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- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
important to be happy was 34 percent; and 17 percent more squatters with titles believed that other people could be trusted. The only question that did not show a significant difference related to the meritocratic belief that effort pays... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
it was the right decision. When she was appointed CEO of Time Inc. in 2002, the rest of the world knew too. “I’ve always had a long-term view,” notes Moore. “You’ve got to choose a career you’ll be happy growing old in because time goes... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
services and charging separately. Rather than recoiling, hospitals were more than happy to pay for services if it meant they would actually receive them without haggling. According to Narayanan, the ABP solution worked because hospitals... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Parable of the Bungled Baggage And the Unhappy Customer
I need to get on with my presentation, getting checked out and so forth. But, I'm a little happy too, because now I have something to talk about. And so I'm holding this little story in my back pocket waiting for the appropriate time in... View Details
Keywords: by W. Earl Sasser
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
40 years. "These are people entering their retirement years very engaged,"Emerson says. "They are not going to be happy just writing a check andgoing to the annual dinner." Finally, says Grossman, there's... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- 31 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Management
after graduation have come to HBS with prior experience. That said, firms that have historically been open to career-switchers have often been incredibly happy with their decision and found career-switchers to be incredible “long-term... View Details
Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund
- 23 Jul 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action
Balanced Scorecard should be the primary documents distributed to the board in advance of meetings. Does Customer Profitability Increase Using The Bsc? A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability Happy customers are... View Details
- 24 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Working to Keep Pirates At-Bay: My Summer in Cyber Security
deserves a celebration! I love this spirit and I have never celebrated so much in a work environment before. They call this “fergenizing” which, mixing English and Hebrew, means “to celebrate and be happy for other people’s achievements.”... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 15 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
One MBA's Path to Boston Consulting Group
by an energizing day of golf, barbeque and pool games. The crescendo of the summer came with our trip to Miami for sailing and beach hijinks. These events helped forge happy memories that will remain with me. After securing the full-time... View Details
- 03 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
4 Ways HBS Alumni Utilize Baker Library
product. We are happy to meet with alumni and it is easy to set up an appointment. We regularly work with alumni who are in career search mode and provide them with intelligence on countries, industries, organizations, and people. 4. We... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Is HBS Cutthroat or Collaborative?
maximizing the quality of our output. While in Cambodia we created a culture that enforced high standards, encouraged questioning and iteration, and supported creative thinking. The result? A happy client, a new group of friends, a... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
customer is such an apparent risk that the quoted Progressive rate is higher than the competition's, Progressive is happy if that customer goes elsewhere to buy cheaper insurance. "They are happy to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52998 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Buying Time Promotes Happiness By: Whillans, Ashley V., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Paul Smeets, Rene... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
everybody has their own ways to cope, but by time I pull into my driveway I'm happy and ready to go. What we've done differently in this office—because we've had some pretty historic losings. I'm gonna say office. I'm sitting in Camden,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
what a friend of mine called a 'collage career'—never a boss, never a full-time job—which is really cool." And he would have been happy doing that for a while, but then Tracy Seckler called, and he saw a chance to heal again. "I said,... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
earner happy to have the job ; and (2) wastage (that) seems to abound in the cavernous stores ." Cheri Thomas cited saturation of its markets, especially in the United States, as a concern, adding that "Walmart's fixation on low... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
each chain." Petsch agreed. "At Sears, we have an increasing number of proprietary brands," Petsch said. Overton said the mergers will have a major effect on the suppliers of department stores' real estate—the malls. JC Penney, for example, is not... View Details
- Web
The True Costs of Gig Work | Working Knowledge
not be as happy or financially secure as their full-time counterparts. The analysis suggests what Harvard Business School authors call a “crucial opportunity” to redesign work, not only to improve on-the-job performance, but also... View Details
- 11 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)
check myself the entire time to be happy for my friends when they were getting consulting offers or more structured opportunities much earlier,” she shared. “We were not looking at the same kind of opportunities and our timelines were... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
Olson argued. "It became the dominant, unquestioned view," Trumbull says. Olson's beliefs have been popular with both liberals and conservatives, he observes. Liberals routinely believe that big banks and corporations control government policy, even if they're not... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard