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- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
informal “water cooler” conversations could go a long way in promoting belonging. Concrete tips I have heard from interviews include scheduling five to 10 minutes before a formal meeting for casual conversation, asking each other silly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
and downtown Beijing, and during the trip we saw maybe one other car every five minutes or so.” Fast-forward 37 years, and that same roadway is 10-lanes wide and jammed with traffic from 7:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night. During... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral finance. The asset management group... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
footsteps." After five years of managing Uncle Dave's, Lyon left its day-to-day operations in the hands of his father and stepmother and entered HBS at the age of thirty. "I felt I had hit the top of the learning curve and was ready for a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
his residence on campus. The dinner consisted of a small gathering of about five foreign students including myself and the Dean. The dinner made me more at ease about HBS, but more importantly, made me feel like I mattered because someone... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
to be a force for positive change. When I leave this world, I want people to remember me for the stories we shared, the friendships we built, and the joy we sparked together. Miho Sakuma - MBA ‘20 Tell us about your background: Having... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
and local governments should invest in it. But the idea of investing in ECD for economic development was new and had never been tested on a large scale, particularly in the way that Rolnick and Grunewald recommended in a later paper—using market View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
headlines had heralded the city’s resurgence against a backdrop of dilapidated houses, images now so clichéd as to be their own banal genre—“ruin porn.” But those comebacks never lasted long enough. This moment is different, Cummings says. Cummings lists the same View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
going through major reorganization or collapse were probably headed there in five to ten years anyway. It’s a difficult transition, but it’s exciting in the sense that this economic recession is forcing... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
want to congratulate you on being the richest man in the world." He had come a long way from $1.20 a week. Not every giant of enterprise started life with a clear idea of where he was heading. When George Eastman was forced to enter... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When the Netflix series Geek Girl debuted this summer, it quickly became the second most-watched show globally on the platform. Based on the young adult book series by author Holly Smale about... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
prepare for the wedding. We were both living in Washington, in separate houses. And I got a call from parents the next morning saying that she had died of a malignant brain tumor. And it really forced me to think about "what's life all... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
less competent than employees who do not. Across five experiments, we explore how reframing a socially inappropriate emotional expression (distress) by publicly attributing it to an appropriate source (passion) can shape perceptions of,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
be, “How do we make remote work more strategic and long-term, and what does that mean in terms of how we communicate, socialize, and hire?” Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar on how he encourages his remote teams to separate from work During the pandemic, firms... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Neilson and me shows that over the past 20 years the CEO's average span of control, measured by the number of direct reports, has doubled. It stands at almost 10 today. This gives fresh relevance to a perennial question for senior leaders: Just how much should they... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
social sector, and it can guide businesses in bringing together the various actors in their ecosystems to help remedy some of the world's most urgent problems. In the process, companies will find economic opportunities that their competitors miss. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
that I would never make that mistake again and that I would do everything in my power to help the people around me avoid making that mistake. That's really what motivated me to write Radical Candor and come up with a framework and to be... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
force behind a joint HBS-Tsinghua University executive education program that premiered in January (see sidebar). “With a 24-hour plane trip and thirteen time zones between Boston and China, the language barrier, and cultural differences... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
forces like skill-biased technical change. Exploring movements around these long-term levels, however, this study finds mixed evidence regarding the vicious cycle hypothesis. On one hand, larger compensation differentials are accepted as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
however, Bob suffered an injury that changed him from an athletic, outgoing personality to more of an introvert. BW: A key thing in my whole life was that I had a severe concussion when I was 14. We had four or five kids on each side of a... View Details