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- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
date, Porter and Nohria have gathered 60,000 hours' worth of data on 27 executives, interviewing them—and hundreds of other CEOs—about their schedules. This article presents the findings, offering insights not only into best... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
inspired-makes all the more impressive what the design firm IDEO has already achieved. Its help-seeking and help-giving culture is behind the firm's success. But how has IDEO managed to make helping the norm? To answer this question, the authors spent two years... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410045-PDF-ENG Managing Your Own Human Capital: Executive Interview Exercise (2009) Harvard Business School Note 410-047 This note contains instructions for an exercise in which students View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
guardians as holding opposing views of institutional change, we reveal how the complementarity and ongoing interactions between each set of actors served as a valuable resource for industry resilience and adaptation. Our primary data comprise 136 qualitative View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
rates of public sector employment, the crown jewel of the Jordanian regime’s patronage. Interviews with over 60 of the surveyed firm owners across four strategically paired districts illustrate that business owners covet forbearance and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
creative or in love with risk, but they are deeply inquisitive, open to new experiences, and comfortable with the unpredictable. He also offers evidence-based, practical advice for interviews and résumé screening that hiring managers can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
How will my children learn via Zoom? We interviewed 10 CEOs in July about how they are managing the unprecedented stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic, and then checked in with them again at the end of 2020. The interviewees hail from... View Details
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
than forty high-profile moves and interviewed team leaders in multiple industries and countries to examine the risks and opportunities that lift outs present. They concluded that, regardless of industry, nationality, or size of the team,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
Monday, after this interview took place, waded into the discussion by opposing how the proposal would change the treatment of certain retirement funds.) Weinzierl: I don't see anything particularly that bears his fingerprints.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
approach has extracted its lessons for today’s negotiators. We have extensively interviewed Henry Kissinger about his most difficult negotiations. We studied his writings and those of many others who have analyzed these episodes. This has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
with company materials, a few of the aeronautics plant retirees I interviewed were worried that I wanted to denounce them to management. In my project on the commerce in human cadavers for medical education and research, some clinical... View Details
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207099 Pitch Yourself! Harvard Business School Exercise 508-039 Helps students develop an elevator pitch for their most important asset—themselves. Before class students are asked to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
consumer. The system needs to be redesigned so that each participant is motivated to increase value, measured by health outcomes per dollar expended. This excerpt discusses how healthcare providers can shift to a value-based model. An View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
therefore facilitates implementation," says Roberto, who teaches in the School's General Management unit. An e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge follows. Martha Lagace: Why should a leader be concerned when he or she hears... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
intimacy, and community offered by direct-to-consumer marketing will have an impact on every industry and intermediary," Deighton predicted. Supermarkets may have "dodged a bullet" for now, but direct-to-consumer marketing is here to stay, Deighton says.... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
he calls a brand genealogy. He overlays the trajectory of the brand's allegories over history—through analysis of ads supported by archival documents and interviews with managers—with American cultural history, focusing particularly on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
telecoms, commercial real estate, and more. Harvard Business School students visit the Reppie Waste to Energy Plant, the first waste-to-energy project in Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Credit: John Macomber We have conducted several hundred in-person View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
U.S. and its future. Based on interviews with 28 practitioners in the field of philanthropy and a review of the literature since the publication of the article introducing the concept of venture philanthropy (Virtuous Capital: What... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 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
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
boards themselves, agreed to interview five directors each. We decided to focus on two broad questions: How well did these boards function before the recession? And, what aspects of the board's way of functioning troubled members as they... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna