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- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
The case describes an organization's use of the science of improvement to transform their process quality from below average to the top 10% in their industry. The case outlines the protagonist's strategy of developing internal experts who... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
are good reasons to expect that partisanship will continue to cloud economic judgment around the 2024 election.” It’s not just credit analysts. Similar patterns have been documented among professional asset managers, loan officers, and View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
finished a master’s degree in sociology at Oxford University. “I didn’t even know what a ticker was,” recalls Landles-Dowling, who double-majored in math and music at Wellesley College. “But it turned out that analyzing companies was something I was relatively good... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
disillusioned because while the names and faces changed, the partisan-driven gridlock in Washington and politicians’ focus on primary voters, special interests, and donors did not. “I was always looking for ‘who’s the right candidate?’”... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
this regard at one time or another. How do the great service organizations avoid this? Sasser: It starts with creating great—not always comfortable—places to work for people who are customer oriented, then populating them with the right... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
worked. Right after graduating in 2000, Rovell landed a job at ESPN.com as its first business-of-sports anchor. He's now regularly featured on the network and writes prolifically for its online magazine. On the surface, Rovell's story... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
Island native Jim McNerney (MBA ’75). Later, his résumé would include stints at blue-chip companies like Procter & Gamble, McKinsey & Co., and General Electric, where he led various divisions of the multinational giant (including GE Aircraft Engines) before leaving in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
trades or as free agents. The NFL instituted unrestricted free agency on March 1, 1993. Prior to this, under “Plan B,” a team could protect 37 of its players with the right of first refusal. The plan also restricted player compensation.... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
happiness at 75? What are the investments I need to make so that I can be happier right now, and so I have a better shot at being happier later? So the book that I wrote, sure enough, is for career changers and mid-lifers and people who... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
outward shift in the supply of credit. First, a comparison between counties in the top and bottom deciles of presence of national banks in states with anti-predatory laws suggests that the preemption regulation resulted in an 11% increase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
staff, and graduate students affiliated with Harvard Medical School are already world class and at the top of the medical research game, with approximately $1.4 billion in annual funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
ClimateCAP is an initiative manage by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business whose mission is to prepare business leaders to understand and respond to the climate challenge. They provide learning resources for MBA students interested in the intersection of business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
lucky to have the 15 to field a team. It was a real United Nations, right from the beginning. There were Scots, English, French, Canadians, Australians, and the Americans, who made up less than half. The extraordinary enthusiasm of the... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
With cross-sector collaborations on the rise, a new book exploring partnerships between business and social organizations in the Americas comes at just the right time. Social Partnering in Latin America: Lessons Drawn from Collaborations... View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
2017 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job By: Bussgang, Jeffrey J. Abstract—Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Blog
Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
we have the right balance between process and progress. Doing this has helped our team gel and get to know our individual strengths and weaknesses and what issues are important to each of us. We're excited to share our mission, vision,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
of the more expensive skin care brands. Moreover, although leading brands might be global, their appeal is not. In fragrances, every market’s list of its top 20 brands is unique. The top-selling fragrance in Germany, for instance, does... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
Fredberg, Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, and Flemming Norrgren Abstract We tend to assume that great leaders must make difficult choices between two or more conflicting outcomes. In an interview study with 26 CEOs of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
and facing congressional charges of monopolistic practices and calls for their break up. And beyond that, says Alex, Silicon Valley is starting to lose its global monopoly on innovation. Lazarow: In 2013, you would have been right to say,... View Details