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19 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

article originally appeared in the HBS Alumni Bulletin. You Might Also Like: Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Much Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

involved or started a number of entrepreneurial ventures. While working three days a week at AOL, he bootstrapped Compare.com , which enabled customers to compare prices on everything from PCs to mortgages. Later, He View Details

02 Apr 2020
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What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

Compassion (Harvard Business Review) Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage from View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

It is commonly accepted in economic circles that a country can grow faster by making key investments in sectors such as technology and in R&D and human or physical capital. But can a country also grow by saving more? A recent working... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

13 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

Founders: An Entrepreneur’s Dilemma Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers Financial Distancing: How Venture Capital Follows the Economy Down and Curtails Innovation Feedback or ideas to share? Email the View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services

25 Oct 2016
First Look

October 25, 2016

analysts, to consumers—need to know about how new products and services are expected to perform in the marketplace. The book develops a compelling framework that connects the rich academic knowledge on innovation diffusion with that on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

practice. They draw upon their experience and work to offer a comprehensive view of the challenges in managing the development of new products. Existing knowledge in the different topics is examined and the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

of this sort could be a valuable addition to many if not most companies in at least five ways: as a source of knowledge and expertise, as a sounding board and constructive critic, as a driver of accountability, as a stimulus for... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

to determine how to lift WTP in ways that don’t rely on scale 5 hrs Module 4 Creating Value for Talent Discover ways to make work more attractive for your employees, understand the difference between lowering WTS and reducing... View Details

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Online Business Essential Courses | HBS Online

Managers Professor Bharat Anand Gain economic insights and learn how markets work and firms compete to craft successful business strategies. 8 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Pay by September 25 $1,850 Certificate Financial Accounting Professor V.G.... View Details

2009
Working Paper

Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance

By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats

In this paper, we consider how the structures of tasks and teams interact to affect team performance. We study the effects of diversity in experience on a team's ability to respond to task changes, by separately examining interpersonal team diversity (i.e., differences... View Details

Keywords: Familiarity; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Projects; Experience and Expertise; Diversity; India

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09 Nov 2022
In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

06 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

CEOs expand their knowledge of core businesses and technologies, allowing them greater insight into new advances that could eventually drive their companies' success. In turn, by using publicly available data sources, researchers and... View Details

Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail

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Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy &... View Details

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Our Values | About

suggestions and ideas. We want our campus to be safe, secure, and vibrant. Closing Thoughts We must find a way forward. Why? Because if we can’t do it here—drawing on the strength of our community, the knowledge and experience among us,... View Details

22 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

people. That’s a big transition that many people can’t make.” Source: Harvard Business School Working Knowledge It’s a problem that can permeate any layer of a business—a star performer is tapped to become a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2024
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Vital Signs

Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

29 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.

Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

02 Dec 2002
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The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

pre-defined interfaces through which they could access commonly used functions and features. Why reinvent the wheel if someone else had already worked out what it should look like? In essence, Microsoft began codifying View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

employees to the fullest extent permitted by law. In other words, as time passes, leading companies can worry less and less about trade secret theft in the traditional sense, and they have a path forward regardless of the future of non-competes. [Image:... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

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