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- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1
ideas into primary categories, and then use those overarching principals to inform our actual designs. This process helped us be creative in a controlled way and led us to great solutions. 5. Remember, your team is everything. For any new company, it really comes down... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
becomes the smartest (and most strategic) thing you can do.” The inclusive managers we heard about in our survey made employees feel heard and respected. They solicited input... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
nor was she scheduled for a formal performance appraisal. Rather, the managers simply wanted to do something nice for Leslie, so they decided to surprise her with a promotion. Her job responsibilities would not change, but the new title would give her greater status... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
challenge on her hands. Perhaps you are attempting to manage your way through a similarly exigent scenario. Trying to accomplish everything that used to be done by two or three people, you may be feeling stressed, maybe more than a bit... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
of stress. People were also asked whether they agreed with statements like “I feel burned out from work.” Based on these answers, the research team assigned participants different resilience scores. The results The first group of workers... View Details
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
Professor Esty emphasized the importance of having a viewpoint backed up by data—I feel better equipped going into the working world having been forced to reckon with my values and how that applies to corporate policy issues. Why did you... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control
officers—some of the military’s most senior leaders—sometimes assume that great officers leave the military for the private sector because they want to make more money. In reality, some of those officers move on because their needs have changed, and perhaps they don’t... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
when other approaches would produce better results for customers, employees, and shareholders and foster better long-term performance of the company. “I’ve been a leader during three recessions, and I’ve never heard a management team talk... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
for. And that’s when the trouble began. Basically I changed the mission of the business from being a focused coffee and donut shop company to becoming a franchise business. Feeling that a 60-time multiple was extraordinarily intoxicating,... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
Habib. “I’d always heard about Magda and how she was an execution machine,” says Enan. Still living in the States at the time, Enan asked Habib out for coffee whenever she came back to Cairo. Habib was consulting after exiting Fawry—a... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
opportunity to explore, and examine, and observe the range of storytelling devices and storytelling features that brands use in this one moment and in this one platform.” Kenny: How has streaming affected the advertising industry? We've View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
academic community, with a feeling of emptiness, and of gratitude for all he did for us. Nancy F. Koehn Nancy F. Koehn, an authority on entrepreneurial history, is the James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Related Collections Site Credits When I compare our meager list of constituents of the past two years with what it used to be, I feel very blue & downhearted. It seems as if we had reached the pinnacle of our glory, & were now toppling... View Details
- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change
Sustainability, was among the first to take the stage. He spoke of the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the consequences for the Earth. “Our present moment,” he said, “is one of both climate optimism and deep foreboding.” Oxford Dictionary defines... View Details
- Portrait Project
Emilka Valentova
investment opportunities, I saw random numbers scattered across Excel. I was a star extinguished. I planned to be no more. Diagnosis: depression. I heard it many times: Don't talk. Don't share. Don't show. A black cab picked me up from a... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
figures of Dominican bachata. “I loved Latin music. I loved Cuban music especially, but I had never heard traditional Dominican music,” recalls de Menil, whose own background is French and American. “When I View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
This scenario, inspired by a Harvard Business School case, may ring familiar. It raises an increasingly prevalent, and difficult, management issue: how much information to share and when to share it. You look up to find the concerned face of a key employee darkening... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- Portrait Project
Alexander Kamenskov
announcement in the news. Perestroika was proclaimed when I was born. Seven years of change, and my nation was still at a crossroads, yet again in civil unrest. On that day, shooting stopped. I was walking in the street with my parents View Details
- Portrait Project
Alison Shin
of connecting with people. Laughter let him know that he was heard and that others, too, could relate. But this couldn’t ease his deeper pain I knew he grappled with every day, and he eventually took his own life. Two years of mourning,... View Details
- Web
Impact & Testimonials | Information Technology
innovation and scale of the effort to create a personalized experience where you have dedicated screens and microphones...Rather than feeling that you're wasting time in front of a screen, you feel immersed... View Details