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January 2005 (Revised August 2006)
Case

Lean Forward Media

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Victoria Winston

Jeff Norton and Michelle Crames, the co-founders of Lean Forward Media, face several options for producing the world's first interactive DVD film for children. Their vision is to build a company whose products simultaneously entertain children, engage them actively in... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Early Childhood Education; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Creativity

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02 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

Representatives passed a bill granting shareholders a non-binding vote on executive compensation and severance packages. It also maintains that compensation committees should be independent of management.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

suggests that this model-which tolerates moral complexity-is perhaps one of the few that can adapt and endure over time. Manufacturing Morals is a perceptive must-read for anyone looking for insight into the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 May 2023
Blog Post

Get to Know Class Day Speaker Adán Acevedo

graduation ceremonies. It is planned and conducted by a committee of second-year MBA students. When asked about what Commencement means to him, Acevedo is uncharacteristically... View Details

05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5

question fail to account for the fact that employees usually care whether the pursuit of purpose is authentic and that the embrace of purpose often affects even employees whose... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia

investigations” of how such work gets done, Myers says. “We rely on things like the publication record and grant databases, which are not designed for us to see how science is... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Education

02 Apr 2024
What Do You Think?

What's Enough to Make Us Happy?

don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?” We take our financial cues from friends and acquaintances, whether they accumulate just enough to retire or billions View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

intensive industries. We also find that leading firms will be more attracted to pools of labor, suppliers, and potential knowledge spillovers when their own contributions are less fungible View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Career Coach

Martha Tassinari

Martha (HBS '94) has been an executive coach and career counselor at HBS since 2007. She has helped thousands of MBA students, Alumni and Executive Education participants (GMP,... View Details

Keywords: Education; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Hospitality; Manufacturing; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Retail; Clean Technology; Energy; Telecommunications; Technology

25 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business

really impressive, intense women, some of whom are still my closest friends in the world,” he says. “I think that may mean I think about these issues differently than somebody who was perhaps spending that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

8 AM – 5:30 PM GMT, 29 Apr 2016

HBS MBA Alumni Career Reboot Camp in London

Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move forward towards a career with more satisfaction View Details

May 8, 2020
Article

Lead Your Team Into a Post-Pandemic World

By: Hubert Joly

The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has tested leaders, especially as it relates to how they lead their workers. As the crisis goes on, many that the author has spoken with have begun to frame it around three distinct phases: The Shelter-in-Place Phase, the Re-opening... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Re-opening; Health Pandemics; Leadership; Employees; Communication; Human Needs

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27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27

possibility of competitive imitation means an entrant needs to strategically choose whether to reveal its innovation by competing through the new business model or conceal it by adopting a traditional,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

both about the details of market institutions and about the general tasks markets have to perform.” Having sufficient "thickness" means there are enough participants... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

23 Sep 2015
HBS Seminar

Ohad Barzilay, Tel Aviv University

Career Coach

Marc Herson

Marc (INSEAD '01) has extensive global experience as a venture capitalist, media executive, entrepreneur and lawyer, working in the U.S., Europe, and Africa. His most recent... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Social Enterprise; Telecommunications

Career Coach

Fran Davis

Fran has a Ph.D. in Psychology and has worked at Harvard for over 25 years. Over these three decades she has provided career coaching for MBA students, HBS Alumni, and in... View Details

13 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

comprehension, which was drawn from the Armed Service Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) exam. Prolific users also completed a brief sociodemographic survey and built a resume that included their test score, basic education information,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

25 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress)

life and make people happier impacts not only the poor, but also more affluent Americans living at the edge of their means in a bumpy economy. Indeed, in 2019, one in every... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

8 AM – 5 PM PDT, 31 Mar 2016

Career Reboot Camp in San Francisco