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04 Oct 2024
In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

a household, men and women differ. Few men expected to “co-manage” their home, our research finds, but women’s views on whether their partner should share in cognitive labor were more diverse. We interviewed mothers and fathers―members of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

made during the dinner; yet within weeks, the first CEO was interviewing for the telecom post, which he had learned about later through a headhunter's phone call. Why did the telecommunications company use a search firm to talk with the... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment

11 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’

change to economists, political scientists, sociologists, and a host of popular writers." A renewal of interest in the "history of capitalism" is finally beginning to correct this peculiar omission. Related Article An View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

ranks of forecasters. By 1925, Fisher wrote, "We now have nearly fourscore forecasting agencies to help the business man." Related Article An Interview With The Author Read The Interview These forecasters... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

13 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

economic turmoil creates both business destruction and opportunity is one of a series of insights emerging for readers of recent HBS interviews with two prominent Turkish business leaders: Hamdi Akın, chairman of Akfen Holding and Rahmi... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

Cisco relies on three layers of customer data to inform its efforts to improve customer satisfaction: The overall satisfaction survey that customers fill out annually; interviews with targeted customer segments, follow-on surveys, and... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

09 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm

and extroverted individuals during the idea-generation phase to generate better ideas. "You want to make sure that the other person is sharing their ideas and not filtering themselves." Find customers willing to share. The same goes with stakeholder View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

Many deliver disappointing performances. Companies can avoid this scenario, contends Joseph Bower in The CEO Within. Drawing on a decade's research (including interviews with leading CEOs) and experience managing the succession process,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

workforce flexibility have followed, including a new case about how Honeywell weathered the Great Recession. The next step of the research will involve interviewing managers who have conducted layoffs—or who have found alternatives to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

05 Jul 2016
First Look

July 5, 2016

organization. The case study was constructed on the basis of interviews with an organization in the administrative structure of European football, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and its major international sports... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

Boris Groysberg and communications professional Michael Slind discuss the power of talk as a way to recapture high levels of employee engagement and strategic alignment. This excerpt identifies four elements critical to creating flourishing organizational... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Four Questions for David Garvin and Michael Roberto

Harvard Business School professors David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto fielded questions about their article in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. Garvin and Roberto discuss the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Why Evolutionary Software Development Works

face-to-face interviews with project managers in the industry to understand the types of practices being used. Next, they developed metrics to characterize the type of process adopted in each project. Finally, the metrics were... View Details

Keywords: by Alan MacCormack; Technology

19 Mar 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy

05 May 2003
What Do You Think?

Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?

positioning brands, directing marketing messages, and improving products and services may be leading away from vast surveys or focus group inquiries of consumers' conscious reactions. Instead, they may increasingly be replaced with View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

suggestions, including: 1) designing "a practicum where MBA students [with a focus] on ethics ... practice ... hiring/interviewing skills ... by interviewing 'short list' candidates that are being strongly considered for admission by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

have to go to women for your budget, you don’t dare disrespect those people in power.” Sexual harassment training and more training Simple policy changes can go a long way toward preventing sexual harassment, Kanter says, like mandating that certain meetings, such as... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Feb 2016
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development

Receiving an unexpected professional status bump doesn't always feel good, especially if it wasn't really earned. Companies need to be aware of potential problems with unearned status gain, and be ready with solutions, says Tsedal Neeley. ‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

25 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

Affect Job Performance, which was published in January. The costs of homesickness To better understand how moving away from home affects work, Choudhury and co-author HBS doctoral student Ochan Kwon first interviewed 30 employees of an... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

January 2008
Article

Nonemployment Stigma as Rational Herding: A Field Experiment

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Long spells of unemployment are known to reduce the likelihood of re-employment, but it is difficult to discern the reasons for this observation. Using an experimental method that controls for search intensity and possible discouragement of job applicants, I document... View Details

Keywords: Job Search; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employment; Cognition and Thinking; Perception; Creativity; Human Needs; Job Interviews; Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Managerial Roles; Judgments; Employment Industry

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