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- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
unwilling to upgrade the team if necessary, we have a conversation about the willingness to hire new team members. We also look at location. It is very easy to hire good people in Silicon Valley and in the Boston area. In other places,... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
unforeseen problems or opportunities. In doing so, they need to balance flexibility and speedy reaction times with long-term strategic focus. It is difficult to get this balance right! When surveyed on execution challenges, 29 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
However, we also heard that restaurateurs remained steadfastly committed to their goal of nurturing and nourishing people, providing a place of succor and community in a strange new world. Our conversations with the panel and our field... View Details
- Web
Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online
University Develop techniques for building high-performing teams, coaching, delivering feedback, and handling stressful leadership situations. I'm now more mindful of how my colleagues are experiencing me, and less averse to having View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary
moving into leadership roles in a racially charged environment, as well as their international classmates returning to Eastern Europe after the fall of communism. Furthermore, while the conversation around entrepreneurship is commonplace... View Details
- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
expect debates to appeal more to young and less educated voters, who have less preexisting information, whether they directly watch debates or hear about them from friends or media coverage. But they don’t. “It is difficult for candidates... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
connection. “But then COVID-19 hit,” she says, “and all of India stopped traveling.” The risks Shruti had considered in the abstract became real. “The 15 people on my team had devoted a year of their lives to the travel venture,” she says. “My cofounder left, I had... View Details
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
interview consumers of their type of product in neighborhoods near the Harvard Business School campus. Boston. Frequently, however, they found that students would only seek out people much like themselves, such as middle-class students in Harvard Square. The insight... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.
difficult to attract to the public sector, especially with the salary constraints typical of civil services. Accordingly, if the government decides to manage the activity, it may also, through various methods, have to take steps to obtain... View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
Nohria write in the introductory chapter. Yet until recently, scholars have found the subject of leadership difficult to tackle. Why has serious scholarship overlooked or avoided the topic of leadership? Rakesh Khurana: Business schools... View Details
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
compensation data could lead to a different method in solving certain situations such as pay discrepancy " As Ali put it, "Why companies find it so difficult to talk salary when our government is so open on what each employee is... View Details
- 14 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Jewish Student Association
conversation to foster understanding and respect between individuals of different backgrounds. As such, much of our programming is open to the entire campus community and we are looking to co-hosting events with other student groups on... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
conversations with their bosses, notes Thomas DeLong, who teaches organizational behavior at Harvard Business School. "I'm amazed that although organizations are willing to set metrics for success in View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
long commutes, household chores, and mindless scrolling on social media. We must make deliberate, sometimes difficult choices that protect the precious hours in our days, Whillans says, whether it’s a big decision like pursuing a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Growing on the Job - Alumni
Conflict & Build Stronger Relationships at Work Amy Gallo The most effective leaders know how important it is to be able to navigate difficult conversations and work through conflict to improve our... View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
on where my kids went to school, was what drove a lot of these expectations and missed expectations, and, therefore, anger. And so as I kind of try and peel the onion on all this stuff, it is very, very difficult to pull back if you have... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
You have to project confidence that you’re going to be able to see this through successfully, with a minimum amount of hurt to the company, but also to all of the stakeholders who are relying on your leadership to get them through the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
concepts, and as a virtual Learner Success Assistant who can help you stay on track with completing the coursework in a timely fashion. When you are finding a particular concept difficult to master, or would like additional examples of a... View Details
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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni
time work is stressful, all-consuming, and not as fulfilling as you'd like? Are you truly happy at work? Or, like most people, do you have some good days but most of the time work is stressful, all-consuming, and not as fulfilling as you'd like? Watch Video Lead the... View Details