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- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
Although adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for the enterprise is still in the early days, the technology has matured enough for entrepreneurs to start gathering inspiration and evaluating opportunities for... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 11 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Perfecting the Project Pitch
Steenburgh's course, students give their pitches in front of peers who evaluate the performances on a number of factors, including the quality of the idea itself, how likely it is to succeed, and how... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
recruitment, hiring, and promotion processes and by conducting pay audits to evaluate salaries by gender. Yet Cullen’s research suggests that companies may need to consider more subtle underlying forces that are holding women back,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
tougher time getting work done than others. Whenever possible, managers should trust workers to make decisions about what they can and cannot accomplish, Neeley says. And based on input from employees, managers may want to evaluate each... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
Performance assessment. Educate managers about gender biases that can influence evaluation decisions. Assess the criteria managers use to rate performance, and eliminate ambiguous, vague, and malleable... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
payment, how it was detected, and the way the firm responded to the bribe after it was uncovered. To test the hypothesis, Serafeim evaluated data from the forensic services practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which provides global... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
do-it-yourself clothes washing). Customers evaluate the startup in comparison to what they already have. If you want to thoroughly understand a new business idea, you must take the current reality as your foundation. The second layer is... View Details
- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
months. During the test period, Bean encourages extensive feedback at all times, and formally solicits feedback at three points: when the product is first received, at the midpoint, and at the end of the test. The midpoint evaluations are... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
year gains. We evaluate the performance of all policies under consideration using the same statistical and simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
happen. Highlights The Challenges of Change Implementation Making Change Happen Show Hide Details Concepts The Challenges of Change Implementation Understanding the Conditions that Enable Change Performing a Stakeholder Analysis Building... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
from a half-orb chair strung from the ceiling. Shahani runs the Godrej India Culture Lab, a three-year-old arts center. Its website states that the lab is "hard to categorize." Its events, free and open to the public, mix the academic and avant-garde. "We can put a... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
industry to measure to what extent waiting-time performance impacts different firms' market shares and price decisions. We report on a large-scale empirical industrial organization study in which the demand equations for fast-food... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
contains men with a wide variety of attitudes and capabilities. Some lost their jobs for what they did; others lost their jobs for what they didn’t do. What’s to be done with senior executives such as these? It’s the duty of boards reviewing their CVs to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Person Page
Course Development
By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
- February 2015
- Case
Sarah Sullivan at Greater Marketing Solutions (GMS)
By: Thomas J. DeLong, Paul McKinnon and Rebecca McCue
Sarah Sullivan, the new Managing Director of Greater Marketing Solutions, faces the difficult challenge of letting seven professionals go within a short span of time. In doing so she faces two greater challenges: figuring out which individuals to let go and getting her... View Details
DeLong, Thomas J., Paul McKinnon, and Rebecca McCue. "Sarah Sullivan at Greater Marketing Solutions (GMS)." Harvard Business School Case 415-051, February 2015.
- October 2002 (Revised February 2003)
- Case
Joe Smith's Closing Analysis (A)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Rakesh Khurana
Highlights giving and receiving feedback in an MBA classroom setting. View Details
Applegate, Lynda M., and Rakesh Khurana. "Joe Smith's Closing Analysis (A)." Harvard Business School Case 803-046, October 2002. (Revised February 2003.)
- May 1997
- Article
Should Directors Grade Themselves?
By: J. W. Lorsch
Lorsch, J. W. "Should Directors Grade Themselves?" Across the Board 34, no. 5 (May 1997).
- November 1989 (Revised January 1990)
- Case
Paul Revere Insurance Co. (C): Competing For the Baldrige Award--The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Exercise
The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award requires firms to submit applications that conform to a rigorous quality-assessment system. This case consists of several parts of a service company's 1988 Baldrige application together with material from the Malcolm Baldrige... View Details
Hart, Christopher. "Paul Revere Insurance Co. (C): Competing For the Baldrige Award--The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Exercise." Harvard Business School Case 690-002, November 1989. (Revised January 1990.)
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
that believe their sustainability efforts are not being fully rewarded by the market. In particular, the research shows companies with overall good performance in their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) programs can increase... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne