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    Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment

    What’s behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros., Marvel Enterprises, and the NFL—along with such stars as Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, and LeBron James? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge... View Details
    • 07 Mar 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Prominent Job Advertisements, Group Learning, and Wage Dispersion

    Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg
    • 2011
    • Book

    What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential

    By: Robert Steven Kaplan
    Successful leaders know that leadership is less often about having all the answers-and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Development; Organizational Development; Reaching Your Potential; Career Planning; Management Styles; Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Personal Development and Career
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    • 27 Apr 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: April 27

    Joshua Coval, and Christopher Malloy Abstract This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Marketing - Faculty & Research

    we analyze the nationally representative Consumer Expenditure Survey metadata, which details respondent interactions during the survey interviews. We find that respondents in treated states became more willing to share spending... View Details
    • 22 May 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

    at play, where borrowers were thinking they didn’t want to end up in collection again.” They increased their spending. Many people relieved of student debt increased their spending afterward. Borrowers that had been delinquent only on... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 23 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

    merge. Nurses make up 99.5 percent of Buurtzorg’s workforce. “Buurtzorg seems to capture the power that is unleashed when people can make their own decisions.” Each nursing team manages itself. To ensure financial sustainability, Buurtzorg nurse teams must View Details
    Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health
    • 01 May 2024
    • What Do You Think?

    Have You Had Enough?

    fosters the ‘It’s never enough’ mindset. While such current and future growth should be viewed as beneficial, perhaps we all need to spend more time looking inward and considering what is enough and what is really most important.” Sindhu... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 06 Oct 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Using What We Know: Turning Organizational Knowledge into Team Performance

    Keywords: by Bradley R. Staats, Melissa A. Valentine & Amy C. Edmondson; Video Game; Web Services
    • December 2023
    • Article

    Recover, Explore, Practice: The Transformative Potential of Sabbaticals

    By: Kira Schabram, Matt Bloom and DJ DiDonna
    Sabbaticals have seen an exponential growth in adoption over the last two decades and are ascribed extensive benefits by employers and employees alike. Little is known, however, about how individuals spend their time or how their experiences impact them after they... View Details
    Keywords: Sabbatical; Personal Development and Career; Employees
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    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Client Service, Compensation, and the Sell-Side Analyst Objective Function: An Empirical Analysis of Relational Incentives in the Investment-Research Industry

    By: David A. Maber, Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy
    This paper investigates how sell-side analysts build and sustain their client networks; the economic gains to successfully managing this challenge; and the metrics through which these incentives are delivered. In a typical semiannual period, the average analyst... View Details
    Keywords: Networks; Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Customer Focus and Relationships; Jobs and Positions
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    • August 2021
    • Supplement

    Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp

    By: Brian Trelstad
    Video Supplement for HBS Case No. 321-099. In October 2020, after spending almost a decade to turnaround Southern Bancorp, an Arkansan bank founded with the mission to provide financial services to rural, underserved communities, CEO Darrin Williams is wondering how... View Details
    Keywords: Racial Wealth Gap; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Going Public; Investment Return; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Arkansas
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    • September 1999 (Revised April 2000)
    • Case

    Novell: World's Largest Network Software Company

    By: Richard L. Nolan
    After phenomenal growth and market leadership in networking, founder and CEO Ray Noorda made a frontal assault on Microsoft's core strengths. In 1994, Noorda spend over $1.5 billion acquiring companies such as WordPerfect to combat Microsoft Word, products such as... View Details
    Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Competition; Internet and the Web; Strategic Planning; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology Industry
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    • 12 Dec 2023
    • Book

    HBS Faculty Books of 2023: Find Happiness, Fix Things, and Fail Well

    in her book, Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well.Also: Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You So many executives View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 28 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need

    balance. Increase awareness of programs. Regularly remind employees about the services that are available and highlight how participation is valued by the organization. Reduce the stigma around mental health problems. Employees shouldn’t View Details
    Keywords: by Hise Gibson
    • Web

    Class Profile - Doctoral

    Class Profile Class Profile Our doctoral students represent diverse backgrounds, degrees, undergraduate schools, and disciplines. Some students enter our doctoral programs upon graduation from college, while others spend a few years... View Details
    • 14 Feb 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

    he needed to take a break—and not just a one-week vacation. He decided to take time off and explore neglected interests in the outdoors and in spirituality—by spending six weeks walking 900 miles as part of a Buddhist pilgrimage in Japan.... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 06 Nov 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

    Harvard Business School Case 318-093 Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics Black women, per capita, spend more money annually on beauty products than any other ethnic group. Despite the spend of over $7... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 25 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams

    optimal schedules. Managers who matched the gender of workers were 59 percent more likely to list scheduling as the most important part of their responsibilities for store performance. Plus, female managers were 13 percent more likely to View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Food & Beverage
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • Research Event

    Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

    get the point. When two cheerleaders meet and marry, they spend all the money and go broke because they don't see threats. You you see my point that there's good and there's bad. If you have intense negative and low intensity positive,... View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Staff