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- 27 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Video: Inspirational Women in Business
would like to mention that it may not be the case, especially in all parts of the world. And there are lots of demographics where this is still very far from the reality. Eunjin Lee: The small, incremental changes that we make as MBA... View Details
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 30 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies
technology adoption activity as far back as AD 1500. Comin, William Easterly, and Erick Gong explain these findings in their paper Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? To prepare the paper, the team compiled a series of data... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
History of the HBS Women's Student Association
women to connect, share experiences, and strategize for future success. As we reflect on the evolution of the WSA, it becomes evident that its impact extends far beyond the HBS campus. The association's enduring legacy is a testament to... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
love would be tested by the miles between us as we studied and worked in North Dakota, Ohio, Chicago, New York, England, and Colorado. Dating long distance, we were constantly looking forward to the next weekend we could spend together, though they were often too few... View Details
- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
far more important to understand than the various positions taken on it, although those too are important. Q: What to your mind are a few effective marketing campaigns that have utilized knowledge of deep metaphors? What did they do that... View Details
- Profile
Jay Bhandari
to campus. A year in, I've found the range of personalities and backgrounds here to be more expansive than I had anticipated. The community feels far more close-knit than the size of the student body would suggest. View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
entrepreneurs are more deliberate than this, beginning by analyzing the existing model in their industry and then layering their own innovation on top. But they still proceed largely by feeling their way, reacting opportunistically to circumstances as they arise. What... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
go so far in melding the two strategies. Like CEMEX, GEMS was able to pursue both approaches because it could organize its operations into relatively autonomous bundles of activities (like product development) in which economies of scale... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 02 Aug 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?
actively disengaged employees far exceed those who are engaged. And the numbers aren’t improving. This is puzzling, because employee engagement may be the single most effective competitive strategy available to many organizations. The... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jan 2011
- HBS Case
Terror at the Taj
clearer sense of what it takes to build a particular culture and value system and how to recruit, train, and reward employees in nonmonetary ways. "It's all of those very specific things that build a customer-centric culture in an organization," Deshpandé... View Details
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
employee morale was by far more significantly affected by bribery than any other factor. That's important because studies have shown that employee morale is directly related to a firm's performance, including stock market returns. For... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
happen for some companies, even while it is rare overall. “The firms that grow persistently are in fact, few and far between,” he says. In addition, persistent growth didn’t necessarily mean sustainable growth during the length of the... View Details
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Overview
Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
he went so far as to write 10 to 20 handwritten personal notes to employees at all levels of the organization each day to recognize those who were performing well. During his 10-year tenure as CEO, that added up to over 30,000 notes to... View Details
- 05 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?
brands, simplified pricing that replaces the retailer's constant sales and coupons, and an updated store design that promises to make one think more of Apple's high-touch emporiums than a typical department store layout. “J.C. Penney is in a very tough spot.” In fact,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
have grown very rich over the past 2 centuries, and others have remained very poor. Al's research was so compelling that it shaped a generation of research far beyond historians, in business administration and strategy, and he was a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
different in some regards, both have been shown to be stronger when the work is visible to people the programmer wants to impress (colleagues, venture capitalists, the overall job market). With immediate rewards, commercial projects have an edge as View Details
- 14 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2022
home-made steak dinner. As nervous as I was about searing the meat just right, I was far more fascinated by Weston’s tales of service and dreams for the future. Here was a man of charisma and compassion; of commitment and creativity. One... View Details