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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Illustration by Timothy Cook An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance Pleasure in Progress Teresa Amabile It sounds so obvious: Employees who make meaningful progress in their work enjoy greater engagement,... View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
games. It was all part of a long term strategy to improve the franchise by getting better draft picks. And it necessitated a short term strategy of losing. Throughout, though, the 76er CEO Scott O’Neil (MBA 1998) says his front office... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
considerations,” Choudhury says. If workers have difficulty obtaining visas or face significant hurdles to earning a license to work in their fields of expertise in another country, companies can’t benefit from knowledge transfer and recombination—unless they get View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
from depression to optimism,” explains Kanter, who says she grew up “thinking that Americans have a special responsibility to improve the state of the world.” While her agenda is ambitious, Kanter notes, “The country can accomplish a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
products that make people’s lives easier, safer, and more enjoyable. In many capitalist economies in 2018, and especially in our own, innovation is unending, and its pace may even be accelerating. The creative destruction of capitalism... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
since World War I opened the world to global capitalism and allowed human creativity to shine and let millions have a better life." According to some respondents, the end of the East-West geopolitical confrontation has promoted "a rapid... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
don’t read the script or look at the director’s work when they’re deciding whether or not to fund a film,” says Mankoff. “We’ll do those things. If a project makes sense from a creative point of view, we can ostensibly take on a bit more... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
creative years—Westmoreland was assigned 31 patents. At one time, an estimated 150,000 glassworkers were employed in Czechoslovakia, earning one-fifth of what their American counterparts did. Nevertheless, for many years, the American... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
eight years below the national average.) But with its manifold offerings and programs, all of which feed one another in ways both obvious and subtle, the school is a model for a radically diverse approach to economic development that combines View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
estate costs, to improve hiring, to get people with more diverse skills—those are the companies that will emerge as winners from this. I feel that’s the big lesson. Instead of just focusing on whether or not productivity will dip in the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
United States and five other countries. "We definitely think of ourselves as an entrepreneurial company, even though we've been around for a while," says Thompson. "It's been a productive and exciting time." Many observers believe that the analytical and View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
established in 2000 and dedicated to improving educational access and health outcomes for children from underprivileged backgrounds, through community initiatives and scholarships. Working at Meredith & Grew every summer throughout... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
technologically advanced product money can buy, right? Not necessarily, says Associate Professor Clayton M. Christensen. Sometimes a cutting-edge item is more than people need or want. "When does the customer view something as 'new and improved,' and when does new and... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
to bring in guest artists, recruit faculty, maintain facilities, and continually improve the experience for everyone involved. “Basically, in the business side of nonprofits, we’re enablers,” reflects Weinstein. “We enable the people who... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Use LinkedIn to network with an expert and ask her a question about a critical assumption. Run online surveys using SurveyMonkey.com. Tap into Amazon Mechanical Turk, which offers cost-effective ways to perform mundane tasks." The book answers many conundrums faced by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
were battening down the hatches and assessing where we were from a cash perspective, trying to get a sense of what the baseline was going to feel like. Then we started to get very creative and scrappy about taking care of people yet still... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
student—had been awarded the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said “Their discoveries have benefited sellers, buyers,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
happier for the rest of your day—and that results in greater creativity, sales, productivity, and sleep quality. Surveys show that people are increasingly experiencing symptoms of burnout at work. How can we improve our mindset? I’ll... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
When you do that, over time the revenue gains peter out. And without revenue gains, people go to divesture and restructuring, and in-appropriate acquisitions. As a result, companies can’t make the numbers, and people start to get into View Details