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- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
Will You Measure Your Life?" From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing What do you think? Are you happier when you spend money on services instead of stuff? Share your thoughts in the comments section below. View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Nov 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values
developing on luxury marketing. The course aims to address the most current challenges and opportunities for luxury brands. One of the topics I wanted to highlight in the course is sustainability, especially because luxury and sustainability are often viewed as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
algorithms—much like a dating app—to match students with interested alumni for thoughtful discussions about roughly 200 topics related to one’s personal life, family, or work. Ultimately, the goal is to connect alumni to one another and... View Details
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education
Building on the Legacy Thought Leadership Andrew F. Brimmer James I. Cash Jr. Linda A. Hill David A. Thomas HBS Faculty Members HBS Doctoral Students Alumni Profiles Research Links Essay on HBS Thought... View Details
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Sonakshi Bose
“I’m going to be mean.” This was the thought that entered my 8-year old mind, as I felt my eyes well up. It was September 2001, I had just moved to New York from Singapore, and I stuck out – dressed in ponytails in an Abercrombie world.... View Details
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
writer based in the Boston area. [Image: Pexels/Engin Akyurt] Do you think the the bankruptcy system needs reform? Share your thoughts in the comments below. View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Research Summary
Research Thrust
By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
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Building on the Legacy Thought Leadership Andrew F. Brimmer James I. Cash Jr. Linda A. Hill David A. Thomas HBS Faculty Members HBS Doctoral Students Alumni Profiles Research Links Essay on HBS Thought... View Details
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
You don't have to do something major or spend money on a dinner out to have a ritual that's psychologically powerful for your relationship." Thoughtful gesture: Another 11 percent of respondents made a point of doing something View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
period we are in today, had witnessed a dramatic loss of confidence in business and American institutions more generally. In 1968, 70 percent of the public thought business tried to strike a fair balance between profits and the public... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
contributed to what came to be regarded as a target unemployment rate, with anything less causing excessive inflation. At one time, many economists thought this to be as high as 6 percent. The Phillips curve has taken its lumps over the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
Disruptive Strategy are eligible for a Certificate of Completion from Harvard Business School Online. Participants are expected to fully complete all coursework in a thoughtful and timely manner. This will mean meeting each week’s course... View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- What Do You Think?
Making Right Choices: Art or Science?
Summing Up Thoughtful comments are hard to summarize in five paragraphs. That explains why this month's task is impossible. But one thing unites nearly everyone responding to this column, and that is one kind of objection or other to the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
any job to succeed, the supply of resources available to the worker must be in balance with the responsibilities of the job, says Simons. It’s a simple supply-and-demand lesson that should ring true for anyone who has taken an economics course, “but we’ve never View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points
problem, he sensed an opportunity; where most people might have en¬dorsed Michelle's "sit tight" approach, he saw reason for thoughtful action. "She's waiting for someone to decide her fate for her," Howard remarked. "She doesn't realize... View Details
Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson
- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
the Strategic Management Journal this past September, Nagle and fellow researcher Florenta Teodoridis, assistant professor of strategy at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, set out to find out. “We thought... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
In 2008, entrepreneur Brian Chesky and his two San Francisco roommates made the rounds of Silicon Valley VC firms with what they thought was a great idea: a website and mobile app that would allow homeowners to open their homes to... View Details
- Portrait Project
Shardule Shah
in. The lines between parenting and working are increasingly blurred, but I am here for all of it. It took me a while to realize that having kids adds value even in business. I had thought that the guiding light for my biotech startup... View Details
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Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs ( Princeton University Press, October 2002)
By: Rakesh Khurana
In this book, I argue that the external CEO labor market was born in a burst of rhetoric about wresting control of corporations away from a group of self-interested insiders, as senior managers in the era of managerial capitalism had come to be portrayed. The rationale... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
and the Canadian manufacturer Bombardier, which has yet to be settled by the World Trade Organization. Conference participants offered a variety of predictions on how they thought the dispute could and should pan out. According to... View Details