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14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

collaborative 65 percent (versus 42 percent) rated their team as doing everything it could to be efficient 74 percent (versus 51 percent) rated their team as doing everything it could to be effective The happy result for BCG was that... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

development. The reformers' challenge has been to demonstrate that corporate attention to human misery is perfectly consistent with maximizing wealth: that there is, in the words of United Nations' Secretary General Kofi Annan, "a View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

21 May 2001
Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

members of the collective, Hill rejects the idea that they should be chosen in order to conform to a freeform type of corporate structure, a "one big happy family" mentality. People in organizations of collective genius, she insists, need... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2006
News

Drive-In Nation

trade barriers but because gasoline prices were so much lower than in other auto-producing countries. With no serious challenge from abroad, and only relatively benign competition among themselves, the Big 3 and their stakeholders were all View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

30 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

receive a 5 percent pay increase, and want to know whether to be happy or not, you find out the increases of your colleagues to create meaning of the 5 percent. People do not choose less for themselves. If I ask people whether they would... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

08 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Catching the Entrepreneurship Bug at HBS

people over the holidays has morphed into a passion and I am so grateful for the professors and classmates at HBS that helped bring me to this point. There’s nothing I love more than getting a text from a friend who sent my cards to a loved one, telling me just how... View Details

30 Aug 2019
Blog Post

3 Growing Pains from my First Year at HBS: Academic, Social, and Career

during my first year, but reflecting back now, my first year surely brought transformations and growth in all of those areas. These expreiences are all valuable and to be honest, some are painful too. Sometimes life can be much simpler when I was just View Details

27 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant

efficiency and quality were at a scale and sophistication we hadn’t quite expected. On top of that, everyone we met at the Dolvi plant was deeply knowledgeable and passionate. Although happy with our visit, we left concerned about the... View Details

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Field Course: Field X - Course Catalog

the gamut, every year we have consumer, healthcare, finance, real estate, tech, arts and entertainment, social enterprise, you name it. Q: What if my business has modest goals? A: That's fine, in Field X we're happy to work with teams... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

Washington Monument, Robert spontaneously jumped on my back with a happy shout, and it dawned on me that what he needed didn't have anything to do with going places. He needed love, honesty, and someone to listen to him and just be with... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

January 2025
Case

Constitutional Fiction: John Miller & the Legitimacy of Family Constitutions

By: Lauren Cohen, Octavian Graf Pilati and Sophia Pan

John Miller sat reviewing his family’s Constitution, grappling with how best to implement and enforce its provisions. Designed to prevent ambiguity in governance, the Family Constitution set out core values and guidelines to promote harmony and cohesion among family... View Details

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09 Sep 2024
News

Basket Chase

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Team MBA

certain connotations, both positive and negative. I thought I was jumping into a tank full of sharks. I was prepared for overly aggressive, type A people. I am happy to say that I was totally surprised by the collaborative spirit here and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Oct 2017
News

Radical Generosity for the Real World

tremendous emotional satisfaction, and like I said, for us, that's vacations. We weren't going to sacrifice there, but we were happy to say, you know what, yes, that bathroom could really use a new floor, but that's OK, that can wait.... View Details

12 Jan 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

“And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. So, I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes... View Details

21 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

and return unused capital to his investors. With the passing of each venture, he has learned about forming founding teams, splitting equity with his co-founders, hiring executives to work for him, and when to take outside funding. Now, he's facing pressure from... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Nov 2020
News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

message that I want to give to all my classmates and colleagues about what made things work for me is that the key to happiness can be summed up in one word, and that's usefulness. And if you feel you're being useful or you have a... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

Then jobs are lost, and the unions blame someone else. Ron DiLiddo (PMD 50, 1985) Rochester, MI Document HBS’s Role in Crisis I was happy to read in the March issue that the financial crisis has motivated HBS to write cases on the topic... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Past Issues - Alumni

new generation of investors—and what happens when finance becomes a common language Happy Returns HBS celebrates reunions on a grand scale Complete Table of Contents June 2022 Alumni Achievement Awards 2022 This year’s recipients of the... View Details

09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

open bar happy hours with David Fairhurst, a personal friend he had promoted to oversee human resources, and the two men developed reputations for “flirting with female employees.” HR allegedly didn’t intervene despite knowledge of the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

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