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- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
Management Practice in the General Management Unit at HBS. Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss: Managers, it’s story time The tech sector continues to shed workers after hiring prodigiously during the demand peaks of pandemic living, a shift... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
credible prospect of an attractive return on the assets required to create and expand the model. . . . Implications The biases introduced by an established business model can cut two ways. First, as noted earlier, they can mask the... View Details
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
Management; and Fiona E. Murray, associate dean of innovation at Sloan and Kearney's thesis adviser. “Our paper provides concrete proof that gender discrimination exists in the context of entrepreneurial... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
A Conversation on the FIELD Method at HBS - Facebook Live
differed from their other courses and the role they played in their EC year. Learn what makes this method unique and the rewarding experiences that result. *FIELD Foundations... View Details
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
What's good for General Motors may no longer be good for the country. In its place must arise a new model of the company, one that serves society as well as rewarding shareholders and employees, Kanter... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
challenges and rewards of doing business globally have been a particularly fertile area of research for HBS faculty. In just the last month we've seen books from Rawi Abdelal on international finance View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
including hiring, training, and firing personnel. All reward teams at all levels for performance. All provide generally unmonitored time for employees to develop product and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Profile
Leo Markel
rewarding to form my own perspective and then constantly modify it (sometimes drastically) based on the points made by my classmates. This type of rapid learning is virtually impossible to replicate outside... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
perform multiple tasks within a store, and the way in which they are evaluated and rewarded for these tasks affects their behavior. Using empirical data from multiple stores of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
that dense network structures lead to fewer norm violations. Coleman (1990) proposed one mechanism generating this relationship and argued that dense networks provide an opportunity structure to reward those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Latinx Women in the Spotlight: Marimar Pérez-Riera (MBA 1994)
and even other neighbor titleholders who mistakenly use their board posts. The feeling of reward from doing what is right is unmeasurable. HBS gave me that license to do what I feel is right (including... View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
business, similarly demands new kinds of management leadership, organizational forms, and institutional arrangements. Once again, HBS is in a position to prepare its students for the challenges and View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
The following is an excerpt that was adapted and lightly edited from chapter nine of Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can't Win, written by Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
intellectual property? Does it discourage innovation by limiting the rewards to such efforts? Should it be discouraged by either new laws or the more diligent application of existing ones? Or does it provide a spur to the development of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
environmental value of their efforts can see a big payoff. Consumers have demonstrated willingness to reward such companies by paying 5 to 8 percent more for their products. "For the kind of CSR that Interface practices, it's important... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
communities. The motivation of the external innovators. Those motivated by extrinsic rewards like money and career may choose markets. Those motivated by intrinsic motivations like intellectual challenge... View Details
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
cultures. The extended-wear team remained in Atlanta, though in a facility separate from the conventional-lens business, while the daily-disposables team was located in Germany. Each team hired its own staff, decided on its own reward... View Details
- 11 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Kel Jackson, MBA 2019: "[My Job] Matters. I Didn't Want a Role that Would Box Me In."
his eye on what matters. He says he hasn’t ruled out a future run for office, yet he’s not trying to force history—if he can make a difference in that way, he certainly will. “I’m not measuring success by my title,” he says. “What I hope broadly is that I’ve developed... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
and improved services in the same area. Written with the assistance of Namrata Arora, a research associate at the HBS India Research Center, the case considers the potential risks and View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details