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- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
that people need to take breaks throughout the day, get enough sleep, and take vacations.” Yet many of us don’t practice what we preach, she acknowledges. So managers can set an example by taking breaks and vacations and encouraging their... View Details
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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
$89.75, the leather-bound Polaroid Land Camera, Model 95, represented a high-end consumer purchase. All 56 cameras brought to the Jordan Marsh demonstration sold out. After its Boston debut, the Land Camera appeared at department stores in test markets in New York and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974
the most respected firms in the industry. Focused on long-term value, the group has invested in more than 350 growing businesses and completed more than 125 public offerings. Since stepping down from day-to-day operations at Summit, Stamps and his wife of 41 years,... View Details
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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Imperial government forbade. The English, who had vacated Canton, relied on American firms to oversee their transactions. Heard & Co. served in this capacity for one of the largest British firms, Jardine, Matheson & Co., and John Heard... View Details
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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
introduced in the photographic field, which he considered ripe for invention." 42 The inspiration for instant photography planted itself in Land's imagination during a family vacation in 1943: “I recall a sunny View Details
- 29 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family
time is also effective. Employers could consider supplementing financial incentives with time-based rewards, like extra vacation time or flex days, or health perks, like gym memberships, says Whillans, author of the book Time Smart: How... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
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Negotiating - Alumni
than money! Evaluate all aspects of an offer and prioritize those that are most important to you. These include: Organizational culture and values Paid vacation time Maternity/paternity leave Growth opportunities Career progression... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor
battling the same thing is important. Also, your seeming disadvantages can be the source of strength.” La famiglia: “My favorite place to vacation is Portofino. At 11 o’clock at night there’ll be three generations of an Italian family... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
members they’d been cast to play: John; his wife, Aileen; John Jr.; Megan; and Patrick. But the eeriest moment was coming face-to-face with his Hollywood “family.” “They were putting together photo shoots re-creating our family pictures from View Details
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
percent more likely to stay at Stanford, and they also reported a better work-life balance. Employers could also allow employees to take more random days off just to give them a break. “We know we are more productive when we take vacation... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
in the fall of 2008, the executive chairman of the luxury brand Shanghai Tang must decide what to do about a recently vacated creative director position and how to manage employees who see themselves as artists. This case taught me about... View Details
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
most. But there are other benefits, too. By putting a positive price on IPv4 space, a market mechanism would remind current v4 users that their v4 space is valuable, and that they might want to try to vacate it, to the extent they can,... View Details
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
important decisions—from where we are going to vacation to who will treat us when we're sick—it's all the more critical that businesses provide consumers with enough quantitative and qualitative information to ease their decision making.... View Details
- 05 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
To Buy Happiness, Purchase an Experience
authors Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton draw on years of quantitative and qualitative research to explain how we can turn cash into contentment. The key lies in adhering to five key principles: Buy Experiences (research shows that material purchases are less... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 May 2016
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993
summer vacations consist of touring national parks in an RV. “To be successful you need to have a passion not just for the job itself, but for the people you are doing it with.” “To be successful you need to have a passion not just for... View Details
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
workweeks, unpaid leave, pay freezes, elimination of bonuses, a freeze on 401(k) matching, and reduced vacation allowance. Some CEOs believe salary cuts are a way to spread the pain of reducing salary costs across a broad number of... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
responsible for overall investment, strategic planning, and asset management. Looking for the perfect location for a family vacation retreat in 2009, Turner and his wife, Lydia, found and purchased 400 acres of pristine land in Dover... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
Ninan Chacko (AMP 158, 2000) was on vacation in Turin, Italy, when he stopped to snap a photo of a street sign. In the picture, all you can see is the name: Via Roma. But for Chacko, the CEO of Monotype, the world’s largest type seller,... View Details
- 11 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the MBA Class of 2020
IT’S AMAZING HOW CLOSE-KNIT IT IS.” HOME REGION Austin, TX UNDERGRAD EDUCATION University of Texas, Finance, 2010 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Turnkey Vacation Rentals, Snap Kitchen, HomeAway, American Express, Dell Technologies HBS ACTIVITIES... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
reality is that we don’t really know if commercial space flight will ultimately be a money maker, how many competitors will fit in the market, or what demand will be for consumers taking off on space vacations after the initial enthusiasm... View Details