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Andres Sarmiento
learn to listen to opinions different than ours, to be comfortable with disagreement, and to convey ideas in a persuasive manner. How has your overall Harvard Business School experience shaped your goals & career path? I came to HBS... View Details
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
for America, which describes itself as the "Peace Corps for Geeks." Its coders take publicly available data and use technology to visualize the work of government for the public in accessible ways.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Alexander Kamenskov
aspirations. My generation was praised to have the brightest future, a very happy and fulfilling life... ...that day proved to be just another milestone. Despite many achievements, the transformation is far... View Details
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
employees to take better control of both their workdays and their lives. Excerpt From sleeping With Your Smartphone It all began with an experiment that my research associate View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
Execution can take many forms in retailing. In stores, for example, you must greet customers appropriately, keep inventory accurate, and minimize misplaced product. In any economy, these tasks will remain... View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
accounting that includes health care costs puts the savings figure closer to $1.3 trillion. And capacity to produce an additional 1 billion vaccine courses could similarly be worth on the order of $1... View Details
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
may not lead us to the greatest common good ... without government action(s).... These might take the form of incentives." Richard Eckel expanded on this idea, saying that "To suggest that for-profits embody any form of moral... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Designing Internship Projects for Greater Impact
then gave her a lot of ownership on taking charge of the project.” For a deliverable, Kristina was asked to investigate and select the most appropriate technology platform for the training. Cotterman offers... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
and David Drake Abstract—In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: level behavior-the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior-the tendency to adjust... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast
about how to take a solution and work within the systems that currently exist in order to get to scale. That could be existing technology or existing infrastructure or even the... View Details
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
understand the competitive dynamics and decide on the right bid. "Bankers are famous for saying, 'We have a number of offers in order to get a bidder to pay more.' But in second grade you learn that... View Details
- 16 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Shekeyla Caldwell Sandore: Why 'A Name Like Mine' Matters
to have that element in what they do; I don't see it as a role for one person, I see it as something that every person needs to take on in order for a workplace to actually be inclusive. I'm figuring out... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
car. If you want leather seats in a car, this costs more because leather costs more than plastic. If you want a TV set with a bigger screen and more features, that is more expensive; it takes more circuits,... View Details
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
comprehensive volume is needed at this point in order to take stock and consolidate what we have learned. Establish a Foundational Reference for Teaching Leadership. It was... View Details
- 19 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
What to Expect During Your Second Year at HBS
classes became the first order of difficult business. Should I take classes along my career track? Oh wait, I don’t have one just yet. Should I continue my foray into accounting View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
up, Edmondson says. Why psychological safety takes a dive The researchers’ findings revealed that new employees were losing psychological safety just as they may have needed it most—during the early months on the job when learning the... View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
felt incredibly passionate about the work and strongly believed in its impact, I also began to observe the risks, limitations, and skewed incentives foreign aid creates within local governments. I began... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
a labor-intensive commitment to instilling in people "a strategy of preeminence"—the belief that they can make a difference in their industry or in the lives of their customers. Such coaching and mentoring View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
keep up, he said, they create the potential for a disrupter to take hold: to fill a ready niche and quietly, over time, expand and invade the market. View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
crucial to the subsequent response of those on the receiving end. "We define a necessary evil as a work-related task that requires a person to cause physical, emotional, or material harm to another human being in order to advance a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace