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- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
worked on by encouraging employees to develop a personal regime: Exercise at home, meditate, and make sure you reach out and talk to people, even if that socialization takes place virtually, just to View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
titanium fabricator that recently has been plagued by poor deliveries and a lack of capacity. At the time of the case, Ti-Tech must decide which of four orders to accept, with capacity making it impossible to accept all four. Each order... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
chlorine tablets to purify their drinking water? Behavioral economics has shown us that we don't always act in our own best interests. This is as true of health decisions as it is of economic ones. An array of biases, limits on cognition, and motivations lead people... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
demonstrated that Unilever could make a hostile acquisition, while the acquisition of Chesebrough-Pond's two years later showed that Unilever could move quickly and decisively if it wished. Effective procedures were put in View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
acquisition is more likely to take place when there is a common venture capital investor linking the acquirer and the target. Finally, we show that long-run post-acquisition abnormal returns are higher for the acquiring firms when the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
high-level positions as less desirable yet equally attainable. In Studies 5–7, when faced with the possibility of receiving a promotion at their current place of employment or obtaining a high-power position after graduating from school,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Balancing Work & Life - Alumni
location It’s not just about having a desirable place to live. Think carefully about how location impacts your commute, your family obligations (school pick-ups and drop-offs), and access to resources that can View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
make America great again. Those drawn to this view, by extension, place a higher level of scrutiny on those who do not fit their image of success. Thus, Secretary Clinton’s handling of her emails was... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
To realize the hopes of those early International Women’s Day activists—to make power more accessible and recognize the capabilities of marginalized voices—we need to tackle the systems that keep these barriers locked in View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
The overseas payments scandal was another contributor to the malaise. More than 400 major U.S. companies had admitted to making illegal campaign contributions and bribing public officials to win business overseas. Given the field's... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bundle?
separately. "Bundling is pervasive in several markets, and it works in many cases," says Vineet Kumar, an assistant professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School. People appreciate bundles even at places like McDonald's,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
presented us with the problem of figuring out whether there was anything we could do to reduce turnover," Gino says. "We thought it was the perfect environment to test whether we could make a difference just by changing something minor in... View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
brought us closer than ever before. “Te quiero también, apá.” Michael Brunman (he/him/his), Class of 2023 The summer after graduating high school, I was 18 and curious about my sexuality, I decided to give myself seven days of freedom. I searched the internet for a... View Details
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
psychotherapist, and career development counselor for over 25 years, is also a researcher on career decision making generally and the relationship between personality structure and work satisfaction in particular. He met recently with HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
order from kiosks. We had delivery set up so they could experience what delivery was all about. We had our mobile app and our mobile order and pay. Our new value programs are hot off the grill beef. So they could really experience it all and it View Details
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
Industries, which focuses entirely on the media and entertainment sector, and which includes sessions on basketball star LeBron James, online video aggregator Hulu, the NFL, and the Metropolitan Opera, among other cases. The first part of the new case, dubbed Lady... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
vehicles in the long term.” What are your short- and long-term goals for this work? “In the short term, I am working on integrating our latest acquisitions into the PCL group, introducing new products into our existing setup, establishing new systems in our operations... View Details
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Climate Impact - Business & Environment
Co-Founder, Julius Education “Julius is solving the talent needs of the climate transition by providing inclusive, data-led solutions to start and grow green careers. Our platform demystifies relevant jobs and career pathways, provides industry-aligned skills training,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
Heralding a New Era of Finance, Capitalism, and Democracy, Robert Bruner (MBA 1974/DBA 1982) and Sean Carr make the case that looking into financial crises of the past can help clarify current conditions—and inform one’s outlook on the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
personal and professional lives amid constant change. Despite the distance, we did our best to grow our careers and our relationship while aligning our paths to finally meet in the same place. That place turned out to be HBS. We’ve... View Details