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01 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

any job to succeed, the supply of resources available to the worker must be in balance with the responsibilities of the job, says Simons. It’s a simple supply-and-demand lesson that should ring true for anyone who has taken an economics... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

she was far happier and that the company was operating much more effectively. She admitted that she was a bit amazed that the "fixes" were so easy. Passion For What You Do: Achieving Sustained High Performance Perhaps this story seems simple, and its View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Feb 2021
What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

into the economy to maintain low interest rates, supporting business growth and lower borrowing costs—help? Should we be surprised that economic growth, at least in terms of how we measure it, increased without attendant inflation? Did we learn some economic View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

the market to adapt to your company; it’s your responsibility to adapt to the market. Senz: What lessons should sales managers learn from changes in buying behavior during the pandemic? Cespedes: First, beware of the many predictions you... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

17 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

Stagflation? A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image:... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Sep 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Branding Yoga

Owner/President Management Program, with plenty of lessons about branding and competitive strategy. Two Paths In Branding Yoga, cowritten with HBS Global Research Group associate director Kerry Herman and research associate Annelena Lobb,... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

21 Nov 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values

Brian Kenny, Cold Call features Harvard Business School faculty discussing business cases they’ve written and the broad lessons they impart.) (Edited for length and clarity) Brian Kenny: Set this case up for us. What is this case about?... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Fashion

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

for company stock, they will nonetheless receive more value than they would have had the business been shut down. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School)... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

Research Summary

Competing on a Common Platform

Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details

08 Feb 2021
Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

one small way he could do his part, according to his new book Better, Not Perfect: A Realist’s Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness. In the book, Bazerman shares lessons from his own experiences and provides practical advice to help... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

from their experiences, managers need to reflect on and consolidate the lessons of those experiences. To change and grow, they must be prepared to engage periodically in introspection—to collect feedback on and analyze their behavior,... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

12 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?

not difficult for pharma firms. Companies tended to “either have projects on the shelf or projects that they are excited to go do when they get a little more buffer or get a little more cash,” Krieger says. Ask yourself a question What’s the View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health; Pharmaceutical

13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

out of its downward spiral and rekindled its self-confidence. The large impact of small change in leadership Any business leader looking to emulate such a turnaround with an existing team can learn five essential lessons about the impact... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

but not nearly as dramatic as a computer produced in 2000, which runs 10 million times faster than a 1960s' computer. Carr's graph on information technology stands as a subject lesson for Darrell Huff's well-known book How to Lie with... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

04 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

The Real Cost of Bribery

out about it. People know each other and talk within an organization, Serafeim observes. "Information is hard to contain within a group of people, even if it's never officially reported," he says. "The lesson for managers... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

college degree. Incentives and measurement will also play an important role in understanding the success of training efforts. If college-focused programs aspire to support employment outcomes, labor market outcomes must become a key metric of success. These View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

openness, patience, and a tolerance for ambiguity. Thus formal processes or forums for discussing, analyzing, and applying the lessons of failure elsewhere in the organization are needed to ensure that effective analysis and learning from... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

multiplies. Kost: What lessons do you hope executives will take from your book? Teixeira: That the game has changed. In the past, there were a few big companies competing with each other. Coke versus Pepsi. Airbus versus Boeing. GE and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

19 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

I think one of the lessons is recognizing the need and then coming up with a strategy to serve a relatively underserved market. Especially in the case of Dollar General, they’ve been fabulously successful serving these markets that... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

Founders would be wise to take a lesson from Apple, which tests products in small batches to figure out what might go wrong, then tweaks the design accordingly. “Before a high-stakes product launch, Apple will do small manufacturing test... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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