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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
poor execution. For example, the Checkout Channel repeated its broadcasts every ten minutes. That was just about the right length of time for consumers, who spend an average of eight minutes waiting in the checkout line. However, it... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
call may be having a dramatic experience during this crisis is an important subtext for how they are navigating the conversation with me.” “[Pacing] ourselves as leaders to remain strong for all the people that depend on us, [managing] organizational stress and fatigue... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
create safer and more effective treatments and, of course, reap profits—industry executives, like hopeful patients, still restlessly wait for relief. Given its scientific potential, said Pisano, biotech continues to bump against several... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
created—or the revolution that will be triggered in the decades to come by genome sequencing, or by the fact that space is now increasingly accessible. In some sense, the information intermediaries that we have taken for granted in the more stable View Details
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
grow the business to five times its size over a period of three years. Then when Dzodan graduated university, he decided to temporarily pivot away from entrepreneurship, and he joined a large Argentinian company as an accountant. From... View Details
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Why You Might Want to Say Goodbye to the Annual Performance Review | Working Knowledge
employees seeking advancement by moving to new organizations rather than climbing the internal ladder. Over the last decade, the annual quit rate—a key indicator of voluntary turnover—has steadily increased, peaking during the “Great Resignation” View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
explanations about the development of the United States’ Federal Reserve System, which was created in 1913 in direct response to the Panic of 1907; and an engaging and entertaining account of a fascinating period in financial and economic... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
How else would you possibly explain it?" Instead of waiting for the tectonic plates of society to shift, we would rather ask what we can do in the interim. How can we change the situation through negotiation?— Hannah Riley Bowles... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
for example. Investors may secure a promising iron ore asset but drag their feet in developing it while waiting for mines elsewhere to deplete. Even after a decision is made to mine, the infrastructure must be built to bring the resources... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
and high performers draw on them less. NEXT UP: NEW COLLABORATION TOOLS Not all intermittency is gone, despite management trends and collaboration tools pushing the always-on ethos. Sprints used by agile teams are an example of structuring people to come together for a... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
The window for meaningful policy action is short—we have less than 10 years to transition to clean energy, and to get there we must enact effective policies in the coming two years. This short timeframe poses challenges, said Henderson. “If we could afford to View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
by Alex Haley and Malcom X, but can’t seem to find my copy as I think I lent it to my son just before he left for his gap year. Laura Huang I like to switch up what I’m reading—so I often alternate between fiction and non-fiction, different time View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
Faced with the need for massive change, most managers respond predictably. They revamp the organization's strategy, then round up the usual set of suspects—people, pay, and processes—shifting around staff, realigning incentives, and rooting out inefficiencies. They... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
microfinance contract has very little discretion in terms of when you repay your loan, so Natalia and her collaborators did one of the earliest studies to look at what happens if we relax that requirement and let people wait up to two... View Details
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
about. Even if the existing channel were an opportunistic selection, over a period of time it is entirely possible to hone one's channels to keep up with industry changes. Q: You devote a fair amount of space in the book to considering... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
how to change it? Designate distraction-free time for ‘deep work’ The first rule is to assign generous periods of time to important tasks exclusively, isolated from distraction (welcome or not). Workers capable of performing what... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
spoken with and advised a steady stream of young, middle-, and later-stage professionals who excelled for a period but then began to struggle professionally and to experience doubt about what they wanted. In the early stages of their... View Details
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
managing investments the same way in both areas. "We're helping them stay alive during a horrible economic downturn so they can last on a minimum amount of capital during a period in which their top line is not going to grow very... View Details
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
start-up companies, two of which we have followed quite intensively for a period of two years, at first even sitting in on their board meetings and then tapering off to periodic interviews. We've also... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne