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- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
Despite widespread investment in entrepreneurship in cities across America, venture capital-funded startups still tend to be founded by white men in Silicon Valley. In contrast, businesses led by women are... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 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... View Details
- 04 Oct 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go
Wasserman. "After interviewing seven or eight founders, I was struck by the fact that a far more critical moment in a founder's life is when that person is told he can no longer lead the company he started." With the help of... View Details
- 31 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do
says Amabile. “We wanted to investigate idle time, in part, to raise everyone’s awareness of how widespread and pernicious it can be.” “With idle time, the organization is often hurt by it, and it’s not enjoyable for employees either”... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
redeploying anesthesiologists to duties that are more appropriate and reducing their unnecessary duties by 30%. Furthermore, the change in epidural placement location alone in 80% of cases reduced costs by... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
provide instant relief to people hurt by health care inequality, says Chandra, who serves on the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisors. “Too often in the racial disparities literature, we correctly identify root causes,... View Details
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
study by Michael Luca, Harvard Business School’s Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration, in collaboration with Susan Athey, the economics of technology professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business;... View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Op-Ed
The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone
headhunters will have tempted away your best executives. 7 steps to a successful start Here are seven recommendations newly appointed leaders should consider following—and it would be best to get all of this work done by the end of their... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 05 Jul 2023
- HBS Case
What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment
insights gleaned from teaching his MBA course, Leadership: Execution and Action Planning (LEAP), and from classroom observations of mid-career managers in executive education. Over the past decade, Raffaelli has asked hundreds of students and managers to View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
In 2009, a 51-year-old man killed himself in Marseille, a city in southern France, leaving behind a suicide note that blamed his employer for “overwork” and “management by terror.” “I am committing suicide because of my work at France... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 May 2021
- Book
Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer
published May 4, aims to reverse some of the damage done by other cutthroat leaders who have taken a slash-and-burn approach to business. “So much of what I learned when I was at business school, or in my... View Details
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
own fallibility and limitations and that an opportunity to learn existed. From an interpersonal standpoint, it conveyed that he had the courage to show vulnerability, that he had gone through some internal process in which he had begun to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
lessons of the course was around change. From her service experience, Frei learned that making small changes are often more trouble than their worth-but in order to make big, meaningful changes, you often have to change at a pace faster... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
your next product, you need to do more than just linearly add time to your original timeline,” Peterson advises. “It's going to vary project by project, and it's hard to say if that's 2x, or 3x, or 4x. But that is the right ballpark you... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact
startups might as well be located on different floors entirely, Roche says. And, the benefit, as measured by how much neighbors adopt each others’ web technology, is strongest when the neighboring startups focus on very different markets... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
of creative productivity. "We found that of all the events that characterized the best inner work life days, by far the most prominent was making progress," Amabile says. "And of all the events that characterized the worst... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge
apply for jobs even when they don’t fit most of the criteria in a job ad, whereas women are quicker to dismiss themselves and shy away from applying at all. “We can all become too focused on the things we think we can’t do or the things... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman