. . . . Sometimes the kids in the global community don't play fair. We don't have to take our ball...
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by James Heskett
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta in New York City, was merely a supporting act in a reunion tour of the erstwhile-boy band, New Kids on the Block. "When you tell that to people now they look at you like you must have your dates...
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- 04 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?
instructor returned to the room. Only 30 percent of the kids could hold out. But instead of measuring wait time, the team measured the ability of children to complete actual work tasks—folding paper per instructions—at an Italian summer...
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by Michael Blanding
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
marketing thing for your target audience, but nobody’s going to drive their kids around in a car with suicide doors.” Team Pan Am sought to revive the brand of the beloved but defunct airline with Worldport, a line of hotels named after a...
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- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
how powerful it was," he said. "People shared our CSR report with their friends, their parents, their kids as a way of saying, 'Look at how we're helping to build a better world.' " And ultimately, Conant found that as CEO,...
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- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
necessary to prepare that individual to succeed and work their way up in the organization over time. “By bringing, in effect, demand at scale, I think we’re also going to be able to create a situation where we get supply at scale by credentialing these View Details
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
police, telling these kids what to do.” That observation led to another insight: Tutors, charged with pushing behavioral standards associated with a college-bound, middle-class, professional culture, were questioning their role in the...
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by Julia Hanna
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
Move over, venture cap. There's a new kid on the block. It's the business incubator, and it has the potential to remake the way businesses are launched in the Internet economy. Incubators are not really new, of course. "They've been...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect...
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