New Beginning - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

designed from the beginning to sit in the enormous space between cheap manual toothbrushes and ultra-high-end electrics produced by companies such as Gillette and Johnson & Johnson. Osher wanted his offering to sell for about six... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

majority, arrived in Texas classrooms last fall, a new round of fiery rhetoric erupted. And while the Texas curriculum fight may have been the loudest, similar battles have played out in California, Colorado, and Oklahoma, as each state... View Details

Keywords: April White

Portrait Project

Shivangi Goel

I donned a yellow hazmat suit, gloves, boots, face shield and N95 and walked into a locked-in COVID-19 facility that was created in the Boston Convention Center. I was terrified. There was so much uncertainty, with chaos, confusion and sadness in the air at the View Details

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

What’s a company’s purpose? Too often it has been hijacked by one extreme or the other claiming it’s either the unbridled pursuit of profit on behalf of shareholders or it’s anything but profit. I also take issue with the idea that purpose is enshrined in a company’s... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

Web

Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Introduction to Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business (CLIMB) Our Most Comprehensive Offering 5 pre-set courses + 2 electives + a capstone project. Choose from the New Leader or Experienced Leader learning paths.... View Details

09 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

data, including repeat customers, could then train and calibrate the model to offer firm-specific predictions about new customers based on their initial purchases, she says. In the future, Ascarza expects that more and more companies will... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service

26 Jan 2022
News

Making Peace with Anger

devoured it. There was a quiz at the very beginning of the book meant to help the reader identify what kind of anger they had. What would you do if another driver cuts you off, it asked. Do you flip them the bird? Do you roll down the... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

Spend a day or two in Chattanooga, Tennessee, asking longtime residents about the city’s history, and it’s sure to come up: that less-than-wonderful moment in 1969 when America’s beloved news anchor, Walter Cronkite, proclaimed it to be... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

05 Feb 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

). It also made poaching easy." Arun expressed fears that, "people will begin to judge one another by their compensation instead of the value they bring to the company." Chakraborty went on to suggest that "every... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

25 Apr 2024
News

Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

her challenge and fulfillment while opening doors to new opportunities. Seeking out a challenge Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Nneka developed a passion early in life for contributing to her home country. She noticed that many of the families... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

society, but that alterations to the regulation and taxation of ESOPs had made them less beneficial. When he became head of industrials for the global investment firm KKR in 2010, Stavros began experimenting with new approaches to... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

17 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

retirement, Amabile and colleagues found that, for many, the transition begins smoothly enough but then develops into retirees questioning their own identity and puzzling over how to structure their days as their familiar work life fades... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation

20 Oct 2015
Blog Post

What to Expect Your First Year at HBS

dining hall) and then reply to e-mails or prepare any remaining discussion group questions. There are two to three 80 minute classes per day, finishing at 3pm. I underestimated how attentive you need to be in class. You can be cold-called at the View Details

Profile

Tommaso Ruggeri

Coming to HBS is like Hopping on a new plane to a surprise destination every single day. On your first day, you come to class and sit next to people you have only just met. But, before you know it, you're sharing stories and creating... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

tough times for New York banking beginning more than a decade ago - with all the layoffs and mergers - this kind of mentoring stopped happening. I was very fortunate to have had it. How would you describe... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

the new book Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business. Battilana co-wrote the book with Tiziana Casciaro, a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. “Cultivating humility and... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

21 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 21

well-established organizations to act in new ways is never easy. This book is designed to support business leaders and organizational scholars who are grappling with this challenge by pulling together leading-edge insights from some of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 May 2016
First Look

May 17, 2016

2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: John A. Quelch. Abstract—The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under... View Details