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  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

A Place in the Sun

and enjoying it on your own." So he decided to rent out some of the cottages. The first guests ate at a common table, as they do today. "You make... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

JULY 12 The HBS Club of India recently launched an “Alumni in Action” campaign, which highlights stories of members who have led pandemic relief efforts. View Details
  • 21 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

but one of teammates supporting each other through unprecedented times. The McKinsey guide recommends that leaders strive to “rebuild a common social identity and a sense View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden
  • 29 May 2017
  • Blog Post

The Diverse Community at HBS

classmates with backgrounds in less common fields like teaching, retail, technology, defense, music, family businesses, and even space. View Video I really appreciated the importance View Details
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

A host of organizations — among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines — have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated,... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 14 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing

It is part of the same family of impairments as classic autism and Asperger syndrome. While psychological and medical experts do not agree on its precise contours, nor on how... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services; Computer
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

TUMULTY: “Rather than challenge voters, politicians look for the lowest common denominator.” In the following article, the first in a series... View Details
Keywords: Government
  • 19 Oct 2018
  • Blog Post

Moving to the U.S. With a Family

Moving across continents is hard. Moving across continents with your spouse and 8-week-old daughter is even harder! In August 2017, we prepared to move from London to Boston to begin our 2-year journey in the MBA program as I joined View Details
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

Leadership in the Digital Age

successful otherwise.” Hill heard the same sentiment from many of the approximately 175 people she and her team talked with around the world over... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 23 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?

a common misconception that people who buy niche products will have greater loyalty to them," Elberse says. "But I bet that the average viewer who likes to purchase classic black-and-white movies... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation
  • March 2005 (Revised May 2009)
  • Case

Columbia's Final Mission

By: Michael Roberto, Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Laura Feldman and Erika Ferlins
On February 1, 2003, the Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, and the seven astronauts onboard lost their lives. Explores Columbia's final mission from the perspective of six key managers and engineers associated with NASA's Space... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Organizational Culture; Aerospace Industry
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  • 03 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

also preferred to recruit people with an engineering or technical background, while traditionally British managers were chosen on the basis of "character." The firms... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 04 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

Finding My Passion in the Startup Space

This post was originally published on the Alumni Careers Blog. When I was 17, I moved to the US to study. Back home in Greece, the country was succumbing to a financial crisis.... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

individual and team success would have to be thrown out, O'Reilly and Tushman write. If unit executives were to be tracked on the success of their respective businesses, they would lack motivation to share... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 24 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

Millions of Americans, from hourly retail staffers to corporate vice presidents, wrestle with the demands of work while parenting young children, caring for a sick spouse or... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • January 1996
  • Background Note

Creativity and Innovation in Organizations

By: Teresa M. Amabile
Creativity, the production of new and useful ideas by individuals or teams, can appear in many forms and many functions within firms of all kinds--from entrepreneurial start-ups to well-established enterprises. This note describes the varieties of creativity in... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Design; Situation or Environment; Creativity
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  • 21 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

grand vision for the unified metaverse, the developers of the proto-metaverses will need to agree on a common set... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology
  • 16 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

Finding my Passion in the Startup Space

When I was 17, I moved to the US to study. Back home in Greece, the country was succumbing to a financial crisis. I questioned whether I would ever be able to move back to my country. Many years later, I... View Details
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • Blog Post

Recruiting in the U.S. for International Students: 101

Starting business school meant a lot of “first time” experiences to me: First time living abroad (not to mention moving out of my parents’ house), first time going to school in English, and, View Details
Keywords: All Industries