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- 21 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
People Trust Business, But Expect CEOs to Drive Social Change
Public trust in business remains relatively unshaken amid economic turbulence and a lingering pandemic, even as faith in the media and government falters, but leaders could do more to address social issues, a new global opinion survey shows. However, not everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006
The United States and Germany remain atop the latest Business Competitiveness Index, with China continuing to slip in the rankings while India ascends, according to a report released from Harvard Business School's Institute for Strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
Commission. A year later, in July 2021, Slack was acquired by Salesforce, the world’s largest customer-relations management software company. Butterfield and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff shared the same goal:... View Details
- 26 Apr 2024
- HBS Case
Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory
subordinates feels micromanaged, which is bizarre.” It’s a leadership approach focused on self-discipline and personal accountability, one that might be considered refreshing in a business world often bogged down by View Details
- Blog
How We Are Keeping HBS—and Our Program Participants—Healthy
safety precautions. At the heart of these efforts is a policy requiring masks indoors. We also have provided guidelines for social distancing, created procedures for holding on-campus meetings or events, and implemented regulations for work-related travel. But our work... View Details
- 14 Dec 2007
- Op-Ed
When Your Product Becomes a Commodity
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. How often... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 09 Apr 2024
- Book
Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning
employees, however, Norton suggests managers take the lead from team members and have them create their own ritual. “I wouldn’t announce via PowerPoint that we are going to do six claps followed by three... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right
Harvard Business School professor John Quelch is debuting a blog on marketing issues at Harvard Business Online. HBS Working Knowledge is reprinting his first entry, which looks at the Mattel toy... View Details
- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
American corporations have never been more partisan—starting at the top with executives who often bring on like-minded managers belonging to the same political party. Now, new research shows that when boardrooms are dominated View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 08 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder
were recently published in How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons, co-written by Zoë B. Cullen, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia, an... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
field studies, researchers tend to think that workers submit resumes to open positions. In fact, scholars have learned a lot about discrimination in labor markets by sending resumes to job postings to see who gets called back and who... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date
conversation partners,” says Alison Wood Brooks, assistant professor and Hellman Faculty Fellow at Harvard Business School. “This strategy does both. It’s an easy-to-deploy strategy anyone can use to not only be perceived as more... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women, published in the journal Management Science. The study was co-authored by Coffman and Nancy R. Baldiga, an economics and accounting professor at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
incumbent advantage. But did it really? As Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth and Texas A&M professor Brit Grosskopf demonstrate in recent research, the devil is in the details. And the devil gave Paramount, not NBC, the... View Details
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. "Successful companies may be able to reposition a 'dying' technology by redefining its identity and value for the customer." Raffaelli details his research... View Details
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
Is there a Stanford-Silicon Valley "School of Management," one characterized by practices at firms like Google? What do you think? To Read More: Gary Hamel, The Future of Management (Boston: View Details
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
significantly improve the performance and satisfaction of workers and boost the chances of hiring them permanently, according to the results of the study by Harvard Business School professors Iavor I.... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 16 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem
other strategies to achieve a better solution in the end.” You Might Also Like: When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the... View Details
- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
light in 2017 are substantially more likely than those without such prior ties to bring on female writers following the #MeToo movement, according to a forthcoming article in Management Science titled Scandal, Social Movement, and Change:... View Details