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Publications August 2014 Management Science Smart People Ask for (My) Advice: Seeking Advice Boosts Perceptions of Competence By: Brooks, A.W., F. Gino, and M.E. Schweitzer Abstract—Although individuals can derive substantial benefits from exchanging information and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2013
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How Major League Baseball Clubs Have Commercialized Their Investment in Japanese Top Stars

By: Isao Okada and Stephen A. Greyser

When a Major League Baseball club signs a Japanese star player, it obviously tries to commercialize its investment in the player. The initial focus is on home attendance (ticket sales) and television audiences, plus merchandise sales. These elements are similar to... View Details

Keywords: Commercialization; Sports; Revenue; Sports Industry; Japan; United States

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19 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

choices, resulting in more efficient organizations. “It’s about how we think about talent and resource allocation,” Paik says. You Might Also Like: When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions Delivering a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

numerous book, television, and movie deals, along with several marriage proposals, all of which she has turned down. Six months after the accident, Crotty returned to the United States to become an assistant principal at St. Mark's School of Harlem, where she put to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

February 2022 (Revised July 2022)
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InstaDeep: AI Innovation Born in Africa (B)

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Esel Çekin

Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim were the co-founders of InstaDeep, a deep tech startup focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Instadeep was one of the few companies globally that were partnering with DeepMind, an AI subsidiary of Google [Alphabet Inc.].... View Details

Keywords: AI; Artificial Intelligence; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Business Subsidiaries; Brands and Branding; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry; Africa

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09 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

feed growth, even if their competitors are also on the same block. Detroit and Silicon Valley, likewise, provided valuable clusters of talent and suppliers where, Alcácer realized, "whenever you saw one firm, you saw the other... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

Leahy shares. “There's so much pressure and stress that individuals feel to find the perfect internship or the perfect next job. But HBS students and alumni are incredibly talented and can find the connective tissue from one step to the... View Details

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Hidden Workers, Part-Time Potential - Managing the Future of Work

Research Research Hidden Workers: Part-Time Potential Read the Report Read the Report By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, & Francis Hintermann In the report Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent we studied workers who are often excluded by... View Details

October 2017 (Revised October 2020)
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Coaching Makena Lane

By: Ethan Bernstein and Om Lala

Makena Lane has a gift for producing results, even in the challenging retail context of the 2010s, but she also has a knack for “ruffling some feathers” in the process. Recruited to a Fortune 500 grocery and pharmacy retailer after climbing to Associate Principal in... View Details

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18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

recruiting, managing, and retaining talent. Take, for instance, the phenomenon of acqui-hires, which may become less valuable with a ban on non-competes. An acqui-hire—or a talent acquisition—is when a larger firm acquires a startup to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

28 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

advantage in “Black Swan” events like the pandemic, Rouen says companies should also see the value in retaining good employees during hard times. That’s especially important given that an increasingly knowledge-based economy will make View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

company uses assessment tools and career coaches to identify employees' strengths and decide how to best leverage those talents for the company's good. The company also encourages employees to initiate conversations about how their... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

marketplace 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

20 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

through dance. During a 5th-grade talent show, a classmate’s mother walked up to me and recommended that I join the local dance studio. Out of all the boys, she said I would benefit the most and in that coded language, I understood what... View Details

15 Aug 2022
Book

University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

superb scholars and among the world’s most talented students. China’s university leaders have been among the best in the world. But in recent ideological campaigns, its students are forced to sit through required courses in Party... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

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The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most

By: Raffaella Sadun, Joseph B. Fuller, Stephen Hansen and PJ Neal

Landing a job as a CEO today is no longer all about industry expertise and financial savvy. What companies are really seeking are leaders with strong social skills. That’s what the authors discovered after analyzing nearly 7,000 job descriptions for C-suite roles.... View Details

Keywords: C-Suite; Skills; Skills Development; Social Skills; Management Skills; Interpersonal Communication; Talent and Talent Management

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19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

rebuild them as good agents or executives for NCR. But he was influential. He was a great promoter of himself and of the idea that sales management had to be handled systematically, even "scientifically." He attracted many View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

February 2009 (Revised March 2013)
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Shanghai Diligence Law Firm (A)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Catherine Zhang

Shanghai Diligence Law Firm, started in January 2006, is a rapidly growing law firm in China's burgeoning legal services market. In addition to the usual challenges facing all professional service firms (picking and retaining talent and building a desired client... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Motivation and Incentives; Legal Services Industry; China

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Get to better, more effective strategy.

In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is their secret? In "Better, Simpler Strategy," Harvard... View Details

March 2023
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A Primer on OKRs

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan (Jason) Ni

The OKR framework is a popular goal-setting and strategy execution tool that uses goal setting through “Objectives” and measuring performance using “Key Results” on a periodic basis to measure and drive performance. The OKR framework has been adopted and practiced at... View Details