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- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc
of new companies rising, but it’s hard today to imagine the handful of giants that loom so tall over the tech world allowing themselves to go the way of VisiCalc or Lotus. And the more wealth they accrue to buy into new technologies, spreading their bets evenly around... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
think? Original Article The week that I write this, I needed help programming a television set for recording purposes. Before being connected with the cable company service representative, I agreed to provide telephonic feedback about the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
a result, the customer will see more business value in the solution and be more likely to convert to a paid customer. (An added bonus for the startup: lower customer-acquisition cost.) Still, it’s proven difficult for entrepreneurs to View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
their current situation and how it might evolve,” Cespedes writes in the book’s introduction. If not, he says, they will make decisions based on bad assumptions and fall victim to those who do understand cause-and-effect links between... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
primarily on American history, but increasingly moved into global business history. In his 70s and 80s, he still kept learning, kept writing about ever broader areas of the world. His curiosity and longevity were simply amazing. Walter A.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
impact became incompatible with growing the company, as Professor Geoffrey Jones writes in the book Deeply Responsible Business: A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership. “It’s one of the challenges of our time,” Jones explains. “In... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
financial statement analysis, including ratio analysis and forecasting. To complete these exercises, participants should be comfortable writing basic spreadsheet formulas (i.e., formulas that reference multiple cells and use simple math... View Details
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
both individually and organizationally, something that Bazerman believes strongly (or he wouldn't be teaching and writing about it). It requires leaders who, among other things suggested by Bazerman, develop a habit of asking the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
my esteemed coauthors, Colin Camerer and George Loewenstein, had been exploring TMS and had mentioned in their own work how important it was for economists to read this lesser known work. So it was great fun for the three of us to write... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- Web
Recent Alumni - Alumni
Volunteer Recent Alumni OPPORTUNITIES FOR RECENT ALUMNI Recent alumni support the School and the global alumni community by volunteering in a wide range of important roles, from reunion planning to fundraising to writing Class Notes, as... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Silence Spells Trouble at Work
writing his weekly update reports on Wednesday, continuing to work on them when he had time on Thursday and Friday, working even into the weekend. On Monday morning, he would hand in his document to Matt. Jeff figured that a weekly update... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
specialists—including a professional climber, a doctor, and a photographer—each of whom scored points according to how many of their individual goals were met. For each group, the researchers designated a formal leader. In some cases they created feelings of power by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
if I think of another way to use the interview videos? Please write to us at cem@hbs.edu so that we can share it with the broader community. If you see a clip in the longer videos that you would like to use, we can create a video clip for... View Details
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
productivity in a short amount of time,” the researchers write in their recent working paper Virtual Watercoolers: A Field Experiment on Virtual Synchronous Interactions and Performance of Organizational Newcomers. With corporate surveys... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
the same level of editorial acumen to his role as editor of HBR, a position he held from 1985 to 1989. “If people don’t read what you write,” he often said, “then what you write is a museum piece.” Levitt had a memorable style in the... View Details
- 05 Nov 2014
- HBS Seminar
CV Harquail, Authentic Organizations and Stevens Institute of Technology
- 10 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
What I Did Differently Before Reapplying to HBS
I first applied to HBS through the 2+2 program when I was a senior in college. I had good grades, did well on my GMAT, and had two great mentors to write references letters for me. I worked hard on the application, and was disappointed... 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
- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
workers to get their creative juices flowing. “It turns out, on average, these gig workers are very responsive to competition,” says Zhu, who co-authored the forthcoming article Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 06 Jun 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?
is a level playing field a good thing? Take the immediate arguments surrounding U.S. trade with China, for example. Floyd Norris, writing recently in the The New York Times, suggests that steps to encourage China to increase the value of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett