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- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
core activities in any business. Without a good customer acquisition process, you can’t grow.” A professor at Harvard Business School for 11 years, Cespedes left for an equal time to run a firm, where he learned firsthand the importance... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
the list until you run out of either time or money." But Tucker and Singer's findings diverge from previous research and theory. About half the hospitals that participated in their study chose to do some kind of prioritization—the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
companies position themselves for a better future? A: Opportunities are at an all-time high, but the question is how companies will pursue those opportunities. Cutting back and hunkering down may get you through the short-term crisis but... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806153 L. Londell McMillan 805-084 On the plane back to New York City, L. Londell McMillan focused on the music on his headphones, the latest offering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
MacIver, and Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World, with Colin B. Carter. (Read an excerpt from The Future of Boards.) Julia Hanna: You've been studying board dynamics since the 1980s. What is a trend... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
Commencement 2018 Address | About
leadership virtues—some are probably already running through your mind: Endurance. Enthusiasm. Excellence. Eloquence. Equanimity. Ethics. These are all important qualities; yet I am going to focus my remarks on Enterprise, Energy, and... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
of dollars to one of the employees. There were also suggestions of a coverup: Easterbrook had allegedly deleted material from his phone. The board made the complicated decision to try to claw back Easterbrook’s severance, resulting in a... View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
successful, the economic engine runs backwards, and we become poorer, less educated, suffer from worse pollution, get sicker, and are miserable. We get Detroit. The demise of Detroit was easy to see and hard to address. Consider the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
wrongdoers were just a disparate collection of lone bad actors on the corporate stage. End of story. Alternatively, the scandals reflected something systemic and pervasive in American business culture, with the trail winding its way back... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
took a job at Stride Rite. By the time eBay came along, I was at Hasbro in Rhode Island. Fortunately, my husband was game to move back to California. What was your first reaction when a recruiter asked you to consider interviewing at... View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
fascinating. In fact, there is an automatic process that continues to work on your question in the back of your mind. We call that process "unconscious thought." Unconscious thought can do more than just help you remember facts.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
particular, which means that profits are going to be higher. As a result, stockholders will get a bigger share of the pie. That raises stock prices all over the place. A related effect is the issue of repatriating profits from abroad – with companies bringing View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
would not participate in the $5 million bridge financing for Fast Ion Battery. Lerner's call could not have come at a worse time. Fast Ion was running out of cash and needed another round of financing urgently to continue developing its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
rewarded with a new line of business that created revenues in excess of $200 million over the next several years. HP backed out of its efforts after two years with multimillion-dollar losses and a considerable amount of bad press. How did... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
ventures—brings together many of them to discuss critical issues they’re facing, and faculty are a part of those conversations. Our alumni who have founded and scaled successful companies have been very willing to come back and be a part... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
talented workers to a far greater extent than did other industries. So getting back to the title of the paper: Are bankers worth their pay? "The title of the paper is deliberately provocative," says Vallée. "And the findings are... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
Moyo,International Finance Corporation Yet over the course of the hour-and-a-half long panel session, the conversation kept circling back to the question of true ownership: Who creates these institutions, and for whom? How can African... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
Many people assume that nostalgia is purely entertainment, a feeling individuals enjoy because it takes them back to the more carefree days of their youth. Some view it as maladaptive fixation on the past, perhaps indicating a fear of... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
groups such as the Global Business Coalition for Education have been pushing governments to meet the UN's Millennium Development Goals around education." —Ashish Dhawan TAKING BUSINESS BACK TO SCHOOL "I do not see charter schools becoming... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
well-functioning business model"), through capability (what it takes to execute a plan and gain access to needed resources, owned or not, over time), to scalability ("These students are not small-time operators, aiming to run... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg