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- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
worries, their personal finances may be in shambles. Most entrepreneurs cut their own salaries as their venture goes into decline, and many have invested their life savings in the startup—along with funds from friends and family. If entrepreneurs View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 10 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
How to Live Happier in 2023: Diversify Your Social Circle
Norton borrows another concept from economics—diminishing returns. “If you make $30,000 and you get $10,000, that’s huge—but if you make a million dollars and get $10,000, it’s not going to mean that much,” he says. In the same way, “If you spend 12 straight hours with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
expect when reaching out to others for help? A job is bound to fail if the people who control resources refuse to help. “In some organizations, it’s every man or woman for themselves,” Simons says. “You eat what you kill, and no one is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
particular field your venture intends to address, you may need a cofounder with domain specific expertise. Having domain expertise will not only inform the product strategy, but will also help the venture gain credibility in the market... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- July 2015
- Article
BYOB: How Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags Leads to Treating Yourself, and the Environment
By: Uma R. Karmarkar and Bryan Bollinger
As concerns about pollution and climate change have become more central in public discourse, shopping with reusable grocery bags has been strongly promoted as environmentally and socially conscious. In parallel, firms have joined policy makers in using a variety of... View Details
Keywords: Grocery Shopping; Reusable Bags; Licensing; Priming; Goals; Hedonic; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Environmental Sustainability; Retail Industry
Karmarkar, Uma R., and Bryan Bollinger. "BYOB: How Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags Leads to Treating Yourself, and the Environment." Journal of Marketing 79, no. 4 (July 2015): 1–15.
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
and hardiness identify as crucial: Control: Which facets of the situation can you potentially influence? Think about how a person you emulate and admire would act. Then, work with your team to identify all... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: How do I identify opportunities in emerging... View Details
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
And Gerald Nanninga posed the interesting question: "Have we limited our potential by not only mislabeling potential partners as 'customers' but in mislabeling everyone in the entire supply chain?"... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
Shih: It has a lot of potential for misuse and could cause safety problems. It’s going to mine a load of data. The question is: do people really want to share that much information? The bargain on the modern internet is: “You’ll give me... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
"I don't present these approaches as cure-alls, saying if you just run a contest or a corporate venture program everything's going to be wonderful," Lerner says. "But there's a lot of promise and potential in this tool... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
Why diverse organizations are attractive The researchers sent follow-up questions to ask why applicants value diversity information. “Many indicate that such information was useful because it signals the quality of the company, highlights the job seeker’s chance of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
to do now, and to have any hope of doing that, we need to be integrating the specialized domain knowledge that managers possess into these tools and systems.” Marketers have long envisioned the potential for technology to bring about a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 14 Jun 2021
- Op-Ed
When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative
phenomenon holds true outside of medicine. How I expect to do at something beforehand—whether a meeting with a potential client, a joint project with new colleagues, or teaching a class full of executives—actively influences how I... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More
Program to Encourage You to Walk (earn Bonus Points),” included a calendar with potential points to be earned highlighted for each day. That was followed by seven other emails over the two-week period, with incentives highlighted. [div... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
that business disruptions are not just potential threats, but common occurrences that demand immediate attention from CEOs, C-suite teams, and boards. It's time for leaders to take stock of their companies’ operational resilience—their... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
investing, some of the firms were dubbed the “Facebook of investing.” “In some cases those words end up doing a very good job of describing it. In other cases they did not,” McDonald says. And that’s a potential trap. In his study,... View Details
- 27 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards
authors reach their conclusions by correlating the timesheet records to a host of other data points, including daily store sales, scheduling practices, store traffic, and weather. In conducting their analyses, the researchers created a... View Details
- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
that employer’s name on their curriculum vitae? “You have this great name on your CV, and suddenly it goes from being an asset to a liability,” says George Serafeim, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
strategies. Hence, this transition necessitates a paradigm shift in strategic thinking. Flip the perspective: Your ecosystem, tech giants included Often, traditional businesses perceive themselves as mere participants in the ecosystems of... View Details
- 21 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life
their work was no longer sufficiently impactful. Others no longer experienced the pleasures of their workplace environments, leading them to realize that the work itself was not sufficiently fulfilling.” The threat of a potentially deadly... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta