Meanings Of Work And Retirement - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

one had to live with that decision for some time. Today, the movement is toward settings that aren't "matchy-match"; Steuben's new lines of glassware work together View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

10 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

savvy and political skill" (Mal Rudner). Efforts may be underway to understand more about issues related to street smarts. Lilly Evans, for example, cited the work in "practical intelligence"... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jan 2017
HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

think of the role of advertising as providing primes that are psychological in nature as a means of persuasion, you can take something that... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

Although adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for the enterprise is still in the early days, the technology has matured enough for entrepreneurs to start gathering inspiration... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

05 Sep 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

first prototype and then let that language dictate future work as their product gets market fit and scales. This rarely works out, unless that... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology

07 Jun 2021
Book

9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'

Professor of Business Administration Emeritus. “It is hard work and absolutely vital if the organization is to succeed.” In this excerpt from Effective Fundraising, McFarlan... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

LinkedIn, Google and increasingly networked communities means that every leader has the informal equivalent of a “Yelp” score that will come to light. If people see their... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

to reshape their companies, and explored how they can put data to work for them in ways that create value for their own businesses. The data advantage in sports Big data is already being used heavily in the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

again, 99 percent of the time there was something wrong with it.” 3. Create informal and formal shared context—called ba in Japan—constantly in order to construct new meaning through human interactions.... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

04 Aug 2011
What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

whether common sense based on accumulated experience can be of any help to decision-makers forced to predict the future in complex situations. Watts questions much of the recent View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

a future where millions of people are living and working in space. In order to preserve Earth, our home, for our grandchildren’s grandchildren, we must go to space to tap its... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation

02 Dec 2010
What Do You Think?

Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

success"). The importance of choice varies from one culture to another, particularly between "individualist" (where it is more important) and "collectivist" societies. This View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

daily progress and infuse the work with meaning for their employees. We discovered several—none of them surprising or exotic—but all View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

sufficient condition. Beyond network effects, successful platforms make it hard for their users to multihome. Multihome means users can participate on multiple platforms at the same time. In the old days, it was hard to use both a Windows... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

means arriving with an attitude that is aspirational and focused on possibilities. Leaders and teachers show up to work thinking View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

bankruptcy doesn’t necessarily mean the death of a company, and in fact, it can actually be the very thing that saves a business, assuming the courts can handle the flood that... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

to manufacturers of medical devices, she found that the approval process for them was not nearly so straightforward. "I kept hearing how frustrating and non-transparent the process was for getting a novel... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

24 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 24

and proactivity. Download the paper: http://www.francescagino.com/uploads/4/7/4/7/4747506/grantginohofmann_amj_2011.pdf Working PapersFinancing Risk and Bubbles View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Aug 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

sick to work the day after the Super Bowl, and there are some HR executives that are lobbying to actually have the day after the Super Bowl be a holiday. Kenny: Yes, I'm in favor View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

08 Feb 2021
Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

most of his work as a professor, he spent hours each week reviewing papers for academic journals out of a sense of obligation to the profession.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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